[quote]debraD wrote:
[quote]PB Andy wrote:
5/10/11 (My birthday! bout to eat some cake)
Mid-hang Snatch - 3RM - 195 lbs; 90% x 3 x 2 - 175 lbs… these sucked today
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Do you ramp up to these or just warm up and go for it?
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Always ramp. For the 3RM in this case, I did bar, 95, 135, 165, 185, 195
Happy Birthday Andy!!
Cloy, good luck with the DL PR.
Seaford - snatch push press, never heard of that. Will have to look it up.
Great work in here everyone! Inspirational as always.
Heading over to your log now Deb 
I hope so too.
I agree with GqArtGuy btw. Would make a world of difference if you kept the chest higher.
You guys mind giving me a little feedback? Sorry it’s sideways, but apparently the guy recording was convinced he couldn’t fit me in using the normal view. Weight is 70 kilos, got 75 a few attempts later.
Thought I forgot it…my bad.
Hit a deadlift PR today at 450 (205 kg).
I didn’t upload it except in this video, its the last lift all the way at the end.
HeavyTriple,
you start with raising your hips first too much, keep them down. Also start with the bar closer to your shins.
5/12/11 - hot as ballz in the gym again
Overhead squat - 2RM - 245 lbs; 90% x 2 x 2 - 225 lbs… damn overhead squat, I suck at it!
Push press - 90% of 5RM (of Tues) x 5 x 3 - 160 lbs
Back squat - 90% of 5RM (of Tues) x 5 x 3 - 285 lbs
Bent row - 90% of 5RM (of Tues) x 5 x 3 - 185 lbs
Front/side planks - 2 x max
09/05/2011
FS
160
170
177x
177x pinned lol
rest 20mins
FS
160x1/2
160x1
11/05/2011
FS
160
165
170x
Wrist is on the mend so I’m just FS with an opened grip. I’ll see how my wrist is tomorrow.
Koing
Thanks Lordstorm. Would you suggest starting with my hips slightly higher? I think that’s the only way I can get my shins to the bar without bringing it in too close (i.e. starting over my ankle instead of farther up the foot). My hips always raise too fast…really gotta work on that.
Heavytriple,
to be honest I don’t know. My personal opinion is you should bring the bar a bit closer to your shins, it seems to be somewhat away from you.
I also don’t understand what you mean by starting over your ankle?
13/5/11
snatch up to 87.5
c&j up to 97.5
overhead press 67.5
knee is kind of better but not much. I didn’t sleep too well the past few days. My sleep should be better though now. Let’s see how it will be on monday.
Coach McCauley told me to move the bar to being over the base of my toe when doing cleans, so I assumed it was the same in both lifts. If I bring my shins to meet the bar, I’ll be on my toes, so I’ll have to move the bar in closer when I start and it will be closer to my leg than he recommended. I’ll give it a shot tomorrow, can’t hurt to try.
[quote]cloystreng wrote:
Finals this week, haven’t been in the gym since Friday, though at least I set 2 great PRs that day. Getting in tomorrow, no access to oly lifting facilities but I will be hitting a deadlift PR or die trying. [/quote]
Good luck my friend… I know you will do well.
[quote]Neospartan wrote:
[quote]cloystreng wrote:
Finals this week, haven’t been in the gym since Friday, though at least I set 2 great PRs that day. Getting in tomorrow, no access to oly lifting facilities but I will be hitting a deadlift PR or die trying. [/quote]
Good luck my friend… I know you will do well. [/quote]
Thanks! I hit 450 on yesterday! Very exciting time, though not so exciting this morning for my back haha.
snatch PR today. hit a pretty nice lift at 95kg. i think i’m good for a little bit more, but we’ll see. i’ll post the video up later or tomorrow, whenever i get a chance.
clean has been sucking something awful lately. my hands are just too beat up to grip the bar and easy lifts at like 80% are rolling in my hand. it’s really frustrating.
some lifts from this week. last snatch was a pr.
[quote]ape288 wrote:
some lifts from this week. last snatch was a pr.
You need to get faster under the bar on your snatches, even when you pull enough to make the lift, the bar is smooshing you down. You want to get under faster and catch it at its apex so that it doesnt crush you. Same thing on your cleans, you need to rack that bar a lot earlier before riding it down.
[quote]GqArtguy wrote:
[quote]ape288 wrote:
some lifts from this week. last snatch was a pr.
You need to get faster under the bar on your snatches, even when you pull enough to make the lift, the bar is smooshing you down. You want to get under faster and catch it at its apex so that it doesnt crush you. Same thing on your cleans, you need to rack that bar a lot earlier before riding it down.
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ahaa I’m a pussy trying to get under cleans ever since I injured my wrist. the irony there is I probably only got hurt in the first place because I didn’t get under fast enough haha. thanks for the advice man.
random snatch from today
Northen Seniors 14/5/11
Got there, felt pretty good. Weighed in at 91.7 0.1 lighter than last time. Going to be a jockey soon, I’m that light!
I was in the last group 94’s 105’s, 105+'s.
Picked up the bar and it felt nice and light. Warm ups were:
40x2
60x2
60x1
70x1
80x1
90x1 Slllliiiccckkkkkk
95xmiss
95xmiss, but very close
Got onto the paltform
Then Clean and jerks
60x1
80x1
90x1
100x1
112x1 jerk was pant
Platform
Bommed. Was properly p1ssed off, I knew there was a possibility of this happening with the way my jerks have been recently, and I said to my coach last tuesday ‘if I cant jerk 120 I don’t deserve a total’.
Things to come away with. I Snatched 4kg more than I cleaned in October, and I got a platform PB (first of many). Three things I will be working on are 1. Jerks, 2. Strength, 3. Speed under the bar.
I’m the second to last lifter. I feel Wounded.
