Quick update on progress. We're in the home stretch now. 5.75 pounds to go. Even some of my new pants are getting a bit loose :) In case you're wondering, though, the temptations for both recreational eating and overeating are still there. I'll probably have to work on these two things for a long time to get them under control.
On the falling-on-my-butt front, those stretches I mentioned a few posts ago are really helping, but only if I do them before I attempt squats. I even managed to land a few squat snatches. The bruise on my butt is there to remind me that not only did I not land some, I fell in a spectacular way! Seriously, I was really just attempting to get the form down so I was using the bar plus the 10-pound bumpers. The deadlift portion went fine, but when I pulled for the snatch, the bar went way out in front of me. So when it arrived overhead, it wanted to keep going. I stopped it, but the force required to stop it sent forward at a fairly alarming rate. Also, conservation of momentum kicked in and backwards I went. I fell, I slid, I rolled, and then I laughed at just how loud that crash was. Ego bruised, I took a bit of a break before trying again. More technical issues to fix...
If you're doing those lifts, or any for that matter, tighten those abs. I'm terrible about that, but it helps with stability.
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