[quote]lordstorm88 wrote:
hey guys
After about 8 months of no training I started again. Last december was when I stopped and I had reached 85kgs snatch and c&j was approximately 105. 140 on back squat. Since then I gained also about 20 pounds… anyway I started again start of october. I’ve been having some trouble with what I’m pretty sure is a jumper’s knee injury on my left leg, but its been getting slowly better, although it means I don’t train as much as I’d like. I’m not going to post every day at the moment, i’ll wait until after the first competition(which is in about 2 months from now), but I thought I’d post once or twice till then.
So at the moment, I’m doing mainly snatches, clean and jerks not so much, cause jerks aggravated the injury, although I might start them again slowly, I will try and see how it goes. In the snatch I hit again an easy 80kg a couple weeks ago and yesterday made 3 reps at 75kgs. Basically I’m trying to get 4 sets of 3 reps at a weight then increase it by 2.5 kgs. It’s been going pretty well so far and I’m hoping it will increase about 5kgs every month approximately.
I’m trying this time to do mainly front squats, most recently I’ve done 4 sets 4 reps 95 kgs.
Lastly I’m doing overhead press and reached 5 reps 60 kgs.
Something I’ve learnt is if you tear a callous on your hand during training, don’t stop if it’s only partially torn, rather keep going until most or all of it gets torn up and then wait for it to heal. If only part of it gets torn, then the next time the rest of it will get torn again. Not a big tip, but had I known I would have done one-two more sessions… anyway
I also today read up a lot from this website
http://www.dynamic-eleiko.com/sportivny/library/farticles.html
It’s very interesting. I’ll be trying quite a few of the stuff. Some of the things that seemed convincing and would apply to me are:
Don’t put too much effort on increasing squats ASAP. As long as they are relatively ahead enough of your snatch and clean and jerk they are decent. If you can get up from a clean with relative ease, you don’t need them to be all that high.
Try to learn as much as possible to get my muscles to relax. Get used to pulling with hand/arm as relaxed as possible and not having to think about it. Also to keep my shoulders back, but again relatively relaxed. Also the lower back, should be tight enough so that it stays solid and arched, but not to overly focus on it.
Don’t focus on double knee bends or anything like that
Learn to pull as fast as possible driving the feet in the floor, which means I have to get really used to the movemeny so that I’m not afraid of hitting the pelvic area in the snatch, or cutting the pull short or anything like that.
Figure out what exactly happens if I try to do the above. If the bar does not hit but brush the pelvic area for example, then I’m all set. If it hits it, then I need to adjust something.
Anyway, last some of my goals for this year are: in the comp coming up in 2 months to get about 95/115. Don’t know if its too much but right now it seems very much possible. I also hope by then my injury will have healed or mostly healed.
Until september or so: be below 105 kgs(right now around 118…), have the basic technique down and be able to have consistency in lifting sub-maximal weights, reach about 110/130-135 and get used to training about 5 times a week or so with decent amount of volume in the work outs. How many times a week doesn’t matter much cause it also depends on school so yeah…
An extra would be dropping below 100 kgs and even more so under 94.[/quote]
In my opinion, those Eleiko articles are some of the worst articles I have read. Proves to me that even if you have tons of references you can still write total bull crap.
