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The Longest Crossfit Workout in a while

2 February 2010

Today I did Saturday’s workout from the main Crossfit site, it looked fun: Seven rounds for time of: – 95 pound Power snatch, 7 reps – 95 pound Snatch balance, 7 reps – 95 pound Overhead squat, 7 reps 95lb doesn’t compute too well to kg, and at the last minute I had an inkling [...]

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Ouch Ouch Ouch – Crossfit kicks my butt

19 January 2010

Going back to the Cardiff gym this week, for the first time since November, was always going to be messy but I’m as sore as I’ve ever been right now. I decided to do workouts from the main Crossfit.com site. I can’t necessarily follow their daily scheme, either because like today, it’s a rest day, [...]

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This Weekend’s Weightlifting Shambles

24 November 2009

It’s hard to start this post… without resorting to impolite expletives! This weekend’s weightlifting competition went about as wrong as it could have done, short of bombing (failing to get any lifts). I could wax lyrical about my failures, but can’t quite face it to be honest. It was a shambles that’s soonest forgotten. The [...]

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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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Day 1 of my 9 week Olympic Weightlifting Training Program

16 September 2009

I’ve started the build up to the North Open Weightlifting competition in 9 weeks, and have started following a vaguely Hungarian influenced training program.  I can only manage to train 4 days a week, not the 6 prescribed, but we’ll have to see how it goes.  Here’s the first week’s program: Day 1 Power Hang [...]

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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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