Topic: Tomorrow will be my first time training olympic with a club

[pergunnarsson]

Since mid june, I had the schedule
30 situps
3x10 deep squats
3x10 dead lifts
3x10 sitting calves
3x10 some kind of twisting abs in a machine
3x10 standing leg curls
3x10 in the lat machine

(stretching between each set, not so much of a break)

First 2 times a week, lately three times a week

I worked until I could cut a set (do 2x15 instead of 3x10)

Last week I did

30 situps
2x15 deep squats 60 kg
2x15 dead lifts 60 kg
failed to cut set on the calves
2x15 in that twisting machine
2x15 standing leg curls
failed to cut set in the lat machine

It took about one hour 10 minutes.

Thursday this week I tried doing shorter sets
with more weights, for example I did a pyramid
on the deep squats 8 5 3 1 and back with 90 kg
on the single rep, and that was less of an ordeal
that doing the long sets. I tested a dead lift on the
same weight and I felt I could almost do shrugs with it.

Beer belly is pretty much gone.

Meanwhile I have had contact with a dude who arranges
olympic lifting training and he told me they are starting
for the autumn tomorrow.

[Matt Erdman]

Good luck and have fun! 

[pergunnarsson]

I have been there twice,  once with the team and today I went there alone.
Three kids, one veteran, the trainer and me. First time I got instructions,
The one with the best lifting technique was around 10 years old, I was
told to study him. I had tried snatching in my teens but my body didn't
remember anything.

Today I tried to remember what I was told, but I could keep all factors in
my head and lift at the same time. I tried to keep feet right, the barbell
not so much in front of my body and the back right. I got the weights up,
but I don't really pull straight and the body refuses to voluntarily get
under the barbell (it did in my teens). Already the time before I got more
up than I thought, and my left shoulder doesn't complain.

The powerlifters there were real nice, I didn't have to ask for space,
I just had to look for space and suddenly there were three spaces free.

I will go there on Thursday too, the instructor will be there again and
I hope I can get the snatch to work better.