Originally Posted by
stuffedsuperdud
Yah right now, upper body strength and positioning is my biggest issue. This is true for snatch, too. I spent too long believing that weightlifting was all lower body, but really, it's whole body, so my shoulders and upper back are constantly lagging. Working on it...
IPB: I think the shift between the clean and the jerk as I perform it is legal. Coach did specifically tell me to do, after all, it because when I make the adjustment when coming straight out of the clean, I don't always catch the weight symmetrically. I've also seen lifters make shifts in competition, usually if the clean was very heavy. I do know what you are talking about though, about lifters getting redlighted. Unfortunately I am not sure what the exact rule is at the moment. Will find out.
Friday training:
Power clean + jerk 2+1
40kgx1
60x1
70x1
80x1x4
Snatch balance + OHS 2+1
40kgx1x2
50x1x2
60x1x2
70x big fat fail. the OHS probably wouldn't have been a problem, but I just couldn't get my snatch balance together, and was shoving it everywhere except directly over my CoM.
Girl 2 (who's really just Girl at this point since the other one followed the Cuban coach to a bigger place) put us all through an emotional rollercoaster. Her PR's were a 47kg CJ, 50kg clean, and 66kg squat.
Out of nowhere, she cleaned 50kg super easily, but missed the jerk twice. Twas devastating. She then loaded up 53 and groudn out an epic PR clean.
Coach took her to the squat rack, where she worked up to her 66kg PR squat for a easy single. Coach jumped her up to 70, but she didn't come out of the hole clean and had to abandon the lift halfway up. Coach thought she was done, but she was furious about missing it and insisted she get another crack at it. This time, she came out of the hole clean, but the bar speed went to zero when she was about 3/4 of the way up. Somehow she was able to not go back down, despite shaking her head and yelling "Nope nope nope nope nope," regrouped her will when everyone started yelling, and finished the rep. We all needed cold showers and cigarettes afterward.
Saturday training:
Went to the gym first thing in the morning, no food or caffeine. Not ideal, but that's how the logistics worked out.
Snatch press + OHS 5+3
40kgx1
50x1
60x1
Probably should have done more but my traps have already taken a beating this week and the owner wanted to kick us all out early so that he could renovate the platforms so I moved to squats:
Squat:
60kgx5
110x5
142x5x3
I'm back on the recomp train, now that I've survived the meet. Yesterday I had:
3-scoop shake + Amino Energy
12oz steak + veggies
Today:
3-scoop shake x2
1.2lbs beef shawarma with garlic sauce and a blob of tahini
lots of Amino Energy
Fun story:
CG made me go to her place yesterday when she found out I had never seen E.T. (More on that later). Her mom was visiting, and CG mentioned that I lifted in a meet. I joked that she was more excited about it than my own mother, who considered stuff like this beneath me, and says things like "Why don't you golf? Gentlemen golf! Why did you go to school for so long if you are just going to simulate hard labor" in full seriousness.
Well, CG's mom asked if I recalled the time I went over to her uncle's palatial estate for Thanksgiving, and how one of the old guys and I had gotten to talking about lifting while waiting for everyone else to arrive. I said yes, and she said, "Oh, well, people were telling each other that our guest was a weightlifter, and no one could understand why, or how we even met you."
I went, "Huh? What do you mean?"
CG jumped in with, "Weightlifting, wrestling, bodybuilding, where we come from only poor kids do it. It's not considered gentlemanly, and lifting your own stuff is demeaning."
Mom goes, "Right right. Don't worry. Later on, when I find out, I tell all my family, 'Hey he knows CG from work. He is engineer.'"
I was amused/bemused, and went, "Uh...wait, what exactly did they think I was?"
CG was trying not to laugh now, and went, "My great-uncle assumed you were some sort of simpleton that I invited over out of pity, and by the end of the night, everyone thought something along those lines too."
"Wait but I talked to all these people-"
"Yea, super awkward.....don't worry. They didn't all thing you were retarded. My aunt's husband Albert thought you had Downs Syndrome, but some others thought you were the UPS guy, or, or...or my personal trainer!"
"I do look like I have Downs syndrome and I'm probably autistic. I can see that. And UPS guys are drowning in poontang. I can go with that too. But 'personal trainer'?! Well...well I never!"
The mom said, "Don't worry! I explained to them! I tell them all, it's your hobby, you enjoy it, and so on and so on."
CG added, "Still, my uncle Rupert, the guy you talked to, he used to lift, but no one else can understand why anyone would want to lift things for fun, especially someone is supposed to be smart. Okay okay let's go watch E.T.!"
Welcome to the 1%, everyone.