Meet was canceled!!!!!!

[Cubanito17]

Today i was soooo fucking pissed I lost 3lbs in one day to make weight class when my coach comes into my last block class today to tell me that our meet was canceled b/c the other two schools we were going against weren't ready with enough lifters. The truth is that they didn't have any strong lifters besides little light weights 154 and under. Our weight classes go 119, 129, 139, 154, 168, 183, 199, 219, 238, heavyweight. Well he decided to get us ready for our meet next saturday the 23rd that we would have a friendly meet with everyone in the weight room not just the ones competing this year to get into the feel of it. So in my weight class 168 i weighed in at 166. I placed first with 6 people lifting 168 one kid almost had my total by 10lbs. Good thing is that he failed on his 2nd bench. Now for me I tried being a SHOW OFF and tried pausing 255 when I knew i could only get 250 most. well I opened 225 then went 245 then 255 I failed on 255 now this is what pissed me off I would have had it but I had my bro lift off for me and I told him to piss me off well he saw i was struggling in the middle he's 14 so he thought it would help to slap me in the face to get me mad instead i lost concentration of picturing the weight go up and it dropped on my chest straight down, i felt like a little bitch. I could have killed him. I did yell the fuck outta him and coach got mad at me cuz he's like he was only trying to help then i got mad at my coach for butting in. Well then I went onto cleans after like 20 minutes rest and I opened with 175 then 180 since i suck at clean&jerks then i went for 185 and got it barely if i wouldn't have thrown my elbows through i woulda dropped it. One thing I've noticed I'm not fast at all so I have more weight that I have to pull and high pull. So i'm hoping on my workout above on dynamic day that dynamic cleans will help me get faster. Would it hurt if I did dynamic clean&jerks the full movement??????Or is that tooo much shoulder workout once after another since that is a weak point????

 

[GRIMMER]

Nice work. I just asked you on your other post before i daw this one. To bad the other school chumped out. If you throw your speed clean and jerks in before you do the rest of your shoulder work and and speed squat day you should be find. Alternate the two

 

[Cubanito17]

Grimm thanx for the reply bro. I'll try that, I was really wondering if I would be able to do both clean and jerks if I don't do any shoulder work on thur then just do it on friday together to improve. DO you think that's fine or is that what your telling me to do didn't quite understand that well.

Here's one thing that I found out today that is gonna fuck me up for making states in march i'm going to have 4 meets one every wednesday so exactly how should i train if i have a meet every week in the middle of the week which is normally my day off. Just do speed bench monday and speed legs friday and lift wednesday?????

 

[GRIMMER]

I thoght that we already went over this. Its gonna be hard to train right with a meet every wednsday ,personally i think its stupid and that you should have at least two week between meets. But anyway, wednsday is going to have to be you max day for both bench and clean jerk because you are going to max on those days. I really don't know what to tell you becaue monday is to close to the meet to do speed bench because you won't fully recover and friday is anly 48 hours after a max which is not enough time to recover for a speed day. If at all possible you can get in on a saturday do it. Even if you have to go to a local gym and pay a five dollar day pass fee. I guess on fridays you could do some work for bench , tris and shoulders mainly but who knows how tore up you are going to be. My best answer would be to just do recovery work for both on friday and monday and just use the meet as a guidline. I don't see how the expect you to put any more weight on the bar the week after you just maxed. You don't just max one week and then expect to put another 10 pounds on your max within 6 days, its not gonna happen at least not longer than 3 weeks before you overtrain or hurt yourself.
I'm stumped man . Anybody else got advice.

 

[Screwball]

I agree with Grimmer...

Use the Wednesday meets as your ME days (upper & lower body). I wouldn't do any training on Thursday, Sunday, Monday or Tuesday. That leaves you Friday & Saturday to get a little "in-season" training. You may still be sore on Friday from your Wednesday meet. If so, don't work out on this day. I would focus my training on Friday and Saturday with dynamic work being emphasized. If all you do is speed bench with a couple of submaximal singles for your bench and some speed cleans/high pulls/deads/stiff-legged deads you should be just fine. I would do very little accessory work if any. Your "in-season" now and the focus must be on peaking for meets, perfecting technique and maximizing your meet lifts. Good luck!

- Screwball

 

[Cubanito17]

so i should do my speed work both fri & sat fri upper and sat lower??????? should i account any more weight for my pause or cleans at all for my third attempt???????????????

 

[GRIMMER]

Its hard to say how musch the meet on wednsday will have and affect on your body. if you try friday and your joints are sore and all that stuff then wait until saturday. THe only other thing i can think of is to train your tris on wed after the meet as if it were a full max effort day but i don't think you are gonna feel like doing that. The next week yoiu should try and iether beat your last weeks max by 5 lbs or if you ;missed the third attempt go for it on the second this time and if you miss go for it on the third again. If yoiu find that you are getting weaker take a week off from the comp and just train.

 

[Screwball]

I agree...

Grimmer's advice is solid. If you're feeling run down it is better to drop all training until you recover.

 

[Cubanito17]

Thanx guys someone that trains smart with me and he believes in rest off, but doesn't train westside, was telling me if from my meet to friday i still feel my arms shot don't do anything then on monday if i feel fine do just meet training like work on something that will help my pause like tris and then something that will help my cleans like dynamic cleans. Is this smart or a dumb idea????

 

[Screwball]

Too close to meet time...

If your meets are on Wednesday then you shouldn't be doing any lifting on Monday. I think a good rule of thumb is no training "at least" 96 hrs. before a competition. You can do very, very, very light lifting up to, say, 48 hrs. before a competition but this is only to work on technique. When I say light, I mean LIGHT. Did I mention the training should be with light weight? Okay, one more thing, if you are going to train at all in the 96 hrs. prior to a competition then train very light. "Subliminal Brain-washing". An example would be a couple of sets of light pushdowns, face-pulls, flys, etc... Easy band work (mini's) is probably the best way to go. Using an empty olympic bar to practice bench press set-up, hand-offs, commands etc... can also be helpful.

You're better off doing nothing at all rather than over-doing your training. Good luck and focus on meet PR's rather than training at this point in your season.

- Screwball