Vanity Log: how much in a year?

Sure thing, but be advised some contain pretty horrific examples of what NOT to do when a heavy barbell is overhead. :eek: :D

Training really suffered because of the lack of dropping, but that just sucks, I guess. :)

Also, be prepared to use the orogress bar as there is a lot of waiting around.

Hang snatch at what looks like 50kg?


Hang snatch at 60kg...


Full snatch @ 60kg



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EDIT: My shoulders and lats are now killing me. Hard. With fire.
 
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Yeah I can see what you mean about the fatigue causing you some problems on the later sets especially what ever you decided to do with that 60kg hang snatch :p. You are definitely missing some of the pop you had in the earlier sets.

I watched some of the other vids you put up and I really like the look of those power cleans. I just need to be able to get into a decent front rack position.
 
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God damn I want to try some Oly lifting.
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Just unrack the barbell (unweighted) and hump it for all you're worth. ;)

As you can see from the vids, you don't need a special floor to get started,as no dropping is really involved.

Do be warned it is significantly less forgiving than powerlifting, as you just can't muscle them or engage beast mode. It either works or it doesn't. Which is both awesome and utterly, utterly demoralising at the same time. :)
 
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looking at your technique the grip looks really wide? Is that standard or just a preference?
 
It's a snatch grip and specifically designed to make every part of my body miserable. :)

My problem is (one of many, anyway) I'm 5'11, meaning my snatch grip has to be almost as wide as the sleeves on the bar... Or maybe I just have long arms. :mad:

When you get back into dead lifting with good form, try going for a snatch grip for sheer unpleasantness. I assure you: snatch grip dead lifts are just horrid. :D
 
Just read this whole page..interesting stuff :) Would quite like o try some of that also...but not sure my shoulder joints could handle that now:eek:
 
Part of my interest inOlympic lifting is showing up the areas in which I thought I was strong and mobile as not very strong or mobile. Overhead work, for example. :)

Plus it's just fricking awesome, anyway. :D
 
Right. Bad night's sleep due to my own idiocy, but it's a "no technique" day...

Warmed up with some snatch balances (bar only) and was playing around with overhead positioning to get more stable and vertical in the body->shoulder->arm position. I think it went better, but...

DAY 2

First pull deadlift 5x3

WU (70x5x2)-110-140-150-150-155

Ah - what did I say about technique? Bah. These are getting heavy now, and felt awesome. Shins were also bleeding, too, which shows the technique is better, too. :D My hamstrings were singing. :)

SLDL 4x3 Standing on a jerk block for these to get a nice deficit

110-140-150-150

Yowzer. Getting a deficit involved REALLY made things interesting. :eek: Glutes and hams were brutalised by this, in a nice burning way.

Glute ham raise 4x3

Better than last week, and managed to get a better rhythm going. Consistently managed 45o before bailing and was much more positive hauling myself back up. My hanstrings were ruined by this point...

Single leg squat 3x5 (weights are for each dumbell)

14-16-18

Oh, yes - these were a horrid way to end the session. Massive, massive quad pump by the end of the third set and I almost fell off the box. :D


Great workout, even if it was all assistance exercises. My legs are in ruins.
 
Cleaning day, today! :D

DAY 3

Power clean from hip 4x3

70-80-100 (1+2f) -100

Upon reflection, my head just wasn't in the right place to pull these - I got lazy with the first two and then struggled with the first 100 and then proceeded to fall over backwards on the second and bail on the third. Second 100 set was 'cleaner' but a lot more crouching than I'm used to. :(

Still, it was nice to have the blocks out for dropping. :D

Clean pulls 3x3

110-120-120

Punishment sets. However, for a couple, my form suffered, so had to think again about what I was actually doing.

Watch the second rep...


Hang clean 3x2

80-90-100

These were HARD and I was pretty slow under the bar. Back started rounding out at 90kg and I rocked forward onto my toes at the bottom of one squat (:eek:), but persevered and managed to get it sorted for 100kg, which is counterintuitive (and stupid) but it worked. :D

Yes - I forgot to turn the camera on, hence only 1 rep.


Clean 5x2

70kg for all.

Took it easy with these because of the form problems with the hang cleans, and wanted to get my squat catch ironed out. Bu the end of the exercise it wsa better, but still has consistency problems.

Front squat 5-4-3-3

70-80-100-105

Finally fell as though I'm getting my pattern right for these (after two months or whatever) and really using glutes instead of relying on quadzillas. Was happy to get 105kg up there, even if it's only for three.


Overall, a bit rubbish but I ground it out. I will concentrate on bashing out the heavy stuff at the front of the workout just make sure my technique is correct with the full/hang cleans as this is where I need a lot of work.

Hope this amuses somebody (forward to 0:30secs as I don't know if the Youtube trim worked...! :D

 
LOL, as dod said, love the cheeky "fuark, did anyone see that?" look! Also, lucky your knees didn't fall under that.

Also, they're hang cleans, not power cleans :p
 
Yeah, there was another guy in the gym at the time, I think, who was busy zomg-ing.

And technically it was meant to be a powerclean from hip, as the "power" bit means no squatting to catch. But I had to 'squat' because the drive and shrug were gash. :D
 
Well, like a

DAY 4

Overhead squat 4x3

50-60-70-70(1f1)

Slowly increasing the weight and trying to get a better vertical positioning for my body. Good fun and the last set involved much grunting. :)

This one's for FreeFaller @ 70kg ;) :D


Push press from back 4x3

70-80-85-85

Backed off going for 90kg as 95kg felt very heavy, today.


Push jerk 5x2

60-70-80-90-85

Still don't have great stability at the top end, so bottled a second round of 90kg. The other part of the issue is that I wasn't locking out straight from the jerkat 90kg, so my strength wasn't where it should be and therefore it would be pointless risking injury.

Like an idiot, however, I didn't have the jerk blocks out and so was lowering the bar. And managed to tweak my right shoulder. What a ***. :mad:

Barbell military press 5-4-3-3

55-f-f-f

Single arm military press 3x5

22.5 (4 only)-f-f-f


Bailed on the rest of the workout because my shoulder was playing up. Very annoyed at myself for being such an idiot when this almost happened three weeks ago.

Still, happy that the push-jerks and overhead squats are working better and the weights are increasing! :D
 
So today was first day back after a weekend of ibuprofen double dosing to keep my shoulder in check. No benching last Friday because of the tweak on Thursday, but I did do some dumbell rowing... however, that isn't very interesting as the weights aren't much.

DAY 1

Snatch balance 4x3

BAR-40-40-40

Great warmup excerise and sets up an awareness of my overhead squat/snatch form for the rest of the workout.

Snatch pulls 3x3

100-110-120

Last set was really hard, and I was struggling to get my traps going because they were a bit over-taxed. Which is a good thing. :)


Hang snatch 5x2

50-60-60-70-50

Mucked up the sets because... I'm a dumbass, pretty much. Thought I'd finished and then realised I needed another set. 70kg was hard, but I managed to get it overhead for the double, which was nice. :D

Snatch 4x3

50-60-70 (1f1)-70 (2f)

Sort of "below knee hang snatch" because of where the blocks were located. Bottom line (with the failures): I'm not stable enough at the bottom of the overhead squat to pull off a quick dive under the bar for 70kg, so...

HD Platinum Box Set'd Edition @ 70kgs...


Overhead squat 5-4-3-3

50-60-70-70

First two sets were easy. Last 70kg was very shaky, but worked. 70kg seems to be my shoulders' limit at this point, so will work up slowly from here.


Overall, nice to see 70kg again, even if it's the limit from where I develop properly (one could argue 60kg is, but pfffft). Also very happy with development of technique to the point where overhead squatting feels a lot better and overhead catching for snatch also feels a lot more stable at the bottom of the squat.

And no shoulder pain. :D

Videos only of the last round of "BKHS," but they're on a video camera so will have to upload later. Better quality than my potato phone, however, but hey...


EDIT: Video now added. Enjoy.
 
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Lol @ feedback from my coach...

"Why can't you lift as much as these hot chicks?"

Those hot chicks being the 48kg Olympic Ladies. :(
 
Clean and jerk won't be long ( :rolleyes: ), and I reckon I might manage 80kg snatch in a couple of weeks, but the bugger of Olympic lifting is technique.

If that falls over (and my snatch is still pretty ropey), then it is not going to be pretty. :eek:
 
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