Training - 30th May 2014

Clean and Jerk: D1RM: 205, 185, 195*, 185
Snatch Balance: 135x3x3
Paused Front Squat: 3x3 @ (195,200,205)
Bss x3, Ab Wheel x3

Again, super tired but it turned out to be a decent session. Took a CJ attempt at 210, but I guess I wasn't fully trying and was a bit too gassed to really do it.

The Saga of Zammar the Great #10: Candahar pt.7

Story Recap:

Abasi managed to escape the destruction of Kampalla with three soldiers - Imad, Hadi and Jamil. Together they made for Kairo to warn the pharaoh of the new danger, but were waylaid and found themselves in Candahar. Upon discovering Candahar's acceptance of white people, Abasi and his friend Omir decided to recruit people to overthrow the city's leadership. Before they could do so however, they were dragged into battle as a horde of Und’kal bore down on the city.

Ren and her guide Maria found themselves on the city's walls to join boomerang throwers in ranged defense. They watched helplessly as Zammar battled a Kal Prime. He defeated the alien but was mortally injured in the process. Tristan brought Zammar’s lifeless body to relative safety in front of the city's gates. Arion, Zammar’s horse, encouraged Tristan to give Zammar a mysterious liquid. Miraculously, it somehow resulted in revival of the man’s heart beat.

After the battle of colossi, the two armies re-engaged in combat.

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Abasi's spear pierced through the side of the Kal, coming to a sickening halt as it hit a hard bone-like substance. He pulled it out with a gush of black blood. The alien shrieked in surprise at his attack, turning quickly to look down at him with four eyes. It raised a talon menacingly, revealing its teeth in an angry snarl. Anticipating the attack, Abasi leapt over the dead body next to him, landing hard on the blood stained ground on its other side. The gash on his back burned with pain induced from the impact. Ignoring this, he turned quickly and prepared to move out of the way of another swing, only to cry in pain as a sharp spasm shot through his left leg. It straightened beneath him instinctively, throwing him back to land hard against some other corpse.

"Fuck!" He cried, cursing his old age and the white man that had impaled him in the side of the leg many years ago. The Und'kal walked over to him slowly now, reveling in its hunt. "Fuck you!" Abasi yelled, brandishing his spear and thrusting it forward to stab at the beast. It bounced off the tough hide, useless with his bad leverage. His leg remained locked as the creature revealed deadly teeth in a malicious grin.

Then, just as the Kal's shadow fell across Abasi, another spear pierced its side above the previous wound. Imad ran around the shaft, jumping on the alien's torso and swinging his scimitar around to cut the hard skin at its throat. The Und'kal didn't have time to turn as blood gushed profusely out of the gash. Its shrieks of pain simply came out as muted gurgles and the twitching body crumpled to the ground.

Training - 28th May 2014

Snatch: 4x3 @ (130,135*, 135,135)
Power + Hang Clean + Jerk: 4x1+1+1 @ (160,165,165*,165)
Snatch Pull w/rebend: 3x3 @ (145,145,150), 2x2 @ (155,160), w/o rebend: 2x2 @ (170,170)
BNSP: 3 sets @ 65, 2 sets @ 75
Russian Twist 3x

Pretty good session. Missed the last snatch on the second triple set, but other wise it felt good. Missed a hang clean, not really sure why. Cleans were feeling a bit bleh but it's alright.

Snatch Pulls were good, started keeping my hands on the bar throughout the set, I think it's a good way to train the weak back muscles if I'm lowering the weight with control.

Training - 27th May 2014

Snatch: D1RM: 155, 3x2 @ (145*,145*,145)
Clean and Jerk: 4x(1+2) @ (170,170,170,170)
Front Squat: D3RM: 215, 190x5, 200x5
Ab Wheel 3x

Tiring day at work and lots of traffic on the way home, and really humid weather so I was generally not set up for an amazing training session. Did alright, bit less than good but oh well, happens.

Missed second rep of back off sets 1 and 2, dunno just felt a bit lethargic about it. Pulled myself together for the last set, CJs felt good.
Accidently used 190 instead of 200 for the first back off FS set :P

A week of training - 18th May 2014

Hehe, long hiatus but sort of back.

First training log after a long hiatus.

Was doing a strength cycle, which is pretty boring to watch so I decided to not video that :p

Back to a classical focus now. Things are feeling good and consistent.

Training in my garage on my ghetto, improvised platform. Some soft stuff under it compresses a fair bit, which is an annoying loss of energy in lifting. My current hope is that it just makes me stronger!!!

Looking forward to a successful term of training.

I guess calling it a "Weekly training video" is a bit inappropriate, it's more like a weeks worth of training :D

Training - 25th May 2014

Snatch: D1RM: 160, 150*,150*,145*,145*
Back Squat: 2x6 @ (230.235), 3x8 @ (215,220,220), 185x12
BNSP: 75x3x7
BSS x3
Ab Wheel x3

Snatching was going great today up to the 1 rep max. I matched my best, which has been a common occurrance recently, and took two attempts at 165. But unfortunately, I'm really unsused to back off sets, and I don't know, maybe I get cocky or something but I do badly on them. I'm thinking I'll taking more weight off the bar and working upto the back off set weight next time. Hopefully it works better?

I also perform badly after I miss once, it's like I just forget how to lockout

Oh well.

Decent week of training.

Training - 24th May 2014

Power + Hang Snatch: 1+2: (125*,130,130,125)
Clean: 4x3 @ (165,170,170,165)
Snatch Deadlift: 3x3 @ 155, 2x2 @ 165, 170
Russian twist 3x

Missed the last rep of the first snatch set for the same reason as usual - unable to lockout tight at the bottom. That's sort of the intention of training this power + hang snatch complex. Trying to get a bit more speed getting under, but also to get used to recieving tight. The first two end up being progressively lower power snatches and the last is full

Training - 23rd May 2014

Clean and Jerk: D1RM: 205x1+1, 3x1+1 @ (195*, 195*, 185*, 185)
Paused Front Squat: 3x3 @ (195,200,205)
BSS x3, Ab Wheel x3

Strange session. Started off great with matching my previous best with a much more confident and smoother lift than the last time, but then the back off sets I just goofed everything. Not really sure, maybe I was too confident from the 205?

Meant to do Snatch Balances, but they were really irritating my left hip for some reason so decided to leave them out =|

Feels unproductive, but meh!

Training - 20th & 21st May 2014

20th May:

Snatch: D1RM: 160, 3x2 @ (145, 145, 145)
Clean + Jerk: 1+2 @ (170,170,170,170)
Front Squat: D3RM: 215, 2x5 @ (195, 195)
BSS x 3, Ab Wheel x3

21st May:

Snatch: 4x3 @ (130,130,130,130)
P. Clean + Hang Clean + Jerk: 4x1+1+1 @ (160, 160, 160, 160)
Snatch Pull: w/ rebend: 3x3 @ (145,145,145), 2x2 @ (155, 155) w/o rebend: 2x2 @ (165,170)
BNSGP: 65x5x10
Russian Twists 3x

So it's been almost a month since I updated promising I would update more often.

Well, I suck.

It's been hectic with the start of work, but training has been going really well. Starting to get a nice routine down, so hopefully look forward to more frequent updates to the log!