[quote]FarmerBrett wrote:
I’m doing the olympic lifts vicariously through you. I just don’t have the room to do them at the moment.
You are definitely making me wan’t to have a go again though.
I’m impressed how quickly you’ve got back to where you were on them. I’d have thought a high skill movement like that would take a long time to recover. Apparently not.
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My technique, while not good, has indeed gotten better and was better when I started again than when I stopped. Here’s what’s interesting: during the time I wasn’t lifting, I couldn’t stop thinking about and imagining performing the two lifts. I don’t know if that has any bearing, but I can’t help but believe that it has had a positive effect, because while my strength is certainly not at the level it previously was, I’m putting up poundages more easily that I struggled with 8 months ago.
Snatches gassed me out. Tried to max - couldn’t help myself. Need to do some OHSq and snatch balances to beef up the back of my shoulders. The body has a definite reluctance to ducking under the weight to catch it.
[quote]FarmerBrett wrote:
I’m doing the olympic lifts vicariously through you. I just don’t have the room to do them at the moment.
You are definitely making me wan’t to have a go again though.
I’m impressed how quickly you’ve got back to where you were on them. I’d have thought a high skill movement like that would take a long time to recover. Apparently not.
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My technique, while not good, has indeed gotten better and was better when I started again than when I stopped. Here’s what’s interesting: during the time I wasn’t lifting, I couldn’t stop thinking about and imagining performing the two lifts. I don’t know if that has any bearing, but I can’t help but believe that it has had a positive effect, because while my strength is certainly not at the level it previously was, I’m putting up poundages more easily that I struggled with 8 months ago.
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I am always pounding the table on the benefits of mental visualization as a means of improving skill(s) and also performing in a calm manner under duress (e.g. combative type sports). I usually get a “humor the crazy dude” reply of some kind.
Front Squat
225 3x2 (narrow stance)
225x3 (wider - these felt stronger, but not as deep)
207.5 CJ was SOLID. getting close to PR territory. FS was harder tonight, since I basically did 17+ FS before them. More in the strength bucket - that’s all. The 1-1/2 presses make all the little tiny shoulder muscles burn. Think I’ll keep 'em in the rotation.
[quote]punnyguy wrote:
White noise, achey breaky parts, feeling like old french fries, 207.5 CJ while weighing nuttin’ but a peanut, dynamic efforts DCA! (d.e. intended)[/quote]