The post-turkey workout came from the Crossfit site. Clean and Jerk, 5×3. I added more work to the session, but I started by doing 3 rounds of the Burgener Warm-up to get ready for a very technical and difficult lift.

The first pull is from the floor and then a blast into a full squat clean and a split jerk. I got the squat down and deep on all but two reps and most of the jerks were split jerks. I can understand why it is accepted that on Oly lifts the maximum number per set is three. Technique is critical and the lifts are quite taxing.

Five sets, three reps each:
95/115/125/135/140pr/

After a brief respite from a  robust grouping of C&J’s, I did a 5×5 of overhead presses using 2 mini bands.

The loads were 95/115/125/125/125/. Form and focus were starting to break down so that was it for today.

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