I was inspired by two things to say fuck programming and lift daily by feal;
1. Chaos And Pain Blog
2. John Broz
Now Broz talked about a concept of floating pain. Pain will be on your body but isn’t serious,won’t stick around,and will change location seemingly daily.
Keep in mind I’d run myself into the ground over the weekend, having roughly 9 hours of gym time.
My lower back was locked. The insertion between it and my glutes made all movement uncomfortable.
Unlike my normal cracking of the back, I had to stretch as well, and often.
Even mentally I was leaning towards a day off. All “reasons” said off day.
I went about the to do list as usual,but had something come up that was stressing me,that I needed to metaphorically “sleep” on. I had to get out of my head so off to the gym I went.
Broz states that every session you do is an opportunity for a PR. Every session you miss is a lost chance for a PR. I wholeheartedly agree. It’s why I lift almost every day ( My normal is 2-3 days off monthly,with the occasional double session)
Every session is a PR opportunity.
Go in and you may surprise yourself.
Saturday having the desk girl film me I was at 99% of the way towards completing a 20lb (275) power clean PR, the fucker was high pulled to my chin. Sunday more jerks but was fatigued and so made it lighter and for higher reps. 3×10-15 with 185, ~5×1-3 with 205. Each set the first rep was power cleaned and the 205s were far harder than they should’ve been.
(Sunday’s Best Set)
Yesterday was something though. I went in purely to clear my mind.
Locker room, shit, out onto the gym floor and gave into the urge to step on the platform and do some caveman Olys. I figured I was fucked for cleans,so power snatches it was.
Singles at 135,165( little harder than it should be),185( slow but completed), even based on bad bar speed I felt I could get under more.
185 I only hit in the last 3 months, at first requiring a press out or straps, but progressed to put on show for chick staring level(meaning I could hit it practically gaurenteed), I had only tried to go past it a handful of times and even 190 would be failed abysmally.
There was no reason for it, I just knew I would hit 205. I loaded it up, grabbed a bodybuilder to film,he warned me the video might be shaky as his session was over and I’d assume his preworkouts crash and jitters were hitting. High pull very high, immediately reset, and got it overhead,but in a way that I had to throw it forward to keep from a possible break neck situation (I didn’t catch it well,had to dump it,but unlike a squat had no clue how to drop it behind me)
I stewed for a few minutes, grabbed one of the powerlifters, was instantly elevated when he thought I’d be going for reps, and hit it. Ugly ugly retarded caveman heave form,my ass actually dropped, it was almost too low to be a “power” snatch, but I fucking hit it, and celebrated in the most nonchalant manner as you’ll see in the vid.
Loaded to 275 and attempted the power clean twice. No dice, the pop was gone at that point. Joked with the camera men (same guy) about how quickly the pop can disappear.
He looked at me , commented it would’ve been pretty crazy to PR on both Olympics back to back. I am always my gyms psycho lifter.
A few triples of snatch grip high pulls , strapped at 275 lbs.
I ended up doing squats with a sort of Olympic form, then an hour+ of shoulder and back bodybuilding.
Some fun social shit there too.
Basically had I taken the day off, I would’ve ended up stewing at home,and wouldn’t have had the blast that the session ended up being. Hell it served its need for sleeping on my thoughts too.
None of that stuff would’ve happened had I not gone in though. For that reason get to the gym as often as you can make happen, and when you can’t there’s pushups and Hindu squats to be done.
Kill it guys. Boom!
-J