Cutting Week 19: Clean and Jerks
Kettlebell Clean and Jerks
40kg: 10x1
Bodyweight: 92.8kg
I just did a shortened session today as I feel quite weak on my new diet, I think I’ll take a couple of days to get back in the swing of it. The clean and jerks felt reasonably good though.
[b] Cutting Week 19: Clean and Jerks
Warm-Up [/b]
Hip circles and goblet squats
Clean and Jerks
40kg: 5x1 (EMOM)
Kettlebell Swings
28kg: 5x20 (EMOM)
Bodyweight: 92.2kg
The clean and jerks weren’t feeling very crisp today, and I didn’t want to push it with bad form, so I just did 5 sets. This log is filling up fast, I’m not going to fit the next 3 weeks until the challenge in 2 pages! Not sure if I’m going to start a new log.
[b] Cutting Week 19: Whole Body Day
Warm-Up [/b]
Hip circles and goblet squats
Kettlebell Front Squats
2x28kg: 5x5 (E2MOM)
Kettlebell Swings
28kg: 5x20 (EMOM)
Clean and Jerks
40kg: 10x1 (EMOM)
Bodyweight: 92.9kg
I had a huge amount of pain and stiffness in my neck yesterday and I wonder if it’s because I’m not warming up properly, so today I moved the clean and jerks to the end of my session. This also has the benefit of getting me used to doing the clean and jerks in a fatigued state.
My right knee had a couple of pangs of pain on the squats, but nothing outrageous. My neck still didn’t feel great but I wasn’t expecting it to. All movements felt quite strong :).
[quote]furo wrote:
Not sure if I’m going to start a new log.[/quote]
Oh, come now lad, it’s all the rage.
I do the same with my 40 kg clean and pressing. I can now manage the weight quite easily but it’s difficult to go from zero straight to that. I need to do a few goblet squats and a few lighter presses before starting on that beast.
[b] Cutting Week 20: Clean and Jerks
Kettlebell Swings [/b]
28kg: 5x20 (EMOM)
Clean and Jerks
40kg: 10x1 (EMOM)
Neutral Grip Pull-Ups
BW: 5x5
Lat Pulldowns
Light: 5x20
Bodyweight: 92.6kg
This was a good session. It strikes me that my neck issues might be related to imbalances in my traps, as I do a lot of indirect upper trap work but nothing for the lower traps. So today I decided to do pull-ups and pulldowns. The pulldowns felt especially good on my neck, so I do think this is part of the problem.
Lol you’re right AG. It is a heavy weight to jump straight into.
[b] Cutting Week 20: Pull
Neutral Grip Pull-ups [/b]
BW: 5x5
Then I did 5x20 lat pulldowns and machine rows. The next week is going to be terrible for training as I’m doing night shifts and I’m coming down with a cold. I think I’ll just have to be conservative and minimise damage rather than try to improve. My neck feels pretty bad, I think I’m going to treat myself to a proper sports massage after the challenge.
[b] Cutting Week 20: Swings
Kettlebell Swings [/b]
20kg: 5x20
28kg: 5x10
40kg: 5x5
All done EMOM back-to-back.
Bodyweight: 92.3kg
This week is going badly, the nights are rough, I’ve got a cold and on Monday evening I twisted my left knee and it swelled right up. I attempted some goblet squats today because I thought it might be the kind of issue that would respond well to some light well-controlled reps, but it was complete agony. I think I’ve tweaked a knee ligament. My neck is also feeling worse than usual.
[b] Cutting Week 20: Clean and Jerks
Warm-Up [/b]
Light cleans
Clean and Jerks
40kg: 5x2 (EMOM)
Bodyweight: 92.4kg
It’s definitely time to make my training as specific as possible in the final run-up to this challenge. Tonight I did 5 sets of 2 (each hand) in 5min, so a total of 20 reps. This felt challenging but I’m not completely exhausted now, so hopefully on the day of the challenge I’ll be able to push myself to get 25 or so.
[quote]furo wrote:
It’s definitely time to make my training as specific as possible in the final run-up to this challenge. Tonight I did 5 sets of 2 (each hand) in 5min, so a total of 20 reps. [/quote]
This is going to be a heck of a showdown…I’ve not tested myself specifically but I estimate this is about where I am as well!
[b] Fortnight 10 Summary
Baseline: [/b] 97kg
Fortnight 1: 95.8kg
Fortnight 2: 94.9kg
Fortnight 3: 94.6kg
Fortnight 4: No data
Fortnight 5: 93.8kg
Fortnight 6: 93.3kg
Fortnight 7: 93.1kg
Fortnight 8: 92.8kg
Fortnight 9: 93.0kg
Fortnight 10: 92.5kg
The past fortnight has actually been really good, it felt like it wasn’t going well but looking back it has been good. For the first time my bodyweight was below 93kg every day and I did 8 sessions, 6 including 40kg clean and jerks. I’m going to take this weekend off training to full recover from my night shifts and to rest my knee, then next week I’m going to hit it quite hard.
[quote]ActivitiesGuy wrote:
This is going to be a heck of a showdown…I’ve not tested myself specifically but I estimate this is about where I am as well![/quote]
Yes it’s going to be great! I can see this challenge being all mental when it comes to it. It’s going to be tough! How’s your weight by the way? I think I’ll be able to weigh in under 200lbs but it’ll be tricky.
[quote]furo wrote:
[quote]ActivitiesGuy wrote:
This is going to be a heck of a showdown…I’ve not tested myself specifically but I estimate this is about where I am as well![/quote]
Yes it’s going to be great! I can see this challenge being all mental when it comes to it. It’s going to be tough! How’s your weight by the way? I think I’ll be able to weigh in under 200lbs but it’ll be tricky.
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Ha, I might have to take a penalty for being over weight. I’m still hovering in the 208-210 range, despite my best intentions of cutting, my workouts have just felt so good that I’ve been reluctant to mess with what’s been working.
[b] Clean and Jerks
Warm-Up [/b]
Hip circles, goblet squats and shrugs
Clean and Jerks
40kg: 5x2 (EMOM)
Goblet Squats
28kg: 3x10 (voodoo floss)
Kettlebell Swing
28kg: 25
Bodyweight: 93.0kg
The clean and jerks felt really off today, I came close to missing some of the reps. I’m just going to repeat this session until Thursday, take Friday off then do this challenge on Saturday. That’s fair enough ActivitiesGuy, let’s scrap the weight limit!
[b] Challenge Day
Warm-Up [/b]
Hip circles and 28kg clean and jerks
Kettlebell Clean and Jerks
40kg: 28 total reps in 5min
Kettlebell Front Squat
2x28kg: 13
Kettlebell Rows
40kg: 11
Bodyweight: 93.0kg
Something came up for this weekend so I thought I’d do the challenge later on this week, but I felt good today and thought I’d just go for it. I had 2 rockstars as a sort of pre-workout, and all that did was give me palpitations and make me sweat even more than usual lol! After the challenge I decided to go for a couple of other PRs and got 13 reps on the front squat and 11 on the rows (although the form wasn’t perfect). A good session.
Well done, and extra points for the soundtrack!
Yeesh. I should’ve known this was going be tough. 28 reps? Wow. Quite a bar you’ve set there.
I have a long day at work today (in at 7 AM for a meeting, and then also have to meet with a couple of docs that can’t get here until at least 7:30 PM), but I’ve been given permission to come in a little late tomorrow as a result, so I may sleep in a bit and perform my test tomorrow. Man. 28 reps. Gonna take some real mental fortitude to grind out that many.
Good work Furo!! Made that 40kg bell look like a paper weight. Definitely setting that bar high for ActivitiesGuy.
Thank you very much guys! That was a great challenge ActivitiesGuy, a noble combat :). Thank you.
[b] Swings
Warm-Up [/b]
Hip circles and goblet squats
Kettlebell Swings
20kg: 5x15
28kg: 5x10
40kg: 5x5
All done back-to-back EMOM.
Bodyweight: 93.0kg
I’ve had pretty impressive DOMS following the challenge, particularly lower back, delts and triceps. The jerks clearly work the pushing muscles more than I thought. Today’s session was just a nice easy one to loosen me up and get some blood pumping.
Nice video Furo.
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