[quote]Ed Ache wrote:
Normally I don’t mind training feeling wrecked, but my back was BAD yesterday. So Close to going into spasm, lucky it was alright today though heavy cleans or Fs would have been out of the question. Plenty of heat and Naproxen and I’ll be on it tomo! When you feel imense and lift crap is just the worst, that sh1t makes me want to quit lifting. It’s on till the end of the year, got the northern open and the SW open within a week of each other. If I dont make 240 in one of those I’ll be at the english as a spectator with a grumpy face![/quote]
You can do the Londons at the end of November to give you another chance of hitting 240.
I’ll never quit lifting, but I may ease up a bit in 10-15yrs time? Nahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
[quote]lordstorm88 wrote:
today all felt good, felt strong and all but only managed to snatch 90 like 3 times and missed it like 5 or something and tried 95 once or twice.
Up until 80 it felt so fucking good. I don’t get it. oh well.
C&j again felt great until I got up to heavy weights. the cleans made me dizzy at 105. At least I made both of them.
I learnt that the comp is oct 9 so I got a couple weeks so I decided to start squatting since my knees are starting to adapt to snatch and c&j every session.
4x100
2x4x105
4x110.
A bit off balance but I made them. They were easy.
video
my clean and jerks are so ugly. makes me wanna cry[/quote]
The misses were close, just a bit behind or in front, very close. I’d say you took too many attempts. If you miss just go up. You don’t need to stick every weight.
Jerks, just focus on them, your split is short, your front foot doesn’t move and your rear foot goes too far backwards. Just takes time to rework.
Great day lifting. Best way to spend a day off work. Most times I’ve cleaned 130 in a session, definately getting stronger. Really happy to have 100 2 days on the bounce and first attempt too. Consistancy is what I’m after.
My first session was at a student gym over the road from my work, the sun was shining brightly…so brightly that it made the young lady in front of me, tights go see through. NICE. Then on the walk home fron the gym to my car I realised I was holding the shoulder strap of my bag hook grip. Guess I must be getting close to being an o lifter. Very happy with training today, day off tomo then hammering it sunday.
Hi folks. Decided I was going to stop being shy and I would start posting and engage with everybody out there. Here’s my first ost in the training log.
I’m 30 years old (probably ancient in weightlifting) and BW is just under 80kg.
I have been lifting seriously for about one and a half year (WTF was I doing before?). I am almost entirely self coached and I am the only oly lifter in my gym…damn I am actually the only oly lifter on my island.
My all-time PBs are a 82,5 kg Snatch and a 100kg C&J.
Here was Wednesday workout: C&J was my “focus” lift that night
C&J:
bar work
60/1,1,1 stil warming up really
65/1,1,1 same
70/1,1
75/1
80/1
85/1 not pretty
90/x,x
90/x,x
86/x,x,x,x
80/1
80/got the clean, missed jerk unexplicably
83/1
86/1
90/cleaned it, missed jerk due to bad dip and drive
Sn:
55/1,1,1
60/1,x,1
70/x,x took a good 5 min pause
70/1 felt smooth
75/x,x
FS:
60/5
80/3
90/3
100/2
105/1 felt hard but grinded it
110/x belt on
100/2 belt on
100/x
90/2
Finished with some (too) quick stretching. The whole session took just under two hours.
[quote]Paperclip wrote:
Hi, Martolod. It’s interesting that your C&J is almost the same as your FS.[/quote]
Yeah, I don’t really understand why. I know I’m limited by my strength so I am really trying to improve my squat. My best FS is 115 and BS 125. I should really do better!
With one of my misses I managed to smash my knees down pretty hard on the platform. Think I’ve strained my ACL or some frigging knee ligament. Went to the ER today because I get stabby pains sometimes when walking and going up stairs. They said rest for a couple days and if it isn’t better they might possibly be persuaded to do an MRI.
[quote]Paperclip wrote:
Hi, Martolod. It’s interesting that your C&J is almost the same as your FS.[/quote]
Yeah, I don’t really understand why. I know I’m limited by my strength so I am really trying to improve my squat. My best FS is 115 and BS 125. I should really do better!
I’ll still keep plugging at it though![/quote]
There is a guy I train with sometimes who cleans more than he squats (think he cleans about 120kg and he is lighter than me!!)
He seems to think if he squats more he will clean more… Maybe…
He reckons it is easier to stand up a clean than a squat because you don’t have to lower the weight into the clean and also you can catch the bounce and ride it out whereas he doesn’t hit the bottom of a squat as hard to catch such rebound.
Front Squat
Bar x 8,8,8
40x5,5,5 guess how stiff I was feeling
60x5
100x3
130x1
140x1
130x2
130x2
15mins
Snatch 2 sec pause at knee
40x4
60x2
70x2
80x2
80x2
80x2
90x0
90x1
95x1
97x1 pb and rapid under the bar too
Power clean and jerk
60x2
80x1
100x1
110xpc
110xpc
110x1
Second session
Front squat
40x4,4,4
60x5
100x3
130x1
140x1 grinder
130x2
130x3
Really getting the benifits of snatching in some form 5 days a week. Back still feels shocking, but isnt effecting lifting? weird. All in all pretty happy with lifting right now
Sucks about the knee Alexus, hope it feels better soon!
snatch up to 90 no misses and felt even better although a bit slow
then missed 100 but felt strong
then tried 105 3 times, I only uploaded the first as the other two were very shit. Looks like mostly I just wasn’t anywhere near fast enough under the bar. More/better warm up next time.
C&j… clean is still shit and inconsistent.
Jerk was a LOT better than the last few times. I need to dip drive → dip under straight… I see that when I get under it I also go out front quite a bit. Back leg needs to go less back and be a bit more bent. The dip and drive looked very good and felt VERY STRONG. Which is why I was so pissed off at the attempt I uploaded cause I kept missing the cleans and the jerks felt so much better today. I wanted to c&j 115 today :(. Also cause I missed the jerk but now that I look at it I’m not so upset about it cause the technique is definitely much better than last time.
also 44112.5 back squat. Still feeling rather easy, more… balanced this time. I’m also inconsistent, sometimes I’m on my heels sometimes midfoot… I have to fix it.
PM session
Snatch
Bar x some
40x4
60x2
80x2
90x1
100x0
100x1
105x1
110x1 !!!1111!11!!11 5 kg pb!, every one was solid
112x0 close not pulled high enough
112x0 leave it there
Clean and Jerk
60x2
100x1
120x clean
120x1
125x clean
15mins
FS
60x2
100x2
120x1
135x1
120x3
120x5
28/9/11
BS
60x5
100x3
120x2
140x2
150x2
160x2
Going to do some heavy power Clean and Jerk tomo, and some snatching with pauses at the knee. So happy I got 110! my PB as of jan the 18th this year was 95kg!
snatch I was not finishing the pull I think. up to 80 double still made it all
missed 90 twice, 100 twice called it.
c&j
105 missed jerk, clean made me dizzy
attempted 112.5 like 5 times, 4 of them the bar crushed me as usual/high pull, once I got it up(very hard clean), barely missed the jerk
i don’t know wtf is wrong. lol Or well I do but I don’t know how to fix itttttttttttttt.
And the sweep is starting to really annoy me. I don’t get why it just won’t happen no matter what I try. it makes no sense.
maybe I should just screw the comp and start trying to fix it all step by step… Would take off some pressure I feel as well and in the end who knows… maybe I’ll make it anyway.
yep. so that your palm would face towards your head/ceiling. it helped me and just overall pulling the bar with the arms slightly more towards the body.
Snatch - up to 97.5. almostttt got 102.5
C+J - up to 115. did a million cleans today with weights between 100-110. clean is still shit as of late
FS - up to 159 (2kg PR- also hit 157 on Sun, which was another 2kg PR lol), 150x2x2
I’ve been tinkering around with the clean a lot the past few sessions…it’s getting better, but it looks like I’m gonna have to rebuild my way back up to where I was…irritating inconsistent technique
