Weekly Highlights, Week of 11/17/13

Monday - First day in the new Lab Gym.  It's neat.  20 platforms, actually heated/air conditioned.  Not a good day on the bar though.  95/110 and those took effort.  Snatch pulls, skipped clean pulls for snatch balance.  Squats bad - only finished a couple full sets of the 5x3.  Need to not let it get to me, Justin says.  Stalling happens often on this program.  Snatch balance afterward was at least decent - 3x95, 2x100, both PRs.

Tuesday - Power snatches were fun - up to 200# with the usual 3x Sn PP in a complex.  Starting to get a little wider on the feet in the catch, probably getting really close to max so I might have to seperate that complex up soon.  Bench press 3x3x210 with some chest-supported rows, then legs raises and a L-sit hold to close.

Wednesday - Decided to stop trying to push out the classic lifts during the week with this squat program.  95/110 and left it there.  Clean/snatch pulls, and 5x5x132 squats.  Tons better than Monday, sets got more comfortable as I went along.

Thursday - Knees felt like an old man.  Good thing no squatting today.  PC&J to 235#, tried 245 but just wasn't getting under that well.  Push press doubles up to 205.  Haven't done straight push press in a long time so went for max to get an idea where to work at.  Got a single at 215, maybe.  Might have been a jerk, I'm not sure so I'm not counting it.  Then strict press 3x3x135 (first time doing any strict pressing with a wheel on either side!  Actually felt pretty easy.) with weighted pullups 3x5x53.

Saturday - Huh.  Good day, as usual, came out of nowhere.  Started C&J first, up to 120 without much trouble - was my second time jerking 120 and it was oh so much cleaner than the first (at the competition).  Smoked it.  Got a 124 clean too to match PR.  Snatched 100 finally again.  Was a little gnarly standing up but a lot more pop on the pull than I have been getting.  Front squat tried 3x129 and missed the last rep, but got 132x2 and 138x1 just fine (over 300# there!).  Then 1x10x120, 1x10x122, 1x9+1 (thanks Ian!)x122.  So not too bad.  Then 3x3x155 deadlift.  Not gonna push those.