Monday, June 14th 2015

Some tips:  Use a hook grip if you can. Don’t forget to use your hips on BOTH movements to work most efficiently.  And control your breathing. It’s easy to forget under fatigue, but it’s the basics that will carry you through. If you can string them, great… but do not push yourself to failure.  Some great times have been logged with going singles the whole way.  Thinking about it as singles with a big deep breath in between is good strategy, as long as you don’t let more than four or five seconds go by in between reps (its easy to talk yourself out of picking that barbell up!). If you’re shooting for sub-5:00, then you have 10 seconds to complete each movement, sub-4:00 is 8 seconds, sub-3:00 is 6 seconds, sub-2:00 is 4 seconds. Give yourself x amount of time for each rep, and stick to it as best you can.  Or play it by ear and see how it goes!  Just have fun with it!