Saturday 28 Jan 12

Balance Gym

Snatch work up to opener (60kg)

Clean & jerk work up to opener (87kg)

Metcon: For time:

Row 20 calories
30 burpees (with jump onto 45# bumper plate)
30 dumbbell ground-to-overheads (45# dumbbells)
30 sit-ups
30 walking lunges

10.45

Notes: Instructions were to work up to my openers for the Baltimore Open on both Oly lifts. I donkey-kicked a little, but I was otherwise happy with how effortless 60kg felt on snatch. I'm confident that I'll break my previous personal record of 65kg in two weeks at Baltimore. Clean & jerk didn't go as well. 87kg was heavy and, I even reverted to more of a sumo-power clean. During my warm-up attempts at 60kg, 70kg, and 80kg, I did a full squat clean. Something crept into my head at 87kg and told my brain not to get under the bar. Still a good day to be able to hit both of those lifts at those weights. Did the metcon with Ben and Amelia, two of teammates for next week's Throwdown at Balance Gym. I stole it from last year's Regionals workout. I'm a big fan to ground-to-overheads, both with a barbell and dumbbells, because they seems to appear frequently in competitions. I think it's also good to use different standards for burpees, such as jumping onto the 45# bumper plate, because there's often a wrinkle during competition. Still need to work on pushing through discomfort, but it was an overall good workout.