I've been practising my GS for the last couple of weeks and thought I would give the pentathlon a try.
I originally planned to do the half version but thought "in for a penny in for a pound".
I wanted to complete it to see where my start point was and to see where to go from here.
Weights were conservative but I think not far off the mark. I will stay with these weights until I can complete max on each exercise.
So anyway, here are my initial figures.
1 Clean- 16kgx120 (the first 20 were with a 24kg but it was a cheap bell and ripped the skin on my palms. This made everything later an absolute joy).
2 Long Cycle Press 12kgx64
3 Jerk 12kgx90
4 Half snatch 16kgx80
5 Push press 12kgx120
It was certainly tough but I wasn't exhausted. My Conditioning seemed OK. My grip will need to improve but I'm sure that will come with practice.
I plan to increase my push press and long cycle press to 16 then stick until it hit max reps on them but leave everything else the same weight, again until I can hit max reps.
I'm hoping to use Long Cycle C&J as my main training focus but this was definitely enjoyable (in its own way
).
I'm happy to listen to the advice if you have any and would like to thank you for reading my post.
Yma o hyd
I originally planned to do the half version but thought "in for a penny in for a pound".
I wanted to complete it to see where my start point was and to see where to go from here.
Weights were conservative but I think not far off the mark. I will stay with these weights until I can complete max on each exercise.
So anyway, here are my initial figures.
1 Clean- 16kgx120 (the first 20 were with a 24kg but it was a cheap bell and ripped the skin on my palms. This made everything later an absolute joy).
2 Long Cycle Press 12kgx64
3 Jerk 12kgx90
4 Half snatch 16kgx80
5 Push press 12kgx120
It was certainly tough but I wasn't exhausted. My Conditioning seemed OK. My grip will need to improve but I'm sure that will come with practice.
I plan to increase my push press and long cycle press to 16 then stick until it hit max reps on them but leave everything else the same weight, again until I can hit max reps.
I'm hoping to use Long Cycle C&J as my main training focus but this was definitely enjoyable (in its own way
).I'm happy to listen to the advice if you have any and would like to thank you for reading my post.
Yma o hyd
Tape is your friend, trust me lol
. Seriously great effort though. For future reference I put together a quick video on hand taping that is really effective