Originally Posted by
Hooper
I was doing alright-ish on cleans. Had it working at 140, but I had one that landed really awkwardly on the shoulders and jarred me pretty good. It was painful enough that the next attempt was all out of sorts, so I'll come back in the morning on Saturday to try them again. (The shoulders are feeling better now, about an hour afterwards.) The catch is definitely my make/break point right now. If I get UNDER correctly, I catch it. I still have some re-training in my brain on that, but it's slowly getting better. Slowly.
Chins on Saturday too.
As a side note, I saw this weekend that the well-executed novice started modifying the squats at around this weight by adding the back-off reduction. It may be time to start looking at advanced novice modifications to squats. I'll have to think long and hard about that this weekend. I kinda don't want to modify it; I like the struggle of the squats.