11/12
Felt really weak today, not sure why I've been eating a decent amount and slept well last night.
Squat
WU
3x5x230
WS1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-eaAFowO7Q&t=1s
WS2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwpL40RZRq0
WS3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g65SRp_W0Mw&t=1s
These felt way heavier than Thursday's set. First set it looks like I was a bit high (although keep in mind the camera is tilted, those safeties are parallel to the ground). Tried to remedy this on the subsequent sets. Definitely had some lower back rounding. On the last set I thought seriously about quitting after the third rep but decided against it and ground out two more ugly reps. I guess that's something.
Bench
WU
3x5x175
WS1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMX7WTeYQko
WS2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSHRen1UTkE
WS3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twN0Ib0qYjk
These went good. Not a whole lot to see here I don't think. Going to try and do two more 5lb jumps before switching to 2.5 lb jumps.
Chin-up
3x5xbw
Forgot to mention these on my writeup for 11/08 but I did 5,5,4 then. Was glad to get 5 all across this time.
Power Clean:
Practice Vid 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUVyXvTuxDM&t=3s
Practice Vid 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Rm6RSPKy-Y
Did warm-up and tried to work on getting it onto my sholders/fingertips at lowish (75-95lbs) weight. Had a hard time with it as I'm not very flexibile and my forearms are very long. Even in doing this at low weight my elbow and shoulder started hurting again so I stopped.
My plan as of now is to stop doing these for a week or so to let the elbow and sholder heal, cause there's definitely some nagging pain in there even as I write this. I'm going to try and do a stretch detailed in SS (Don't have it with me so can't look up the page, but it involves getting rack position in one arm against a bar that is fixed in the rack) to improve flexibility, and then attempt the power clean again really trying to catch it correctly. Hopefully that works as I like doing the exercise and seeing it go up, but it's not worth screwing up my joints. The book says some people won't be able to get it even with a "lifetime of stretching" if there forearms are too long, and should power snatch instead, hopefully that's not me.