SHANE'S TRAINING - Week of April 15, 2024

SHANE'S TRAINING - Week of April 15, 2024

Finally, things are returning to normal. I’m no longer sick or traveling and have the time to train like normal. My hip is (mostly) better and I feel like I can start to push some of the hinging movements a little harder, especially deadlifts. While out of town, the Anytime Fitness I was using for the week had a trap bar and I tried a set of deadlifts with it. I was able to do a set of 8 with 405 and, while it was noticeably uncomfortable in my hip, it wasn’t so bad that I had to stop, which is a huge improvement. 

I’m jumping back into a new program with a lot more emphasis on the Olympic lifts. I feel that I am ready to bring them back as my main focus now that things are normalizing. It’s starting off pretty light, but I’m okay with that since I was mostly doing singles over the previous months. I did good mornings for the first time since the injury, which I wasn’t even able to do with an empty bar, and even though it was light, I felt a nice soreness the next day along my whole back. I’m hoping to make some solid improvements this cycle, even though I’m generally very mediocre, and possibly compete at some point this year. If I can get my snatch back to above 105kg and my clean & jerk to 140kg+, I will feel decent enough about my numbers to compete.