Sometimes there nothing that can help relieve than a great training session. Today was one of those days. This week was long, stressful, and tiring but I knew that today was going to be a deciding factor into how my next 8 weeks was going to stack up. The training session consisted of solitude with a little bar slamming mixed in. There really is nothing that compares to the feeling of snatching and Slamming the bar to the ground to help decrease stress levels.
Today was a lighter training session.
Training:
Snatch 5x1 @80%
Clean and Jerk 5x1 @80%
Back Squat - Heavy Triple
Snatch
5x1 100k
Clean Jerk
5x1 125k
Back squat x3
120x3 Warm Up
160x3
170x3
180x3
Overall the training day felt awesome and was well needed. Having missed two days of training this week I was in need of a good session. Weights felt light, Bottom position felt great, Jerk felt spot on today, and back squat felt somewhat easy.
Today I was able to get a training session in. I was unable to train the past two days due to my schedule. Today the focus was on getting some good reps in at 80%. I am lucky to have a coach who can see small things that I am doing wrong in my lifts. Today while snatching he noticed that I was not getting my shoulders behind the bar during my second pull. I was getting over the bar great but my shoulder stayed on top of the bar rather than behind it. This minor few degrees was causing my to loop the bar slightly. The small loop could have been the reason why I missed my 125k snatch in the meet. I give the credit to Ben Carter for seeing this minor compensation I was doing.
Snatch
3x1 85% 90k
Worked on Pulling bar in tight to the body and shoulders behind the bar. Once I was able to feel what my Coach was telling me I had some great reps. I was finally able to Pull with my heels on the ground getting a better vertical movement of the bar and faster movement under the bar as well.
Clean and Jerk
3x1 80% 125k
Cleans felt great and very easy! The new jerk grip is coming along just fine. I am starting to get much more comfortable with the wider grip and more stable as well. I know that big this are coming for me. as long as I can stay patient, determined, and disciplined.
Today was a great day of weight moving, bar slamming, PR setting Weightlifting. I had a great time competing today with some fellow lifters. We had a packed house with a great crowd to support the lifters . I had the pleasure to battle back and forth with some great liters. Wil Fleming, Jacob Flint, and myself battled in the snatch and clean and jerk. Had a great time lifting with those guys. It ended up that Jake got the best lifter award going 5:6 with some massive PR's and a Qualification to nationals.
My goals going into the meet today:
Snatch 120/125
Clean and Jerk 160/165
Outcome
Went 2:3 Snatch 117/ 122/ 125 Miss
Clean 1:3 155/ Missed 161 Jerk Behind/ Missed 161 Jerk in front.
Total 277
I am not mad about not qualifying for nations today. I got a Meet PR in the Snatch with 122k, opened the Clean and jerk with a 3k increase from last meet. Switched my jerk grip 3 training session ago and only jerked twice with heavy load, so all in all I am very happy with how today went. Going to get back to lifting some heavy weight and getting those PR's I have been searching for. Only time can make me the lifter I know I can be... and time is all I have.
Today training consisted of all power jerks! Light day only 1 movement trained but the goal was quality. Got the chance to make it to bluegrass barbell today to jerk off the boxes today. Life is so much better when you can drop weight to giant wooden boxes. Day two of the program was Power Jerks for max 2. I had a good feeling going into the training session and I was right. I was extremely sore coming into today's session. Yesterday was a rough session and it came haunt me all day. Breakdown:
Power Jerks
Bar work
50 x2
50x5 press to warm the shoulders up a bit more!
70x2
80x2
90x2
100x2
110x2
120x2
130x2
135 x2
140x2
145x1 press out so I stopped.
Was very happy with how the training session went today. Tom was doing some split jerks with me and we was blowing them up. All around great short session for me and bluegrass.
