Thursday 7 July 2011

Olympic lifting

Hang cleans @ 120
(Warm up: 5 reps @ 95)
3, 3, 4, 4, 3 = 17

I would have got 4 reps in the second set but I lost concentration for a split second and failed jut as the bar was coming up to my chest. Someone walked behind me and for some reason that put me off. No, it wasn't a girl; actually, that doesn't sound any better! I nearly completed the 4th rep in the last round; I got the bar close to my chest, but couldn't get my elbows up and the bar dropped back down.

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Deadlifts:
135x10
165x6
185x5
205x3
215x1
225x1
235x1
245x1
255x1
260 x 1
265 - failed

My form was pretty crappy at 260lb because I started to round out my back. I fought to maintain good form at 265lb but could only get the weights about a centimetre off the ground!

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30 x clean and press @ 100 lb
Time = 8:16

My time was 8:07 at 95lb, but that was a long time ago so I'd hoped to do significantly better than this. I probably took longer rests than I needed to. As I've been doing a lot recently, I've been trying to gauge how much rest breaks my body needs by how I feel, rather than looking at my watch or counting to, say, 10 before starting again. That's an artificial measure of how much rest I need, but sometimes I overestimate and take too long.

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3x10 of each
Overhead sit-ups - 15lb dumbbell
Sit-ups

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