Friday's Training, PRs

Friday - BS 5x5 @ 305#
- this made me sore all weekend


Monday -
Snatch High Pulls 4-5 sets of 3 @205#
Clean triples @ 215#x3 sets
build to heavy snatch - 240#.  5# PR, very happy with this.  Missed it once


"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours."
- Thoreau 

PR day

Build to a max snatch
- hit 235#.  15# PR, 2 tries.  Should have had it the first go.
A few sets of RDLs 205x11, 265x7
+
1RM deadlift @485 (25#PR)

Great day.

"The formula for success is quite simple; double your rate of failure."
-  IBM founder, Thomas Watson

Pulls, Snatch, Balance

Yesterday's training:
A:  Clean Pulls @275#x3x5
B:  3 position snatchx3 @155,165,175
+ a single at 195#, easy
C:  Snatch balance - work up to 185#x3
+
some ab work

"If you limit your choices to only what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that's left is compromise."
-  Robert Fritz

Light Day and PRs

Taking this week a little easier

Power Snatch + Snatch x 5 @ 175#
Power Clean + Jerk + Clean + Jerk @215#x2 sets, 205#x3 sets
Back Squats - heavy single - hit 385# (PR).  Excited about this since I missed it twice last week.

"If you want to improve, be content with being though foolish and stupid."
- Epictetus

Weightlifting Training + Being Strong

Sunday I snatched 220#.  PR, felt solid.

Yesterday hit a 270# clean and jerk - best it has ever felt.
Missed 385 back squat, twice.  Figured it was a bit ambitious.

30 day goals:
280# clean and jerk
230# Snatch
400# Backsquat

I watched an interview a while back of Donny Shankle and he asked a simple question that I finally answered.  Why do you want to be strong?  To me, being strong is constantly pushing my limits; both mentally and physically.  It's teaching me to show up, even when dead tired, and still trying.  Teaching me to never stop trying.  Always be trying.  You never know what might happen if you show up and try...

Stop giving a....

Yesterday:
10x3 Squats @78% or 275
Snatch Pullsx3x2@205
Snatch DLx3 @225#
+
Heavy 3 power snatch.  Built to 185# which is a PR

This all made me want to kill myself last night.  Realized that giving a shit holds people back.

Nik

"Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man."
- Bertrand Russell

Clean N Jerk/OHS

Today's Training:
Power Clean & Jerk
205x1x3
215x1x2
225x1x1
205x1x3
232x1x1
205x1x3
240x1x1 (full clean, nearly power)
+
Heavy Single in OHS @225#.  A lot left in the tank there

Jerks today felt amazing; fast, light, strong.

"Never be satisfied."