8/16/10
STRENGTH:
Front Squat
heavy set of 5
#75, #95, #105, #115, #120

Very good points, thanks.
1. but is should contact your thighs during hip extension, yes?

Absolutely, but the bar should not make "impact". It should slide through extension and be pulled "up" the thighs. If the bar "bounces" off the thighs it will cause the bar to swing outward.
Check here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo2KjAHZeZ0) for a link of me slow-mo'ed to see what I'm talking about. Sorry about the camera angle, it wasn't my intent to display my lower half so prominently.

2. hmmm, I think that is what I'm doing.  I get too eager during the 1st pull and have a bad tendency to jump to soon.

Unless you are very short, slow down your first pull. Once the bar passes the knees though... get real aggressive with the pull.

I do clean "forward" a bit...working on that.  It's very frustrating and irritating.

Keep the bar closer to your body, and keep as much of your body as possible over the bar during the first pull. You want to pull the bar "up" not "back". This is the main difference between a clean/snatch pull and a deadlift.

Here's a Q:
I have watched many videos and read diff articles and some show/say that you should come up on your toes...but I thought that was a no no.  I thought that coming up on the toes is what makes you clean forward and lose it.

Coming up on the toes is fine during extension, in fact it's just about the only way to do it. Coming up on the toes when receiving the clean is an issue, normally with hip flexibility.

Also, I know my pull at some point is off b/c I feel it in my arms after a while.  Where do you think my problem is?

If you aren't using a hook grip, you should start... it hurts at first but eventually your skin will toughen up. Normally when people "arm pull" the weight they are doing so because they don't have a strong enough grip on the bar. The hook grip allows you to let the arms act simply like "cables" instead of using your forearm and grip to squeeze the bar. If you are using a hook grip, consider using some weightlifter straps (not deadlift straps but short straps) so you can focus on letting your arms act as cables. Also, if your gym doesn't have a women's bar (25mm diameter instead of 28mm) then this will contribute as well.

8/17/10
Clean & Jerk...heavy single...110# but still cleaning forward and pulling with my arms too much

8/18/10
DL heavy set of 5....215#...that's a PR so far   I think I've got more in me for sure!
tire flips, sled drag, farmers walk (44#) and pull ups...good times

This is my friend!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWOOFjEy6vg

Was still tired from previous days back squat....

8/24/10
Power Clean 5x3
105#...was...."okay".  2nd pull is still frustrating me....

WOD: 2 rounds (not rx)
200 m *sprint*
21 American KB swings (44#)
12 burpees
5:36

Holy. Sweat. My. Ass. Off.


8/25/10
OFF!  Well, besides walking/jogging/strolling with the pups and doing random things for ~30 min.  I think my body is saying "uh, aren't you supposed to be resting?!?!?!?"  Getting a mini-massage on the tree trunks (aka--LEGS!) later.

The past 2 mornings it's been in the upper 60's here  The pups are loving it!!!!

8/27/10
Heavy single Clean & Jerk.....105#.  Mentally and physically not there today.
then 3x2 of 75# to work on form.

gymnastics

This is my friend!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWOOFjEy6vg

I'd say the glute specialization is working. DAMN! she's HOT! 

Quote from: gb on August 23, 2010, 05:24:39 AM

This is my friend!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWOOFjEy6vg

I'd say the glute specialization is working. DAMN! she's HOT! 

Yeah, she has made quite the transformation.  She is so awesome!  He doesn't have her doing all of this on a normal basis but these are the main exercises she does for her glute training.  Even her hubby is working with him now.