March 12, 2013

March 12, 2013 Posterior Chain / Lower Body


  • Deadlifts: 365*1 385*1 405*1 425*1
  • Snatch-Grip Mid-Shin Rack Pulls: 315*6 365*3 275*7
  • Hanging Power Snatches: 135*1 145*1 155*1 165*X
  • Hanging Power Cleans: 185*1 195*1 215*X 205*1
  • Ab-Wheel: 12
44 minutes

Went hard on deads last week, didn't want to kill myself here.  Tried snatch-grip rack pulls after reading this article on T-Nation about them.  I'm not sure how I feel about them. I think my traps/rhomboids/erectors even were getting hammered by them, not so much lats.  I was dripping sweat like a...musk ox(?)...after these, they absolutely obliterated my upper back.  I jumped to hanging power snatches after this and was really pumped up, not enough to get 165, I think if I went 140-150-160 though I would have had it.  Next was hanging power cleans.  I really never make any progress on them. I feel like I've made steady gains on snatching, but power cleans....not at all.  I need to figure this out, maybe it's because I do them last, maybe I need to do them ahead of snatches sometimes, I dunno. 

I still toy around with turning Thursdays into an all o-lift day (with push pressing), moving standing press to Mondays, pullups to deadlift day, and maybe tacking on incline benching after the o-lifts.  Just a thought. 

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