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I was just away, reading about something called the pale-o diet - which I thought had something to do with inducing a melanin-deficiency. I thought it would be cool if more people were seeking my lack of complexion, cuz then I wouldn't be so alone.
I was wrong.
Oh well, back to looking for an albino support group...
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DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
I was just away, reading about something called the pale-o diet - which I thought had something to do with inducing a melanin-deficiency. I thought it would be cool if more people were seeking my lack of complexion, cuz then I wouldn't be so alone.
I was wrong.
Oh well, back to looking for an albino support group...
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2011-3-30
Clean pull to knees + Clean and Push Jerk
175 1x5 sets
Clean and Push Jerk
190 1x5 sets (was only supposed to do 3 sets - DOH!) PR +5lbs and +4 sets
Pullups
BWx5
BW+35 3x5 sets
Front Squat
185x3
215x3
235 3x3
Felt really out of it today, still not recovered from Monday. Made it through, but everything felt mushy and slow. The push jerk is a PR, but I'm not getting my butt back on the catch so the balance is not good. Won't be able to go much heavier until I get these shoulders and torso more flexible. Coach gave me a video of loosening exercises to do and I guess I'll have to quit avoiding doing them. I hate stretching and mobility crap.
Pullups felt really wrong. So weak in this now. Good thing I get to do them twice every 8 days. I'm doing some form of squatting every session so I may have to back off the poundage a little so I can recover.
DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
Won't be able to go much heavier until I get these shoulders and torso more flexible. Coach gave me a video of loosening exercises to do and I guess I'll have to quit avoiding doing them.
Any chance of sharing those exercises? I really need to increase my flexibility drastically. I've started doing the Calstrength ones 3 x a day as of today. Does your coach have different ones?
Also, how long did it take you to be able to do a squat snatch bottom position? (I'm not hot on the terminology). That's my first goal.
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FarmerBrett wrote:
DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
Won't be able to go much heavier until I get these shoulders and torso more flexible. Coach gave me a video of loosening exercises to do and I guess I'll have to quit avoiding doing them.
Any chance of sharing those exercises? I really need to increase my flexibility drastically. I've started doing the Calstrength ones 3 x a day as of today. Does your coach have different ones?
Also, how long did it take you to be able to do a squat snatch bottom position? (I'm not hot on the terminology). That's my first goal.
I'm still not there Farmer. Been seriously working it for a month and a half, but I had to drop weight on the bar and strengthen/groove that bottom position. Gotta relearn it each time I add weight.
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alexus wrote:
why do you push-jerk? you gonna squat-jerk?
Cuz I'm a pushy jerk.
Still getting my shoulder better. Split jerking makes it unhappy. Push Jerking makes it less so and also really makes me launch the bar upwards. My levers will in no way ever allow me to squat jerk. I'll be a splitter soon.
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Nice work, Tony. Of course, I have no idea what I am looking for/at. But I am 100% sure that it is infinitely better than anything I would do.
I guess I need to breakdown and go figure out what the lifts are and how they are supposed to look. So I can comment from somewhere other than absolute ignorance.
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LittleStrick wrote:
Nice work, Tony. Of course, I have no idea what I am looking for/at. But I am 100% sure that it is infinitely better than anything I would do.
I guess I need to breakdown and go figure out what the lifts are and how they are supposed to look. So I can comment from somewhere other than absolute ignorance.
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JoeGood wrote:
Tony I gotta say I admire the way you switched gears lifting wise and then just crushed Oly lifting.
Thanks Joe - I don't know that I've crushed it, but I definitely feel confident of reaching my goals of a 185lbs snatch and a 225 clean and jerk. Having a coach is shortening the learning curve immensely.
DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
Been seriously working it for a month and a half, but I had to drop weight on the bar and strengthen/groove that bottom position.
That's what I'm going to have to do. It's a bit humbling to say so, but 132lbs is just too heavy for me right now.
Have you seen the Ironmind video of Dimas in the same series where he nonchalantly power cleans 375? Incredible.
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punnyguy wrote:
How did that virtual meet go DCA?
And I think you could muscle up those goals of yours in fairly short order. To do it looking like Carl though, that's the rub...
Dunno - the meet still needs to acquire a third judge to finish the judging. Online PL meets get lots of judging offers, but the weightlifting meets seem to make people reticent to judge. It's pretty clear cut whether you performed the lift legally or not, so I don't really understand the lack of judges. I'd be willing to judge, but for the obvious claim of favoritism...
