Sat 2-12-2017.
Early morning trip to contest gym. Very surprised. Although it is in a narrow city street, it is huge - an ex warehouse, with a large parking area. i could have driven.
Lots of crossfitters doing crossfitting.
Alongside where the contest platform was set up, there was a team of 15 or so nubile young women. To music, they were pulling themselves up to the rafters, hand over hand up silken ribbon stuff, all at the same time. Then wrapping it around themselves in various ways, they slithered, twisting, turning, down towards the floor, displaying themselves in artistic posing, until they were near the ground, and then shinnying up again to repeat. This went on for most of the contest.
It was only because of being in terror of my life, that i could concentrate while on the platform.
When they were done, they went over to chinning bars and did muscle ups, and hanging leg raises, where they lifted straight legs all the way up to touch the bar.
Ah, yes. The contest.
Weighed in at 83.16 k.
Kept the weights down after having all 6 lifts ruled out last contest.
Snatch. 30-31-32 k. All passed, all state masters records, 75-79 year group.
The computer recording lass told me she was terrified watching my lifts. Thatâs how rare split lifting is nowadays.
Clean and Jerk. 40, passed. 41, missed it. 41, repeated, 3 whites. So that was 2 more state records, and 2 total records - 72 and 73.
There were 13 lifters, and a total of 20 missed or ruled out lifts.
A master told me he does jerks from racks, up to 10 k more than he can clean, so he will have more confidence on the platform. Well, i better work on this. My jerk sucks so badly, that i can power clean considerably more than i can jerk.
Mon 4-12-2017.
A workout.
A take away lesson from recent training is that on my heavy breathing sq day, i am so battered after it, that my training suffers badly, so i am going to reduce the volume by one third on this day.
stick warmups.
Breathing Sq. (55 k) 4. (96) 20. ------- and 60 Rader pulls.
Horizontal Leg press heels raise. flexing. (150 lbs) 18. (170) 18.
Lateral raise. flexing. (3 k dbâs) 15.14.
Swiss ball roll ins, crunching down with elbows both ways. 13.13.
Power JBN. (20 k) 10. (22.5) 10. (25) 10. (30) 10.(25) 10. (27.5) 10. 10. [tonnage 1,775 k]
Rows. (90 lbs) 10. (100) 10. (110) 10. (120) 10. (130) 10. 10. (120) 10. [tonnage 8,000 lbs]
Split snatch, then second rep squat snatch. stick 2. (20 k) 2. (22.5) 2 (25) 2.2.2.2.
Jerk from rack. (20 k) 2.2. (22.5) 2. (25) 2. (30) 2. (32.5) 2.2.2.
Thurs 7-12-2017
B workout.
Stick warmups.
Squat. (35 k) 10. (55) 10. (65) 10. (75) 10. (60) 10. (55) 10. (65) 10. (50) 10. (35) flexing â 19.16. [tonnage 5,875 k.]
Press. (15 k) 10. (20) 10. (25) 10. (32.5) 10. (25) 10. (27.5) 10. (25) 10. (22.5) 10. (15) flexing â19.16. [tonnage 2,450 k.]
Pulldowns. (60 lb) 10. (80) 10. (90) 10. (100) 10. (110) 10. (120) 10. (100) 10. (90) 10. (50) flexing â 19.16. [tonnage 9,250 lb.]
Snatch [1 split snatch, followed by 1 sq snatch] - stick 2.2. (20 k) 2. (22.5) 2. (25) 2. (27.5) 2.2. (25) 2.2.
C+J. [Power clean + 2 jerks] - stick 2. (20 k) 2. (22.5) 2. (25) 2. (27.5) 2. (30) 2. (32.5) 2.2. (30) 2.2.2.