Snatch Vo2: 60 sets of 7

It seems like my training cycle for snatches is working. Going to just one day a week of snatching instead of two, and cycling the loads with a 16 kg snatch vo2 workout one week, a 20 kg snatch vo2 workout the next and followed up with a 24 kg snatch workout that focuses just on total volume and not time.

Doing the 20 kg for last weeks workload made the 16 kg feel like, well, a 16 kg( at least what it should feel like :)) My main problem with max vo2 training is not the volume, or the short rest periods or having my heart rate so high it feels my heart is going to jump out of my chest but the speed.

Eight reps per 15 seconds just require so much more 'accuracy' in the movement with NO MISTAKES in form, to keep up that pace.Seven rep sets now just feel like I am almost cruising and could keep up that pace for a lot longer.

SO that's what I did today; kept the pace at 7 per 15 sec and did 60 sets. It's been two plus years since I did 60 sets of max. and it was strong up until the last ten sets, lol.

I actually was snatching at an 8 rep pace after the first ten sets warmed me up but as I wrote about before there is a world of difference between eight rep pace and eight reps per set :))

I actually did some nine rep pace but that just left me more time to rest at the end of the interval in the overhead hold.

6-7 am full stretchout

For a change I actually did the full 60 minutes in stretchout getting everything from toes to nose including my overheads and the overhead in split snatch ( barbell style) position. This is a keeper. ANother global stretch that I love.

Floor splits are coming along very well and found that if I prop the arms up on rumble rollers I get more upright much more easily( which I knew) but also get a better hip flexor loading( which I didn't).

I have been doing all floor split and stretches on fingertips ala Convict Conditioning 2 advice and it is helping my flexor forearm muscles release tension and strengthening the hell out of my extensors. It's also making my fingers seriously gymnastics strong again.

8:30

Snatch Vo2

16 kg

15:15

7 reps per interval

60 sets

420 reps

15,120 !! nice most I've done in ages

Two hand arm casts

20 lbs x10/10

25 lbs x 10/10 x 3 sets

Shield Cast

25 lbs x 8/8 x 3 sets

Bodyblade laterals

3 x8/8

One arm band triceps extensions

4 x 20/20

x 15/15

x10/10 x 2

I like doing these one arm at a time as well

AS always, having my Queen of Swings and KB Snatches train alongside of me is the best. Watching the video it's way cool how synchronized we get in our pace without even trying.Of course tracy was doing double sets with the same rest period but really, would we expect any less? lol Of course not.

datsit.Sisu.