Clean vid

185x3

Looking better. I'd add more hang work from hip and also from knee to work on waiting for the 2nd pull. Good work.

ty! I just watched my vid a million times and I'm really not activating my shoulders at all. That second pull just sucks so I'll work on that hang work like you say

Still looks like you start to bend your arms early and your setup seems like it could be better somehow, but your form is getting much much better imo. You'll be cleaning 315 in no time.

Yeah the arm bend is very apparent in this vid. It looks like I'm rowing the weight up. I'm not getting much hip pop either.

ty for the encouragement tho! 185x3 was pretty easy. Next time, 315

5/13:

Front Squats 3x3

255x3x3 These were pretty good. Probably couldn't have done 4 reps, but def coulda done more sets if I had to.

Snatch

Programming was to do 70%x3, 80%x2x2, 85%x1x2 or something, but I wasn't doing that since I'm learning snatches still. I basically worked on doubles and triples for a while, moving up in weight.

Eventually did:
95x3x3
115x3x2
125x2
135x1x3
145x1x2

I need to work on landing lower, as I'm power snatching most of these. I need to record them next time I snatch.

Clean pulls from floor:
205x3x3

5/16:

dum wod, who cares

5/17:

Did a fun wod this morning.

25min AMRAP of

10 53# kb murican swings
10 box jumps
10 thrusters at 115#
400m run

Did 5+11 which was pretty good compared to most guys.

Afterwards I worked on double unders and muscle ups. I'm going to try and work on both just about every time I go to the gym

5/19:

Pretty dumb wod but it got my power snatching and OHS a lot so I'll log it.

5 rds for time:

300m row
3 power snatches @ 115
6 OHS @ 115.

15:53

rx was 135 which I started with but I can't OHS that much easily repeatedly and the power snatches were pretty tough at that weight as well.

5/20:

Snatch:

Just getting in lots of volume. Did a lot at 45, 95, 115 and 125. Feeling better. Getting better. Need to film.

C&J:

Worked up to a fairly easy 185. Need to try 195. My jerk is bad and should feel bad. Need to film!!!

Front Squat:

235x3x4 Pretty hard after 75 mins of the prior stuff!

5/21:

Jerk werk.

Supposed to work up to a 2-2-2-1-1-1 weight. I thought I'd get to like 185 or so considering I C&Jed 185 w/o much problem a couple times last night. Well, I am just horrible at jerks.

165 was hard for a double. Like, way too hard. The DYEL dude I was sharing a rack with was doing 165 as well and his looked much better. I seriously need to practice these a lot. I can't get a good hand positioning it seems. Too much fingertip, not enough of a solid grip. I think long forearms are making it extra hard.

Anyway, I did

165x2
165x2
165x2
165x1
175x1
175xf

After: some dumb metcon to get sweaty.

Taking Thurs/Fri off and doing Murph on Saturday morning. Should be fun!

BookstoMonte, no complaining about your leverages to make excuses for sucking. You need to practice your jerk more. Maybe you can have one or both of the curlies show you how to jerk it.

The split jerk was pretty hard to learn for me personally. One thing that helped me for whatever reason was paused jerks. Pause at the bottom of the dip and explode. Either way keep practicing and it will come along eventually.

I fully acknowledge that I suck and haven't practiced it much and need to get on that. I fully expect that I will be able to jerk better with some practice but for right now it's really difficult and uncomfortable to get my hands in the right position.

Paused jerks? Interesting. Well, right now I need to focus on my hands I think. When I'm ready to start the jerk my hands are about 2" wider than my clean grip. The bar is basically in line w/ my calluses or the base of my fingers (I dunno, just imagining it atm) and my elbows are lower than a front squat position but not a lot lower. It's very hard to figure out how to rest the weight in the rack position AND have a decent grip on the bar.

5/24:

Murph:

1mi run
100 pullups
200 pushups
300 air squats
1mi run

46:12 rx no vest. Pushups were absolutely my debilitating factor. Ran first and last mile in 8mins. Pullups and airsquats were a breeze but I had to take a lot of rests on pushups. I did {5-10-15} x 20 which I think I would do again. Seems good.

100 pullups?! What was your rep scheme? I guess it would be pretty easy to bust out 10x10.

5-10-15 x 20

That's 20 rounds of 5 pullups, 10 pushups, 15 air squats, aka Cindy.

ooooh. See I thought you were saying that's what you did to get through the pushups. I promise, I read your post.

It's okay man. I know you have the aut.

I wish I had autism. Maybe then I'd be a WWF savant

Only like a few % of auts are savants. You may just regular full-blown aut.

Hmm. Good point. Maybe I should try blackjack.

Does Tom Cruise have regular aut too?

Crossfit "pullups" or actual pullups?