Today's workout was pretty light and easy.
Snatch 1x5 @ 135#
Clean and Jerk 1x5 @ 165#
Missed 1 of my snatches due to lack of focus and not sticking it. But all the other attempts were pretty decent. Still power snatching everything. One thing I also need to work on is footwork. While oly lifting my feet tend to go out pretty wide. While I am capable of squatting pretty wide, its probably not ideal as it creates alot of torque on the knees and the hole is pretty hard to get out of. Plus I don't front squat/back squat normally with my feet that wide apart. Looks like I will be looking like a crazy person doing footwork drills in the middle of lab or on campus. But if you wanna get better gotta make some sacrifices! Clean and jerks were fast and solid. My overhead is feeling alot faster. The true test will be saturday when I attempt some heavy singles.
Let me just say I am frigging pumped about Saturday's lifting. Today I finally got my body composition measurements done. Turns out all that squatting has indeed put some nice mass on my bones.
Long story short I put on 9 solid pounds of muscle and only 2 lbs of fat. At 180.7 lbs, I'm sitting at about 12.6% body fat. It's a little more than previous and the 10% or lower that I'd like, but I will absolutely take 9 lbs of lean body mass. Hopefully all that new muscle will be able to lift some hefty barbell.
So it's looking like I will be shooting for the 85 kg weightclass (up from 77). Bledsoe thinks (and I agree) that I will be more competitive at that class. So now I am hoping to put on a few more lbs... possibly up to 185-187. I think with the new program I am starting (the The Hugification Project as Bledsoe has so aptly named it) I will hit that in about 10 weeks.
I just hope I don't need to buy new pants to fit my soon-to-be-massive legs :)
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