There are a few things that make me extra happy right now... and I figured I'd share them! Item number one is my Wake Tervis tumbler... go deacs.
Number two is a good pair of warm and fuzzy sweat pants... these fabulous ones I have are of the Target variety
The third one is a no-brainer. I love nice nails, long nails, painted nails etc! These were freshly painted Monday (and a little touch-up work done tonight) But the color is great and my nails are at an optimum length, and the color is a NEW edition to my OPI collection..
That brings me to the 4th thing....NEW OPI NAIL POLISH!! Kat went home for her brother's wedding last weekend and got her toes painted this color: "Chapel of Love" and brought me back the bottle!! I was SO excited!! It had been ages since I've had added another love to my collection. Yes, I may be slightly obsessed. I'll have to post my whole collection sometime soon!
By the way- these favorites of mine are in random order so don't be fooled that the nail polish was at the end! :)
Now onto the training from today... Snatch. Is anyone surprised? When Ellyn emails the workouts there are a few (maybe only one) days where we have the option to work on snatch or clean and jerk. I have stopped writing down both lifts because whenever there is an option- I have no option, it's snatch. I don't mind because if I don't work on snatch I will be stuck at 70 for the rest of my life. Not so excited about that one! But I am excited to get better and I am willing to put in the work and maybe once in a while get frustrated (ha!). Today I felt awful. I was up from 2-3am because my back was in so much pain. Until the last two nights I haven't ever been woken from a deep sleep because of pain in my back. So from 2-3 this morning I was rolling out trying to make my back feel better and waiting for the ibuprofen to kick in. Once the pain went away, it was gone, but getting it to go away was awful. I was able to go back to sleep, but missing that hour of sleep threw me off for a good portion of the day- especially the start of practice.
Sometimes having those days when things don't feel right (physically) and I'm drained emotionally and mentally lifts go really well. Part of the success from those lifts are from me/my mind not being able to get in the way-- it's too tired. I think that worked for some of the lifts today. Snatches felt slower than they had the rest of the week, but I think everything was just slow and my mind and body weren't completely connected when I started working out this morning. We had 5 sets of snatches on 90 seconds rest. I made all of my lifts and I think they got better as I went. If I am not completely focused on the 'pole' that's in front of me, I tend to go back to my old awful ways of snatching. Ellyn saw a little of that today and we were able to fix it once she pointed it out. Here's a video clip of my lifts today. I wasn't smart enough to slow them down until I was editing one of my teammates videos- so you'll have to have good eyes to watch what I'm doing. :)
After Snatch I went to Jerk balance and at the end of the sets I had improved 5 kilos from last week- yet again putting more weight over my head than I ever had. That's a good sign! I didn't feel as good about the jerk balance as I have in previous weeks. I think I was doubting myself about where my feet needed to be.. But Ellyn said to me, if i wasn't in the right positions I wouldn't have been able to complete the lifts. She's probably right about that... as she is with a few other things. One thing I can do better is holding my breath and being tight throughout the whole lift. When I wouldn't hold my breath the lifts would be wobbly, or shaky, or I wouldn't make them.. sometimes all 3 of them. I am anxious to see how another practice of Jerk balance translates into my jerks.
Snatch balance is similar to jerk balances, but just in a snatch grip. duh. I think I like those more than the jerk recoveries- they aren't quite as hard... is that odd for me to say an exercise designed for improvement in snatch I'm liking better than clean and jerk.. I'm scared! lol With the snatch balances I felt a lot better- better meaning more stable, being able to find the 'strong' positions throughout the lift and feeling how those positions will directly translate into my snatch. Dang. When I get my snatches in the positions they need to be there will be HUGE improvements--- everything I do as accessory work for the snatch is so much higher than my actual lift. This would probably be a good time to bring up how I occasionally joke with Ellyn about how one day my snatch will be better than my jerk. lol i'm just waiting for that to happen. Then all of the snatch days will turn into Jerk days.
Back squats seemed harder than they should have been today. Last time we had the same working sets/reps I ended up doing 5kilos more last week than I did today- but I am grateful for that because the sets I did were challenging enough.
The good news is I'm getting better every day. Each week I am slowly morphing into a better and better lifter. Now all I need to do is get into a weight class where all my hard work will actually pay off and mean something. Time to buckle down. Hopefully I will be able to sleep through the night tonight and be able to fend off this lovely little cold or whatever I have... I took Nyquil a few hours ago and it's kicking in pretty strong right now. I've typed most of this post with my eyes closed than with them open. Not sure if any of this will make sense... but I'm going to hope for the best and go to bed. Enjoy.
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