yeah yeah yeah week long update shut up.
On Saturday, I hit a nice 285 lbs C&J, again, just to get one good heavy rep. I tried 295 lbs three times, cleaned it really nice three times, and JUST couldn't get the jerk three times. Great for the shoulders, I tell you. I might do better than 285 lbs if I stopped trying to jump up 10 lbs. I'm feeling good about 295 lbs next time though. Because I am DirtyRed and I don't learn lessons. Could probably do the dips a bit heavier next time.
Intensity Week 1: Saturday 2-24-2018
Clean&Jerk: 285 lbs single, 295 PHAYLE
Push Press: 220 lbs 5x3
Deadlift: 505 lbs 3x1
Roman Chair Sit Ups: 3x8
Weighted Dips: 3x5 45 lbs
Back to volume week, fucking hell. I tell you, Trump needs to do something about the fucking Persians going around the gym, leaving their weights on EVERY POSSIBLE CONTRAPTION. Also, a guy I regularly see in there who does some powerlifting apparently got bored. He took the aerobic step platform things, stacked it as high as he could (MAYBE 4 feet off the ground), so that he could lay on it with a barbell in the gap between the supports of the thing, in order to do the world's strictest barbell row. Of all the absurd shit I've seen people scheme up in the gym, this is, by a wide margin, the least idiotic.
Also, I am getting a lot better at hang snatches. Shows what doing them for the first time ever can accomplish.
Volume Week 2: 2-26-2018
Snatch: 190 lbs 6x2
Hang Snatch: 155 lbs 5x2
Squats: 425 lbs 5x8
Barbell Rows: 4x8 185 lbs
I started doing these volume C&Js quite a bit heavier than last time, because it's about the only jerk practice I can really get and that won't MEAN much more than fuck all if it isn't at least heavy enough to make me do it kind of right. And I can clean 275 lbs easily enough that I have no worries about that impacting recovery or causing nagging aches. I also added 10 lbs to deadlifts, because I am DirtyRed and I don't learn lessons. Those were remarkably hard.
Volume Week 2: 2-27-2018
C&J: 275 lbs 10x1
Standing Press: 145 lbs 4x8
Deadlifts: 425 lbs 3x5
Roman Chair Sit Ups: 3x10