This entry was posted on 8/21/2007 7:00 PM and is filed under uncategorized.
I intentionally took today a little easier. It felt like a good day to pull back a bit. I did:
KB Presses: 5/5 x 12k, 16k, 20k; 2/2x24k; 5/5 x 20k, 20k One Arm Swings: 8/8 x 16k, 20k, 24k, 24k, 24k Chins: 1 Renegade Rows: 5/5 x 20k, 24k, 20k Push Ups: 8 Flat Bench: 5 x 45, 95
I'm going to start switching the snatches up with swings and high pulls to vary my workouts. I feel like I need to strengthen my foundation with the basics if I'm going to make more progress on the snatches. I tried the chins to see if I can rep them yet, the answer is no.
The push ups were a bit of a dissapointment, as was the bench. I stopped the push ups when my bad shoulder started to hurt. The set of 5 reps with 95 on bench, my shoulder was clicking and popping for all of them. It is frustrating to have spent so much time and money trying to rehab it, to have progressed so far on all my other lifts, and then to have it be so problematic with simple flat pressing. I could push through it and lift quite a bit more weight, but that just seems like a bad idea. I guess I keep on working around the problem for now.
and do dumbbells feel any better for bench press, at the minute i only do db bench and flyes, sometimes with inclines, and no barbell work. if you arent confident with lifting the dumbbells up and down from the bench you could use something like this http://www.fitness-superstore.co.uk/other/bodysolid_dumbbell_liftoffs/5327_p.html im thinking about getting some when i get round to getting a power rack, i wanna squat.
8/23/2007 7:57 AM
Scott Styles wrote:
The biggest reason I'm focusing on the swings and high pulls as a foundation is the problems I've been having with the snatches beating up my hands. I'm not sure Tracy's approach would help with that.
I know from the past that if I do dumbell incline presses I can hit my chest ok, I just want to be able to do flat pressing. Even flat pressing a 10k dumbell gets my right shoulder worked up.
