Romanaz : The Olympic Weightlifter - Page 40

**romanaz** · 01-07-2008, 06:04 PM

Day 9.1

5 days out!

Snatch
40x2x2
45x2
50x1
55x1x3 [missed last one in front slightly, decided not to take it again]

Snatch Pulls
65x2x3
75x1x3

Clean and Jerk
50x1+2x2
55x1+2
60x1+1x2
75x2+1

Clean Pulls
70x2
80x2
90x1x3

Bench Press
60x3x2

Back Squat
60x4
85x4x2
105x5

cJ + snatch w/ 40kg for ~10mins or so.

Bw of 86.1kg. I WILL make weight. So I widened my grip on cleans and my stance. My feet are placed at the exact same distance as in my snatch now, and it felt GREAT. 75 was really easy, even for a 15kg jump from the last set. Jerk was shaky but I've had worse.

=D

**romanaz** · 01-09-2008, 03:05 PM

Day 9.2

PowerSnatch
40x2x2
50x1x3 [missed last one behind, did it again]

PowerClean + PowerJerk [still working on the grip, felt great today]
50x3+1
55x3+1
60x2+1
70x2+1 [missed 1st clean cuz racked it in front and my hand came out from under the bar and it slipped down. ]

Back Squats
75x3x2
85x3x2

bw 85.8kg I'm getting closer...

**romanaz** · 01-10-2008, 04:06 PM

So, good news, weighed myself right after waking and my morning glory, and I weighed 85.0kg. Thats down 4kg from 89.0kg on the 2nd, EIGHT days ago. So in just over a week I have dropped 8.8lbs of mostly water wegiht. If OL has taught me anything about nutrition and diet, its how to drop weight quickly!

**romanaz** · 01-10-2008, 10:37 PM

Day 9.3

whew, long workout

PowerSnatch + Push Press from Shoulders + OHS
40x1+2+3x3

Clean and Jerk
40x1+1x3

BackSquat
60x3

bw 86kg w/ 2 meals and a shake. So if I don't eat before weigh-ins I'll be fine.

going to mess around with the bar tommorow

**romanaz** · 01-13-2008, 04:01 PM

FDU Open

weighed in 83.9kg

warmups went well, took 55 as my last warmup 5 mins from first lift.

Snatch:
58x : got hyped up and lost it behind
58x : was pissed off and didn't throw it back far enough, tried to hold onto it and my right knee caved inwards and something popped in it. Walked it off
60x : lost it in front. Tried to powersnatch it, knee was killing me.

Clean and Jerks
75 3 whites
81 3 whites. 1KG PR for Clean and Jerks
86 x missed the clean.

PR CJ for the day. My knee is messed up really bad. I think I strained a tendon in there. been icing it but my leg hurts to put pressure through the heel, through the ball of the foot hurts but not as much, and it hurts to bend and unbend it.

Spent most of the day loading and running the camera. Watched Lance Frye, lifting as an extra in the 77kg class (he didn't weigh in). Opening CJ he powercleaned 160 and jerked it like nothing. He snatched 140 like an empty bar. My teammates did really well, Greg, one of our many 77's made a 5kg Pr CJ w/ 120. He hit bottom on the clean got stuck halfway up, went back down and muscled his way out!! Chad becker snatched 140 like cake and jerked 165 and missed 170 in the 94's, qualified for nationals, and Oakley snatched 120 for a PR and jerked 155 to qualify for american open in the 94's. And Matt Rue took the day w/ 160 and 185 in the 105+.

oy. this sucks for me. My leg is killing me. Diet is off, no more HRX and food intake is going up. Must heal!

**romanaz** · 01-14-2008, 01:10 AM

meet:

58x

58x w/ injury

60x

75 hit
http://www.youtube.com/v/6FDktjBljkY

81 hit

86 miss

**romanaz** · 01-14-2008, 07:54 PM

I don't feel like I'm getting any kind of return from posting in this thread.

If I still feel this way in a week or so I will stop updating this thread for good.

It makes me sad, but I guess thats what I get for being the only OL on this board full of BB'ers.

**romanaz** · 01-14-2008, 08:00 PM

I went to see one of my chiropractors today, and I will see Anthony tomorrow as well. The guy I went to today said he can't tell what is wrong with my knee yet, but it could be a strained tendon, a torn meniscus or that my meniscus or the tendon got popped out of place. He says if I still have any little bit of pain in 4 weeks to have an MRI done on it.

I'm sure anthony will say around the same thing. I'm going to be icing it, massaging it and keeping it mobile and I'll be wearing a knee sleeve while I'm out walking or standing.

I'm going to take time off from the full lifts and squatting and such until I feel the knee is ready to start off light, but I will keep up with pressing, push press, muscle snatchs, powerjerks if I can and maybe some sort of rack pull, to keep my back and hamstrings going.

**davtown** · 01-14-2008, 09:22 PM

Sup B? I'm gonna start to try posting more on these forums (needed some time away) Nice work on that 81kg C+J. Sucks about the injury, but at least it happened during a meet and not the day before or something.... hope it heals well!
Your physique looks like it's improved a lot too.

**romanaz** · 01-15-2008, 01:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by davtown

Sup B? I'm gonna start to try posting more on these forums (needed some time away) Nice work on that 81kg C+J. Sucks about the injury, but at least it happened during a meet and not the day before or something.... hope it heals well!
Your physique looks like it's improved a lot too.

yeah, that is true.

my physique has changed a bit from last.

thanks davtown, at least someone cares.

**davtown** · 01-15-2008, 09:07 PM

at least you didn't do this in your meet

**Succio** · 01-15-2008, 09:10 PM

First off, i hardly even recognized that was you in those vids, looks like you lost a significant amount of weight.

Those snatch vids were a bit grueling. Hope your knee injury isnt anyhting too serious

**romanaz** · 01-15-2008, 11:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Succio

First off, i hardly even recognized that was you in those vids, looks like you lost a significant amount of weight.

Those snatch vids were a bit grueling. Hope your knee injury isnt anyhting too serious

I dropped from ~95kg to 84.8kg for my 1st competition, and had to go from 89kg to 83.9kg for this one. And that was within a week.

so from ~208lbs or so to 185 and then from 195 or so to 184.5.

I'm going to be losing more too, I want to be a solid 80 or so.

I think my knee injury will be healed in a week or two.

todays session:

Tuesday :

coach had me come in and do what I could, no set plan just did stuff, lots of pressing. Going to take advantage of time off from squat movements to build some upperbody strength.

did press's w/ 20kg/30kg/40kg from front and back of shoulders, some push press's with that weight, some hang powersnatch and cleans w/ 30kg and 40kg respectively.

tried some powercleans and snatchs from the floor w/ 40kg and 30kg and it hurt my knee a bit so i did them from the blocks, did some powerjerks and split jerks as well. did some push press's and such.

training thursday and maybe I can squat again next week? icing the knee and such

86.5kg

**romanaz** · 01-15-2008, 11:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by davtown

at least you didn't do this in your meet

or like this

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01-15-2008, 09:10 PM	#1182
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