{"id":697,"date":"2009-08-03T20:59:39","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T20:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/?p=697"},"modified":"2009-08-03T20:59:39","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T20:59:39","slug":"snatch-practice-at-aspire-fitness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/03\/snatch-practice-at-aspire-fitness\/","title":{"rendered":"Snatch Practice at Aspire Fitness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the video I made of my snatch practice at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/07\/the-best-crossfit-friendly-gym-in-cardiff-aspire-fitness\/\">Aspire Fitness in Cardiff<\/a> last week.  It&#8217;s 90 minutes condensed down to 2 for your viewing pleasure:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wpv_videoc\">\n<div class=\"wpv_self\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skarcha.com\/wp-plugins\/wpvideo\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">WPvideo 1.10<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"wpv_titleauthor\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wpv_video\"><object data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wSAIPdz093g\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wSAIPdz093g\"><\/param><\/object><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Whilst it looks like it wasn&#8217;t going that well, I was actually quite pleased.  Since getting 77kg in March, I haven&#8217;t felt capable of even attempting more than 70kg, but the warm up to 70kg went very well so I pressed on.  If you watch carefully, <strong>I&#8217;m trying a new starting position<\/strong> where I&#8217;m leaning a little further back. You can see me adjust backwards just before the pull.  <\/p>\n<p>This has made a difference, but I think I need to sit back more.  It&#8217;s all about getting the bar to land right over my centre of gravity when it&#8217;s over head.  You see that <strong>every time I lose it, I lose it forward<\/strong>, which means that I&#8217;m still not getting it right.  Whilst I didn&#8217;t get it, I was pleased to have 3 good goes at 77.5kg which would have been a PB by 0.5kg, lol.  <\/p>\n<p>That <strong>body weight snatch<\/strong> is within my grasp I think, it&#8217;s only a matter of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the video I made of my snatch practice at Aspire Fitness in Cardiff last week. It&#8217;s 90 minutes condensed down to 2 for your viewing pleasure: WPvideo 1.10 Whilst it looks like it wasn&#8217;t going that well, I was actually quite pleased. Since getting 77kg in March, I haven&#8217;t felt capable of even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,115],"tags":[165,113,168,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"category-olympic-weightlifting","8":"tag-aspire-fitness","9":"tag-bwla","10":"tag-cardiff","11":"tag-snatch"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","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=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}