Vanity is not a sin...

Very nice pull there!

I'm surprised 200kg didn't go, must have been some savage fatigue accumulation.


Regarding the grip, I think at least in theory a slightly narrower grip is stronger because it's easier to stabilise at the shoulder. Mine is currently moderately wide, because it seems to be a little bit more forgiving on my snaps.

Also, it makes total sense that increase snatching ---> healthier shoulders, at least for someone that has no pre-existing issues. As you say, it demands pretty much perfect shoulder mobility, and the stabilisation stimulus will have swolerfied some important muscles in your back.
 
Cheers, dudes. And no, I still don"to know why I look over my left shoulder... :o :)

I actually talked myself out of 200kg - I got it into my head that 190kg was pretty damn heavy, so 200kg was going to be tough... And unsurprisingly, it was! :rolleyes: :D

Still, I know what my training range is, now, so can stop faffing about with 1RMs and actually get some nice working sets done.

Regarding shoulders, I am very lucky to have never really had any serious shoulder problems, and have spent most of the past fifteen months goofing with Olympic lifting, so I don't really gave much of an excuse.

Either way, I do want to finally get my pressing sorted and support the jerk with some stable shoulders (and core, legs, etc... :D). We shall see...
 
Urgh... seems that back tweak was slightly more persistent than I'd hoped...

OVERHEAD SQUAT (5s) BAR-40-50
SNATCH BALANCE (5s) 40-40-50-60
POWER SNATCH (3s) 50-50
HANG SNATCH (5s) 50-60-60-60
PANDA PULLS (3s) 80-100-90

Just couldn't get my lumbar stable this morning: I could feel my back complaining (no pain, but I could feel my brain actively trying to work against my bracing when I loaded up on a pull, for instance).

This fed through and impacted all my catches - which are fine in the sense that I only dropped one this morning - but it wasn't nicely stable. Meaning the light weights. :mad:

Would going heavier have addressed some of the problems? It would have tamped them down as I would have less able to wobble and find a good position, but it would have just built in this dodgy pattern. Oh, well. More balance work this afternoon I think...
 
Those complex motor pattern feels :(

I very much dislike my sessions when my core isn't working, and all I really do is stand up and sit down.
 
icecold said:
Those complex motor pattern feels :(

I very much dislike my sessions when my core isn't working, and all I really do is stand up and sit down.
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It's just irritating when I know this stuff works but one tiny little thing (one's back in lifting is not a tiny little thing, but for the sake of argument...) can throw it out and - practically - ruin the whole session. :mad: :D

To be fair, something is obviously a lot better as I'm failing far fewer attempts (as in 1/6-8 as opposed to 1/3 previously), but that's never enough. :o :D
 
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Decreasing your fail rate is definitely a big deal, you must be approaching some very joocy learned speed/smoothness.
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Yes, indeed. The only issue now is turning my brain off so I can lift bigger weights without bailing before I've even touched the barbell... :D

So. QUAD DAY. :( :( :(

FRONT SQUATS (12-10-10-8-8) 87.5-92.5-92.5-97.5-97.5 Oh, yuck. That was just horrid.
PISTOL SQUATS (3*8) 10-10-10 Dropped a set due to time constraints... these were pretty awful, too. :D
DBSS (3*8) 16-18-20 Punishment time! This is what I get for dropping sets here, there and everywhere. :D That was pretty amazing. :o :cool:
TRICEP OVERHEAD CABLES ss/w LAT RAISE (3*10) Loads. Pump = awesome.

Another quad session down. Mercifully. A return to strength training will be bliss after this. My legs are just getting ruined from doing this. However, that size... :eek:

Seems I've put on around 1.5kg in the past five weeks (adds up to 95.1kg when fully-loaded at the end of each day), weighing in at around 93.5-ish kg 'unloaded'. I know it isn't all lean size (I suspect a lot is retained water), but it's quite amusing, nonetheless.

105s here I come! :D
 
Why haven't I been in here before?!?

You have been making some gains sir. That deadlift was joocy, also pistol squats bleurgh and also that volume on front squats. You are a better man than I :p.
 
Djdom56 said:
Why haven't I been in here before?!?

You have been making some gains sir. That deadlift was joocy, also pistol squats bleurgh and also that volume on front squats. You are a better man than I :p.
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*chuckles*

No... just more foolish and vain. :( :D

Nobody in their right mind should do this kind of volume on front squats.
 
ARMageddon this morning. Which was dumb, considering I have a jerk technique review in an hour's time... :rolleyes:

BENCH (4*10) 85-85-85-85(9f) Last set was a grind and had to be rescued. :D
WIDE GRIP PULLUPS ss/w LAT RAISE (4*10) BW(10)-BW(10)-BW(10)-BW(10)
TRICEP OVERHEAD EXTENSIONS (4*10) ss/w 21s millions.

Second session... JERKS.

SPLIT JERK (3s) 40-50-60-70-80-85-90-90 No real drama, but last set was a bit slower than I'd have liked. Lots of bench early this morning probably wasn't going to be helpful...
POWER JERK (4s) 50-70-70 Last set was veeeeeeeery slow.
 
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Had to google what 21s are, tbh have to google a lot of the stuff you do. Immense stuff, jello of strength much
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:eek: :eek: :eek: You DIDN'T know what 21s were? ;) :D

Hehe... Cheers!

Only because I am not as strong as I should be compared with most people on here (will have to find a different excuse once age, kids, etc. starts wearing thin... ;)), so have to find other ways to make my strength seem impressive. ;) :D
 
Clean day...

POWER CLEAN (3s) 40-60-80
HANG CLEAN (3s) 80-80-90
FULL CLEAN (2s) 90-90-100
CLEAN PULL (3s) 110-120-120
OHP (5s) 40-50-55-55(4+1PP)

It's funny how quickly this stuff goes back to feeling really heavy after not doing it 3/4 times a week. :(

Still, vanity has its price...
 
Deadlift day... after clean pulls yesterday was probably not the brightest thing... :D

DEADLIFT (5-4-4-3-3) 170-160-160-160-160 170kg was HEAVY this week, so backed it off.
RDLs (8-6-6-6) 120-130-130-130 Dropped the reps, upped the weight. Back started to flex on the last reps of the last sets. Coach pointed out I was letting my lats slip.

Short session, but a busy day ahead, today. Will play with lunges, etc. at some point, but not going to sweat over it now. :)
 
Heh. Need to watch what I'm doing on my RDLs as I had that lumbar twinge back this weekend, and I Wasn't sure if I was going to be up for this morning...

OVERHEAD SQUAT (5s) 40-40-50 Still half asleep.
SNATCH BALANCE (5s) 40-40-50-60
POWERSNATCH (5s) 40-50-60
HANG SNATCH (5s) 50-60-60-70(4f)-80(1f1) Yeah, baby. Decided to see what would happen if I caught 80kg deep... and it seems it's fine.

That remedial work over the past six weeks is really helping, here: the catches were pretty good, so I am very happy. Whilst this might seem odd, not dumping 80kg when in deep (hurr hurr...) is actually quite an achievement for me. Also gave my back and legs a serious workout (just those three reps...)! :D

Whilst I would never - and will never - support doing this sort of lifting (or any type of lifting which requires core bracing) with a twinged back, it's actually an interesting test of technique for Olympic lifting...

Am I lifting with my back or my legs?

One of the first power snatches got me worried because I felt a nasty shock in my lumbar during the drive phase, but after that it all felt glutes, hamstrings, squats = nice. I am pretty happy about that. :cool:
 
A third of a quad day, today. :o

FRONT SQUAT (12-10-10-8) 90-95-95-100 And then my knee started hurting.
ECCENTRIC FRONT SQUAT (5s) 50 Hmm... these suck! 5-count down, 2 count pause... did the same for back squats afterwards.
OHP (4*5) 50-50-55-55(4+PP) Crikey - feeling weak! :eek:

Wasn't really working today for some reason.
 
Arms day. And my coach-bro wasn't in today... looks like he's re-herniated some discs. :eek: :(

Anyway, seems like the Force was with me for that bench...

WG PULLUPS ss/w BENCH (5-4-3-8-10) 12/90-12/100-12/110*1 (BOOM! PB)-6/85-6/85 Couldn't be bothered to work out/guess 3RM after 100*4, so just went for 110. It went down pretty fast, so I'm not excluding sternum rebound gains, but I don't really care. :D
SARs (8-8-8-8-10) ss/w OHP (5-5-5-8-10) 40/45-40/45-40/45-40/45-40/45 Probably should have put more on the OHP but meh.
BROCEPS ss/w LAT RAISE ss/w OVERHEAD TRICEP EXT (10s) 10000000 That pump.

A bit bro-tastic, today, but also pump-tastic, so pretty happy. :D

DBSS tomorrow to make up for yesterday, and some moar hypertrohpyz.

EDIT: 110kg bouncy bench. Feel free to shred it - I'm not proud. ;) :D

 
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Clean day, but wasn't really in the mood for anything heavy (deadlifts tomorrow, and also did a rubbish job of quads on Tuesday).

So...

SNATCH BALANCE (5s) BAR-40
CLEAN BALANCE/SCARECROW CLEAN/WHATEVER (5s) 40-70-70
BACK SQUAT (8s) 100-100-110-110 Last couple of reps on 110kg came forward a bit too much...
DEFICIT BSS (10s) BW-10-18-18 Nasty. But so good.

That's more like it. :cool:

Still need to get my clean-ing done at some point, but it's technique work rather than uber-weight chasing.
 
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