Early Present To Myself

My legs aren’t as sore as I expected from squat day and 2 hours of playing soccer.

Went to the Olympic Lifting class at 6pm and worked on snatches for the entire hour. After warming up with the PVC pipe and bar, I started adding weight. I think I went 75#, 95#, 115#, 125#, 135#, and 145# with a lot of reps on the lighter weights and a few as they got heavier. Never missed the entire hour. I did screw up a little on some of them and caught them in a power snatch instead of a squat snatch. Receiving the bar felt better than it ever has and I nailed 145# more times tonight than I have combined in all previous attempts.

Maybe I should have tried to go for 155# which I have only done once and it was an ugly power snatch in competition, but I didn’t want to get greedy. I couldn’t have been more pleased with the reps tonight. I’m still fighting to keep my shoulders back as I setup and get that big chest. Kevin gave me a tip about my feet that seemed to really help too. I was getting too close to the bar in my setup and he told me that I should get to the point where I would only see the base of my big toe in front of the bar looking down. Felt weird, but I think it really helped out.

I hurried home to check for a package that was scheduled to arrive from Rogue and it was waiting on the front porch.

She is a thing of beauty. My buddy Brent came over and we broke her in. I rowed a couple 500s before he showed up.

5 Rounds

• 500m Row
• 30s DUs
• 2:30 Rest

Jumping right from the rower to DUs was tough shit. My last round was actually my best at DUs and I knocked out 23 in a row right off the bat. Overall I did ok with my DUs, but they need a lot of work when I’m that tired because I was missing way too many. Each round or the rower was a bit slower too, but I tried to push it with everything I had on the last 500m and finished it in 1:47. I don’t remember what any of my other splits were because I kept looking at the pace clock which is bigger. Either I’ll have to figure out how to configure the display better or get used to what numbers are which.

I’m glad I made the purchase. She’s going to get a lot of use!