TL Health and Fitness Initiative 2011 - Page 305

So I've been trying to figure out why I start to get headaches when I lift. I have a good idea of several contributing factors; the recent weather, poorly ventilated garage, and I was moving too fast in between work sets. All these caused me to add strain when I was breathing. Anyway most of these have been fixed. And in this squat I was working on different ways of breathing. This caused me to have rather inconsistent form. I'd honestly consider this set pretty fucking sloppy compared to what I had been doing previously. But hey, gotta post yourself at your worst right?

I found that I often leaned forward coming out of the hole. This is a relatively new breakdown in my form and I attribute it to fooling around with breathing and head position. I'll get it though. Also could probably lock my hips out a little more at the end. I don't even know why I didn't. I've been concentrating on other aspects of my squat and it pretty much just slipping my mind tbh.

Either way I feel like I was pushing this weight fairly easily. I've just been frustrated by headaches and shit.

I suck at press. This is the second week I've failed at 100lbs. It was probably a little ambitious to resume at 100 since I hadn't pressed in more than a week and even then it was a failure. So after the first set I scaled the weight back down to 95lbs. Either way I know I'm not doing it as efficiently as possible. And it's obviously heavy for me by the last rep.

My one question is on a rep like the 5th one of my 100lb set here; how do you salvage that? I was able to press it up but it felt like I was leaning back for waaay too long. How can you still snap your body back under the bar to get superior leverage?

I posted my first set as well as my last two to give some sort of comparison of the breakdown of form due to fatigue and lack of concentration. This was actually the first time I felt like the weight was getting heavy enough that I couldn't just throw it sloppily as hell and somehow still end up in a decent rack. It was the first time I had to focus on what I was doing throughout the entirety of the powerclean movement.

That being said, I've gotten a lot better at powercleans since my first few attempts but they are still terribly inconsistent. I notice that I often end up jumping slightly backward as I pull it to rack position. As a result the bar sometimes looks like it pulls violently into my chest instead of being a smoother motion. Also every once in a while I just throw the bar outward too far away from my belly and it does the same thing where it comes crashing into my chest during the rack.

There's tons of other stuff I know, but those were the glaringly obvious ones to me.