Love It When a Plan Comes Together

As usual I headed into the gym early to get my Oly session in. I'm really starting to enjoy these early Saturday morning sessions. Rolling up the bay doors and lifting with the Sun coming up being solo in the gym has a pretty sweet vibe to it. Took yesterday completely off and just hung out with the family. Still feeling a little the squats from Wednesday a bit, but I got loose pretty easily. Time to get to work.

Mock Meet
Snatch - warm up and take your best 3 attempts
bar progressions
95(3) - 135 - 155 - 175 - 185 - 195 - 205 --- 215(93%) - 220(96%) - 225(98%)
- Right away I knew this was gonna be one of those sessions where everything goes right. I felt fast through the middle and solid at the bottom. No problems in front. In fact, I stapled my feet to floor all and held a short pause at the bottom before standing each one up on all three attempts. Cleanest attempts I've made to date. Has me very excited about the possibilities of next Saturday.

Clean & Jerk - warm up and take your best 3 attempts
225-245-265-275-285 --- 295(93%) - 305(96%) - 310(98%)
- Rushed through this in about 20 minutes. Felt real good with weight. 295 was a little sloppy on the jerk, but passable. 305 I failed the jerk. I lost focus on the dip to fatigue I think. The clean felt strong so I decided to move past it because I know I've got it in the tank. Took a little longer to rest before attempting 310, initially I planned on 315. Clean was good. Jerk was the strongest and fastest of the 3...probably would have been fine with 315.


Closing Thoughts
 My last meet I totaled 215 (S:90; C&J:125). If I hit the numbers I did today I will be extremely pleased with the results regardless of where I finish. Depending on how I feel that day I may bump my first attempts up to 95-96% and possibly chase some PRs on my 3rds if all goes as planned.
 I'm extremely pleased with the Oly program I've put together over the last few weeks. I've never felt this comfortable at 90+% of my 1RMs, much less made this many successful lifts this often at these higher percentages. I had my doubts after a few bad sessions in the last two weeks, but held tight to the programming. I came out of today feeling great and exactly how I hoped I would. Very excited to see everything come together next weekend!