Building callouses and chasing goals

EmcD123

A load of microhurdle drills today, felt crap doing them
Then 6x30m sprints from blocks
and 4x60m sprints from blocks,1 minute break between each
The 60m sprints had to be done at race pace

EmcD123

One rep max night tonight!!! I was on fire!!
Bodyweight :65.5kg with no shoes

Snatch: 57.5kg PR
Clean and Jerk: 70kg PR
Total: 127.5kg PR

The 70kg felt easy but i didnt want to push it too hard, missed 57.5 twice but dropped the weight ,built back up again and then nailed it
All the jerks were split jerks and from now on unless stated all the jerks will be split ones
Also snatch pulls 4x3 @62.5kg

EmcD123

Night at the track again,wasnt the best session but it was far from the worst.
10x150m sprints
The last 2 days have had a lot of inactivity switting down studying and i havent been eating right,so i wasnt feeling particularly good tonight but I got through it in the end

EmcD123

So I keep forgetting to post this video ,It is me deadlift my PR 110kg ,its from last thursday in the warehouse.Just to prove i can lift it lol

It always amazing me how something looks so much easier when youre
watching it back

Alf Veedersane

You should try doing it shoeless or with flat soles.

You should also try trimming your videos

EmcD123

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

You should try doing it shoeless or with flat soles.

You should also try trimming your videos

haha I upload from my phone and generally dont ever put them on the computer so I havent actually bothered trimming them yet. Will do it in the future.
I kept the shoes on that time to see what it would feel like, usually im weraing flat shoes

EmcD123

Went on the bike today instead of going run,had a few niggles on wednesday and didnt want the impact tonight
so 45km at 24.5km/hr
Heres the strava link
https://www.strava.com/activities/287249583

EmcD123

An awesome session was had this morning at the track.
6x30m from blocks
6x60m from blocks
Took out my racing spikes and get them my all,felt really good and the weather was lovely

EmcD123

Absolutely **** day at the gym today, The lifts just werent going up and I didnt get anywhere close to my maxes particularly on the snatch.
squats were the only good thing to come from today

Snatch
Only managed to get up to 52.5kg after missing it a load of time then got 52.5 really ugly and didnt have a hope of getting 55
Clean and jerk
got stuck at 62.5 for ages but stripped the bar completely and started again and made it up to 67.5kg
Squats
After all the failed attempts and stuff fatigue had really set in,my legs were wobbly and shook before i'd even started squatting so i wasnt expecting much, kept adding 5kg to the bar each time for 3 reps
so max was 90kg for 3 reps PR

EmcD123

Completely forgot to log last nights session.
4x200m sprints.
Done almost flat out and with a pretty big break between each to allow for that
Might have pushed a little too hard though.

EmcD123

Not quite sure about how i feel about tonights session.
I snatched well,clean and jerk was good but i didnt manage to hit my max and then i did overhead split squats which I definitely think seem benificial
Snatch
double up to 45kg
Did a load at 30kg to try fix my first pull and setup to stop me scraping my shin
then Did singles at 50,52.5,55kg missed 57.5 dropped to 50 then built back up again

Final max:57.5kg

Clean and jerk
doubles up to 55kg
Then went to 60 then 65 then attempted 70,missed 70 twice

Final max:65kg

Dissappointed with clean and jerk,should have went for 67.5 before 70
Overhead split squat
3x5 @40kg
2x5@45kg
1x5@50kg
1x5 @55kg
1x3 @57.5kg

EmcD123

Another session at limitless this morning,preparing for the connacht open .
had a brilliant session today,felt really good and strong and made a load of PR's
Front squats
Did these first
50x3
60x3
70x3
80x3
90x3
95x3
100xfail
so with a triple on 95kg that was a 15kg PR on my previous triple max and 5kg on my one rep max. If i hadnt done a triple at 95 then i probably could have managed a 100kg squat
Power snatch
Never done these before so didnt have high hopes
I worked up to 52.5kgx2
Missed 55kg forward
Power clean and Power jerk
Worked up singles to 62.5kg
Then got 65kg on the second attempt,which is a 2.5kg PR
Missed 67.,5kg but got the power clean which is a 5kg power clean PR

My bodyweight is still stuck at 65kg arrrgh!!!:mad:
But my strength is still going up so i cant really complain

EmcD123

Track session this morning,
Load of hurdle drills for plyo first
Afterwards sprints from Blocks
2x3 60m
1x2 100m
1x1 100m

EmcD123

Probably the last gym session before the connacht open this weekend.
We had a mock competition tonight where we had 3 snatch attempts and 1 clean and jerk attempt at our openers.

I got all 4 attempts no bother but the nerves were high, Its completely different when you need to make the lift to when youre training normally...
Bodyweight: 65.4kg
Snatch
1st lift: 47.5kg
2nd lift: 52.5kg
3rd lift: 55kg

Clean and Jerk
1st lift: 62.5kg
Total: 117.5kg
No PR's or anything,but the snatches were only 2.5kg off my max,all the lifts were solid, my jerk still needs a load of work though but other than that I just have to keep lifting and let the numbers gradually increase.
Im absolutely buzzing for saturday

EmcD123

Last prep session was tonight.
Just warming up and getting the muscles working,
Worked up to my snatch opener 50kg and hit it twice
Then worked up to just below my clean and jerk opener 62.5kg
Then some 40kg snatch pulls
Im totally hyped for tomorrow,i cant wait!!!

Alf Veedersane

Enjoy the day but just be careful you don't expend too much energy through excitement on the day that you might need on the platform.

But...enjoy it and best of luck with it

EmcD123

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

Enjoy the day but just be careful you don't expend too much energy through excitement on the day that you might need on the platform.

But...enjoy it and best of luck with it

That could easily happen because im not on till pretty late on in the day,still im feeling good,thanks for the luck

coffee_cake

oh good luck!

EmcD123

This was probably the best day of my life so far!!
Went 6/6 ,and got a 2kg PR in both lifts.

Weighed in @64.4kg

Snatch
1st lift : 50kg
2nd lift: 55kg
3rd lift :60kg PR
Absolutely smashed them!! I came off the 55kg and was just like give me 60 and Then it flew up too

Clean and jerk
1st lift: 62kg
2nd lift: 68kg
3rd lift: 72kg PR
These were easy too,kevin made sure I didnt kill myself out in the warmup and i worked on splitting as far as i could with my front foot, and it worked.
The clean for the 72kg was absolutely beautiful!

Total: 132kg PR
Videos coming soon...

gymfreak

Didn't see you there!! You were probably in the group after me!

EmcD123

gymfreak wrote: »

Didn't see you there!! You were probably in the group after me!

I was the second lifter in the third group.

EmcD123

The videos have arrived!!! all the lifts looked easy in them but i have the most dreadful facial expression....oh well i guess you cant have everything

snatch
This is 60kg

Clean and Jerk
This is 72kg

EmcD123

So walked into the gym feeling all super confident after the weekend, looked at the program for tonight and I just felt crushed, didnt even know what some of the stuff was but I worked in with another lad and ended up having a pretty good session but it was seriously hard.

Muscle snatch + Overhead squat
(5 + 5) x5 sets @40kg
It nearly destroyed me.....like no exaggeration

Backsquat thrusters
1x10 @40kg
3x8 @40kg
Damn....what can i say ,my pushing strength is nothing short of nonexistant

Romanian Deadlifts
2x8 @60kg
3x8 @70kg
First set nearly killed my thumbs so I borrowed a pair of straps for the others and then they were grand, never been good at any kind of deadlifts but Im improving

Dead hang pullups
1x4
1x0 ......
so added a band to help and then
2x4
session was supposed to be 3x10 lol!! but not a chance of that happening

EmcD123

Awesome track session tonight even though I wasnt feeeling the best, a combination of the fatigue from the comp and that ridiculously hard monday session have killed me out.

5x 200m and done hard, they were supposed to be done to almost flat out.

First 3 were good, started feeling sick after that but after a break I managed to get though two more before i had to call it quits, still my technique and speed was pretty good and im starting to use my strength properly

Exams are almost finished aswell

EmcD123

Savage track session tonight, been training a lot lately against a lad whos much faster than me and it really making me improve quickly,learnt what my true limit was tonight

1x4 120m
2x3 120m
Absolutely flat out! by the end I was seeing double,pretty faint and really didnt feel well, Im just glad i didnt eat before i went training....
Cant wait for the next session:cool:

EmcD123

Finished my last exam today so now im a free man till september

Had a mixed session tonight in the gym,some parts good,other parts not so much

Snatch
5 doubles @50kg
Clean and jerk
clean and 2 jerks
5 @40kg
5 @50kg
2 @55kg
clean and jerk
2 x 60kg
1x65kg
1x 70kg fail

clean and jerks felt heavy and werent going well but the snatches were great so i didnt mind

Back squats
1x3 @60kg,70kg,80kg
1x3 @90kg
2x1 @100kg PR
Could have got a double at 100 on the first set but rereacked the bar after one rep by accident. The next time i was too tired to finish the second rep

EmcD123

Totally burned out today,couldnt do anything after exams were over and last nights party ,ended up sleeping like all day today.

But I signed up for a 200m and 400m race for the 23rd may so ya....lol havent run 400m in 2 years

EmcD123

lovely session this morning as part of my new program i put together which is still in the works im going to use the first maybe 2 weeks to try and figure it all out, going to use the summer to work on my biggest problem areas. Biggest one overall is my mobility/flexibility and then in strength terms my pulling strength and my pressing strength in particular

so started up some calming music and did a ton of foam rolling trying to find the tightest spots, my quads and the muscle on the inside of my knee
Then went through a mobility flow that Id been shown back when i was doing tai chi,followed by some static stretching. trying to keep under the tension as long as i could but not pushing too hard,i want to build into the stretches as the sessions progress.

Then static holds
3x inchworm walkouts and holding at the farthest point for as long as i can
3x pushup and roll forward onto toes,hands pointed back
3x hollow body hold
3x hollow body arch

then some walks across the landing
3x bear walk
3x forg walk
Feel really good after this session, took almost exactly an hour to do and id like to try do it everyday

EmcD123

Same session again as yesterday,adding a few moves here and there ,left a few out but am already feeling a little looser just after 2 sessions.

Will be on antibiotics for the next 7 days so probably wont be much intense training during that time,but am hoping to keep up this stretching stuff

EmcD123

ring work this morning

5 support holds
5 support hold tucks trying to transition into L
pullups 2x5,2x3
chest flys 5x6

not too hard,much better than i expected to be at it,got caught in a heavy shower of rain though