{"id":835,"date":"2009-11-04T21:31:43","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T21:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/?p=835"},"modified":"2010-03-17T21:06:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T21:06:18","slug":"17-days-to-the-weightlifting-comp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/04\/17-days-to-the-weightlifting-comp\/","title":{"rendered":"17 days to the Weightlifting Comp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;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:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Day 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Snatch &#8211; singles up to 75%:  I started with trebles, then doubles, then did singles up to 65kg.<\/li>\n<li> Clean &amp; Jerk &#8211; singles up to 75%:  I started with doubles, then did singles up to 85kg.<\/li>\n<li> Front Squat &#8211; 3 x 5 reps up to 75%:  I did the 3 sets at 70, 80 and 90 kg.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Day 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Power Snatch Doubles up to 85%: I did 40, 50, 55, 60, 62.5, 65kg<\/li>\n<li> Power Clean Doubles up to 90%: I did 40, 60, 60, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90(F2), 90(F2) which means I failed on the second lift.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This week (Week 8), as it&#8217;s getting close to the competition, I decided to see if I could set any new records.  If you remember, my aim is to lift a total of 182kg (80 Snatch and 102 C&amp;J say) to <strong>qualify for the European Masters<\/strong> championships in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>However, <strong>I also need to lose some weight<\/strong>, as my weight has crept up over the last few months, mostly due to too many sweeties (shock horror!), not helped by Halloween I can tell you!  So I actually started the week with a Crossfit style workout, to get the ol&#8217; heart rate up and to burn a few extra calories.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Day 1<\/strong><br \/>\n10 minutes of 1 minute rounds, each consisting of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> 15 squats<\/li>\n<li> 10 sit ups<\/li>\n<li> 5 push ups<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In hindsight, <strong>this was a bad idea<\/strong>.  I should have known better than to do expect no after effects from doing my first Crossfit workout in 2 months!  Over the last 2 days, I&#8217;ve had significant DOMS (Delayed Onset of Muscle Soreness) in my pecks and thighs.  Not great to have when going for a new PB.  :-S<\/p>\n<p><strong>Day 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Snatch singles for max: 3&#215;40, 2&#215;50, 55, 60, 65, 70, <strong>75<\/strong>, then I failed 77.5kg (170 lbs and PB attempt) five times before giving up.  <strong>Same old problem<\/strong>: losing it forward at the bottom.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Day 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Clean and Jerk singles for max: 3&#215;50, 2&#215;60, 70, 80, 85, 90, 95, <strong>100<\/strong>, then I failed 102.5kg (225 lbs and a PB attempt) four times before giving up. Actually I failed to clean the 102.5, which was a blow.  I was getting under it, but again, losing it forward i.e. it was <strong>rolling off my shoulders<\/strong> at the bottom of the clean.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All in all, not what I was hoping for.  However the 75 snatch was just off my record of 77 and the <strong>100 clean &amp; jerk was an equal personal best<\/strong>, so it&#8217;s far from discouraging.  I&#8217;m hoping the adrenaline of the competition will carry the day, as has happened before.  No more PB attempts before the comp now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;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 &#8211; singles up [&hellip;]<\/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":[111,122,365,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-crossfit","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"category-olympic-weightlifting","9":"tag-clean-and-jerk","10":"tag-crossfit-workouts-exercises","11":"tag-olympic-weightlifting","12":"tag-snatch"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835","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=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}