Sunday with Schmitz

Had a fun training session with guest coach and weightlifting legend Jim Schmitz on Sunday.

Jim is a weightlifting coach based in San Francisco and was head coach of the US Olympic team three times. He was running a training seminar on the Saturday and stuck around for a bit of coaching and a chat at Capital Strength on the Sunday. I was privileged to be invited to this.

I warmed up as usual. Noticed a pretty bad knot in my right calf but it was okay during warm-up with bar.
Warmed up to 45kg for a few singles and missed most of them. Worst snatch day I've had in a while but I put it down to being a little tired from lifting the day before and the two weeks off snatching before that.
Put the snatch out of my head and warmed up the clean and jerk. I was a little slow and 'dainty' with the lighter weights but by the time I hit around 60kg, the hate was flowing and I was wide awake. Jim was very helpful with this.
I was doing well up to 66kg and 68kg clean was very good but jerk was a little slow so we left it there.

Fun day, got some great knowledge bombs from Coach Jim Schmitz. I'm pretty sure I've added 50kg to my total now!