My first time on the platform since November 2011, was this
past weekend at the Bacon Beatdown in Daytona, FL I have improved some things, and remained surprisingly
stagnant on others. In retrospect,
I should not be surprised. In the
last two and a half years I have warmed up religiously with the snatch, to the
detriment of the clean and jerk.
My previous competition PR snatch was 80kg, but has now been improved to
90kg. Not exactly world class
improvement, but not bad for a nearly 40 year old guy without a coach. The clean and jerk was an almost
embarrassing near disaster. My
opener at this meet was 100kg on this lift. This is weight that I have done for a triple within the last
month… a no-brainer! I missed… THE
CLEAN! Unbelievable. This is normally weight that I could
have done almost one handed. I
guess that you cannot account for nerves though. I finally came back, made 100kg and made 110kg on my final
lift of the day. After it was all
said and done I had gone down by 2kg from my competition PR of 112kg after 30
freakin’ months of work… pathetic.
A couple of issues were in play though. For the last month of so before the meet, my clean technique
was just plain out of whack. It
felt different every time I grabbed the bar. Also, just plain nerves played a role. It wasn’t a Superbowl sized crowd, but
the fifty or so people watching can still make each lift a little tougher. With all of that being said, I know what
I must now do. Spend months
focusing on the clean and jerk from a technical side of things and continue to
get stronger.
Snatch 85kg
Snatch 90kg
Clean and Jerk 100kg
Clean and Jerk 110kg
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