Three whiteboard lights imo, well done!

Thanks, pal!

The 205 wasn't really all that close to my head. But yeh, kinda terrifying which is why I have trouble committing on a PR snatch attempt like that. I just need to pull the **** out of the bar and commit like a man. I can always dump it behind.

C&J I noticed the t-spine rounding. It's not good, but fairly atypical as I normally pull with a flat back. This is one of the reasons I video. I never would've noticed that. Gotta keep it in mind.

Hey, Did you do 14.1?

How did you go if so?

I had asked also he had though he had not registered. Amazing you record so many lifts. nice to see using your phone?

3/4/14

Last real workout for the week. Heading to California for vacation tomorrow.

Snatch

Warmups
135
155
175
185f,f - clarked both
155

C&J

135 + 2 jerks
155 + 2 jerks
185 + 2 jerks
205
225 oxox

The misses were jerks I didn't bother attempting.

Pendlay Rows

5x4x225

HBBS

185x2
225x1
6x2x245

Not too bad. Maybe I'll post some videos later if I have time.

Where will you be in CA? If your in the LA area and want to get a workout in, shoot me a PM.

That would be cool and the offer is appreciated, but I'm going to be up in San Fran and Napa.

In that case, enjoy and look into the downtown napa tasting card. One of the best values ever IMO. $20 for the card and it gives you 2-8 free tastes at about 14 wine shops all within walking distance of each other in downtown napa. Amazing alternative to very expensive winery tours. Also, check out buttercream bakery for insanely delicious old school American diner/breakfast food, great place to lay a base for drinking wine the rest of the day. Hog island oysters in napa and also at the ferry building in SF has some of the best oysters I've ever eaten and they usually do a daily $1/oyster happy hour. Enjoy!

I'm not an oyster eater, but I will definitely look into getting the Napa card and the buttercream bakery looks pretty delicious. Thanks for the recs!

3/6/14

2-3 miles walking around hilly San Francisco.

5 minutes of burpees - 68
5 minutes of burpees - 58
1 minute plank

This was just plain awful. I'm pretty sure last time I tried this, I got mid 70s? I was probably a couple pounds lighter though and better conditioned.

Going to Bouchon now to eat all the calories.

ETA: Just checked my log. Last time I did 2x5 minutes of burpees was 7/27/13 and I got 67, 62, so basically about the same.

3/7/14

~1 mile running
2x1 minute AMRAP burpees - 22, 21

3/10/14

Just got back from California. Went to the gym this morning tired and feeling quite fat having eaten everything in sight the last 5 days.

C&J

135
155
175
195 (2 sets)
205
215
215f (failed jerk)

Messed around trying to get a 185# thruster. Nope, not today.

Push Press

135x3
155x3
165x3
3x3x170

Squat

185x3
225x1
6x2x235

Clean Deadlift w. ~1 sec. pause ~2 in. off floor

225x5
255x3
3x3x285

Conditioning

2x15x70# KBS

2 sets of double unders: ~25ish each time.

Took video--might post later if I have time.

Did you have daylight Savings also as that will screw you up as well as coming back from vacation

Yup. Daylight savings, time change, and about 5 hours of sleep. I'm exhausted, so I'm just happy I even made it to the gym.

does SF one have bakery? went for brunch, the cinamon rolls/muffins/doughnuts desserts etc. were the nutttttssssssss

Dunno if SF has one. I went to the restaurant in Yountville which was very delicious. I also went (twice) to the Bouchon bakery which is right next door to the restaurant and got donuts, monkey bread, macaroons, croissants, and brownies. It was all many calories and vvvv good. I regret nothing.

I remember a long time ago that you said that you were thinking of doing a lifting meet (oly lifting?). Any plans for doing one in the future?

It's not on my radar at the moment because I'm pretty busy (not the bad kinda busy, but busy nonetheless) with some life stuff. I do want to do one eventually though. Hopefully when things normalize for me, I will look into it further.

3/12/14

Muscle Snatch

100x4
120x3
3x2x130 (muscle snatch PR?)

I remember when I couldn't power snatch 125 and could barely full snatch 125. Nice to know I can actually muscle up more than that now.



Snatch Complex

2 snatch pulls + snatch

135
155
165
3 sets at 170

No misses and really not that bad at all. I just looked back though and noticed the snatch pulls were supposed to be high pulls. Oops.

Snatch Pulls

3x2x200

Squat

6x3x235

This is day 2 of my squat program. This was easy and this week was easy, but it's going to get a lot harder. Hoping to add 5% to my squat at the end of the 6 week program if I can survive it.

I took video. I dunno if there is some butt wink, maybe a little. The bar is also quite uneven on my back with the right side significantly lower than the left. I've always had that issue and don't know why or how to fix it.

3/13/14

Hip Clean

95x3
145x3
170x3
2x3x180



C&J Complex

3 Hang Cleans + 1 Jerk

185
195
200
200



Clean Grip RDLs

5x4x245

GHD

3x10

Conditioning

3 sets ME 200 meter row - 35 seconds, 37 seconds, 37 seconds.

Some other light rowing after.

Really solid grind on that last hang clean

Thanks, buddy! Funny enough that the second set I did was not a grind at all.

3/14/14

Deadlift

135x5
225x3
275x2
315x1
365x1
385x1
410x1 (PR)
420xf (bar didn't leave ground)
2x5x335

A baby PR. I pulled 405 on August 27. I feel like I don't know how to do a conventional deadlift since I haven't done it in so long. My hips seem kinda high to me.

410 PR today



405 PR in August



I think if I honed in on form, I could have done a little better today.

Squat

warmups
6x2x245

Fine.

It was a short day. I hurt my ankle a little playing kickball and actually jammed my pinky too so I didn't want to do regular oly lifts today. I feel like such a pansy getting hurt playing kickball.

Nice PR

Good warmup for 14.3