Back to the Bulgarian Program

Back from Vermont and back to the oven that we call the gym in Arkansas. How quickly I forgot about the heat! Was quite tired and was just going to come into the gym and do some medium weight snatch and C&J even though this was online competition weekend.

Snatch: 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 84, 88X, 88, 93, 100, 102

This was a little weird. Usually after a week of no lifting I need a few days to get back into the groove but with the empty bar and 40kg lifts I felt quite loose and was getting into good low squat positions. 60-80kg range (where I normally get a good indicator of how maxes will go) was nothing special but thought I may be able to grind out a max by compensating for average feel of pull with the low position I was getting. Got 100 and was going to stop until I flipping well deleted the video by accident when trying to crop it a little so decided to try 102 as I thought I may be complacent trying to get 100 again.





C&J: 60, 84, 100, 115, 125, 129, 134X, 134X, 134X, 134

I was beginning to tire during these so cut out the 110 & 120 normal lifts and did 115. Cleans were ugly and 134's were causing me to have to dig a little deeper than they should. Was regreting making this a max night but after the third fail I got extremely annoyed with the lack of pop in the jerk and my stubborn streak kicked in.



Deadlift: 315lb, 365lb, 405lb, 455lb X, 465lb X.

465lb is required to beat 'Blogger G' recent max of 210kg. Not sure why I tried these as legs were fried from C&J's. 465 didnt leave platform and brought me back down to earth. More work required to beat the big golifter.

Temp: 32C