Sunday part 2

My son wanted to learn the power snatch this evening and also do some c+j. I decided to redo my earlier lifts.
Snatch 40x3; 45x3; 50x3; 55x3;60x3
c+j 60x3; 70x3; 80x3; 85; 90

Brendan jnr snatch 12. c+j 17.5 total 30

I need a relly good week now to catch up and mae up for lack of lifting recently.

Overall today my best lifts were snatch 65x3 clean and jerk 90. If I had been competing today I think 80+100 would have been on the cards.

Saturday and Sunday's Sleepathon

Bed Friday night at 10.30pm. Slept until 10am.
Sat 2pm to 5pm sleep
Sat 11pm until Sunday 11am, sleep.

Finally managed to get wk 1 day 3 out of the way. Motivation about 2/10. Good job the weights were relatively light toda, otherwise it would have been a hell of a struggle.
Snatch 40x3; 45x3; 50x3; 55x3; 60x3; 65x3; 60x3.
c+j 60x3; 70x3; 75x2; 80; 85; 85; 85; 85' 85
Snatch Pull
Fsq

Big problem for me is thAT I cant shift unnecessary weight because I am not doing aerobic exercise. I tried this several months ago and although I started to trim down, My weightlifting went to hell.

For years, I used to spend mornings in May and june running so that i could trim myself down. I might do this again this year and sacrifice strength in weightlifting. I aint going on my hols looking like a babywhale

wk 1 day2

I competed all lifts and managed to resist temptation to do more.

Brendan jnr nagged me for hours to show him the clean and jerk. He is 12 years old and seems to be keen. I would love him to compete some day but I will let himtake it as far as he wants.

Brendan jnr + spring clean

My 12 year old has decided that he wants to learn the lifts. Yesterday I taught him the push press, power clean, military press and deadlift using very light weights. His new bar is only about 2.5 kg. I was very surprised at the form he showed. A very straight back and legs well positioned.

Brendan jnr Power clean 20kg
Push press 17.5kg
Deadlift 35kg.

Tomorrow he wants to learn the power snatch and jerk movements. Hopefully, I can persuade him in the future t come with me to Ronnie for ome coaching before I teach him some of my bad habits. Even better if some day, he decided to compete.

I spentmost of Sunday spring cleaning my shed/gym.
Now I have a new reinforced floor, new platform, sitting room for about 5/6, heat and light. Hopefully I can organise a session there soon with 4/5/6 lifters. Lifting was so much easier on Sat with a perfectly flat platform.

New beginnings

Since the Irish masters, I have been deliberating as to what programme to follow. I decided to have another go at QWA. This time, I will endeavour to complete each session on one day to help me recover better. Thee are about 12 weeks to the Ulster open so I will peak for that. I may take part in the Irish Seniors but not sure yet.

QWA WK 1 DAY 1 Completed.

In the last few month, I seem to have improved a bit in the snatch but fallen short in the clean and jerk. The big thing for me is to improve technique, increase leg strength and to give myself enough recovery time.

I have decided to set myself some goals for the ulsters to seehow close I get.
Targets Snatch 82 c+j 108 for a total of 190. I would be pleased with that

irish masters

Headed to Dublin with Sean and Colin. None of us have been in good form recently so we were not sure what to expect
Sean
Snatch 60x 60 63 C+j 65 70 75xx. Sean recovered well after a dodgy first snatch but found the going tough in the cj due to fatigue.
Colin
Snatch 70 75 80x c+j 90 95 100. Colin lifted well within himself and has set himself up for the coming year. he was unlucky not to get his 80 snatch
Brendan
Snatch 70 75 77 c+j 95 100 105x. I needed 105 to qual for the euro masters which hopefully will happen next year. 1st time I ever got 3 snatches. the 1st 2 i had to fight hard to save. the 77 felt smooth. Over all very pleased considering the lack of lifting and form recently.

we enjoyed spending time with the legend Lawrence who kept us enthused with stories of his weightlifting exploits. also met a few more sound guys, shane and trevor.

Now I need to find a good programme to take me up to the ULSTER open in may 29th. Another ambition is to get myself into better shape and start losing the ugly gut.

back from the brink

I had decided[or so i thought] that i would pack in weightlifting. I have really struggled for weeks to get going. under strength and run down and not able to get any enthusiasm back. I was reading Barry's blog and then looking back and asking myself, "why the hell did I pack in weightlifting at about 18]

I got up this morning and felt very optimistic. I decided to try and lift today and see if i could get the drive to help me go to Dublin next week. Even though I have serious technical problems with my lifting, I was pleased to get going again.

I was disappointed that I didn't attend lmerick last week but I dont dwell too much on the past
Snatch 40x3 40x3; 50x3; 55x3; 60; 62; 65; 67x; 67; 70x; 72.5


c+j 40x3; 60x2; 70x2; 80; 90; 95. the 1st time I have lifted more than 85 at home for a month [i think] my pb is 107.5 and I had planned to lift 111 at the irish masters. now, 101 would be good.


I did some squatting and more snatches later

Now myself and Sean are heading to dublin to support the irish masters competition and cant wait