Back from my 3 week vacation, ready to start anew. The Mike Keelan Shield event is on the 21st of December and I've been urged to compete, so I've got about a month of solid training and no soccer to get ready, let's see how I go!
*Hip was fine during snatch. Felt it tugging a little bit during some bad jerk reps but mostly fine. Tried to front squat but pushing up out of the bottom at any angle felt bad, so I stopped and did some light deads. Might go see a different physio and if he agrees with my current one, go get this expensive scan and see if it's my labrum that's torn. Sighface.
Finally broke my mental block on 90kg! Absolutely destroyed it with very good form, sitting into the bottom and not being off balanced or anything. Felt so good that I did it another 2 times, happy to be making progress technique wise :) Squats still need some fine tuning, hips annoying me a bit lately.
Realy strong jerks today, been working on the top rack position and it's feeling really nice. Just need to up the anti on my squats, cause at the moment I'm as weak as a kitten
Pretty fantastic workout. Just completely consolidated on the form that has been feeling so good lately, busted out 4 sets of triples on the two big movements and went home, ate a shitload then slept for 10 hours :)
Clean and jerks are finally getting some consistency, the
rack positions feeling really solid so I just tried to smash out as many
doubles as possible while it was feeling easy lolz
First session since the comp because I've been sick, but my
hip was feeling pretty much healed, so I actually tried out some back squats
after all my other exercises. Technique has changed in that I'm getting my
knees out and adductor's are being used a lot more, but once I'm used to it the
weight will fly up. 120 felt light out of the bottom which was good.
So I took a 4 week break from lifting and then as I started to get back into I injured my left hip. The physio thought it could've been a labrum tear (cartilage) but I think I've been lucky it might only be some ligament damage which is slowly healing. Squats and pulls have suffered alot but my techiques feeling great and I got a 87.5kg snatch and 110kg clean and jerk on the 15th so we'll see how I go :)
Got back from a 4 week vacation in Europe on the 22nd of July and this was my first week back. Haven't lost that much strength but I've put on at least 2/3kg of "holiday weight" so let's see how long it takes for that go. Feels good to be back
Not sure why I even bothered snatching after exerting myself so much in the clean and jerk, form was feeling very off, not much extension at all so I bailed asap.
Back Squats
Warm up, 70, 100
120kg x 5
120kg x 5
130kg x 5
130kg x 5
140kg x 5
145kg x 5
I was pretty happy with the volume and intensity of the squats, 145kg felt tough but definitely powerful out of the bottom. Last session for 4 weeks since I'm off to Europe, missing out on Nationals and League Round 3 :( Oh well, hopefully I don't get too weak. 85kg's here I come
Had almost a whole week off due to my wrist being sore (fell over at soccer) so I couldn't snatch, and also I was just busy to be honest. Absolutely smashed this session, PB clean and jerk triple after 3 attempts of gruelling intensity and some heavy backs to finish it off :)
*After reaching my PB back squat for 5 on Saturday morning, my quads were still completely destroyed for this session so I was really happy to get out some full cleans but the back squats were just NOT happening today. Almost fell over with 130 on my back..
I have absolutely no idea where I pulled this from, was meant to just do some heavy-ish sets of 5 but the vibe in the gym was great and I had spotters so I just went for it. Literally a 10kg back squat PB and I have no back pain from it :)
Great workout for me, no front squats or heavy cleans so I could let my back heal - jerks were feeling great surprisingly. Failed a few of my heavier snatch reps but I was using a different bar/weights and it didn't feel comfortable (making excuses) but happy to get out a triple on 82.5kg
Trip to the physio today, I was pretty happy with my lower backs progress considering I competed on the weekend. He told me to just keep doing what I was doing, stretched it all out and worked on hip flexors for ~20 minutes. Lifting was good, could actually front squat without pain :)
Back felt a lot better today, and I was getting full triple extension on the power cleans but I still wasn't able to front squat, so this weekend comp should be interesting.
Lower back started to give me quite decent pain in the 102kg clean and jerks, after which I tried to front squat but even the bar made it sore so I switched to backs which felt ok. First taper session for the competition on the weekend - not filling me with confidence.
Ran out of time at the end of the session so had to cut squats short, but all in all it was a good workout with snatch feeling fantastic and a decent amount of practice on jerks is always welcome. Taper workouts this week and comps on Saturday.
Only had a little over an hour to train so just fit in the two big lifts, each feeling ok. Still keeping the weight pretty light, will amp it up over the next week in preparation for next weeks competition.
First session back from injury, snatch was feeling good, little rusty on the triple extension but quick and looked ok. Took it light on deads and power cleans because they are the main antagonists for my back. Competition on the 18th of May so we'll see how I go.
Sore from yesterdays session but wanted to hit up something because I'll be away this weekend. This is the beginning of my crusade to get a stronger upper body, cause at the moment I'm as weak as a kitten.
Back to Physio today, he said to take it easy this week and to stick with partial movements from blocks. Put the X tape back on. Feels a bit better but my hip flexors are really buggered atm, not sure why.
Pretty awkward session, couldn't drop the bar and doing anything from the rack is really annoying for positioning, just wanted to keep strength up while my backs healing.
80kg x 3 x 5 sets (First time ever trying these, they felt great surprisingly)
Snatch Pulls (from blocks)
70kg x 6
90kg x 6
100kg x 6 (4 Sets)
10 mins of ab exercises
Went to physio today, back has been hurting pretty badly since I did my session at UQ. He taped up my back with this giant X and has advised me to take panadol/neurofen, keep up the rehab and try stuff from blocks / taper down the weight for this week. Should be back to full speed in 1/2 weeks. Also trying out some ab exercises this week to try and help with the process, figure I may as well if I'm only training light.
Very hungover for this session, really couldn't do anything except basic pull/push exercises. Trying to focus on fixing my clean and snatch pulls so I will be taping these sets from now on.
