First, I want to wish you the best of luck in your meet this weekend. I’ve really enjoyed reading all of your posts and viewing your videos. In fact, you may be partially responsible for my decision to try learn the Olympic lifts. I started Olympic lifting about a month ago. I love how athletic the lifts are. You make them look so easy. I know that comes from years of hard work and training. Much respect.
A little about me. I’ll be 50 in a couple of weeks and weigh 185#. I’m really trying to focus on learning good technique and building my strength. I worked up to 85 kg on the C&J today. I hope to get to 100 kg fairly soon. I have so much to learn but I love having a competitive focus. I’m certainly not 50 in my head lol.
I’ll be sure to check the results from the Masters. I saw the start list. Do you know any of the other 50 - 54, 85 kg lifters?
Again, I want to thank you for all the information you put on this thread.
Thanks everyone. I’m just killing time now waiting for time to go to the airport.
flatcat (does the name have anything to do with roadkill?) those are pretty good numbers for only a month of work. Some of the guys in our weight class and age group will probably do close to that on Saturday. I don’t know any of the others lifters I’m competing against personally, although I’ve met a few briefly at past weightlifting meets. If I do halfway decent, the only one I have to worry about is George Pjura, he holds the current American record in the snatch at 111kg. Michael Harada used to lift close to my weights, but it seems he’s on a comeback now and not quite up to full potential yet.
Terry, that’s great about the new place to train. Sounds very motivating.
Yeah, what they all said! Kick ass and tell us how it goes. Soak up all the T-Nation vibe shooting your way and then BRING THE PAIN!!!..maybe that’s for wrestling?
Whatever, rock it out brother.
ERIC D.
Thank you all for the support. I’m back from the meet, with mixed results. No records were set, not even close, but I did manage to win my class, and get best lifter of the session.
Snatch: 102x, 102, 105x
Clean and Jerk: 120, 126x, 126x
On the first snatch, I pulled it high enough easily and got under it with no problem, but I relaxed my upper body during the recovery which led to stability problems and eventually dumping the weight forward. Second snatch was easy as it should have been. The 105 was an easy pull, but like in the last competition, I lost my focus after the bar passed my knees and let it drift forward. It was easily high enough and I did get it locked out, but lost it forward due to bad placement.
The first clean and jerk at 120 was routine and almost trivial. The first attempt at 126, the clean was solid and the squat was easy. On the jerk, I felt my weight too far forward as I began the dip and stopped. This by the rules invalidates the attempt, so I just dropped the weight without finishing the jerk. On the second attempt at 126, the clean was even better, 130-135 was within range the way the pull felt, but again on the jerk the weight went forward and I lost the jerk forward.
Carl sorry to hear that, it is one of the problems with competing they are often not a good judge of where you are.
However winning the US masters nats, is a pretty good achievement (understatement)- and best lifter, I would love you to come out here for the World Masters Games, you would take home a small cabinet of goodies (but we are stiil waiting on the right metrological conditions and the rights shoes for the trip home)
A huge thanks for all your work in putting up the videos, I think a lot of us consider your blog more important than the T Nation training articles,
Still a shame, you obviously have more in you than you managed to show on the day, but those are the breaks.
I’m competing in the Icelandic PL championships on Apr 18th, equipped for the first time. I’m testing the equipment and setting my openers this afternoon.
congradulations carl, thanks for the effort you put into this thread and letting us be a part of your achievment.
I have learned a lot from this thread, and it looks like you learned a few things in the process too, good luck for the future!
