I am out injured
(appointment with the surgeon yay!)
but my brother is kicking ass with his meniscus tear and all!
137.5kg jerk/ powerish jerk
video not showing up dammit
2/28/12
clean and jerk
bar stuff
40kg
60
80
100
100
110
110
110
110
back squat
50kg
100
150x4
160x3
170x3 PR
snatch RDL
90kg 3x5
push press
70kgx5
80x5
80x5
clean pulls
140x2
140x2
150x2
150x2
stretching.
3/1/12
clean and jerk
bar stuff
60kg
80
100
110
120
130 PR
135x
135 clean
135x
back squat
70kg
120x5
150x3
170x2
150x3
145x5
145x5
bench (lbs)
138x8
185x8
225x8
3/2/12
snatch
bar stuff
40kg
50
60
70x3
80x3
90
90
90
90
snatch pulls
110
120
120
120
military press
60kg 3x8
weighted chins
BWx5
BW+20kg x4
BW+20kg x3
BW+20kg x3
a bunch of crunches and planks and then stretched out.
Still plugging away
3/6/12
i did my snatch opener for my meet on saturday today
snatch
bar stuff
50kg
70
80
85
90
95
100 opener
back squat
100x4
125x4
145x4
snatch high pulls
60kg 2x4
push press
70kgx5
75x5
80x5
powerclean
60kgx5
80x5
90x5
100 crunches and done.
Even though I don’t listen to my iPod while I train, I think I’m going to make a playlist of techno/trance/whatever. Klokov has inspired me. I will call this playlist, “Euro Training” (in honour of Terry Crews).
The general lack of avatars recently in this thread is throwing me off.
Snatched 140 today. Dance music was playing on the stereo.
Super excited for the next 5ish months of weightlifting, in regards to both personal and international competition.
[insert other random thought here]
[quote]TheJonty wrote:
Even though I don’t listen to my iPod while I train, I think I’m going to make a playlist of techno/trance/whatever. Klokov has inspired me. I will call this playlist, “Euro Training” (in honour of Terry Crews).
The general lack of avatars recently in this thread is throwing me off.
Snatched 140 today. Dance music was playing on the stereo.
Super excited for the next 5ish months of weightlifting, in regards to both personal and international competition.
[insert other random thought here][/quote]
Awesome snatch, I need to get 140 clean and jerked sharpish so I don’t feel like a loser! 5kg’s to go mate and you get the two reds and a green in comp!
[quote]Ed Ache wrote:
[quote]TheJonty wrote:
Even though I don’t listen to my iPod while I train, I think I’m going to make a playlist of techno/trance/whatever. Klokov has inspired me. I will call this playlist, “Euro Training” (in honour of Terry Crews).
The general lack of avatars recently in this thread is throwing me off.
Snatched 140 today. Dance music was playing on the stereo.
Super excited for the next 5ish months of weightlifting, in regards to both personal and international competition.
[insert other random thought here][/quote]
Awesome snatch, I need to get 140 clean and jerked sharpish so I don’t feel like a loser! 5kg’s to go mate and you get the two reds and a green in comp![/quote]
Well, I’d figure the progress you’ve made since you’ve been here would elevate you above “loser” but that’s just me.
[quote]TheJonty wrote:
[quote]Ed Ache wrote:
[quote]TheJonty wrote:
Even though I don’t listen to my iPod while I train, I think I’m going to make a playlist of techno/trance/whatever. Klokov has inspired me. I will call this playlist, “Euro Training” (in honour of Terry Crews).
The general lack of avatars recently in this thread is throwing me off.
Snatched 140 today. Dance music was playing on the stereo.
Super excited for the next 5ish months of weightlifting, in regards to both personal and international competition.
[insert other random thought here][/quote]
Awesome snatch, I need to get 140 clean and jerked sharpish so I don’t feel like a loser! 5kg’s to go mate and you get the two reds and a green in comp![/quote]
Well, I’d figure the progress you’ve made since you’ve been here would elevate you above “loser” but that’s just me.[/quote]
Depends on the day, sometimes I feel good for hitting a PB or equalling a PB. Then I think that clean and jerking 135 just doesnt cut the mustard. Like you, and others, I suspect; I want to do well in this sport. Mediocre just wont cut it. And 115/135 is IMO average.
3/8/12
snatch
bar stuff
50kgx3
60x2
70
80
80
clean and jerk
70kgx3
90x2
100
100
105
power snatch
60x3
65x3
70x3
60x3
hang snatch
70x3
70x3
60x3
i have a meet on saturday so everything was fast and light today
Since the AC separation on Feb 19, I started lifting again on Tuesday. Doing physical therapy 3x per week, but I managed to squat up to 185 lbs for like 15 sets of 5 (not kidding, it was actually that many sets), then on Thursday squatted up to 195 for 5 sets of 5. I’m gonna try and put another 10-15 lbs on it every time. I think that will let my shoulder get used to holding the weight, and at the same time strengthen it slowly.
The only problem (aside from the obvious injury and not being able to do anything) is that I’m squatting like 45% of my max. Its embarrassing.
I’m just going to squat 3x this week, I think next week I’ll do 4, then 5 the next week. Its not like my recovery is impeded by anything else.
Yeah, I squatted today so make that 4x this week. Still light right now though.
Up to 210 for 5x5 with a pause at the bottom. I figure if I can’t go too heavy, might as well do paused reps.
12/03/16
snatch
43:1-1-1
61:1-1-1
75:1
86:1
95:1
100:X-X-1
104:X-X-X (solid pull and reception, but can’t stand up)
Front Squat
5 hrs break
CnJ
43:1-1-1
65:1-1-1
75:1
84:1
93:1
104:1
113:1x (cleaned it but missed the jerk, + 2 kg clean Pr)
Front squat
Push presses
[quote]ape288 wrote:
Still plugging away
Why have you not competed yet???
comp yesterday (first one of the year). looks like i’m going to have to get myself registered and do the comps etc properly. since i’m getting free coaching. sounds fair to me. i was thinking ‘i suck pretty bad so it is just embarrassing / pointless’ rather than ‘one really should support the sport since it has supported me’. anyhoo… i thought i wouldn’t really enjoy this competing thing… but turns out i do. so that is pretty good, heh.
for those of you who don’t know me: i suck pretty bad. not very strong.
weighed in @68kg after eating breakfast etc as i normally would. had a bit of a headcold…
snatch
- 35 easy
- 40 little bit forwards dropped in the hole
- 40 ditto. didn’t manage to get my yell on…
clean and jerk (powerclean and powerjerk for me since that is how i’m strongest)
- 40 left elbow not quite locked out (been having that problem)
- 40 little bit of a grr. done
- 45 little bit of a grr. done! PR!
Good on you for competing Alexus!! Congrats on the PR C&J!!
[quote]Swolegasm wrote:
Why have you not competed yet???[/quote]
I dunno man, I guess I just decided that my numbers are so average that what difference does it really make whether I compete or not. In the end, all I really care about is did I get better, did I make progress towards the goals I have set for myself. If, in a few years, I find myself a contender for a medal on at least a national stage, then it would make more sense to me to go out and put up a big total. But right now, the way I see it is, anybody can do 107/130, so why celebrate mediocrity.
[quote]alexus wrote:
comp yesterday (first one of the year). looks like i’m going to have to get myself registered and do the comps etc properly. since i’m getting free coaching. sounds fair to me. i was thinking ‘i suck pretty bad so it is just embarrassing / pointless’ rather than ‘one really should support the sport since it has supported me’. anyhoo… i thought i wouldn’t really enjoy this competing thing… but turns out i do. so that is pretty good, heh.
for those of you who don’t know me: i suck pretty bad. not very strong.
weighed in @68kg after eating breakfast etc as i normally would. had a bit of a headcold…
snatch
- 35 easy
- 40 little bit forwards dropped in the hole
- 40 ditto. didn’t manage to get my yell on…
clean and jerk (powerclean and pushjerk for me since that is how i’m strongest)
- 40 left elbow not quite locked out (been having that problem)
- 40 little bit of a grr. done
- 45 little bit of a grr. done! PR!
:-)[/quote]
Kudos on the competition and the PR. Forgive me for possibly being way behind the times, but I seem to recall leg strength was always a big issue for you, and that when you finally got an oly specific coach he had you start doing high bar back squats (which I think would help address that issue). How’s that been working out for you?