Tougher Than Expected

Finally starting to recover a little bit from the WODs earlier in the week. My lats, shoulders, and wrists took a beating...more than I initially thought they did. My back is pretty tight today too from standing on the uneven ground at the track meet yesterday and being out there all day today for class too.

OWOD
Clean & Jerk --- 5 x 3 (70-80%)
progressions with PVC & Bar for warm up
135(3) - 185(3) --- 215(70%) - 225 - 225 - 225 - 225(74%)
- This was a lot tougher than the snatch work last week. 215 was no problem. The 1st rep at 225 was smooth, the 2nd rep smooth, and 3rd rep the jerk was terrible tough. That was the story just about every set at 225. My jerk technique needs to clean up before I went up any higher. The main problem was positioning my hands for the jerk in my rack position. I clean with 2-3 fingers on the bar. Getting my 4 fingers back on the bar to jerk is rough. I have bad mobility in my wrists which is probably the base of the issue. Tighter than usual lats (from Helen) didn't help either. I did work out a few kinks in my drop under the bar on jerk. I was getting way to forward before instead of sinking which caused some serious stress on my low back. Focused and developed some self cues to keep that back glute tight in my split and that really seemed to help a lot.

Back Squat --- 5@60%, 5@65%, 5@70%, 5@75%
255 - 275 - 300 - 320
- Missed yesterday's strength so I added it in tonight. Deload week getting ready for Max week. For lighter weight, it was a little tougher than expected after all the cleans. I focused on staying as fast as I could out of the bottom and keeping the reps moving.

Clean Pulls --- 4 x 4 @ 105% (320#)
- Used my wraps. Solid pulls tonight. After all that work my back felt pretty strong still. Kept good position throughout the pulls.