Hard Things With High Return - 10D10 Snatch

There's a lot of people doing hard things for the sake of hard things, for the value of progressing mentally, going through challenge, hardship, that's a valuable thing. We can also do hard things that have a cumulative benefit, and that is high return on investment training. So what we're going to do here, the snatch, is a movement that requires a lot of skill. Therefore, anything that requires a lot of skill will get better with a lot of practice. Now, now, if you go to your local weightlifting facility, oftentimes it's very technical and there's not that many repetitions being done, I would argue. And if we go back, like in the last video that I referenced, around squatting every day, the Bulgarian method, apparently, was that if you wanted to learn from one of their coaches, you should go and do 3,000 repetitions of the empty bar. And that kind of seems impossible because even 100 repetitions is quite a lot, as you're about to see. But there's something to be said for doing a lot of practice. Something that's relatively challenging is to do 10 by 10 on the full snatch. I'm going from the hip here, but some from the hip, some from the floor. Getting really comfortable getting into these positions. It's a good thing, keeping the bar in pretty close. 2, 3, 4, 4, 5, Six, seven, eight, nine. There's all little variations going on, but. But my body is learning to do the movement now. There's a level of specificity, which means that it's too light to really carry over to having a new max. But what it will do is give me basic awareness, coordination. So if I am getting coached, I know what they're talking about. I can feel the different positions. Also. Building the tissue quality and resilience, I think, is a big reason why they practice so many reps and maybe just to see if people are mentally into it enough. I don't think I'm mentally into it enough to do 3000 reps daily. Every rep, kind of doing something a little bit different. Firstly, I think that's okay. I think it's good. If you're juggling, go slightly slower, you're going slightly higher, slightly closer together with your hands slightly wider. These little variations, west side barbell, powerlifting, they would practice different grips. Close grip, medium grip, wide grip. I'm gonna go a little closer on this set. Legs, bit of shoulders, pump. So when you practice a skill under fatigue, you actually develop the skill more than if you only practice it fresh. So you're getting different. Learning by doing it with some fatigue. Makes it Kind of second nature drop, drop onto the bar, stand up with it. Also some good general conditioning. If you do something for lots and lots of reps there is going to be carryover to doing it heavy. Maybe not super high degree of carryover but especially for beginners or if you're getting back into something you'll see. Makes your max feel lighter as well. Also been doing some rack pulls over here. Getting back used to that rack pull has always been my strongest lift deadlifts but it's deteriorated a little bit through not doing it. There's only 110 on the bar there. I've done maybe 10 sets of five in the last 24 hours. 110 and put up to 120. I'll start doing a few less sets as the weight goes up. A bit of pump in the lower back as well. The very bottom of my lower back has become weaker with not doing this kind of work. Not this much deadlift but this is the fun of it. Get after it, enjoy. But yeah there's, there's a reason to it. That's what I'm explaining as well. It's not just about doing something hard, it's about I'm going to have my best ever snatch this year at 40 years of age. Said I was going to get it before 40 but doesn't matter. Probably better to have it at 40. Got one more set. On the 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. That's 10 sets. There's not much rest. The reps take a while. It. People sometimes ask about trap development. Shoulders. This will help your traps and your shoulders because it's quite explosive and there's quite a lot of volume. And then when you get into heavier reps it'll get even better. Weightlifters tend to have very good traps. Big deadlifters tend to have good traps. Enjoy the journey. Feel free to ask any questions, send me a link or tag me if you have a crack at the same workout. Let's get after it. This is the daily dense workout for the day. The other one, squats were just because that was the time for it. But yeah, one of these every day, 10 minutes. Sometimes they're 10 sets of 10, which is endurance and often they're 10 sets of 1, 10 sets of 3, 10 sets of 4, 5 gives you a bit of direction that you've always got something to get on with. You prep for that for a little bit. You stretch whatever you did after you're on track.