Change is a comin'...

"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places" by Hemingway....
So, with all of the pointers that I gave you, I had an opportunity to use them myself and it helped out.  This morning concentrated a lot on skill work and was able to pull an easy 190 snatch, after that I pulled a pretty easy 225 clean and jerk.  Warmed up in typical fashion; I usually hit the Brugener warm-up a few times through.  I then put a bar out that is loaded to 135 and muscle snatch it a few times + Overhead squats.  Then I through 155 and I tend to power snatch until I need to start pulling under.  This usually occurs around 175.  Hit 185, and then 190 and called it because although it went up a lot easier than I thought, I jumped my feet out a bit wider than I like.  Right now, I'm in a "gray area, as the weight goes up with snatch, clean and even jerk I moving my feet out more than I think I am supposed to.  I am flexible enough to squat ass to ankles this way but am on the fence as to if I am correct or not?????  Oh well, it gives me something to work on...Went on to the C&J again i started with the muscle version and was able to muscle it up to 185, had to power (minimal knee bend) 205.  Put 215 and it felt a bit heavy but my timing was off and I let the bar get out front, so I just put 225 on the bar, hit it real quick and started to prepare my mind for the conditioning WOD.  Conditioning today was a WOD from I think the 2009 games, 3 rounds for time of 30 Wall balls 20/14, and 30 hang (squat) snatch 75/55.  I knew it was going to be rough because anytime the numbers are that high and the weight is that light, it always sucks.  Not to mention that the motion is very similar although one takes you there with a push and the other gets you there with a pull.  Let me just tell you that it sucked.  So, with that I came up with a pacing plan and I think it worked pretty well.  I got the idea from the approach many athletes took during the open with the wall ball muscle up WOD.  I decided that I would do sets of 5 with both exercises.  My thought process was I wasn't going to do 30 straight of each, so I was looking for numbers that I would be able do for infinity...so 5 was my number.  I finished it in 16:45, not very fast but I was spent afterward so it got the job done.  In retrospect, I might have been able to do sets of 10 but I think on the 2nd round I would have rested too much.  Oh well, we will see next time.  It looks like our programming is going to take on a gymnastic bias.  That should be interesting....I suck at gymnastics!