Sooooo... new log. What is going to happen this year?
- Compete at a regional competition in Olympic weightlifting...
- Moar masssssssss. Yessuh. I have joked about getting into nicely into the 105s, but it might actually happen this year. My log is - as you can probably tell - one of optimism.
- Crack a 250kg total in Olympic lifts.
- Find a decent weightlifting coach.
2014 lifts to date (up from September 2013)...
- Deadlift is up to 200kg (from 180kg);
- Bench is up to 110kg (from 100kg);
- Squat is up to 170kg (from 150kg);
- Snatch is up to 90kg from 80kg;
- Clean and jerk is... unchanged at 105kg (I've hang-cleaned 120kg, but...).
After a post-norovirus emergency cut, I weighed in at 91.7kg (now back at around 92.5kg). However, before then, I looked like this...
And this...
I am still cutting at the moment, and the various bits are still coming through in the right places, I am somewhat unimpressed/bothered by this sort of thing in myself, however, so will carry on for October to see how I get on.
Training? It will look a little something like this...
MON: Snatch (OH squat, hang snatch, full snatch, snatch pull, arms and shoulders)
TUES: Squat (8-6-3 back squats, RDLs, DBSS, muscle snatch,)
Weds: Deadlifts (depending)
Thurs: Clean'n'Jerk (scarecrow clean, hang clean -> power jerk, full clean -> split jerk, clean pull, Pendlay rows)
FRI; Squat (as Tuesday, but probably some jump squats included, too)
I do enough pulling on Monday, Weds and Thursday to worry about a specific deadlift day, but I enjoy the results (if not necessarily the specific lift). Also, due to enduring problems with my wrist, I've swapped Thursday for a duplicate of Monday...
Timings may vary as I'm starting a new job in Monday, but we shall see. I'm not going to ramp the weight particularly on my Olympic lifting as doing so - whilst producing fun results on the odd occasion - is actually detrimental over the course of time as technique starts to wander as fatigue builds up mid-session and build in bad habits through long periods of embedding it into my pattern. So consider this a reset.
So, today was a re-introduction to proper lifting since my recent quasi-hiatus...
SNATCH
OVERHEAD SQUAT (3s) BAR-BAR
SNATCH BALANCE (3s) BAR-BAR
HANG SNATCH (3s) BAR-40-50-60-60-60
SNATCH PULL (3s) 80 Ran out of time...
That felt so good. Weights are deliberately light to focus on technique and consistency. Was forced to bail two 60kg hangs, so not overly thrilled, but otherwise pretty good.
I will probably build to a 100% lift every 3 weeks or so to see how it goes, but nothing crazy.
- Compete at a regional competition in Olympic weightlifting...
- Moar masssssssss. Yessuh. I have joked about getting into nicely into the 105s, but it might actually happen this year. My log is - as you can probably tell - one of optimism.
- Crack a 250kg total in Olympic lifts.
- Find a decent weightlifting coach.
2014 lifts to date (up from September 2013)...
- Deadlift is up to 200kg (from 180kg);
- Bench is up to 110kg (from 100kg);
- Squat is up to 170kg (from 150kg);
- Snatch is up to 90kg from 80kg;
- Clean and jerk is... unchanged at 105kg (I've hang-cleaned 120kg, but...).
After a post-norovirus emergency cut, I weighed in at 91.7kg (now back at around 92.5kg). However, before then, I looked like this...
And this...
I am still cutting at the moment, and the various bits are still coming through in the right places, I am somewhat unimpressed/bothered by this sort of thing in myself, however, so will carry on for October to see how I get on.
Training? It will look a little something like this...
MON: Snatch (OH squat, hang snatch, full snatch, snatch pull, arms and shoulders)
TUES: Squat (8-6-3 back squats, RDLs, DBSS, muscle snatch,)
Weds: Deadlifts (depending)
Thurs: Clean'n'Jerk (scarecrow clean, hang clean -> power jerk, full clean -> split jerk, clean pull, Pendlay rows)
FRI; Squat (as Tuesday, but probably some jump squats included, too)
I do enough pulling on Monday, Weds and Thursday to worry about a specific deadlift day, but I enjoy the results (if not necessarily the specific lift). Also, due to enduring problems with my wrist, I've swapped Thursday for a duplicate of Monday...
Timings may vary as I'm starting a new job in Monday, but we shall see. I'm not going to ramp the weight particularly on my Olympic lifting as doing so - whilst producing fun results on the odd occasion - is actually detrimental over the course of time as technique starts to wander as fatigue builds up mid-session and build in bad habits through long periods of embedding it into my pattern. So consider this a reset.
So, today was a re-introduction to proper lifting since my recent quasi-hiatus...
SNATCH
OVERHEAD SQUAT (3s) BAR-BAR
SNATCH BALANCE (3s) BAR-BAR
HANG SNATCH (3s) BAR-40-50-60-60-60
SNATCH PULL (3s) 80 Ran out of time...
That felt so good. Weights are deliberately light to focus on technique and consistency. Was forced to bail two 60kg hangs, so not overly thrilled, but otherwise pretty good.
I will probably build to a 100% lift every 3 weeks or so to see how it goes, but nothing crazy.
