Good to see the progress on the elbow.
Not really.
Everyone keeps talking about this decline, but I don't remember when E&P was ever not terrible. Well, yea, it's worse now, but was it really that much better when Spar and Tert strutted around sniffing their own farts, Corrie wore tinfoil helmets, and Mikey actually lifted and fought with Tobo about a bobsled?
Way ahead of you, Simon. Remember when she and Julia Rohde were the only cuties on the IWF circuit, btw? I was okay with getting beaten by hairy Belarussians, but nowadays it seems like every 63kg woman doing 110/130 at Worlds could easily be in that middle part of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. You know, the part with actual athletes. Or at least the ESPN Body Issue. Hurts my ego.
Today:
The elbow continues to be better than it's been in years. I was able to do:
Muscle clean + power jerk + split jerk 1+3+2
20x many
40x1
50x1
60x1
70x1
80x1
90x1x2
Front squat:
60x5
70x5
80x5
90x5
This was the first time in recent memory that I was able to rack a barbell without any elbow pain, and without the limited ROM forcing me to hold the bar slightly out of position. With jerks, each subsequent rep used to land on my delts kind of funny, and something like a 5-rep set was unthinkable, but today, everything went up easily enough. Wooooot. Shoulders not used to all this new work and are already complaining.....wooooo...... Front squat embarrassingly low because it's the first time in two months or so....EXCUSES. Relax, I'll ramp it back up shortly.
Last edited by stuffedsuperdud; 09-07-2017 at 09:00 PM.
Good to see the progress on the elbow.
Killing it ssd. I should start training again. I'll even have space in my new gym for silly silly weightlifting
I don't think jerking 90kg five times is killing anything, but thanks. Yes, try weightlifting. It really ties in nicely with everything else that is hurtful or unfair in the universe.
Today:
Hang snatch + snatch 2+1
20kg x a few
40x1
50x1
60x1
70x1
78x1
83x1
88x1
80x1
83x1
Snatch press:
20x5
40x5
50x5
60x5
70x2 blah!!!!
Snatch push press:
70x5
80x5
Okay!
So yesterday Kings Dominion, the local amusement park, was open only to DoD employees/contractors + family, and for basically free no less, so of course I went with Szymon and the roommate I call J.Crew....because he wears only J.Crew......and could easily model for them or anyone else because he's 6'2" 190lbs and ridiculously handsome...fuck that guy. Obviously everyone there was either a teenager or a parent with small children, and we were the only childless adults #peterpansyndrome. Made us re-evaluate our lives for a while, but great in that unlike the teens we didn't have to stop constantly to ask for permission or money, and unlike the parents, we were not burdened by strollers and babies.....so while suicide is still obviously on the to-do, we made the best of it and managed to ride everything at least twice, and a few things three times.
Summary here:
Kings Dominion Rides
Resisting all the G-forces did a number on me though, and I woke up today with my neck and upper back destroyed. Tried to lift and did:
Snatch:
20kg x many
40x4
50x3
60x3
70x2
80x0,1
All felt slow and sluggish, and coach reported that the 1st pull was never quite in position. She got wary when I threw the 80 behind me, and then had to chase down the second one. I told her what happened. She called me an idiot and shut down the snatching.
Pause squat:
20kg x10
60x8
100x5
130x5
and we called it here
Really tired from staying up last night after we got back putting together a presentation, which I then did not actually give because the boss wanted to leave early for lunch. Saw Lil L later, who went, "Ha! It looks like you got hit by a hurricane!" Apparently she had stayed up all night neurotically tracking the hurricane and making sure it didn't change directions and bang into Louisiana and came in with dirty hair and clothes and bloodshot eyes. Didn't have to heart to tell her that between the two of us she was the one that looked roughed up. Whatevs.
Drive-by post to report today's antics:
Power jerk + split jerk from rack, 3+2
20kg x many
40x1x2
50x1
60x1x2
70x1
80x1x2
90x1
Work on technique with coach. She caught me leaning forward a lot on the catch. "Stop leaning over the cliff!" Good life advice in general.
Press 1.0
60x5,4,4
Shoulders were roasted and this was all I could manage. I also have a strange new problem: For a long time, due to limited elbow flexion, I could hold a barbell in the press position but not in a proper rack for a front squat, clean, or push press. Well, now, the left elbow has full ROM and when the weight is applied, it can't help but overflex when I try to catch a stretch reflex. Right elbow and its tightness works for pressing. Too much Bulleit Rye now...