Yes, do it. It’ll also help when your legs get tired, as you can then just switch sides.
I never took the time to practice both sides and I always regretted it.
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Learning to ride switch is key (used to snowboard a lot). Opens up a lot of possibilities for fun if tricks aren’t your deal. I had a failed heelflip park itself in the boys once and I quit trying to learn tricks after that haha.
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Do not eat ghost pepper salsa the day after getting your teeth cleaned. Jowza.
Noted
Or before leg workouts!!
I actually like spicy stuff before heavy workouts!
This could also be written as “I like spicy stuff”
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Friday, 2020-09-04
Committed Week 1, Day 4 committed2020
Weight: 76.6
AM
2km jog, just sprinkling in small amounts of this to not aggregate my hamstring
PM
Bike ride to friend across town, 10km with the return trip
Concentric Day and Delts
With yesterday and today in the books I was feeling beat coming in. Pwned the squats anyway but bench felt fucky in a new way (trap pain)
Squat
8@70
8@85
8@90
8@100 (belt comes on)
6@110
4@120
Bench
8@50
8@55
8@60
8@65
6@70
4@75, moved slow
Deadlift
8@90
8@110
8@120, belt came on
8@125, almost failed reps
6@125, stayed with the weight
4@140
D1. Seated DB Clean & Press
D2. Chest-supported rear delt raises
2 feeder sets, 2 sets to failure 8-10 reps
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3200+ calories today. Still hungry. Going to go to bed and see if I get “dietsomnia” (I’m not on a diet, but my sleep usually takes a hit pretty early if I’m not getting enough calories in)
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Saturday, 2020-09-05
Committed Week 1, Day 5 committed2020
Weight: 77.1 (?)
AM
Walk with a friend
PM
Power workout
A. Box jumps 3 sets of 5
B. Vertical jumps 3 sets of 5
C. Power Cleans from Hang 3 sets of 5, 3 warm-up sets. “Maxed” out on 65 kg.
D. “Prowler” sprint followed by backwards sled-drag 3-ish sets.
E1. JM Press, need to study proper form on this. Sacrificed MMC for weight 
Ego
E2. Preacher Curl, 2 warm-up sets 10 reps, 2 sets to failure 8-10 reps.
F1. Dips, 1x10 @ BW, 1x10@5, 1x15-17@10 (F), 1x9@20 (F)
F2. Reverse EZ-bar Curl, 2 feeder sets, 2 work sets to failure. Weight: ???
Felt moderately recovered going in and had zero no goals other than justify a caloric surplus. Mission accomplished.
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Nice cleans. I love explosive stuff like jumping and weightlifting. Makes you feel so athletic.
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It does indeed, but nice, really? Aren’t Cleans like deadlift in that if you’re not doing at least bodyweight you don’t have the technique down?
I don’t see a huge correlation between bodyweight and cleans from a mechanical standpoint . I mena apart from bigger muscles having the potential for more strength.
Show us some vid! But I don’t think that’s a correlation indeed
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Doing cleans again next Saturday. I’ll abide!
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Cleans always used to get me all hyped up for my deadlift sessions. Makes me wonder why I stopped doing them.
I prefer snatches for deads and Cleans for squat. Someone in this log, @colm_rigney I think, gave me the pairing
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You probably have some form of technique though. My clean just looks like a deadlift I got carried away on. My snatch looks like a deadlift i got carried away on, but with a wide grip.
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We’ll see. This guy deadlifts so explosively he almost inadvertently cleans his warmup so you’re in good company?
Or he doesn’t keep his lats tight but I find that hard to believe given how much is on the bar
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I’ve deadlifted like that for a while. Granted, with half the weight ahahah.
I think I’m gonna go the same route as you in 4 months when I’ve finished Conjugate. Read yesterday about the thresholds for athletes before using transfer exercises (by CT) and he recommends a 1,2x BW power clean (which I could do right now) and a 2x BW squat. I’m not far from it but not quite actually. Granted I’m more built to deadlift but still. When I hit my best squat ever (high bar at least, and I want to hit 2x BW high bar) it was druing the Olift program, which has you do 4 lower body days (or more accurately full bodies) so yeah as I already knew, I’m a knacker for high frequency.
Anyway so I decided to give this kind of training another spin. Last time if I recall I had good results (but I don’t really remember, at the same time I was also doing Crossfit 3x a week, and getting used to my new job, dieting down etc)
I think i’m gonna go with the Jacked 31 approach (his most recents articles on his websites) so that I can do some speed-strength, strength-speed and other exciting stuff
Looking forward to article 3. It seems quite similar to what I’m already doing but he’s obviously more adept at programming than I’m so I was looking to transition into that as well. Still feels close enough to what I’ve committed to.
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