I’m having to think hard about what to write about this week’s training. Going back to work has sucked up both time and brain space and I find myself feeling angry and frustrated about that. But I am determined to regain the balance next week. Not sleeping to well has it’s own impact too…
However I’ve made a deal with myself. My training is important to me for both my physical and mental health and I’m entitled to a work life balance. So I don’t let up on the training even when work threatens to become all consuming. I look around me at colleagues and their weight problems and worry for them. This guy was addressing a meeting earlier this week. He was overweight, had cigarettes in his pocket and managed 3 stressful teams. I don’t think he’ll have a long and happy retirement…
Back to the training. I was reading my training sheet wrong and doing far too many swings (At least I know that 1,000 swings might be an achievable goal one day). 300 1 hand swings in sets of 5 is what he meant. Which is much better when working on form and is still a pretty good workout. I was asked to do a 8kg snatch workout for one of my sessions. Very light but remember I’m working on getting form right here. Still problems with lat activation, I can’t quite get the stance right. If I pull in abs and glutes and then think about lats, I curve my back which is not good.
Those pesky lats are beginning to feature far too often. I found myself sitting in a traffic jam playing around with activating them this week!
My training session with Chuzzy was good. He recognised that I was in a stressed out place so we started with some quiet joint mobility work on my hands. My fingers do stiffen up so this was great.
He then used some FMS diagnostic stretches to look at which muscles are activating and we talked stretches. I’ve added a pigeon stretch and some 1 leg bridges. But have taken out the massage since he read my blogg last week. He is a man on a mission to prove a point!
After this we looked at the impact of stretches on swings and snatches. My 16kg snatch is slowly feeling more stable. Unlike the 8kg and 12kg snatches I find these quite demanding and can’t do many reps. The 1 leg bridges really activated my glutes and improved the power in my snatch which is great. However there are still some problems curving my back. I’m trying to find a visual metaphor which gets my body to respond correctly every time. Perhaps something else to practise in the car!
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