Takano Athletics

I just have to blog about Aileen Wu’s lifts at last Saturday’s California State Games because of how close she came to reaching the projected lifts we had planned for this meet.

In her last meet on April 24th at the same venue, Aileen had needed three attempts to snatch her opening weight of 52, and then made three clean and jerks to finish with 64.  On the next Monday I told her we were planning on 100% lifts of 60 and 70 for July 10th.

The training programs posted on this blog from May 3rd represent the training that Aileen followed from the week after the April 24th meet.  She only missed one day of training.  She did not make every lift at every percentage as that should not happen.

Last Saturday she made an opening snatch of 54, a second good lift of 57 and based on the difficulty of that lift I called for 59, rather than 60.  She performed her best lift at 59, and could have made 60.  Aileen 3rd 59 kg

In the clean and jerk she lifted an opener of 64 to tie her PR and then succeeded with a second attempt of 68.  I called for 70 for her third.  She cleaned the weight with less than a death clean, and jerked the weight to locked arms and recovery only to be turned down for a press out.

Aileen successfully recovered from the pslit but was turned down for a press out.

Peaking is definitely a complicated task and rarely does it comes out perfectly.  Aileen’s lifting was very close to right on.  It was satisfying to see it work so well.