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Worked today from 7.45am to 5.30 without a dinner break. A hell of a long day with 2 long meetings to finish the day. Came home and painted for 2 hours but still managed to squeeze in 35 minutes of lifting. This takes a bit of pressure off tomorrow when I will complete the session

Snatch. I started with 20x5; 30x3; 40x3; 45x3; 50x3 with the usual dreadful technique. I decided the sit down for 5 mins and think about pistol pete's advice, sean's massive improvement and strangely enough, I had a video image in my head of Jake's technique from go lift. I asked myself "am i so thick that I can't even get the fundamentals right" I had the image of my dreadful technique in my mind with the shallow back angle and the usual bent [which i am sure pete was sick telling me.}

I decided to lower my starting position and forced myself to try and focus my concentration on lifting with the legs. I found it impossible to rip the weight off the floor and just as difficult to use the arms.
For me, this felt like a massive break through. I still had the image of young jake snatching 75 and noticed how slow the bar initially comes off the floor. I feel my technique has risen from a 2/10 to maybe 5-7/10. I then lifted 40x3; 45x3; 50x3; 52; 55. I need to do a hell of a lot of work but i feel that i have turned the corner. 46 years of age b4 i actually start to improve!!!!

Here are my findings [ i may be completely wrong but dont think so.

1] Use the legs to start the lifts
2] the back angle remains solid
3] arms less involved in the lift, more passive therefore little arm bend.
4] With improved technique, it seems natural for the bar to move much slower initially
5] Other things seem to happen naturally.

Because my legs are so weak, i have to be patient.

I feel quite excited now about the next snatch session