Monday, 5/5/08

Burgener Warm-ups x 3,

BB Snatch:
3 x 45 x3, 65×3/75×3/95×3/95×3/95/95/115/115/115f/. Last three were power snatches.

Snatch High Pulls:
115×3

Clean Pulls and Shrug:
160×3/165×3/170×3/180×3/180×3.

Overhead Squats:
95×3/115/125/140/150/150.

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Tuesday, 5/6/08

Rest, nah, just lazy. Did nuthin’.

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Wednesday 5/7/08

Deadlift Rack Pulls:

225×6/315×3/405×2/405×2/495×2/545/585/605, missed lockout by an inch. Should have finished. Two more attempts failed. Good work though.

Overhead Presses, from the ground up:

95/115/135/145/115.

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Thursday, May 8th 2008

I trained at Gold’s Gym in Venice with Danny Henry, who coaches lifters in the Olympic lifts and kettlebells.

After the warm-up, I was trained on stance, RDL and basics in the snatch and later, the clean and jerk. I did quite a few drills and skills reps, but not any higher than 110#. Danny did a great job in explaining the lifts and what I will need to do to perform them correctly. He did a good job correcting what I wasn’t getting and letting me know what did work. After 90 minutes, I realized I had a solid session of learning and lifting. Next week, we will go sub-maximal so he can get a baseline of where I am and then structure a training program.

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Friday, May 9th, 2008

Rest. I was drained.

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Saturday, May 10th, 2008

Warm-up included:

pull-ups, ring dips, ring push-ups, back extensions, overhead squats and dislocates.

Muscle Snatch + Behind the neck presses + Overhead Squats, 3 x 3:
45/65/95/95.

Hang Power Clean, 95 x 3

Hang Squat Clean + Front Squat, 3 x 3
95/115/135

Kettlebell Snatch, 24 kg.
10/20/20/10/20

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Sunday, May 11th, 2008

Later this afternoon, I drove down to the beach to do a skate session on the strand between the Newport Beach and Huntington Beach piers including the Seashore St. section. The total distance I did was just over 12 miles in 57 minutes. It was a “work before play” skate which meant I skated into a headwind before taking a flyer on the way back.

Are you as strong as you look? Or as fit? For all the time you spend in the gym, are you getting the results you should be for all that hard work?

Anthony Diluglio of Punch Kettlebell Gyms decries the state of what we call fitness these days in his article, “What Have We Done Wrong”?

To get the answers to the questions I posed, read Anthony’s article.