As luck would have it, I’m the last to get the coughing crud going through my house, and on the week that I want to test for rank II! Training has been sporadic as of late, and the longest sets I did were at the Ice Chamber longcycle clinic two Saturdays ago, one for 8…
“Your power is proportional to your ability to relax.”— David Allen I can’t relax. As a result, I have no power. And because I have no power, I can’t relax. In short, I’m stuck. Plateaued. Sort of. I’ve been working steadily on my longcycle clean and jerk since the Vegas Classic last October. Starting with…
“A non-doer is very often a critic—that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It’s easy to be a critic,but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change.”~ Wayne Dyer How Do You Train For a PR? For quite some time now, training for…
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”~ Norman Vincent Peale Thursday Jerk Practice: Warm-ups: 12 kg x 10, 16 kg x 10 (2x) Work set: 20 kg, 5’00″ @ 6 rpm; 24 kg, 2’00″ @ 6 rpm (2x) Assistance: One-arm jerk (OAJ), 32 kg 6’00″ at 4 rpm (switch on the minute). Friday LongCycle…
“I don’t think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.” ~ Mike Ditka I tested for Rank III in LongCycle last week while on vacation. I don’t know if I made it or not yet, but after watching the video and receiving some pointers from AKC Master Trainer and Coach Howie Brewer,…
“You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.” ~ Dr. Wayne Dyer Choices, choices, choices. Monday I came home to find that my 15-year-old son had let a couple “questionable friends” into the house while we were gone, and they had helped themselves to snacks and an inspection of rooms without supervision. …
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