Again, the bar is a little too far away from me here. The mullet definitely steals the picture though. 🙂 Just gotta keep drilling the clean..This is what I need to work on the most (my clean). I have seen some decent progress over the last couple days with it as well.

Yahooooooo I’m on a caffeine high today apparently. I had a really good session today: Back Squat- up to 180kgx3x5 (396lbs), super easy. We’re progressing up on these so we started lighter Snatch- up to 140kg (With no misses), have NO idea how I snatched this today because

Here is the plan of attack for our team as outlined by California Strength’s blog: We did the live feed again today, not as many folks chose to watch as usual, and probably a good thing! Although the morning session was pretty good, the guys, particularly Jon and Jared, didn’t s

As you can tell, my hips and lats are pretty tight. I can’t quite whip my elbows WAY up in the bottom of the clean, and I can’t quite hit rock bottom yet on it either (meaning I can’t catch a bounce). These are mostly flexibility issues that I Have been working on. I

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Yesterdays training was brutal. I am still pretty sore today from it. AM: Snatch- up to 130kg (286lbs) with no misses Clean/Jerk- up to 150kg (330lbs) with no misses, then front squatted to 170kgs before having a terrible migraine again. PM: Snatch- up to 137.5kg with no misses (302lb