clean and jerk

It’s Competition Day!

20 November 2009

The day I’ve been waiting 2 months for has finally arrived – the Northern Open Olympic Weightlifting competition, held in Mytholmrod, West Yorkshire (England that is). First the important stuff: I made the weight. For the last 5 days I’ve been at or under my target weight, which is the upper limit of the 77kg [...]

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Olympic Weightlifting Update – How has 2 months of concentrated effort worked out?

14 November 2009

With a few weeks to go before the competition, it was time to focus on some full Olympic lifts and see how the last 2 months of focus on weightlifting. 2 weeks ago I decided to see if I could pull off any new personal best lifts. To do this, I needed to get up [...]

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17 days to the Weightlifting Comp

4 November 2009

I didn’t get round to posting what I did last week, which was week 7 of the program. Because of holiday I only managed to get to the gym twice, and was recovering from the back niggle from the previous week, so took it easier that I perhaps should: Day 1 Snatch – singles up [...]

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Olympic Weight Lifting Training – Week 4

5 October 2009

Whether it was because I was rushing to try to fit in a Crossfit WOD afterwards, or whether it was just because day 3 of week 3 was a very heavy day with a load of work, I don’t know know, but either way, I managed to tweak my back on Saturday. Not good. To [...]

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Weightlifting Program – Week 3

30 September 2009

This is this week’s weightlifting program. It’s the last hard week of strength before easy week and reintroduction of classical lifts next week. I can only do 3 days this week so: Session 1 Power Clean Push Jerk – 6 sets of 3 up to 80% (of Push Jerk) = 72.5kg High Pull of Clean [...]

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Yorkshire Masters Weightlifting Video

18 August 2009

The competition at the weekend went very well. Interestingly, it didn’t feel like it went that well, considering I missed half the lifts. However the results speak for themselves. I had 3 goals, in descending order of importance: Lift 165 total to qualify for the BWLA British Masters Weightlifting competition in 2010 (77kg body weight [...]

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Clean and Jerk Practice Video

13 July 2009

This is a video of a training session at Crossfit Manchester. I posted my training Snatches last week, so this is the Clean and Jerk vid. This time I’ve included one’s that didn’t go quite according to plan! I was trying to get 5 lifts at 95% of my personal best, so at 95kg (209 [...]

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Why Crossfit is bad for your Marriage

18 May 2009

Last week was a relatively normal week: I left home on Monday morning for the working week away, went shopping Monday night for food for the week, went to work Tuesday, went to the gym Tuesday evening… all pretty normal. Until that is, on Wednesday morning I spotted something that was decidedly NOT normal! My [...]

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Giles Greenwood – Bethnal Green Coach

8 April 2009

I’ve just realised that I never got round to posting up the picture of me and Giles Greenwood, one of the coaches at Bethnal Green. Well here it is: If you don’t remember me mentioning him before, Giles is the British Record holder for the Snatch (180 kg / 396 lbs) and Clean & Jerk [...]

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British Masters Weightlifting Championship Video 2009

29 March 2009

I’ve finally got round to doing the video of me lifts at the 2009 BWLA British Masters Weightlifting Championships. For the record, I was lifting in M1 (Males age 35-39) in the 85kg category: I weighed in at 80.3kg (177 lbs / 12 stone 9). I’ve posted before about my attempts to lift the 175kg [...]

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