Olympic Weightlifting for the first time !

Today was the first time I did olympic weightlifting. when I got out of the gym today, I said just two words - "Fuck Yeah!" :D

So I read shitloads of stuff on the internet yesterday about snatches and jerk. (I was already doing cleans)

I started with snatch. I did like 20-25 of them with the stretching stick thats there in the gym. Then I thought lets give the empty bar a try.
Not surprisingly, I failed in my first attempt and fell foolishly backwards :P
But then I got the remaining 8 reps with the bar. Damn, snatch is the hardest thing ever !

Then I did some clean and jerks (with baby weights ofcourse). Everything went fine here.

Then moved to front squats. I was doing them for the first time and my final set of 210 lbs felt so damn heavy ! I finished with some push presses. I have never felt so awesome after any of my powerlifting training days !

Today I will place the order with Rogue for weightlifting shoes (and get robbed of 130 $ :( ).

Saturday Training Update (Video)

So just a update of today's training session. I was attempting 3 reps with 325 lbs (147.4kg), too bad just got a rep. I almost got the second one, but couldn't lock it out! :(

The above video is that of last set of squats with 325 lbs. The camera was placed too high, so the depth can't be judged. Next time, I will try to place the camera lower.

I also benched 200x3 and power-cleaned 120 lbsx5. I decided to switch to power cleans from pendlay-rows to slowly prepare myself for the move to olympic weightlifting.