The Miseducation of Jimbo Slice

Day 2

Overhed Squats:
20kg 4x5

Drop Snatch:
20kg 2x5
40kg 2x5

Hang Snatch:
40kg 3x3
45kg 3x3
50kg 3x3

Front Squats:
60kg 2x5

Hang Cleans:
60kg x3
65kg x5
70kg 3x3

Bench:
60kg x5
90kg 2x5

3 Board Press - paused:
120kg 2x5

Reverse Hypers:
20kg x12
40kg 2x12

Everything felt grand. The hang snatches weren't great... not getting anywhere near full extension with them. I suppose it'll come with work, btu still!

Hang cleans were grand.... again, not hitting full extenstion like a gimp.

Benching was alright... weight felt a bit heavy. 3 boards were fine and the RH's were a total nut smasher.

Hang Snatch - 58kg x3

brianthebard wrote: »

Didn't say you were, it was a question not a statement.

Will I still be doing them... :D

Day 4

Overhead Squats:
20kg 3x5

Snatch Drops:
20kg 2x5
40kg 2x5

Hang Snatches:
40kg 2x3
45kg x3
50kg x3
55kg x3
60kg 3x3
65kg x1
70kg x1
73kg x1
75kg x1
77kg x1

Front Squats:
60kg x5
90kg x3
110kg x3
130kg 3x3

Press:
20kg x5
40kg x5
50kg x5
55kg 2x5

Weighted Chins:
bodyweight x5
+10kg 2x5

Barbell Curls:
20kg x5
50kg 2x5

Probably shouldn't have gone so heavy today. Felt quite decent after the 60 3x3 and I didn't really have enough time to get any meaningful work done on anything else so I figured I may as well keep going. The 77 was ropey enough, but shakey in the bottom. 75 was nice tho.

Front squats were grand, just easing into them.

Pressing was strong today, as you'd expect with 55kg. Same story with the chins and barbell curls. Dan John approach for them anyway!!

Day 6

Overhead Squats:
40kg 4x5

Hang Snatch:
40kg x3
50kg x3
55kg x3
60kg 4x3

Snatch First Pulls:
60kg for a ton of sets

Snatch:
50kg x2
55kg x2
60kg 3x2
63kg x2
65kg 3x2

Oly Squats (as in high bar, beltless and in the basement):
60kg 2x5
100kg x3
140kg x1
160kg x1
180kg x1
190kg x1
200kg x1

Sweet a$$ session. VERY happy to be hitting full snatches.

I got dumped on my ar$e my first attempt at it w/ 50kg, dropped the bar forward on my second and didn't miss any after that

I'm actually finding it easier with more weight on the bar cos I can't get away with being lazy and need to finish my pull and drag myself under to catch it.

Squats were quality, just wanted to try them out and see what they'd be like strength wise. Decent number after a hard few days training and 2 comps in 2 weeks!

Day 8

Overhead Squats:
20kg 3x5

Snatch Drops:
40kg 2x3

Drop Snatch:
40kg x3
50kg x3

Hang Snatch:
50kg 2x3
60kg 2x3

Snatch First Pulls:
60kg 2x3

Snatch:
60kg 2x2
64kg 2x2
66kg 2x2
68kg x2 - cheap PR

Power Jerk:
40kg 2x3
50kg x2
60kg x2
70kg x2
80kg x2
90kg 2x1

Oly Squats:
70kg x5
100kg x3
140kg x3
160kg 3x5 - easy

Press:
40kg x5
57.5kg 2x5

Barbell Curls:
52.5kg 2x5

Chins:
bodyweight x5
+12.5kg 2x5

Bleh sesh.

I felt something snap in my thumb on Satruday, and there was pretty much instant pain. Was alright hooking the bar yesterday, thought I got away with it, and then my hand turned purple today, so I guess I didn't!!

The snatches were a bit crap. I rotated my elbows out a bit, but that kicked my shoudlers forward, which pushed the bar out in front on pretty much every rep. Tried extending a bit harded to counteract it, but with limited success. It's only thinking back now that I realise what was going on.

Power jerks just for the sake of it. I actually have NO desire to ever jerk a weight. Such a stupid exercise.

Squats were so easy. Could feel my quads working away, which is unusual for me!!

Pressing was mneh.. any exercise which brings a weight from my shoulder to overhead is a load of ghey in my book. Curls were surprisingly strong, and the chins were just chins with weight.

token wrote: »

Aim is 60/80 in 77kg weight class. I've done both recently so should manage it at the meet. I'll be making a mockery of olympic lifting by doing a powersnatch and powerclean . I'll be going back to strength focus afterwards to get my squat up with an aim of lifting more in the full lifts and "being a real athlete" as Colm puts it.

Nice!! The most impressive thing there is that you're in the 77kg class. I'll be falling about making a fool of myself too. Still don't know what I'm even gonna attempt.

Day 10

Overhead squat:
20kg 4x5

Drop Snatch:
40kg 2x3
50kg x3

Hang Snatch:
50kg 2x2
60kg x2

Snatch First Pull:
60kg 3x3

Snatch:
60kg 2x2
63kg x2
66kg x2
68kg x2
70kg 4x1, 1x3 - oooops

Barbell Curls:
20kg x5
52.5kg 2x5

Chins:
bodyweight x5
+12.5kg 2x5

Quad stretch - 2 minute hold per leg

Glute stretch - 90 second hold per leg

Bench:
60kg x5
80kg x5
100kg 2x5

Didn't plan on training today... then did anyway. Didn't really know what I was doing, just wanted to pick some weight up and put it down again. Was only planning on singles for the snatch, but 70 x2 was a PR so I went for it. And it went easy, so I did 70 x3. Probably coulda done 5 if I'm honest!!

Curls and chins were grand. They were actually very easy - happy to move up, but I'll wait til next week for more.

Stretches were cool. Starting to get my ass closer to my heel.

Benching was solid. The 100's felt very easy. My thumb's F*UCKED tho. Banged it earlier and the pain was absolutely immense. Totally debilitating pain like. Bleh!

Day 12

Jerk Skill Work:
-jerk dips
-jerk catches w/20kg

Split Jerk:
20kg 4-5 x3

1 Clean + Jerk:
40kg 2x3
60kg x3
80kg x1
90kg 2x1

Snatch Bar Work:
dunno what to call it, so extenstion to catch! 3x3

Drop Snatch:
20kg 3x3

Jerking worked today. Barry ran me through it and eventually just told me to get some weight on the bar and get on it after loads of skill work. Went up fairly solidly all the way thru. Double training again with him and a couple of others tomorrow. More jerk work, and some snatching too.