I like this type of workouts with good minutes interchanging with horrible ones. I opted to follow the advice on the whiteboard and did 60+15. 60 kg snatches felt fairly easy, at least in the beginning and 15 wallballs felt doable. Prior to the main wod, I worked up to a heavy snatch setting a new, 67.5 PR.
Thursday's wod consisted of front squats, box jumps and rowing(a minute of each, 4 rounds, 1 minute rest in between) preceded by 5s of front squat. I worked up to 80 which is really good considering I suck at squats.
Friday started with an opportunity to meet most of the girls. To make the workout doable we scaled it down to 50. I still had to do more than half of the snatches, but on the other hand I gave away a bunch of wallballs and other body weight stuff so it all evened out in the end. We expected to end somewhere mid-Elizabeth, but we got all the way to mid-Barbara so I guess we should be happy, but I think we could've managed better with bigger sets on easy stuff and "less fair" division of other exercises, letting people who suck the least at each exercise do the most of it. That doesn't matter much now, but it will once we are competing.
Saturday started with clusters which is a combination of a squat clean and a thruster, 2 movements I don't particularly like so i had to lower the weights a bit and went 70-50-40 which resulted in 8-16-17 thrusters which I am fairly happy with.
After some food (eggs&bacon of course) and some rest I noticed that there was room at the oly pass so I decided to join that one. Today was snatch day so after the warmup we worked up to a heavy snatch where I managed to get 70 over my head. That's a 10 kg increase since Christmas, much more than my other lifts. On the other hand I was stuck at 60 from August until January while my other lifts were progressing nicely. It's interesting how differently different lifts develop....
After that we did a snatch/snatch balance/overhead squat complex where I managed to work up to 52.5, but the snatch balance was really really ugly. Simply "falling" with that many kilos above you is scary....
Snatch deadlift went fine working up to 100 kg. Having hands that wide screws up the grip when it's the barbell is heavy. Snatch grip behind the neck strict press is the longest name for an exercise I've seen so far. It's also really hard. I only managed to do 47.5. I wasn't able to lift 50 once....
Thursday evening I dropped by Bishops Arms Savoy where I found this awesome smoky Imperial Stout. Chocolate, coffee and smokiness are an awesome combination. Brouwerij de Molen never disappoints.
Mango Magnifico is a really good description of this beer. Sweetness from Mango and spiciness from habanero create something truly wonderful. Buy it while supplies last (that's one of the news from Friday's beer release at Systembolaget)
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