Collected Training Video

Saturdays Workout

Snatch - 135 x 1, 165 x 1, 195 x 1, 225 x 1, 245 x 1

Clean & Jerk - 135 x 1, 185 x 1, 225 x 1, 255 x 1, 285 x 1 (then shoulders started bugging me)

Clean - 305 x 1, 325 x 1

Pause Squats (3 sec pause in bottom) - 350 x 2 x 3

SLDL - 285 x 5 x 3

Hard Week

This was the last heavy week of my current classic lift cycle. I am feeling beat up, but I know that I have made a lot of significant gains, especially in postural/positional strength, overhead strength and pulling strength. Most surprisingly, I have been hitting big new personal records the last couple weeks in the middle of a very hard cycle, so I am expecting even bigger gains when I am fresh. This weeks workouts included 5 sets of 1 power clean + 1 front squat + 1 clean and jerk @ 125kg (275lbs) and 1 power snatch + overhead squat + snatch at 93kg (205lbs), both of which felt surprisingly easy. After next weeks back off, I will transition into a short Bulgarian cycle and then max out on all my lifts.

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Training @ the Cat

Training at Catalyst - Sept. 2009

Training at Catalyst - Dec. 2010

Recent PR's

There hasn't been much to report lately, so I stepped away from posting for the last couple months. I have been following programming from Greg Everett over the last 5 months and seen some remarkable gains. I love training the Olympic lifts and I can not wait for what the future will bring.

Currently I am finishing up a 9 week strength cycle which has focused on squats and pulls and I will max out next weekend.

Some recent personal records have been a 375lb Front Squat and a 325lb Overhead Squat. I haven't been hitting the classic lifts much, and when I do it's always pretty light. From those few sessions I know that my positional strength is getting SO much stronger. I expect some big pr's in the snatch and clean and jerk.

Say What!?

Muscle Snatch - 165lb x 1

Snatch - (155lb, 165lb, 180lb) x 3

Jerk - 265lb x 1

SNPP - 185lb x 5 x 3

Snatches felt great today, the technique changes are really settling in and things fell RIGHT! The jerks on the other hand felt like shit, I had absolutely no leg drive after yesterdays squats.