Training October 25, 2014

Gotta get the head through!

Power Snatch
6x1 Rest as needed
132, 132, 143, 143, 154, 154

Kept the weights fairly light to try to work on some technique issues.

I changed my normal camera angle to try to catch what I was perceiving as an early arm bend, and it is definitely there.  Also, I need to work on keeping my shoulders in front of the bar a little longer. This camera angle helped with this.  I also narrowed my grip a little bit since I have been smashing into my hip bones with the bar and they are sore as hell.

Clean & Jerk
6x1 Rest as needed
187, 187, 198, 198, 220, 220

Again, I kept the weight fairly light, but after a long week, it still felt heavy.  I haven't clean & jerked outside of a conditioning piece in a long while, and it showed.  My dip (a little forward dip) and drive wasn't great, and my catch is always a mess.  I just can't get my head through fast enough.  I need help with this.

For Time

Row 1000m

5 Muscle Ups

1 Clean & Jerk 185 lbs.

4 Muscle Ups

1 Clean & Jerk 195 lbs.

3 Muscle Ups

1 Clean & Jerk 205 lbs.

2 Muscle Ups

1 Clean & Jerk 215 lbs.

1 Muscle Up

1 Clean & Jerk 225 lbs.

11:00

This was a ton of fun!  Off the rower at 3:30.  Hit four easy muscle ups, got a little cocky, lost focus and failed the fifth.  Said a dirty word, jumped back up and got the last one.  All the other rounds of muscle ups were unbroken and fast.  These clean & jerks felt 100 times better than the ones in the lifting portion of today.  Power cleaned 185, 195 and 205, then switched to squat cleans and split jerked all of them.  On a regular day, I would have been under 10 minutes on this one, but the gym was super crowded with an Olympic lifting class so I had a lot of transition space to deal with.