Oh hey look, another week with only 3 days of training instead of 5. This is becoming a habit. I had kicked off the week great, but again, the lack of sleep catches up to me quick. I had a few days where I woke up and just didn’t have enough gas in the tank to get rolling, so I opted to sleep and try and recover. I have been telling myself “you are not signed up for a meet” and nothing is really on the line right now, so it is just a matter of going in and going through the motions. I don’t want to lose any of the momentum I have built up but there is always that drive deep down that wants to keep pushing things. I am just trying to find the balance to it all right now to say moving, recover, and not get injured.
BC18.W6.D1.0710
- Snatch: 2@70% / 158, 2@75% / 170, 2@80%/ 180, 3×1@90% / 192
- CJ: 2@70% / 235, 2@75% / 250, 2@80%/ 269, 3×1@90% / 287
- Clean Pull (Deficit, Eccentric): 3×3@90% / 287
- BS: 2@70% / 355, 2@75% / 380, 2@80% / 405
The heat and humidity was a killer this morning. Walking into the gym at 4:05 a.m. and its already 85 inside with no AC and no real powerful fan over on the side where I am. That’s brutal. The snatches felt really good which usually means that the CJs are going to be crap. On the first CJ, I came completely out of the hookgrip on the pull. I was so sweaty and couldn’t keep my hands dry when gripping the bar. I made the second CJ and then failed the jerk on the last one. I have joked around with some friends about saying when the humidity and heat are so high, to take 5-10% off the lifts but I really feel there is a lot of truth to that. Normally that 90% wouldn’t have given me troubles, but not being able to hold on to the bar and having my body temp so high, it was hard to work around.
I also took a misstep on the final BS rep at 80%. I tipped too far forward and at that moment realize I was close to the rack and the blocks. I couldn’t dump the weight forward because I would have died a tragic death. Like a real idiot, I forced the weight back up in some really awkward and unsafe good morning type motion. But I was so exhausted that, coupled with the heat, I couldn’t rack the weight. So I ended up dumping it behind me. I had one of those moments where I didn’t want to turn around for fear of who saw me do that. I know we all make mistakes and I think I took that 80% for granted. I wasn’t zeroed in like I normally am and nearly paid big time for it.
All the mistakes aside, I left the gym feeling accomplished and happy I wasn’t dead in between the blocks.
S: 3 | N: 4 | F: 3
BC18.W6.D2.0713
- Snatch: 1@70% / 158, 3×1@75% / 169
- CJ: 1@70% / 235, 3×1@75% / 251
- Snatch Pull (Deficit, eccentric): 3×2@90% / 205
- Superset: Bent over rows (115,115, 115, 137) & DB curls (35)
Despite staying up about an hour and a half beyond when I normally go to sleep, I managed to wake up this morning feeling energized enough to go in. Perhaps it was knowing that I was planning on sleeping in on Saturday or that I only had lifts at 75%, maybe both. Today was just one of those “go in and do nothing super special” days. Really tried to focus on quality movement. Since the weights weren’t heavy, I took the time to record some of the CJ, especially from the side, to look at a few things.
S: 3 | N: 3 | F: 4
BC18.W6.D3.0715
- Snatch
- 2x (3 pulls from the hang + 3 SNPP + 3 OHS)
- 3×3 Snatch pull unders
- 3 high hang snatch: 85
- 2×105
- 2×125
- 2×145
- 2×165
- 185
- 195
- 205 (95%)
- 210x
- 210x
- CJ
- 2x (3PP + 3BTNJ + 3PFS)
- 3×3 Pull from the hang
- 2×155
- 185
- 225
- 250
- 275
- 295x(C)
- 295
- 306 (93%)
- 316x(J)
Well, not exactly what I was wanting, however, I cannot really be entirely upset either. I have written recently about the lack of sleep and general feeling of being worn down during this cycle. I was actually surprised that I was able to work back up to the numbers that I did. I drew my line on the snatch at 195 which meant that 205 would have been my opener, which I hit without any problem. I really believe that 210 was in my head for some reason, as I pulled it more than high enough but just didn’t get under. On the CJ, I had a little bit different experience, missing the clean on 295, which would have been my last lift in the warm-up area. Making 205 on the snatch, I only needed 302 on the CJ to hit the total I would normally shoot for in order to qualify. But loaded with 306 anyway because I knew I could get it. I think that lift probably felt the best out of all of them.
I took a shot at 316 and was too tired to split so I missed the jerk. It was a pretty interesting miss as it went behind. Just glad that I ducked out of the way. I skipped taking another attempt.
All in all, I was just happy to finish with 93/139/232 and to wrap up this training cycle. It was a pretty brutal one.