Today
Wasn't actually meant to lift today, but I missed my workout on saturday so I thought I'd do something. I've changed from ss to pendlay's beginners training system (found
here) as I want to start doing some snatching and jerking. Becoming more explosive and dynamic is what I want from lifting, so I thought making my transition to more olympic lifts would be a good choice. Anyway..
Some overhead squats for warm up
Snatch
Stick x a bunch
Bar x 1 x 10
Some hang cleans for warm up
30 x 5
35 x 3
45 x 2
Clean pull + Hang clean (Knee)
50 x (2 + 1) x 5
Push Press
20 x 5 x 3
30 x 3
40 x 2
47.5 x 5 x 5
Squat
45 x 3
60 x 2
77.5 x 5 x 3
then training
I really like this, and snatches are starting to come back to me slowly. I never really got my snatch up to a respectable weight, and I'm currently training without a platform and any bumpers so I'm just probably gonna drill technique, and maybe increase weight very slowly. Weirdly, after I snatch, cleaning seems very foreign for some reason, and I got this too when I trained under a coach. The only thing that I dislike about the program, in comparison to ss, is that it doesn't specify how to warm up for the lifts and that it looks complex when I log it. For the complexes at the end of workouts, if I'm not otherwise training later on in the day, I'm probably gonna do some sort of bodyweight hold circuit. Something like handstand, dead hangs and planks etc.
As I said a couple posts before, I got a competition coming up, so I may have to cut weight. I'm currently gaining weight, and I'll continue doing so, but when I notice that my speed and explosiveness starts decreasing, I'm gonna decrease my calorie intake.