It's the only lift I'm managing not to injure myself in. Shame everything is pants, I nearly snapped in half doing a 60kg power clean last week, welp

There are different style of squats. Most power lifters and body builders will not break hip crease on their squats. Weight lifters and strength will go ass to grass, with a 1-2 second pause at the bottom. Just different styles. Although it is a little harder to come up out of ass to grass with the pause.

140 for 5 is nothing to shy away from. Good numbers indeed. Better than mine for sure.

Well there's always room for improvement, that's part of the appeal in strength training. Even incitements of 1 or 2 kg make the world of difference. I'm just above recovered from my back flipping out on me so it's back to the grind today. Looking forward to it.

Yeah, fucking loading the bar tonight for cleans and lower right back went again. Physio it is most likely. Plenty of water tonight. I hate being injured. Puts me in bad form! 

Going to lift with Clarence Kennedy on Saturday so I better be able by then!

Lifting with Clarence, that is, not the bit about doing your back in again. Obv.

Just in case anyone's interested, a team from the gym I used to go to in Amsterdam will be competing at the Crossfit regionals in Berlin this weekend.

Am super happy for them, think they ended up in 3rd place in the Open so should have a chance for Game tickets. Look for Team Punt Uit if you're gonna watch some of the livestream.

Best of luck to them Nina. Just a shame it’s CrossFit...hehe.

Deadlift, pirouette, deadlift, pirouette...

I'm with Vere on this one

@Vere at least they still have the flexibility to take on and off their own clothes (sport bras are the worst thing to get off actually).

The team is currently in 2nd place after two days, first day went great (1st and 2nd place), second day would never be their day but they still are in the top 5. Placed 9th and 15th.

Not looking for a form discussion, I know 2 of the team have gymnastics backgrounds, and in our gym no one would train you things you weren't ready for (no chest to bars if you couldn't do strict pull ups, kipping was sometimes tested but it was just the technique, see if there were mobility issues).
If you're in it to win it, you gotta sacrifice things on the competition floor, I think every form of top sport has negatives that aren't healthy or pretty. It is changing a little bit within the Crossfit community, and people are doing the strict and sometimes boring stuff more and more. Active Life RX is the example of a company that gives valid advice for coaches and athletes.
I hope it changes though, the quality of boxes needs to go up and not be so WOD focused.

(and just to be clear, I'm not judging you on your poor flexibility you mentioned a page ago, you're still happy with your looks and results. Same goes for the Crossfit athletes I know, they are well aware when they have to go ugly, but they train hard to avoid it as much as possible. Everyone has a different point where they don't find something acceptable anymore)

I don't understand how Clarence isn't being shipped off to the Olympics.

But is that any different for the other lifters?

Interestingly enough, I just did a quick google search, and there's an interview where he says that all the other lifters are on PEDs, but the ones that win medals and are in places that don't test for them. Presumably he'd get tested in the Irish team while training, so he can't compete.

Impressive gym at Hotel Tentrem in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. They actually have a power/squat rack and a flat bench with Olympic bars and every (crappy) machine you can think of too.

If only I brought my raining shoes. Gonna have to go bare feet. Guy at gym in Jakarta (in second session I did) told me not to take shoes/trainers off for health and safer etc blah blah blah. I only had my running/comfy trainers so was wobbling in squatting and stuff. So he agreed I take off for sets then put back on immediately. Good enough I guess.