11/17/23
Can you fail your way, higher and higher from a high pull to a snatch or a clean?
I think you can. It’s simply an odd take on range of motion training.
“Failing My Way Further/Higher” (High Pulls Til I Make The Clean – there’s a progression video there for the clean and press.
A high pull from blocks, maybe strapped, might as well use my bumper plates – this could really train the pull, possibly the best variation for me right now – building the extra oomph that I need.
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When you work hard enough, you do realize that picking a weight up off the ground and pressing it overhead DOES work everything.
My quads, I think it’s the vmo, down at the knee are sore.
My mid back has soreness, while just the other day I noticed more thickness of the spinal erectors around the mid to upper back.
My abs are sore.
The question is whether that’s from the density one arm presses or from the handful of 255lb power clean after dark fails.
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I think I’ll get the 255lb clean and press just about as soon as I try the weight again.
I was looking at my local copy frame by frame, seeing that I did no jump under whatsoever – the pull on the no shirt, no gloves rep is plenty high to power clean, and I think I’m good for the 255 press.
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Youtube has been recommending college cheer/stunting to me, I’ve watched maybe 5:00 of the stuff.
I’d make a good base with my shoulder strength.
How much tumbling skill would I need… and more importantly where/how would I learn it.
There must be a way for me to get a solid handstand, a backflip, etc.
I dislike about myself that I never go to other activities, it’s just all weights.
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I need far far more pulling to guarantee my presses.
So add lots of high pulls (from blocks?), and as weight is added progress down the line from snatch high pulls to deadlift variations.
Don’t just do a few minutes of pressing, but have an hour of daily pulling after it.
Snatch high pulls, clean high pulls, then low pulls, plus any and all deadlift variants as long as they’re double overhand.
Read Paul Anderson’s Words :
http://ditillo2.blogspot.com/2008/01/paul-anderson-on-hip-and-back-power.html?m=1
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Gotch and Inoki exercises together ;
I’m sure you’ll learn something from it.
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The big bag of mexican mix cheese – it’s $7 or $8, 180g protein, 3600 calories…
It’d be odd eating only shredded cheese, but it’s a lot of nutrition in a ready to go package.
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No zzzz, so I z pressed for day 27 of overhead press every day.
z press 13x135lbs
I had the idea that I CAN shoulder the bar via clean or continental, and must’ve spent 15 attempts, getting really close – just needing a small flick of the wrist to get the bar over, and not making it.
It gave me an awesome forearm pump, some upper back, some bicep, and the tomfoolery blasted my core before I actually got the bar to shoulder.
Heck once or twice after that I failed to steinborn the bar…then I did, then I pressed, today’s z press being a very heavy set of ab training in comparison to all the lifting I’ve been doing.
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What have I eaten today?
Pasta with cheese more than once, a small portion of breaded chicken, a small mexican meal, some crackers, a little box of reese’s pieces, drank some coffee milk (uh ohh will I sleep 🙂), a couple glasses of milk, a can of iced tea – perfect macros, perfect dieting I’m sure.
Pretty low on meat, no eggs, just me eating what sounds good right now.
I’ll make a push for strength with a bunch of eggs starting by around thanksgiving I’d say.
I must’ve recently crossed some threshold of size and strength, it’s the feeling I get from walking around the store – the stares, glances, unnecessary apologies, etc.
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Macros are real easy to hit when you don’t have them. 🙂
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The z press as the main press, with some heavier power cleans after it would work as a way to train the clean and press – kinda westside breaking the thing down into pieces.
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Almost never have I done continentals…they do open up shouldering a heavy bar opportunity…
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Did 10:00 of conditioning after dark.
Odd minutes snatching the 20kg bell for 5/side (ie 10 reps each period)
Even minutes doing 5 one pump burpees.
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I just realized something ;
While I definitely feel a lot of fear about the 255lb-300lb power cleans, without realizing it, while at the store I did this subconsciously…I grabbed the bag of breakfast sausage that was acting as key to my egg consumption.
I fell into the pattern of having at least one sausage link in the pan per egg.
Maybe the fried eggs are coming back sooner than I’d thought.
I type late night, not much in the way of protein ready to go, tired but not yet going to bed, hungry and not yet eating…