Injuries heal

A year and a half ago, I dropped an 82.5 kg bar on my wrist while performing a clean with poor technique. I was fatigued from doing 2 competitions in the weeks before and should have known better.
The wrist is finally at a place where I can manage the pain effectively and I'm starting to train consistently, although still quite light.
I've lost a lot of strength during my healing time but I've used the time to work on mobility and fix some muscle imbalances that my ego was making me ignore.
Working around such a slow healing injury can be very humbling and frustrating but as the title of this blog states, injuries heal.
Thank f**k for that, I wasn't so sure for awhile there!

I'm training in a place in Dublin 8, Capital Strength. This is a purpose built weightlifting gym with lovely equipment and even lovelier coaches. They're really helping me to manage my training expectations so I don't try and go too heavy too fast and re injure myself while also helping me make the most of this time and do some technique work. While this isn't as sexy or fun as lifting the heavy things, I know it's the best for me and I definitely wouldn't stick to it without having someone other than me to answer to.

I've been back training for about 3 months now. Today I spent about 30 minutes warming up including foam rolling, stretching and some squat drills and then I did some clean and jerk drills with the bar and gradually worked up to 51kg for a few sets of doubles on the clean and jerk. I found this quite tough and I wasn't as consistent as I'd like to be. I felt I was catching the bar a little forward and I wasn't getting my feet out enough. Weird as I never used to have that problem. I had a few good jerks but right elbow felt a little slow and soft in the jerk. This used to be a warm up weight for me but injury doesn't allow for ego! I knocked back to 45kg and did a drop down set which was perfect in every way. Hopefully it won't be long until 50odd feels that way and upwards from there.
Did some clean grip deadlifts, up to 95kg for few sets of triples and finished with some squats from pins, fives at 65 and 70kg.

Progress is slow as heck but I'm enjoying the journey and I'm still very happy and appreciative to be back lifting. It seemed that was never going to happen.

Snatch day tomorrow, can't wait!