Back to Blogging... Again.

I'm Back! After a hiatus with Maddy and transitioning back to being coached via text and getting ready for Maddy and a little bit of laziness I am here again.  I think there is too much I have slacked on with workouts to go over them all, but it's been an interesting transition back to not having a coach.  Don't worry. Don't worry. Don't worry. Ellyn is still my coach but she's being cool and is in Europe competing in the World Master's Olympic Lifting Meet of the Universe.. okay, so I added the last part, but she's over there being an all star so she can't be here for us little people.  ;)

I missed practice yesterday because I was taking Maddy to the airport so she could go back to the worst state :).  Because of that I had a combination of yesterday's practice and today's mixed together and in the e-mail Ellyn sent me his morning, "I'm going to have you do all your favorites between tuesday and wednesday." ugh. that means no fun for me! Snatch pause, snatch, jerk balances, and my freaking most favorite things.... RDLs. yay. not.

Snatch pauses with a snatch immediately following the pauses.  It went okay. I was getting into weird positions right off the floor, my hips were coming up and the knees and shenanigans with the feet (which we all know are from the knees snapping back... ugsdjfaklh trying to stop doing thattttt) Here's a video of my snatch pauses and a few of the actual and full speed lift.

Jerk Balances at one point were lower on my list of enjoyable exercises than clean and jerk.  But now I've considered it a challenge and have accepted the challenge of getting better at these.  And I think I have gotten better.. okay I know I have.  When I first did these on my own it was not good at all. So frustrated, lowering the weights, getting told to increase the weights, failing at the lifts even the jerk portion of the lift at more than 15kilos less than my clean and jerk PR. that's a great confidence booster. but Ellyn came in the next day and fixed me right up.  SO now it's my own personal motivation to be better than this lift.  For some reason I do well when I put a personal challenge on myself to get better at something I'm awful at. Does that make sense? i dont think it does, so let me try again.  I dont like losing, and when I've been beaten by something (a lift, a team, an exercise, a person, a game etc) I am motivated to not let that happen again.  There, that sounds better. A more accurate description of how I feel about this exercise... I had been beaten by the jerk balances and I was not going to let it happen again. I wasn't going to have another awful day with them. I was going to get better. and I wasn't going to be satisfied until I was better the best.  I didn't quite make it to being the best today, but I got closer.  Here's a video of the jerk balances and jerks I did today.  I will try and find/put together other videos from previous weeks so you can (hopefully!) see the difference and improvement between the weeks.

That's about it for now!! I've got 2 weeks worth of videos to edit and send out, so I've better get going! But, I'm back and happy to be blogging again!