Anatoly Grigor'evich Pisarenko - Crazy strong Russian Olympic Weightlifter getting nasty.
Shoulder Press
65 x 7
80 x 5
95 x 5
105 x 3
115 x 1
127.5 x 1 (PR by 2.5lbs)
My PR on the shoulder press has been 125 since 8-22-08. When you have only been training for a year and a half, to break a 10 month plateau on one of the foundational lifts is rather huge. Even if it is only a 2.5lb improvement. I couldn't be much happier. But wait...there is more. After that PR, I was feeling rather like Leonidas at the Hot Gates ready to do battle with Xerxes and his millions. I was warming up for my metcon of every minute on the minute for 15 minutes do 2 power cleans with 85% of your single rep max any failed reps and you do 5 burpees during the rest period. That would have put the weight at 165, but I decided that based on the Norcal Qualifier workout where I did 185lb cleans 26 times in 10 minutes, that 165 wasn't near enough. So I warmed up to do 185 and in doing so, 185lbs just felt super light. So on a whim I decided to switch it up and just go after a new one rep max. Stoooopid right? Well sometimes you just got to listen to the ol' body.
Power Clean
185 x 1
195 x 1 (previous PR)
200 x 1
215 x 1
225 (f) (f) 1 (30lb PR!)
195 5 x 2
Are you kidding me?? 30lb PR??? Where did that come from?!? Compare to 195 on 5-9-09 where I had been up for about 19 or 20 hours when I set that PR. So this time being fresh, I figured I definitely had 200 in me, a good chance for 205...but 225? The form was not clean by any means. My feet went super wide, and I caught the weight under the usual rack position at about nipple height. Yikes. But the weight went up and I got aggressive with it, slamming myself under the bar, and finishing the lift. . . So I was Leonidas for the night, minus the beard, blood, guts and Greeks. I'll take it!!
1 comment:
Fab-tast-erific job amigo! You're going to have to start kicking the ladies off of you... you stud. Or just me. Either way, it's still a compliment, right?
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