4 days

4 days until my first meet with Robinson Weightlifting... ohh I'm not sure if I officially mentioned I switched teams when I renewed my USAW (usa weightlifting) card.  For those of you new/unfamiliar to weightlifting, the club aspect of the sport I'm still trying to figure out! There are clubs (teams) and you lift for whatever team you want or however people pick their teams... But sometimes coaches from other clubs can and do coach athletes belonging to other clubs, but the coaches themselves are part of a different club... anyone following..? Maybe this will help if anyone is confused.  Athlete 1 (A1) belongs to club A (CA).  A1 has a coach who belongs and coaches for club B (CB), but also coaches athletes belonging to CA... lines are crossed and mixed and mingled and the club line (for me anyway) gets confusing.  Regardless of my explanation and lack of understanding about clubs, I have officially switched from East Coast Gold to Robinson Weightlifting.  boom.  moving on.

Practice today was another day of 'clusters' today was snatch.  Again, it was the same format as the cleans where I would do 5 singles one each at 75%, 80%, 85%, 80%, 75% while teammates loaded and unloaded the weights.  Ehh. They went okay today.  The positions didn't feel the best,  I made all the lifts, but They weren't as nice, crisp, quick, tight, or on point as I would have liked them to be.  They were all over the place.  Here's the video.  the first part of the video the lifts are in full speed and the second half, I slowed them down so everyone can see how wiggly my feet, toes, knees, back and uhh pretty much everything else..  (it's not supposed to be like that) 

**YouTube is being awful and not done processing my video, it's too late to still be up, so I will add this later** aka in the morning. 

After the clusters there was some light strength (?) work (pulls and RDLs).  My pulls got better today.  I had a big CLINK off the hips instead of my usually baby clinks... yay. progress. My good friend the PVC pipe helped me stay in the right positions and my knees (on the big CLINK) didn't snap back. wooh. RDLs got pretty crazy today.. a new max of 60kilos. yes, i said it. 60 big, freaking huge, kilos. be intimidated and jealous. ha! But I'm doing them right, so I'm getting better. slowly. Here's a little humor for the day.  Jooooh was getting a nice stretch on the jerk boxes, so Ellyn and one of the other athletic trainers decided to join in!! it was pretty freaking hilarious.  :) 

Look at all that stretching!!!