11/4/23
Today I did an oly form session off camera.
Today’s press every day was earlier.
This earlier.
Four subscribers the 50th though 53rd today and yesterday, the best 48 hours yet – I’m hoping tomorrow’s video does better than that – it’s good, viral potential, drops in about twelve hours.
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It was power snatch singles, about 15 of them total, some at 155lbs, most at 135lbs.
I was focusing on perfect form, knees and elbows aligned, shoulders in front of the bar (at the start and for as long as possible), good explosion at power point.
I waved the bar weight, if 155lbs was a tad slower than peak power I’d go back to 135lbs for a couple, then back to 155lbs.
It all felt crisp.
I was in fact residing in “PR territory”, but left a PR or PR tie, even 90% on the table.
I actually maintained good explosion, there was no over build up of fatigue, and usually not warming up at all – this was what proper warm ups feels like.
The oly workout basically was a proper weightlifting warmup.
I just used either 135lbs or 155lbs, 205+ can come when it comes – besides, this is pulling work to add horsepower to my clean.
The goal is to on or before December 1st clean and press 255lbs.
These snatches are just a similar way to train pull and explosion, not exact, and I happen to enjoy crisp power snatches just before dark as the day’s second session.
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Now a funny thing ; I have a scrape and a bump on my forehead…
From a really explosive single near the end.
Somehow I managed to hit my own forehead with the upward flying bar!
That has never happened before, though I have rammed a barbell into my chin failing a jerk that way in the past once or twice.
I must’ve been pulling in a line very close to my body, lol that’s actually better form than my usual…which earned a weightlifting boo boo 🙂
They’re not full squat snatches, they’re truly only power snatches (a couple of which I used to do overhead squat sets off of), but that’s okay.
This is blue collar weightlifting, backyard barbell.
Basketball shoes in place of weightlifting shoes.
The platform a piece of particle board and a pair of rubber patio tiles.
It’s so called “ghetto”, and I make it work.
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