I'm Back

After a weekend spent at RKC level I training getting my re-certification, I am rested and recharged. We had such a great team led by Brett Jones w/ me, Phil Scarpito and Rick Carranza acting as assistants. This was my 3rd time at a certification through Dragon Door and by far it was the best!!

My two big hurdles were 1) to get below 148 lbs. so that I could snatch the 12 kg KB 70 times for my test and 2) to actually snatch the KB 70 times. On both I was on target. The weight was right on and the snatch test was easy.

Funny though, I was really nervous on the snatch test. Brett Jones was the one testing me since he was my team leader and I actually had to close my eyes for the entire time because he made me so nervous. He didn't actually do anything to make me nervous it was just that he is a Master Instructor so I got all googeldy and stupid.

I didn't train at all for 6 days and I ate whatever I wanted. My weight is back up to 152 but I think going back to my routine today will get that in check pretty quickly. Tonight I have a special class planned. It will go something like this:

100 Swings (20 at a time) focusing on technical precision. We will have to spend some time going over the precision aspect. My clients are a little resistant to that so I will re-teach and then they will do it.

The VO2 Max snatch workout in 15 second intervals for 20 minutes. If you don't know what this is you can look on the forum or e-mail me and I can lay it out for you.

We will end with TGU's. We don't do enough of these so I am vowing to work them in every class. As pointed out this weekend EVERYone benefits from constant TGU work.

And I haven't posted any pictures of my progress lately. This was taken last week when I was teetering around 149.