Mobility
None
Warm Up - Shoulder Dislocates / Squat Stretches 1 x 10
Snatch High Pulls / Snatches / Power Cleans / Split Jerks 3 x 3
Session A
Power Snatches - 5 sets 3 reps - 37.5kgs
Overhead Squat - 1 sets 3 reps - 20kgs (wrist injury)
Pull for Clean - 5 sets 3 reps - 45kgs
Power Cleans - 5 sets 5 reps - 47.5kgs
Jerk from Racks - 5 sets 3 reps - 45kgs
Back Squat - 3 sets 5 reps - 60kgs
Hanging Leg Raises - none
Stretches
Comments: Training session, how do I disrupt thee? Let me count the ways. Poor diet, lack of sleep, working too hard, poor focus, negative self talk, poor warm up and no mobility. The outcome decided long before I did my first rep today.
Neither myself nor Maurice was up for this and so one wasn't pushing the other as seems to happen. No big deal - stuff like this happens and Monday will be better. I can however make a bit more effort outside the gym to minimise sessions like this. I have been reading a lot of Dan John's stuff lately and in From the Ground Up he talks about quantifying recovery - for example assigning a score for nutrition, sleep, play, relationships etc against how hard your training sessions are. If your training sessions are all 9's and you are constantly scoring low on the recovery categories then somethings going to give.
You could argue the case that this is what happened today - my diet has been poor for a couple of weeks now, and I've been getting less sleep for a start. I'm going to eat clean this weekend and get plenty of sleep/rest so I'm back on form for Monday.
Sep through Nov
10 years ago
You nailed it .. you know you have to eat clean or it isn't going to work. Oly lifts demand it .. and you can do it.
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks for mentioning "From the Ground Up" .. I read it two years ago as real neophyte and didn't appreciate how awesome it was at the time. It demands a re-read now that I'm trying to put relatively heavy weight OH.
I did the same thing Franklin. I dismissed Dan John's stuff as over simplified and folksy - now I kinda see him as the Warren Buffet of the coaching world.
ReplyDeleteI'd been looking through a copy of Drechsler's Encyclopedia, but there is just simply TOO MUCH info. Tommy Kono's book and From the Ground Up are all I need at this stage and probably throughout my lifting career.