Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Recent Training + Meet Reschedule

I mentioned that I was going to do a meet in Oct, but unfortunately they moved the date and it now coincides with a friend's wedding that I am going to.  The next one that won't be really hard to get to will be in early November at the California Strength Academy (most people call them cal strength).  I guess I'm going to do that one???

Since there's no longer a meet in the near future, I decided to try out the "hybrid Texas Method for weightlifting" that's in the newest edition of Rippetoe's Practical Programming book.  Basically it follows the same principles of volume and intensity days, but breaks it up so that there is a strength volume day and a competition lift volume day.  Same for intensity days.  Here's how I am running it:

Monday: Squat 75% of previous intensity day 5x5, Press 75% of previous intensity day 5x5, 3x8 pullups
Tuesday: Snatch 8 sets of 2, C&J 15 singles.  2 min rest between each set.  First sets should be relatively light and should get to 90+% by the last sets.  Try not to miss.
Wednesday: off or some light bodybuilding stuff
Thursday: Squat 5 singles, 5lb more than last week, Press 5 singles, 5 lb more than last week, Deadlift 5RM
Friday: off
Saturday: Snatch max, C&J max, front squat 3x3, rdl 8x3
Sunday: off.

I've been enjoying the program over the last few weeks that I've been running it.  It's a lot of volume which I feel like is good for practice.  I've since hit a PR snatch (113kg or 250lbs) and cleaned 138(305lbs) a bunch of times but never was able to jerk it.

Revised goals for the Nov meet: at least 250, hopefully 260.  Current training max is 249.

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