[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
Intendum, ergo sum.
I strain, therefore I am.
maybe. I know about as much Latin as I do Urdu.[/quote]
Semper ubi sub ubi.
“Always where under where”
Meh-heh… Latin puns, the height of comedy.
Merry Christmas you wacko.
[quote]barryjenkins00 wrote:
Merry Christmas you wacko.[/quote]
Thanks Barry. I hope you have a happy holidays, too. 
2010-12-8
C&J Practice
135 2x3
165 2x2
185 1x2
195 1x5
Cleans
195x2
Lucky to get through this today. My cleans were garbage but I got two pretty good jerks @195. I’m blaming the crappy cleans on yesterday’s deadlifts.
edit: vid didn’t upload looks like so I put the U-toob link in.
Nice job on the weightlifting. Your form is really improving.
Thanks for the funny.
The jokes, of course.
That clean was not so bad at all. Good positions, very minimal premature elbow bend, good pop of the thighs, hard to tell from this angle, but the bar path looked pretty good (forward-backward movement of the bar). Could be snappier pulling under. Jerk looked better too.
[quote]Carl Darby wrote:
That clean was not so bad at all. Good positions, very minimal premature elbow bend, good pop of the thighs, hard to tell from this angle, but the bar path looked pretty good (forward-backward movement of the bar). Could be snappier pulling under. Jerk looked better too.[/quote]
Wow.
I guess that’s another good reason to have a coach, to override one’s sense of crappiness when warranted - because I FELT like my cleans were crap and a little out in front. I widened my grip by about 4 inches to make the jerk better and it felt like I should have been starting the second pull higher up the thighs in order to keep the bar in close. Implemented the “soft arms” on the jerk and I had one really sweet jerk where the bar went up to a certain height and stayed there. There wasn’t any catch, per se, it was pure support - no downward momentum to absorb at all.
coming right along with the oly lifts aren’t you?
what did you end up using for your lifting pad? looks almost like heavy black rubber, but that would be too soft wouldn’t it?
[quote]soldog wrote:
coming right along with the oly lifts aren’t you?
what did you end up using for your lifting pad? looks almost like heavy black rubber, but that would be too soft wouldn’t it?[/quote]
I haven’t yet built the platform. Those are just my usual mats. I’ll be putting those over the plywood I’ll buy once I get paid for this upcoming contract job.
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
[quote]soldog wrote:
coming right along with the oly lifts aren’t you?
what did you end up using for your lifting pad? looks almost like heavy black rubber, but that would be too soft wouldn’t it?[/quote]
I haven’t yet built the platform. Those are just my usual mats. I’ll be putting those over the plywood I’ll buy once I get paid for this upcoming contract job.[/quote]
ah - I was gonna ask if you had any bites in the job arena. Looks like you have at least something happening.
just droppin in to say.
and that clean did look cleaner to me.
[quote]nlmain wrote:
just droppin in to say.
and that clean did look cleaner to me. [/quote]
Since I’m training in my garage, does that make me a house-cleaner? I’m already employed in that case!
what are your fees like? I could use a handy-maid. shirtless preferably.
[quote]nlmain wrote:
what are your fees like? I could use a handy-maid. shirtless preferably.[/quote]
Depends on the job. Some I do gratis.
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
[quote]nlmain wrote:
what are your fees like? I could use a handy-maid. shirtless preferably.[/quote]
Depends on the job. Some I do gratis.[/quote]
blush got me at my own game, nice. I’ll know not cross wits with the you in the future 
And why, exactly, are you a love machine?
Loved the jokes.
And I’m really enjoying following along on your Oly learning adventures. I’m thinking I have to give that shit a go again.
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
And why, exactly, are you a love machine?
Loved the jokes.
And I’m really enjoying following along on your Oly learning adventures. I’m thinking I have to give that shit a go again.[/quote]
'Cuz I won’t work for nobody but you. And nlmain - as the house “cleaner.” And for kimba - as something funny(sure, she said it was the jokes, but I know what she really means).
Okay, I’m easy. Sue me.
I had to make up for the quadruple post somehow.
You should. The lifts are very persnickety and therefore absorbing to someone like me. I spend hours thinking about them, lately.
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
And for kimba - as something funny(sure, she said it was the jokes, but I know what she really means).[/quote]
Your job wouldn’t be difficult, and dare I say it – enjoyable.
[quote]kimbakimba wrote:
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
And for kimba - as something funny(sure, she said it was the jokes, but I know what she really means).[/quote]
Your job wouldn’t be difficult, and dare I say it – edible.
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Fixed