Felt great to be back in the gym today after 3 full days of rest. My body was feeling pretty refreshed although my energy was down and my weight was up. In other words, I wasn't really feeling any aches or pains but I wasn't exactly feeling well fueled. Scary how 3 days of bad fuel and spotty sleep leaves you feeling, even if you were "resting." I still grunted it out and got after one today. Started with some power/strength work:
Clean and Jerks
-5 x 175
-3 x 205
-1 x 225
Front Squats
-2 x 205
-3 x 225
-6 x 245
The clean and jerks were a sub-max but heavyish warm-up to the fronts. Transitioning to the jerk out of the front squat of the clean still proves to be very challenging. It took me 3 tries to get rep 3 at 205. 225 went up pretty easy after making some adjustments and getting the rep at 205. I'm probably good for 10 reps @ 205 with a push-press out of the rack-just to give you an idea of how difficult the jerk is for me coming out of the clean. It's getting better though. My strength in the bottom of the front squat is improving, slowly, but improving none-the-less. 6 reps at 245 was brutal for me. Just have to keep grinding.
I finished with a good bit of muscle-up and hspu work. Solid day.
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