On the press you're using a lot of knee involvement on the first rep, and then you're just kinda loose in your core on the rest. Gotta keep the core tight, squeeze your glutes, and get your head through faster.

I'm not a fan of power cleans unless you're competing in some sort of athletic event. I'd rather rows be substituted, or begin working on chin ups. If you're gonna keep doing them, you still have way too early arm bend. I don't even know what to work on for this though, it seems to be everyone's natural tendency when learning the power clean.

On the squats, you want your eyes looking down, but in doing so it looks like your chest is caving in. You want eyes down but chest up.

Yeah press felt weak today, I'll focus more on core next time.

I really hate power cleans and would gladly substitute rows or chin ups, but I can't do chin ups to save my life, cause my upper body strength is lol bad.

Yeah looking down with my head felt weird.

Thanks for the help.

Pendlay rows are fine. There's a link to a good thread on how to progress on chins from scratch in the FAQ.

How about alternating chins and pendlay rows, where I would normally do power cleans. I've done barbell rows up to 140, so I could deload to a weight to work on form and not be too far behind everything else?

Sure, that's a good plan.

I'll try to do some chins at the gym tomorrow. Not really sure my fatass can even do one though. We'll see.

Just keep progressing.

I'm not fat, and my weak ass can only do four chin ups at a time. My gunz are def not brotastic. I'm going to do them more frequently on my days off.

I just tried to do a chin up on the old iron gym. I barely moved. BARBELL ROWS IT IS!

Today I kicked my own ass. I had literally the hardest workout I've ever had. I really wim today and gave everything max effort, except for bench where I had a little left in the tank. I gave squats and deads everything I had. I know my form deteriorates at the end of my deadlifts, but how bad is this. This weight felt huge and I almost failed the last rep, but I really didn't want to give up.

squats 3x5x215 (pr)
bench 3x5x135 (pr)
dead 1x5x285 (pr)

Nice but where's the video of you puking?

Considering how bad I pushed myself, I didn't even feel queasy. Might've needed a sit down break after squats though.

Working out tomorrow which is my workout b so I would normally be doing power cleans. I sort of don't want to give up trying the power cleans, so I'm going to squat ohp then try cleans again and see how they go. If they suck bad like last week I'll try to do chins and probably won't move. If that happens I'll do pendlay rows. That is all.

Ugh frustrating workout, but I knew it would catch up to me with the ten pound jumps on squats. I failed on the first rep of my second set. This made me so discouraged that I failed Ohp and barbell rows. So annoyed, going to go back to 215 for squats on Wednesday.

1x5x225 squats
1x4x115 Ohp
1x4x135 rows

Still really annoyed with myself today.

**** happens, don't let it bother you too much. It's not a sprint etc.