Thursday 2016.03.10

Note: Saturday's conditioning will have strict pull-ups, so be sure to do your weekly pull-ups today if you haven't already done so this week - doing them on Saturday would mean that you chose . . . poorly.

If you have no idea what I'm talking about when I say "your weekly pull-ups," please talk to me immediately. You are missing out on potential awesomeness. This will not do.

@kingmorghan (50.44kg) snatching 83kg/183lb at the 2016 Senior Trials this past weekend in Philadelphia. She's normally a 48kg lifter but she did this meet without cutting/tapering to get in a competition experience before the big meet, the Olympic Trials in May in Utah. This 83kg lift is a PR for her and it's 4kg above her 79kg Pan Am Games Record lift from this past summer in Toronto as a 48.

A video posted by hookgrip (@hookgrip) on Feb 22, 2016 at 8:19pm PST

@kingmorghan (50.44) clean and jerking 101kg/222lb at the 2016 Senior Trials -- over double bodyweight! Have any USA females other than Olympic Champion Tara Nott and Olympian Melanie Roach made a double bodyweight C&J? Right now, Morghan is one of the challengers for spots at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games as she can bump off Mattie Rogers with a 174kg total as a 48 at the 2016 Olympic Trials in May (of course, Mattie can also improve her total at the same meet). It should be a great battle!

A video posted by hookgrip (@hookgrip) on Feb 27, 2016 at 6:18pm PST

For your edification and reading pleasure:
Training Through Leukemia: Michael’s Story
by Michael Bennet (at Starting Strength)


BBG (off)
Front Squat
3-3-2-2

The last set should not be a 2 RM - leave some left in the tank.


Strength/WL
Front Squat
2 x 5, 1 x 5+


Conditioning
For time:
10 Power Snatches, 95#/63#
20 OHS, 95#/63#
30 Wall Balls
40 Burpees
50 OH Reverse Alternating Lunges, 45#/25#
60 Sit-ups

We may stagger the start to limit the number of barbells in use (and thus the amount of space they would utilize).

Compare to 2015.03.09.


Finale
Weighted Dips
3 x 10