This week's training

Tuesday:
Clean & Jerks up to 90%

Wednesday, I was feeling my age on a rest day

Thursday:
Worked up to 90% of my goal snatch weight of 115Kg (93% of my snatch 1RM) twice with no misses!  Getting more consistent and more used to the weight.  Also hit a 2RM at a Front Squat PR weight of 340# and a 3RM Press at 145# (another PR)!!

Today, Friday:
Worked up to 90% of my goal Clean & Jerk weight of 140Kg (94% of my C&J 1RM) twice with no misses!  Then hit some heavy snatch pulls.  Did I mention I'm trying to get used to this weight?

Inspired by this:

Punch the Rhino!  Beat the Germans!  World Champ 2016.

Rollercoaster

I had such a hard time making lifts on Friday, then Saturday seemed absurdly easy with power cleans and snatch pulls at 80%.  I bumped up the weights on both so I can get used to moving more weight again.

Sunday, was one of those rest days where I feel the effects of the week's training and wonder if I'll ever be able to survive another day.  Elbows, knees, back... I feel oldest on rest days!

But, even getting up to train at 3am and starting at 4am, today was a very successful day.  I hit every snatch.  After seeing my video, coach said to work on holding the bottom to build more stability... definitely rushing to get out of the hole.  I PR'ed my Back Squat 4RM at 370#!  That's 5# shy of a 1RM I got and then couldn't hit again for over a year.  I feel like I'm getting closer to 400#.  And, I hit pretty good weight (140#) for 3 on the press (forever my nemesis lift).

Down & up again.  But, trending up overall.

Missing

Not sure what it was today...

Maybe it was training while the class I used to coach was warming up right next to me.  Maybe I was beat up from last week.  Maybe I was just off today.  But, I missed a few lifts at 80%.

I was actually a little excited to finally miss a few lifts!!  I haven't been missing lately, so I've been doubting whether I'm pushing hard enough.

Whatever it was, I seemed to get back to something close to my groove after resetting (resting a typical rest period between sets).