WHAT ABOUT MAH LEGS, CHARLIE MURPHY??!!

Edwardius · 08-07-2011 5:11pm

Yesterday:
Rack jerked up to 95, missed the 100 twice (despite use of nose tork).
Clean and jerk: failed 90, doubles at 80 were rough. Cleans ok, jerks crap.
snatch balance: 2 doubles at 70, onw double at 72, dropped it too far back on the neck, which was smart. No damage though
Front squats: went back to the office in a huff!

Knackered. cycling up to about 35km a day on for the last week and until next thursday so lifting was always gonna get raped. Wasn't expecting to miss 90 though! Gonna try to sandbag the cycling a bit more. Hopefully there will be massive supercompensation when I get back to normal!

Edwardius · 10-07-2011 2:39pm

right, got my food on and kept the mileage down a bit since last session.
Snatch:

68X2, 72X1, 76X1, 80 on third attempt, 83 on 5th or or 6th. Missed 86 3 times, had it locked out but forward. Need to hang on a bit before diving down. Missing about 2 inches of hip extension. Will do some hang snatches and pulls from blocks maybe? Happy enough, 83 is a bit of a local maximum and better than I've been doin lately.

Back squatted up to 125 for a single. Got out of position and had to dump 130 over me head. Left it there..

Edit, moar stuffs:
Getups , 5x16kg a side, 5x24kg a side, single each side with the 32kg stalinball. Stopped doing these about a year ago for no reason. Think these are easier with dumbbells, possibly because Krazyballs piss me off.

Pressed the 24kg for 5 reps a side. Bah!

Maxin clean and jerk and FS next session hopefully. Want another shot at a snatch max next week too.

supposedly · 10-07-2011 5:56pm

Great work was done today. Much faster than before!

Edwardius · 11-07-2011 9:23pm

messed around with some elevated split squats with a 16kg madball in the goblet position, 12-10-10 per leg. Hams and hind-quarters not happy (bastarding things deserve it for skiving off lately :P)

Edwardius · 13-07-2011 7:43pm

Another sensible session...

Clean and jerk: got up to 90 but failed 95 about three times on the jerk. No aggression. The clean was ok though. that's better than last week and has been elevated from shameful to just plain ****e!

Front squat:
up to 100, failed 105 twice (WTF??)

rack jerk: 95 on 3rd attempt, shoulder was screwing with my head and missed 100.

Back to front squats:
nailed 100, failed 105, got pissed off, smoked 105 easy, failed 108.

Rack jerk, got to 95 again I think.

Also, stripped the bar to 90 whenever I missed something and power cleaned it to the rack.

Still not great, happier than last week anyway and I'm not gimped so **** it.

itsallaboutheL · 13-07-2011 7:54pm

Dead Ed wrote: »

Also, stripped the bar to 90 whenever I missed something and power cleaned it to the rack.

I do this too, and try to progress it, i've moved onto stripping to 110. It's probably a terrible idea!

Molly · 13-07-2011 10:04pm

What's a back to front squat?

token · 13-07-2011 10:15pm

itsallaboutheL wrote: »

I do this too, and try to progress it, i've moved onto stripping to 110. It's probably a terrible idea!

I had Wayne powerclean up my dumped jerks tonight, pretty handy. You could probably convince Clarence to do the same for you.

Hanley · 13-07-2011 10:31pm

token wrote: »

I had Wayne powerclean up my dumped jerks tonight, pretty handy. You could probably convince Clarence to do the same for you.

*snatch

Edwardius · 13-07-2011 10:42pm

Molly wrote: »

What's a back to front squat?

You basically place the bar on your back and rotate your head 180 degrees...

...I should've said "I then returned to front squats to avenge failure"!

Molly · 13-07-2011 10:48pm

Haha, I read that so wrong

Edwardius · 13-07-2011 10:51pm

token wrote: »

I had Wayne powerclean up my dumped jerks tonight, pretty handy. You could probably convince Clarence to do the same for you.

He snatches my back squats

Edwardius · 14-07-2011 12:14am

itsallaboutheL wrote: »

I do this too, and try to progress it, i've moved onto stripping to 110. It's probably a terrible idea!

Think I'll keep doing it. It's a nice sneaky way to get some power cleans in when nobody is looking!

Edwardius · 14-07-2011 8:55pm

Right, took the racer I built out for a shakedown, hit up howth hill again and did the sutton side in 10.05. Tripped the speed recorder at 65km/h. The frame is kinda short so things were gettin' a bit wobbly at that point. Got left for dead by the actual cyclists!

token · 14-07-2011 10:22pm

Dead Ed wrote: »

Tripped the speed recorder at 65km/h....Got left for dead by the actual cyclists!

Lance Armstrong?

Edwardius · 14-07-2011 10:27pm

token wrote: »

Lance Armstrong?

I'll need more drugs.

Edwardius · 15-07-2011 7:46pm

Righto, 2nd attempt at snatch maxin'

76-80-84(fx3)-84(success)-86(fx3)-86(PR!)-88(f)

Dear Gravity,
F.Y.C.N
Regards,
Ed

****ing delighted with the PB, it's only a kilo but I haven't had a snatch PB since the 11th of November. The dark days may be nearing an end! Nowhere close on the 88, too tired. Managed to use the "pockets" cue to finish the pull, this was wise.

Back squat:
up to 125 for a single again, nothin mad, looked easy apparently

Rack jerk.
I'm trying to feel these out and see where tech gets sloppy. got up to 95, and apparently everything was straight up&down, missed 100 because I caved forward. Tried 100 and fired it up despite caving forward. Need to keep more upright on dip.

Did a couple power cleans at 90 again. They actually seem a little easier. Nice thing to keep in the background.

Edwardius · 15-07-2011 7:49pm

Right, plan for the next week is:

Monday: openers

weds and thurs: some 50% stuff

Sat: profit

Edwardius · 18-07-2011 6:58pm

right, openers today,
snatched up to 80 easy ish. took ages to warm up. Shoulders are ****ed! Did the usual band stretchin' voodoo but it's prayin' to false gods at this stage! Snatching appears to work as a warmup though.

Clean and jerked up to 90, ugly jerk though, caving forward again. took it again and missed it twice. Adjusted hand position for the last attempt and it looked all purty apparently.

Fs: 2x3x80kg

Ice please

Edwardius · 23-07-2011 11:09pm

Edenderry open: 84-92 @84.2, missed 87 and 96 due to not finishing pulls and making things harder than they needed to be. Had a longer post written out but it looked like a ****ing emo journal so had to get wiped. Good day and a huge turnout, which made things.... interesting. hopefully the shoulders won't be too sore when the vitamin I wears off

Nice to meet some of you feckers too!

Need to work on....

...Everything!

Molly · 23-07-2011 11:46pm

Nice work today. I have a couple of videos of your lifts (1 Snatch and all 3 Clean & Jerks). I can throw them up on youtube or rapidshare or whatever

Edwardius · 23-07-2011 11:56pm

Molly wrote: »

Nice work today. I have a couple of videos of your lifts (1 Snatch and all 3 Clean & Jerks). I can throw them up on youtube or rapidshare or whatever

Ah excellent, thanks dude! If you could fire them onto rapidshare it'd be great! Nice to meet ya today too.

Molly · 23-07-2011 11:58pm

Yeah was nice meeting you too. I'll throw them up in the morning and send you the link

Edwardius · 24-07-2011 10:51pm

Nice evening so cycled 60km on the mtb, 2hr 26min. Stopped for about 3min to get some jaffa cakes. All my muscles then fell off

Edwardius · 25-07-2011 3:18pm

Moving pictures courtesy of Molly and Token

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEu384nMUpg

Jerk is gone to hell lately. Cleans aren't usually that manky looking (they felt a hell of a lot worse). I've a few ideas anyway. Youtube video editor is handy, pity you can't add captions (or I'm too retarded to do so).

Edwardius · 30-07-2011 4:55pm

shoulder voodoo,

Snatch warmup: did an ohs with the bar and shoulders were screaming. No snatches then, clean and jerks it is!

Cleaned 60kg and the shoulders caught fire again. Hmmm. Ok, back squats again...

Errr, can't hold the bar. Shoulders ****ed...

Managed to do some back squats by looping a pair of straps around the bar Max Aita stylee (without the 302kg). Feels a bit unstable but I can actually squat that way. Did 5 singles at 110kg.

Pendlays: 3x3x80kg, pretty strict, no torso movement or mexican wavey bull****. Shoulders felt a bit better, went for an 80kg clean... nope too much pain. Bugger

Deadlift: wandered up to 140 for a single.

stoopid shoulders. They hurt when rotated, but rotating doesn't hurt them in the mid range. They don't like abducting either. Gonna leave the competitive lifts for a while, do more wall slides and YTWL (ooh the shame!) type voodoo. Might try to get a squat in the meantime. Will have to start taking my snake oil again too.

Edit: must try to do some zombie cleans next time. Gonna get a helmet and do some zombie snatches and zombie jerks.

Edwardius · 02-08-2011 7:01pm

Bit less gimped today. I can clean and front squat again. Cleaned up to 90 for a few singles. Speed wasn't great and felt weak. Meh.

Back squatted 100kg for two 1-2-3 ladders (stole the idea from that Shafley character) trying to move properly and keep torso upright. Still need to use the straps though. 3 ladders next time then more weight

Pendlays:
60x10, 70x10, 80x5

Some low-level voodoo on last couple of reps with 80, not too bad though. Me rikey lows

itsallaboutheL · 02-08-2011 7:23pm

Dead Ed wrote: »

Back squatted 100kg for two 1-2-3 ladders (stole the idea from that Shafley character) trying to move properly and keep torso upright. Still need to use the straps though. 3 ladders next time then more weight

I attempted to do this yesterday but doubled the first rep by accident and then fell apart.

Edwardius · 02-08-2011 7:30pm

itsallaboutheL wrote: »

I attempted to do this yesterday but doubled the first rep by accident and then fell apart.

Start with a weight below 110% of your max and ya might be ok!

itsallaboutheL · 02-08-2011 7:32pm

Dead Ed wrote: »

Start with a weight below 110% of your max and ya might be ok!

But we don't have any ladies bars anymore

Edwardius · 02-08-2011 7:40pm

Damn. Do you reckon your proximity to Clarence is sapping your strength?

Edit... Aaaaand he's done it again!

itsallaboutheL · 02-08-2011 7:43pm

Dead Ed wrote: »

Damn. Do you reckon your proximity to Clarence is sapping your strength?

Anyone in the same province might aswell give up.

It will escalate, wait and see, it'll start to creep up towards Carlow and those other midlands counties that don't really exist.. next thing you know you'll try to walk out your front door and gravity will break your nose.

Edwardius · 04-08-2011 5:29pm

itsallaboutheL wrote: »

Anyone in the same province might aswell give up.

It will escalate, wait and see, it'll start to creep up towards Carlow and those other midlands counties that don't really exist.. next thing you know you'll try to walk out your front door and gravity will break your nose.

He's at again I see, the south midlands is doomed, tens will die!

Let's see if I can remember this cluster****...

Power snatch (straight leg catch)
40-50-55-60(ow)
couldn't dip as it hurt

OHS- 20kg, nope
Clean and heave-jerk: up to 75, very slight dip again for same reason

Cleans, 5 singles at 90, one or two at 95, some heaves too. Threw in a slight arm bend at the top for two reasons:
1: keep bar close
2: heresy

Frontal Squatz:
3 ladders at 80

Clean-Death lift:
130x3... hind quarters on holidays

pendlay: 60x10
scap pullups, ytwls (shame!!!!! three hail marys)
shoulders felt a bit better.

OHS: 20kg... Nope again

tried some incline benchin'... started to hurt at 50kg.

seated overhead row thing: 70x20, 80x10

Probably a bit ADD.

supposedly · 04-08-2011 6:07pm

You were caught bodybuilding!

Edwardius · 04-08-2011 6:27pm

supposedly wrote: »

You were caught bodybuilding!

another four hail marys. Tommy's gonna murder me.

Edwardius · 07-08-2011 6:41pm

saturday: light pressing, shoulder a little better.

cycled 50km. Swam in the sea for about 5mins, got bored, went home. Went up the village side of howth hill too, turned right at the church and had about six heart attacks before the summit.

token · 08-08-2011 12:24pm

Dead Ed wrote: »

cycled 50km. Swam in the sea for about 5mins, got bored, went home. Went up the village side of howth hill too, turned right at the church and had about six heart attacks before the summit.

Jaysus entering an ironman are ya

Edwardius · 08-08-2011 1:08pm

token wrote: »

Jaysus entering an ironman are ya

While I believe hell might freeze over at some point, it's unlikely to ever freeze over to that extent.

Edwardius · 08-08-2011 5:43pm

some ohs stuff, sore at 20kg.

power snatched up to a double at 60, stopped when it started to hurt

clean and push jerk up to 70, did some split jerks at 75, not too bad.

cleaned three singles at 85, think I missed 90, no energy.

back squats, 3 ladders at 100kg, more weight next time.

pendlays: 10x60, 10x70, 7x80

back to some OHS with a dowel and the bar. Can do them without pain only if the torso is almost perfectly upright. No full snatching yet. Still too gimped for that.

Edwardius · 11-08-2011 6:13pm

today:
YTWL
Band shoulder stretch things

OHS: bunch at 20, 5x30, some crashing but not major.

Clean and jerk: three or 4 singles at 80, less pain, still there though
Clean: 85-90-90-95-100(fx2)

Front squat: 3 ladders at 85

Deadlift (double overhand, no hook)
120x3 (10s hold at top of last one)
130x3x2
120x3

клоков жим стоя 20кг: 2x8 with empty bar, these felt comfortable. Gonna try and emphasise shrugging the ****er up in future as I forgot today.

Grip felt strong today. I've clearly neglected to overthink it and make it weaker. Damn.

Think I might be back snatching with the bar soon.

Edwardius · 15-08-2011 7:24pm

didn't get around to training on saturday (ok, I was hungover)

today:
OHS, up to 40 for a triple, snatch balances at same weight then snatched it. little better. Slooowly catchy monkey.

power snatch (high catch)
60x3, 65x2, 60x2x4

Back squat:
3 ladders at 105, tryin to keep upperback tight. More weight next time.

Pendlays: 60x10, 70x10, 80x10, 85x5

not entirely righteous on the 85, two of them barely hit me chest, if even. I still like these as they don't ****ing wreck my upper back like pullups do.

Koar later.

Later: Koar

2x10 evil wheel rollouts. Did the same about 4 days ago and the abs were sore. Couldn't do a third set (was doin these elevated and weighted a while back) Weird, must have the rhabdo or something. Hardkoar

Edwardius · 17-08-2011 11:52pm

right:

YTWLS
Cuban presses
band stuff
quad stretch
split squat
eye of newt

OHS: bar
snatch:

Bar
40kg
45kg
50kg
55kgx1x3
60kgx1x2 (I think)

happy for the moment, I couldn't snatch an empty bar a few weeks ago. Really trying to push the bar up on receipt. Looking at videos, I seem to pull the ****er high, have a cup of tea, float down and catch the bar when it's travelled about 30cm downwards, Also chasing the thing due to unfinished pull screws position and causes further shoulder rapage. See here (this is possibly the lift that ****ed both shoulders too):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9yPL9GNfAc

If the shoulders ain't pushing up and spectacularly jacked then I don't see how it's not going to lead to various forms of ouchitis. I also need to work on this mythical third pull, which would save me having to deal with such things, as shoulders and elbows would lock out at exactly the point of max bar elevation. I can't think that fast and sure as hell can't move that fast. I reckon I need to do more tall snatches hang snatches, overhead SHURGZ and possibly muscle snatches (so there's some strength in that wide position). Also get jacked.

Anyhoo...
Clean and jerked up to an ugly 85, then back to 80 for about 5 singles. Felt ok but still leaning forward on the drive. up to 75 looks perfect but then shenanigans occur.

Front squat:
3 ladders at 90kg
ok

Deadlift (all double overhand hookless)
120x3, 130x3, 140x1(+10s hold), 1, 1
Ok this is weird, they are still baby weights but I don't remember ever holding 140 for any length of time with double OH grip. I've been pinch gripping plates and doing rows without hooking but no other grip work, err well apart from cleans!

In conclusion: Blah blah blah blah.

Edwardius · 20-08-2011 10:18am

Yesterday:

YTWL
cuban press
quad stretch
band thing
adductor stretch
ankle stretch
split squat (unweighted)
clicked heels three times

Snatched 60 again, missed 65 behind and thought better of continuing (ouch!)

power clean+power jerk (working on stayin upright): about 10 singles at 75kg. Still a bit loose.

Jerk heaves: 85-95-105-110x3

Back squat:
3 ladders at 110kg
Felt heavy

Pendlays:

60x10, 70x5, 80x5rx3s
Grand

split squatz (using Kremlinball in goblet position)
20x10, 24x8, 28x5x3
Ow.

stretchin'

zzz

Edwardius · 20-08-2011 3:46pm

howth hill again (hybrid), 11.35. FUUUUUU!!!!
there was a headwind tough. hit 62.4km/h on the descent and could hear the wind whistling in me beard.

Edwardius · 21-08-2011 5:52pm

Howth again. On the racer this time: 9.34, 65.6 on descent. took it easy on the way out and back to save legs for tomorrow.
Quick swim again, can't get enough of those dublin bay faeces. hope there's no mutations.

Edwardius · 22-08-2011 7:27pm

aight, didn't spend half an hour warmin up snatches today and went straight to clean and jerks...

10 singles at 85kg, two dodgy ones but the rest were nice

Front squat:
3 ladders at 95kg, not too bad. let a massive fart on the 2nd rep of the last set. 100kg next time

deads: 3x3x135, still not too bad. Still using double overhand

jerk drives: 80-100-110x3

Starting to think I might make some progress some time in the future.

token · 22-08-2011 10:19pm

Dead Ed wrote: »

et a massive fart on the 2nd rep of the last set

Cheating propulsion mutha****a!

Dead Ed wrote: »

Starting to think I might make some progress some time in the future.

Excellent.

Edwardius · 22-08-2011 10:53pm

token wrote: »

Cheating propulsion mutha****a!

I'm sure the SPF will have rockets on their triple-ply suits for next season

Edwardius · 23-08-2011 12:10pm

Did some weighted situps anchored on a swiss ball for the KOAR yesterday. It was a pink swiss ball so I lost a load of testosterone.

Right, Imma start recording weekly and monthly tonnage to see what sort of things I'm doin to the organism.

howtomake · 23-08-2011 10:28pm

Ya know at first it took me awhile to notice what your ritual (use that term loosely) was for setting up, but I see from your edenderry vid you look the bar right/left a few times. I'm only saying because I've been noticing how others set themselves up for the lifts. Anyway just interesting...

WHAT ABOUT MAH LEGS, CHARLIE MURPHY??!!

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