Hope you have no travel problems, all your warm ups are on song, and you have a fun time.
Look forward to the report.
Good luck Carl!
(he said - after he was gone…)
good luck on your meet…
kmc
Carl…Carl…are you there…
Seriously the suspense is killing me…
Back from the meet with mediocre results.
Snatch: 103x, 105, 111x
Clean and Jerk: 120, 126x, 126x
2 for 6 with a 225 total.
103 hit my knee on the way up, threw off the timing. 111 was easily high enough, just out front. All the cleans were out front, making the squat difficult, leaving me too tired for a good jerk. The first 126 I actually got overhead, but appparently pressed out. Lost the second 126 jerk behind.
I made three mistakes that contributed to the mediocre performance.
First, my session lifted at 4:00 pm. I never train at that time of the day and felt a little off because of it. I had an opportunity to do some training at that time in the two weeks prior to the meet, but didn’t take advantage of it.
Second, the platform was set up closer to the opposite wall than I am used to, and bleachers were set up for spectators even closer. I never picked an appropriate focus point to adjust for this.
Third, I mistimed my warmups. In snatch, I started way too early, got to my opening weight with still about 20 minutes to go. I’ve never lifted with this many lifters in a session before and lost my brains. I timed it better for Clean and Jerks, but with both lifts, there was a significant time between my second and third attempts where I should have fit in another warmup attempt.
Hopefully I can learn from these mistakes and improve at Nationals.
Good synopsis Carl. While I know your results did not meet your expectations, I think your analysis is damn cool! I know you will do great at nationals.
The art of OL lifting is abit more complex than I ever imagined. Power and form, can’t do one without the other.
Winning is awesome, but being there is more than most will ever accomplish. My hat is off to you Carl. Take a couple of deep breaths and get back to it. Next stop the Nationals, giv’er hell Carl.
Thank you j_willy and streamline. Your support helps keep motivation high.
1/5
Snatch: 55/2, 66/2, 77/2, 83/1, 88/1, (94/1)4
Squat: (116/2)6
Bench: 50/5, 62/5, (72/5)3
Snatch High Pulls: (105/3)3
Time: ~44 min.
This 12 weeks, I’m going to be doing lots of singles in snatch and clean and jerk, Essentially what I did the last 4 weeks of the last cycle, only based on more recent maxes.
For legs, I’ll be doing the well known Russian squat routine, modified for only two sessions a week. Front squats will be lots of triples but only one day a week, and I’ll be adding some Bulgarian split squats once a week.
Pulls and deadlifts will remain close to what I did last cycle, only I’ll work mostly triples and doubles. Here I have to work hard on shoulders and hips raising at the same rate, the main source of my technique flaws.
Bench will be exactly the same as last 12 weeks, only based on the new max. I’ll replace presses with push presses or maybe push jerks.
My forearm seems to be recovered now, so I’ll be working the pullups and bent rows back in.
Last snatch.
Edit: Use this link.
Last set of high pulls. I had to slow down the 1st pull to do it, but my back position was considerably better on these than the usual.
It is refreshing to see such an objective evaluation of one’s performance…with an eye on improving it in the future. No ‘coulda, shoulda, woulda’ excuses, just the truth. While you may be disappointed, I feel you still did a great job. Just the fact you weren’t 100% healthy & still traveled to a strange venue, competed in a strange environment, you did well in spite of technique flaws you point out.
I have always thought that the average to intermediate lifter performs best in their own gym; it is the elite guys that can do it anywhere anytime anyhow. Not that you aren’t elite; you have the balls to stick your nose in with the big boys and hang with them…nice job, Carl!
and that 225kgs would have placed you third in last years worlds, in the 105s, not bad for 2 lifts
http://www.awfmasters.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/2008-final-results.pdf
and you were not actually peaking for this,
1/6
Clean and Jerk: 65/2, 79/2, 92/2, 99/1, 105/1, (110/1)4
Front Squats: (104/3)3
Push Presses: 50/5, 60/5, (67.5/5)3
Clean High Pulls: (125/3)3
Time: ~45 min.
Carl how did your weight go at weigh in ?
88.41kg, heaviest I’ve been in a while.
Last clean and jerk from yesterday.
Edit: Use this link.
Last set of high pulls.
carl, sounds like u know what to do next time. keep up the good work.
Carl
still great stuff,
I love this log
its laser focused
the workouts
vids
great barometers of progress
and the meet sounds like it left an even better barometer
when I was a super jock in my other life…
I always missed timing-
I left it in training all the time.
it really can be the difference between
1 and 10.
kmc
Thanks yawl.
1/8
Snatch: 55/2, 66/2, 77/2, 84/1, 90/1, (95/1)4
Squats: (116/3)6
Bench: 50/5, 62/5, (72/5)3
Snatch High Pull: (110/3)3
Time: ~50 min.
I missed four attempts in the snatch at 95. Didn’t have a very strong pull today. Good thing is I remembered something one of the lifters told me at the meet, how I’m pulling the bar off my thighs too soon.
Tried waiting a fraction of a second longer on the last two attempts with the result that I lost one snatch behind me (very rare) and got the last without the usual forward placement.