17 weeks

17 weeks til the RKC...errr...um...yea. In two weeks I'm going to see where I am at for a 5 min snatch test with the 16kg. Considering today I smoked myself with 112 snatches in 10 mins alternating between my 14kg (new) and my 16kg bell. That doesn't bode well for the 5 min test...but the whole point of the test is to 'see' where I am at.

I found an RKC prep outline and decided to try one of the sets. Again...deceiving because you look at the list and think: easy...peasy....and then half way through the presses want to pass out. The whole set was pretty tough swing-clean/press-swing-clean/squat-swing-TGU-swing snatch-swing doing between 5-10 reps per movement. Everything double 14s (except the TGUs and snatches of course)

I got some new 'bells last week. Two 14 kg...for me right now they are perfect weight...not too heavy and not too light. They are a challenge for my presses but let me still get reasonable volume compared to pressing 2 x 16 kg where I do one...maybe two double presses before I'm done. I was able to knock out 5 clean and presses for two rounds...granted it was more like do 3 and then rest and do the other 2...but still 5. They make the snatches harder than the 12kg...so that is good because the 12 is sorta ridiculous at the moment. Weird thing is I have a 'harder' time with the lighter weights. I am told that my swings and movements tend to look 'better' with the heavier weight. weird.

So training is coming back. My transverse oblique is behaving itself. All good.