Thursday, April 29, 2010

Hardest Workout To Date

My finger is took a turn for the worse after I took a direct blow from a baseball to the tender spot on my left index finger while playing catch with my boys last night. However, it really doesn't seem to bother me when I am snatching so I have just decided to push on.

Today was perhaps the most difficult workout my coach has given me over the past 9 months:

Warm Up
Jerk(2x28kg) 3 min @ 10 rpm
3 min @ 9 rpm
3 min @ 8 rpm
**I rested 3 minutes between each set
Rest 10 minutes
Snatch(32kg) 6 minutes @ L14/14/14 ----> R14/14/14
OAJ(40kg) 10/10
Swing(32kg) 45/45

Both the snatch set and swings had me on the verge of vomiting.
I really like the drop set jerks. They are a nice change in pace from the long sets that I usually do. Prior to my last competition, I was doing short sets at increased rates and also some short sets with the 32s. These seemed to carry over very well to my long competition set with the 28s.

2 comments:

Alex said...

Yikes even toned down to my relative weight levels that would make me puke too

Mark Reifkind said...

great work man. although I seriously HATE to throw up.seriously.
make sure that finger doesn't keep getting worse. I have trigger thumb and it's taken me almost a year to get it to release. don't mess around with the digits,lol.