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Originally Posted by BrianSCohen  Power Cleans. That is great. I have been doing rows as a poor mans substitute. The power clean is a core the starting strength routine. I've shied away from them in my gym which does not seem very supportive of olympic style lifts. There are no bumper plates or lifting platforms. I've always been afraid of a missed lift causing an event that will live in infamy. I suppose I could just keep the weight managable and give it a go. |
At the beginning kinds of levels where it's more just form practice I think you'd likely get some benefit -- as you probably know a lot of the early benefits of strength training don't happen with increased muscle mass but with the nervous system wiring learning how to coordinate the muscle fibers in the movement. Right now if I were to look at my
strength standards in other lifts presently I'm lagging behind in power clean strength. I've achieved novice level for squat, deadlift, military and bench press, but right now maybe my max clean would be 115 to 120 lbs, short of 135 lbs.
I ran yesterday afternoon because of bailing on Tuesday due to the weather. It was a bit of a strange run, my leg and the muscles felt somewhat different and I was wondering if I'm beginning to see any effects from having begun thiamine supplementation. I've begun doing so based upon
the study which found that diabetics are deficient in thiamine and that there is
evidence which has shown thiamine deficiency affects muscular endurance.
Since B-vitamins are water soluble and it would take ingesting huge amounts to create overdose and toxicity problems, I decided that taking a B-vitamin supplement may be beneficial, although maybe it's just like pouring more water into a sieve. Yesterday's run just may have been one of those good runs. I've just been a bit concerned at how I've often felt that my endurance deteriorates considerably faster than it should, based upon using shorter distance running times to project likely running times over longer distances. Some of that is simply training deficiency, it can take a good period of time to build equivalent aerobic conditioning between 5K times and half-marathon times.
I missed a workout this morning. Just could not get out of bed. That's okay to miss sometimes, sometimes rest is more important. Just don't want that to become a habit.
