Topic: The Road to a 181KG Clean and Jerk

[Justin Ott]

April 9-@93KG

Today was a tough workout, I started with C&J worked up to 90%(135kg) after doing 5 sets of 85% then could not make 95%(142KG) Then I had to do pulls but I was so fried I could not do pulls with 80% of my C&J so on to clean deads. I did most of my work with 90%-5 sets of doubles with 201KG, then I tried some Prs- I did clean deads with 222KG then 234KG (new pR clean dead) I still had more in me for the clean deads but I ran out of time and bar space. Next time I will see what I can max out at.

[Shaun Le Conte]

It's interesting that you can be fried in the clean & jerk and pulls, and then can go on to a record deadlift, as if it's an unrelated exercise :)
Grats on the 234 kg!

[Justin Ott]

"It's interesting that you can be fried in the clean & jerk and pulls, and then can go on to a record deadlift, as if it's an unrelated exercise :)
Grats on the 234 kg!"

yah its weird eh Sean, it was the snappy power required to do pulls that I was lacking but I still had the strength to stand up with weight. Just not the speed/power to snap quickly.

Today I did snatches up to 95%,snatch pulls to 95%, and fsquats up to 95% of clean for 4 trips

[Justin Ott]

So I competed in Quebec on May 22nd in the National Championships. I weighed in @ 91.05 kg and I totaled 270kg for 5th place.
Here where my lifts:
snatch
115
120x
120
C&J
145
150
155x

video to come...

[Shaun Le Conte]

Congrats Justin, you have come a long way in a short time. I have no doubt that your goals are much higher but to come from a 90 kg snatch and 100 kg cj in January of 2009 to what you did last weekend is pretty cool.

[Justin Ott]

Thanks Sean, here is the video of the lifts at nationals, I noticed I dont look as crisp as I did at westerns, maybe due to the flu I had or something.

Justin Ott Canadian National Weightlifting Championships 2010

[Justin Ott]

I competed at seafest yesterday (38th annual) In Surrey, BC.

Justin Ott Weightlifting June 2010

I weighed in at 92.6 kg, my lifts went as follows:
snatch-
117x
117
122 (new PR by 2kg's)
C&J
147
151x
152x
Total-269KG- 3rd place.
Dont know why I couldnt rack these cleans at the bottom, must be a technique flaw or something.

[Justin Ott]

I just made a couple of new PR's on July 5th:

Power Clean: 145KG (almost got 150KG)

Front Squat: 185KG (almost got 190KG)