Today

Last week I had trouble with the cleans because I think my rest time was to short.  So I added 30 seconds to my rest time and cleans went a lot easier.  I'm not going to add any weight this cycle, right now I'm just doing 50 kg for sets of five.  Of course, next week I'll be doing five sets of five then I'll unload for a week and then when I come back comeback I think I'll do sets of three.  So in this next phase it will be three sets of three, four sets of 3 and five sets of three.

Monday, December 10th

The start of the second week of this new phase, I decided to go up a little bit of weight on the snatches only because it was a little easy on week one.  This worked out fine.  As a matter of fact they almost felt easier than the first week.  Probably just reestablishing my technique.

Friday December 7th

First Friday of the new cycle, I went pretty light with my jerks and snatch balances.  Since I'll be working up to five sets of five and snatch balances tend to hurt my shoulder sometime I'm keeping these pretty light.  With the jerks I will eventually work up to a heavy single that probably won't be for a few months.  The snatch balances will never be heavier than maybe triples.

On Wednesday I.......

Worked out again at Restor Fountain Valley (John Horsly has a platform there) and this was cleans and front squat day. Three sets of 5 x 50kg for the cleans and 3 sets of 5 reps x 60kg for the front squats. I very happy both felt easy especially the front squats. I had been front squatting AFTER back squatting all through the fall and now they feel easy by themselves.

Sorry for the silence

I've been working on a project that might change my career path, so I haven't had time really to concentrate on my blog. After doing a couple months of hypertrophy work, sort of your off-season GPP work, I started my second year of seriously dedicated Olympic lifting. Last summer I got up to about 75 K clean and a 55 kg snatch.  I didn't really squats back squat or front squat too much for several months.  So in this off-season I got up to several sets of eight with a hundred kilos in the back squats and sets of eight with about 60 kg in the front squats.  Now it's not as high as I wanted to get to but as December rolled around and this project I've been working on looks like it's coming to fruition I decided to go back to the Olympic lifts a little earlier and start off a little more structured.  So Monday of this week.  I did three sets of five in the snatch and three sets of five in the back squat.  I stayed pretty light in the snatch because I want to be of the get up to five sets of five in a couple weeks and I'm know I'm not in shape to handle really to much more weight.  In the back squat I was able to do  225lbs for three sets of five, which is all right and Ill work up to five sets of five with this in the next couple weeks. This lighter work with more volume for these lifts hopefully will help me get to my goals of a snatch of over 60 kg and a clean of 90 kg or more.  Well that's all for now and I hope to update you soon on the facility I'm working on.