TRAINING LOG: Mike Pockoski

Massage Wednesday night.  finally found a guy who is good.  worked on IT band issues almost 90min.  little sore thurday and today, but much less pain through movement.  v. nice.

funny pain inside the rt knee now, right on the bottom that knobby part.  guessing it's a product of redistribution of all that tension in my legs and hams...that's how it feels anyway.  lots of ice and LAX rollling.  feeling better.

135 x 10

225 x 3

265 x 3

275 x 3

295 x 3, 3  big powerful pulls, not like that crap on Tuesday.  nice.

snatch off blocks for a change, bar just below knee.  have been noticing that my snatch technique is crap lately, shoulders forward in sockets and slow to roll over (obv), ugly catches, etc. concentrate on arms back, tight back in sockets, tight back, low butt, full extension and man, that bar is just flying up.  funny how the right technique makes things move easier...

sn

95 x 5

135 x 5

185 x 5

205 x 3, 3, 3, 3

abs.  sexy abs.  i look like an abercrombie model.

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clearly i'm a good 18 inches off the ground.

breamar - junk, 38 something.  hmm...

Open - 48 junk....  hmmm.....

hw - 46'7"  (PR) 'bout time.  more there too, me thinks.

LW - 80 and some inches.  better than 78'

LH and HH, not feelin' it, ground was crap....i'll push another day.

wob - 18 spinning, tie PR.  happy with that.

caber feels good enough.

swimming in the ocean after the game was the most fun i've had in years.  i felt like a kid again.  i work too much.

stones are better, still only 50s with 17#.  gotta get that out, really missing it.  can do 50 any speed and effort = big piece of the throw missing.  stay X'd, get down, shift wt onto left, pull longer.

got the 46# WFD over 60 ft.  good stuff happening there.  do more of that.

lifted once last week...too busy at work to get in the gym.  did snatch up to 185 and then a few rounds of squat complex (front sq w chains and 185, 24 single leg step-up jumps, sideways single leg box jumps, and some jumps to try to touch the I beam).

practiced wob tuesday night...finally got the painting pole out to have something to throw over...struggled to hit 15 and worked on peak issues for a while.

left Wednesday for a few days up in new england, home with family and for the Rhode island games.

(went to the beach, the zoo, and the aquarium.  i could sit and watch the whales swim for hours...i wanna be a kid again)

RI game: braemar no flick...gotta throw some stones to remember how to stand and throw a rock.  simple but not easy.  

open - struggled with uphill wet trig...was staying wrapped and hitting the rt hip better each throw...had to take an extra after the comp to put it together, 51 and change.  it's there, gotta keep putting the pieces together.

hw, 45+...i'm strong, this is going well this year.  keep doing that.

Lw.  80, sucking at a higher level.  should be 85+ every time.  i hate the lw.

no hammer, too small.

caber was heavy and short with no taper.  got it over with some effort.  
did caber for distance.  stupid event.

wob, standing...made 17.  good.  pull has been there all year, need to continue to refine timing and peak.  going to scotland last year helped this event.  i've got more in the tank here.

went to Bill's after the game for eating insanity.  sherry knocked it out of the park.  i had eating PRs all night.  food was unbelievably good - you should quit your job and open a restaurant kind of good.  i tried to pace myself and it didn't work, everything was too good to control myself.  did i mention the food was good?  was great fun to see old and new friends.  i need more of these events in my life.

 

Mike, about this: the butt goes back as the ball is moving across it's low point in front?

some hammer, nothing too great.  just reps.  comfy 130s and tag a few near 140.  gotta keep looking for that next gear here...  150 will go when i find it.  12# is running away from me.  when i can catch it, the others will go.

wob has been good.  easy 16 means off season was good.  i'm strong.  losing a little weight now (near 280) with the throwing activity and increased work stress.  abs are sexy tho....

groin pull is still making me get of the back very tentative in the stone.  when it hurts, its 46.  when it doesn't, 52 & 53 are easy.  more flossing here.

hwt is broken, but the 46 is flying.  60 ft again last night.  pulling hard on it .