Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Tonight was Oly Lifting class. Our skill for the evening was dead-stop front squats, which basically meant we racked the bar at the bottom of our squat, and then pushed out from there. This was a really great drill for me since my front squat sucks. When I focused on keeping my head neutral and my back upright and tight throughout, the lift felt ten times lighter than usual. We then worked on full clean and split jerks. I worked up to 115 and ended up failing not on the clean, but the jerk, which was weird and disappointing. Back still feels pretty good.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Ummm, not weird at all actually. I can't get my elbows fast enough and will fail at the clean before the jerk all the time.

Sarah Smith said...

No, I mean I got the clean up and then failed the jerk. My front squat stinks so anything above 110 or so is a battle to get up.

Haven't seen much of you these days. You doing alright?