Wednesday, February 4, 2009

The Hardest Thing About Oly Lifting Is The Metric System

Objective : Olympic Weightlifting

Warm-up : Lots of practice and transfer exercises

Training : (1) triples, OHS, 50K, 60K, 70K, 75K, 80K

Notes : Went back to the local CF affiliate. I know what you saying, “Brian. If the place isn’t the cat mellow, why you keep scratching at the door?” It was the first Olympic Lifting class. One major chink in my fitness armor is Oly Lifting. I have taught myself how to powerlift, run, kettlebell, and everything else from books or websites. I have been unable to teach myself the Snatch and Clean & Jerk. The coaches at this box are top notch. However, I still respectively disagree with their programming. They love their high volume, which is great for beginners. Beginner needs lots of practice and help building their work capacity. I’m low volume guy. I know the movements (I need work putting them together under heavy weights) and have plenty of work capacity. High volume just eats away at me. It was nice to go heavy with OHS because I usually don't due to a lack of proper facilities. I still don’t know my max because they had us stop before failure.

Bonus : CrossFit North’s Athletic Standard for “Advanced” OHS is 1Xbodyweight.

FYI : I weigh just under 80K.

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