{"id":1036,"date":"2010-03-04T12:43:44","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T12:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2010-03-04T12:43:44","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T12:43:44","slug":"build-up-to-the-british-masters-olympic-weightlifting-competition-%e2%80%93-4-weeks-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/04\/build-up-to-the-british-masters-olympic-weightlifting-competition-%e2%80%93-4-weeks-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Build up to the British Masters Olympic Weightlifting Competition \u2013 4 weeks to go"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve started seriously thinking about the BWLA British Masters Olympic Weightlifting Competition at Lilleshall (I came 2nd last year<\/a>) at the end of March and how I\u2019m going to prepare for it. For reasons I won\u2019t bore you with, I\u2019ve not done as much lifting as I should have done in preparation for this competition. It\u2019s too close to the comp now to actually consider improving strength really, so I\u2019m just going to focus on technique <\/strong>and get my confidence levels up for what I want my starting lifts to be. <\/p>\n

The rules say that you must start within 15kg of the qualifying standard, which was 165kg for the 77kg M1 category. So starting at 150 would be an easy 60kg snatch and 90kg clean and jerk. I think I\u2019m going to do a bit better than that and work towards 65kg and 90kg as starting weights, and see how it goes this month, I may up them both to 70kg snatch and 95gk C&J openers<\/strong>. I do need to be confident of getting a total though, so will err on the side of caution if training this month doesn\u2019t go smoothly.<\/p>\n

My aim for training is to not try anything that will cause me to drop a lift in the next 4 weeks. I want to go into the comp with utter confidence that I can lift my openers, then just increment each one by 5kg say on the day for the 2nd and 3rd lifts. That would mean if all goes perfectly (ha, when does that happen?!?) my current PB\u2019s of 77kg and 100kg are in range<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

With that in mind, my training this week was:<\/p>\n

Tuesday<\/strong>
\nHang Snatch and Snatch: 2×40, 2×45, 2×50, 2×55, 1×60
\nSnatch + 2 Over Head Squat: 2×60, 3×65
\nSnatch Pulls: 3×70, 3×75, 3×80<\/p>\n

Then \u00bd the Crossfit.com WOD, which was 8 rounds (I did 4) of run 400, with 90 second rest between runs. I only did half as I\u2019m not that used to a lot of running and I had brand new Evo Viva Barefoot running shoes<\/a> and didn\u2019t want to over do it first time out.<\/p>\n\"Evo\n

They are Vibram FiveFinger substitutes, as I don’t have the right shaped feet for Vibrams (boooo!). Certainly, they have not a lot of sole to speak of and you do feel a lot more of what you’re walking on. They’ll take a bit of getting used to, but should help the Pose running that’s for sure.<\/p>\n

Wednesday<\/strong>
\nHang Clean & Jerk + Clean & Jerk: 2×50, 2×60, 2×70, 2×80
\nClean & Jerk Singles: 3×85, 3×90<\/p>\n

I followed this with a Crossfit WOD from a few days ago: Row 5k.<\/strong> I\u2019ve never done a 5k row before, in fact the most I\u2019ve ever rowed has been 2000m, and only once at that, so this was a bit daunting! In fact, it went better than I\u2019d hoped. Each 1000m split was faster than the one before, and I had enough left to end with a bit of a sprint, finishing in a respectable (I thought) 20:28.<\/strong> Will have a go at beating 20mins next time.<\/p>\n

Actually the biggest battle at the moment is making the 77kg (169lbs) weight <\/strong>category. I\u2019m down from a portly 13st5 after Xmas to 12st7 as of this morning, so only 6 lbs and 3.5 weeks to go<\/strong>. Should be no problem, as long as I can continue to be good, hoho.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve started seriously thinking about the BWLA British Masters Olympic Weightlifting Competition at Lilleshall (I came 2nd last year) at the end of March and how I\u2019m going to prepare for it. For reasons I won\u2019t bore you with, I\u2019ve not done as much lifting as I should have done in preparation for this competition. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1,115],"tags":[113,111,122,153,365,195,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-1036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-crossfit","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"category-olympic-weightlifting","9":"tag-bwla","10":"tag-clean-and-jerk","11":"tag-crossfit-workouts-exercises","12":"tag-lilleshall","13":"tag-olympic-weightlifting","14":"tag-pose","15":"tag-snatch"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}