Vanity Log: how much in a year?

Yeah. Snatch PB day today. This is not going to be pleasant...

DAY 1

Snatch balance 4x3

BAR-BAR-30-30

Hips seemed stuck, so was concentrating on getting my lower back in the right position.

Snatch pulls 3x3

100-100-100

This is getting faster, which is a good sign.

Hang snatch 5x2

50-50-60(1f)-50(ff)-50(ff)-50

ARGH!!! Can't get my lumbar stable under the bar, so had to keep bailing. Really annoying. I can do these weights in my sleep! :mad:

Hang snatch4x3 (hang again because I didn't have the floor space)

60(1f1)-60-70(1ff)-70(1)-80(1f)-80(1f)

Was about to dump these session in frustration until midway through the first 70kg set where I could feel everything clicking together, even though the weight was low. 1 rep of 70 so I figured it would be time to at least try 80kg. And up it went! :D Couldn't get more than 1 out of the weight, but was very happy that I can pull this properly. First 80kg was a bit ropey (landed skewiff so pushed out the squat on my left toe) but the first went up like a boss. Oh, yes. :cool:


Overhead squat 8-8-6

50-60-70(5f)

Wanted to get some loadbearing overhead work in there, so ditched the normal 5-4-3-3 in favour of some 'longer duration' loading. I was moving nicely by this point, so it was good until the 70kg, when the weight was simply too much for my fatigued shoulders to take. Still, massive quad pump.


Again, a mixed bag: poor core stabilising meant I couldn't hold the bar overhead properly at the catch point in the snatch, but the lower average weights probably meant I had not accumulated the normal fatigue level and could therefore shift 80kg... swings and roundabouts - the story of my training. :p
 
Didn't sleep too well last night, but felt pretty good today...

DAY 2

First pull deadlift 5x3

110*5-140-160-160-160-160

These were hard this morning - pretty slow. I blame the lack of sleep, but...

SLDL 4x3

110-140-140-140

Speed, speed, speed. Glutes finally work up on the second set, but it was kind of annoying.

Glute ham raise 4x3

These are getting better/easier, although I'm still not hard enough to go all the way to horizontal...

Single leg squat 3x5

Bailed because of lack of time - will do som pistol squatting when I Get home...

Once again the benefits of a decent night's sleep are laid bare! :eek: :(
 
Clean day! Whoop-di-whoop! But also scheduled PB day! ****.

Knowing how much this was going to take out of me, I was keeping the build/warm-up weights low to try and prevent too much fatigue setting in...

DAY 3

Power clean from hip 4x3

70-70-90-110(1ff)

Thassrite. 110kg powerclean. :eek: Couldn't manage a repeat showing, however[/LAME]. :(


Clean pulls 3x3 (strapped)

120-120-120

These weren't from the floor, so were quite easy. Kind of defeating the point of the exercise...

Hang clean 5x2

70(1f)-70(1f)-70-80-80

Core bracing was rubbish today: some residual lower back DOMS from yesterday points at ropey lumbar form on the heavy pulling. Dumb. Point of the loading was to try and get under the bar as fast as possible to straighten myself out and improve my ability to lift bigger weights.

Clean 3x2 Hang cleans again because of floor space.

70-70-70

As above, really. Form was a LOT better on these.

Front squat 5-4-3-3

70-100-110-115(2f)

Finally cracked 115kg. Very happy, particularly as the shape was consistently good for a change! :)


Overall, a bit irritated with the crud lumber control, but once that sorted itself out it all went a lot better. Heppy with everything (at the end), with PBs to boot.

Double awesome. :cool:

My legs are completed ruined now, however. Good workout. :D
 
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Owned by that 2nd rep :) nice work on nailing the first one :)

Does indeed look like a good workout.
 
Brilliant lifting Nick, some awesome numbers. Would love to see how I could compete on singles to triples range!
 
This is where I fail, I can't even do a push jerk :(

That only went up once per set. :D

The key thing is really using the hips to push, rather than the knees. The amount of power on tap is actually quite amusing...

Brilliant lifting Nick, some awesome numbers. Would love to see how I could compete on singles to triples range!

Thanks, buddy.

To be honest, if you sorted your hip drive out for clean/snatch, you'd be damn awesome and would crush me like an ant - same for Freefaller. I haven't see ice or Dom clean, but they could probably manage 110kg without it. :D

. I'm just lucky enough to have an on-site coach with a sense of humour.
 
I've tried utilising hip drive more but I just can't do it. I actually wonder if hamstring/glute inflexibility could affect it, as if I can't deliver power until I'm already at x position, by which time I've lost any benefits it would bring?
 
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