Away and back again

I've just been away for a week's high altitude work-capacity training (aka skiing). Happily, I managed to return with all limbs intact, but sadly I missed the Munster Open while I was away. Plus, I've been living on mostly ham, cheese and various bread products so now I've got to wean myself off those and back onto a proper diet :)

Friday 30th January

The last session before I headed was Friday 30th January. The Butcher has just produced a new programme for me so we did the second session from that (not a full week's training because we tested maxes at the start of the week). We've been doing a lot of work on snatching and jerking to get my technique up to scratch. Now The Butcher has expressed a modicum of satisfaction with these lifts but thinks the cleans could use a bit of work, so the new template includes a day of doing double cleans.

Snatch warmup - overhead squats and drop snatches to 32.5kg
Snatch: 2@35, 2@37.5, 2@40 x 6 (83% of best snatch)
Clean warmup - power cleans and front squats with 40kg
Clean: 2@40, 2@45, 2@50, 2@55 x 3 (84% of best clean)
Back squats: 3@60, 3@70, 3@80 x 6

Looking back on this now that's quite a tough session for me volume wise but I got through it well, energy was good. A video of the cleans is below. These look fairly OK but I need to work on setting up better and keeping the bar closer throughout the pull.



Sunday 8th January

Just a very easy session to get back into the swing of lifting after the week off. Did a good warmup, usual snatch warmup (overhead squats and drop snatches), then did the HPS + PS + S combo up to 3 sets with 35kg. Clean and jerked to 3 singles with 50kg, finished with some ab work and stretching and called it a day. Gym is closed on Monday the 9th so back to it on Tuesday for 3 good hard weeks training. Yay!