Olympic Weighlifting

Cheers Youngy quite nice playing catch up, bit of extra motivation!

Great session from you today! Going to be an awesome 6 weeks!

Snatch

Up to 80
80 x 3 little sketchy on the first
80 x 3 good
80 x f/f/noooo
80 x 3 buzzing, I can snatch again!

Jerk

Up to 90
90 x 2
90 x 2
90 x 2
Last 2 sets better than first

Back Squat

Up to 102.5
102.5 x 10
102.5 x 10
102.5 x 10
102.5 x 10 oh my god these sucked

Pull ups

5x5

DB Rows

15 x 10
15 x 10
17.5 x 10
17.5 x 10

Feel great

Yesterday...

Low Hang Snatches

Up to 75...
75 x 3
75 x 2/f
75 x 3
75 x 3 pretty good

Continued today...

Power Clean & Jerk

Up to 85...
85 x 2
85 x 2
85 x 2

Paused Front Squat

Up to 90
90 x 3
90 x 3
95 x 3 legs still feel pretty beaten up by the sets of 10 lol

Bench

Up to 67.5
67.5 x 10
67.5 x 10
67.5 x 10
67.5 x 10

Arnold Press

15 x 10
15 x 10

Vid to follow

Good graft!!

Snatch

Up to 88
88 x f
88 x f
88 x 1
88 x 1
88 x f s**te, forearms sore again

C&J

Up to 100 (meant to be 104)
100 x f
100 x f
100 x f s**te, just s**te failed the jerk on every one. s**te.

Back Squats

Up to 110
110 x 10
110 x 10
110 x 10
110 x 10 tough, but good!

Some rows

Done.

Power snatch

Up to 73
73 x 2
73 x 2
73 x 2

Cleans

Up to 108
108 x 2
108 x 2
108 x 2

Desdlift

Up to 145
145 x 5
145 x 5
145 x 5

Dumbbell Rows

20 x 10
20 x 10
20 x 10
20 x 10

So what's going wrong on these jerks?

you actually remind me of a young, better looking version of myself when you jerk. The bar shoots to arms length but it's almost like you forget to punch like f**k so you end up bending your arms a bit on the recoil and have to press the bar out again.

I literally did this for years and have only managed to rectify it in the last 12-months after 7.5years of training. One thing that did help me with it was using a very short dip on my jerks. I just found my timing was better and it was more explosive which just automatically transferred into how I extended my arms overhead.

Might be worth just cutting the dip a little?

Considering they're all PB doubles on the power snatches and cleans, that's a great session!

Was a great session you're right!!

Si, you make sense mate. Tom will back me up here, warming up with 60/70/80 etc they all look good as I don't dip so much as I don't need to. Once I get to 90 I change everything and try give it the beans. It's frustrating as f**k.

You need to practice dipping short but still driving the bar high as poss. On your early sets you dip short but just jump under. On your higher ones you dip deep and drive very high but don't know what to do with it!

Good advice from simon

I need to be able to get underneath it though, if I don't I'll never jerk anything competitive

A decent one tonight, I snatched really well and jerks were consistent if anything....

Snatch

Up to 83
83 x 3
83 x 3
83 x 3 all triple PBs

Jerk

Up to 94
94 x 2
94 x 2
94 x 2

Back squat

Up to 122.5
122.5 x 6
122.5 x 6
122.5 x 6
122.5 x 6

Great snatching Alex