Day: January 3, 2014

60 Day Lifting Challenge – Week 5 Day 4

I’m doing the 60 Day Lifting Challenge from Columbus Weightlifting.

Made a quick trip up to Rogers City yesterday to meet my new niece. Jumped on Dad’s Air Dyne before hitting the road back home.

Conditioning

  • 20:00 Air Dyne at 50-60% effort

Kept my RPM just below 60 on the AD2 and finished with 330 calories, which is pretty close since I’ve done 340 in 10 minutes before. Good way to start the day.

Lifted at 3:30 with Alex in the garage.

Warm-up

  • Band pass-thrus
  • 45# Snatch Position Work
  • 75# Muscle Snatches and Snatch Presses

Power Snatch from below knee

  • 2×100#
  • 2×120#
  • 2×140#
  • 1×150#
  • 5x1x160#

Felt a little slow and missed the 4th rep at 160#.

Power Clean from below knee & Push Jerk

  • 2×130#
  • 2×155#
  • 2×180#
  • 1×190#
  • 5x1x205#

Alex told me to be faster with the push jerks and it really helped.

Front Squat

  • 2×185#
  • 2×225#
  • 6x2x250#

Added in those couple of extra warm-up sets since all of the lifts were power variations. Still took a couple of the 250# sets to start feeling ok with the weight.

Snatch Deadlift

  • 5x2x185#

Even these felt heavy! I hope the extra conditioning I’ve added this week isn’t the cause for my sluggish feel. Maybe it was the quick trip with 5 hours of driving.