Tuesday 14.5: Clean and jerk, snatch, death by snatch

Tuesday. Clean & Jerk (70-75kg), Snatch (max 50kg). Death by snatch. Result 34 reps.

My strength training was shorter than regularly. Took olympic lifting for starters with about 80% of max, stayed there for few sets. Then metcon was death by snatch with the same weight.

Strength. Olympic lifting.

• Clean & Jerk 3x3 (70, 75, 75kg)
• Snatch 3x3 (50, 50, 50kg)

Triples for both clean & jerks and snatch. I aimed to keep the weights same. On the c&j I decided to add 5kg to the pre-described 70kg after the first set. It felt quite heavy though. I believe I wasn't on top of my game at the olympic lifts today. However, I was able to complete the lifts with style, on both movements. I took the cleans as power cleans. It's been a while since doing power cleans because I have been training squat cleans. It was nice to see I can lift heavier weights as power versions too. It was the jerk part that was more difficult today. On the snatch, I believe I did pretty decent on the strength training.

Metcon. Result 7 rounds + 6 reps. Total of 34 reps.

• Death by snatch, 50kg
• 1 rep on the 1st minute
• 2 reps on the 2nd minute
• 3 reps on the 3rd minute and so on until you can't keep up with the rep scheme.

Originally I planned to do 60kg death by clean & jerk but the jerk didn't feel good so I switched it to death by snatch. The idea of the workout is to do 1 repetition on the first minute. On a running clock, complete 2 repetitions on the second minute. Continue for as long as you can not perform the amount of reps needed to continue to next round / minute.

My result today was full 7 rounds and on the 8th minute "death" walked in and I managed only 6 reps. That resulted in a total of 34 reps in the workout with 50kg. The first rounds are easy. No wonder as you think about it. However, on the 5th round I really felt the burden in my heart. I still did the 6th round unbroken. On the 7th round I did 4 reps at first try, dropped the bar and finished the last 3 reps. There wasn't many extra seconds left in the clock so I had to continue to next round. I did 2 reps, then 2, then singles. There was one failed rep in between as well.

As I wrote earlier, I felt I wasn't at my best. Still, I believe I got what I wanted from today's training. I was able to work on my olympic lift techniques, enabled strength training and improved on my metabolic condition. To improve on that metcon's result, I should have stayed focused and determined to complete the 7th round quicker. After dropping the bar after 4 reps, should have done the rest quicker. That way I would have got more rest before entering the round of 8's. Now it was difficult to grab the bar immediately and give my best shot. I simply wasn't able to bring the bar overhead and that's why there were failed rep as well.