The Truth Behind Cheetah Hips

I would have ripped this little fuckers throat out.
These Cheetahs will not survive the Winter

In fact after I saw that I almost changed my own nickname. But then I saw the below pictures.

I guess some were meant to die off and others were meant to thrive. Evolution will not favor the weak fuckers of the first picture while it has great favored the two below it. Today I will tell you the story of my nickname and how I intend to evolve as a weightlifter so I might survive the sarengeti that is the platform.






Most of you dont know the story. Why I gave myself the name Cheetah Hips. This might blow your goddamn mind. Because Zeus himself blessed my hip girdle with a goddamn thunderbolt I gave myself this nickname to honor his wonderful gift. Thank you Zeus! Even though I have this impressive gift I still have issues and I will now list them and the fixes I am making.

Mentally:

This is a big ass pain right here. Somedays I set up to the bar and remember that I am a fucking savage beast that wants to rip the head off of the fucking bar and watch it bleed all over the platform. Than there are days like yesterday when I go 1 for 7 at 140 and have to save that 1 lousy snatch. I was unaggressive and I was slow. I was meak and mild. Not angry, powerful and fast. I think I must remember the snatch and clean and jerk are not happy movements. Some people yell "Finesse Reece!" That never works for me. I am a highly technical person, yes, but I just want to rip that fucking bar in two or smash it to death with my fucking hips! I think way to much about the movement. Being Highly Technical kills me on heavy days! Smash that bar to death than rip it in half! Find your enemy (the bar) and destroy that mother fucker!!!

Physically:

Zeus, once again bro thank you for the incredibly fast hips but if you don't mind putting in a good word for me with your good friend Atlas who seems to be strong enough to hold up the world and ask him for a blessing that would be great. What I am saying I have said before. I need more strength. Done there.

Aggression:

I touched on this in the mentally section. I just need to be mean as fuck and get under the bar.


Yeah... Thats that for today. I have incredibly fast hips I just need everything else to fall into place and since nothing ever just happens I'll work at all of this stuff hard, every day like I have been doing.

Here's todays workload

Heavy Single - 60% x 2 x 5
Clean and Jerk Heavy Single - 60% x 2 x 5
Back Squat - 5 x 5
Bench Press - 5 x 5
Pullups - ME x 5

FAST, AGGRESSIVE, STRONG

6 MONTHS

Mark Ripetoe in his article below said that if I strength train for weightlifting I will become the picture below the article.

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Who doesn't want to lift like fucking Pyrros? I am not going to get into the full article. Let me give the synopsis. Weightlifting is not strength training. I get that. Weightlifting is a Sport and like all Sports it can be trained for outside of your actual sport and the best way to do that is by Strength Training. Mark kind of laid forth a challenge. I like challenges. So, Dicky A, Jeremy and I will come up with something but here is my plan for right now. Weightlifting practice goes in the morning from 0600 to 0730. In the afternoon evening time I will lift two lifts. If you read the manifesto, you know when I squat, so the lifts I will do will be deadlift, strict press, bench press, overhead squat, pendlay rows, pullups (wieghted and non weighted). Kind of a one push, one pull per training session. I will try this for the first month and see the results it yields but I want to do it for a full 6 months and see where my competition lifts go. The only direction from here is up, but we shall see. Tomorrow's practice schedule looks like this;

3 position snatch - 1 x 7 heaviest possible
3 position clean - 1 x 7 heaviest possible
push jerk + split jerk 1+1 x 7 heaviest possible
front squat 2 x 5 @ 205

then the strength portion will go like this in the evening

Strict Press - Heavy Single (gotta see where I am)
Pendlay Row - 155 x ME (Max Effort) x 5
Back Extension - ME x 3
Situps - ME x 3

Fuck Yeah!

TEAM

Today will have nothing useful to humanity. (Does my blog ever?) I am just gonna right shit stuff and see how it turns out on the preview.

FUCK

I am learning that anyone who has one of these on their flag

or ever did has the fucking genetic make up to be a champion weightlifter! Who would have thought government subsidies of athletics would be amazing for athletes all the while having a shittacular not so great economy. My practice for today went as such.

Snatch, Heavy Single - 95, 115, 135, 145, 3 misses at 155; 135 x 1 x 5
Clean and Jerk, Heavy Single - 135, 155, 175, 185, 195; 165 x 1 x 5
Overhead Squat, Heavy Single - 115, 135, 155; 135 x 1 x 5

I'm going to bench press/pullups later today and do some light bar work before calling it a day.

I want a team. More mufuckas that are just like me. That want to do weightlifting this summer and CrossFit later. After competition this summer I promise I'll come back to CrossFit and Outlaw! For now I just want to lift heavy shit! Thats all! It's not really a big deal, is it? Why don't more people want to compete in shit? What fun is life without a throw down? Exercising is cool and healthy and I get that, but why don't people want to show their sweet skills off? Dicky A needs to compete. Big Daddy A needs to compete! If for no other reason than to focus your training on something guys! I promise we'll all have fun and enjoy camraderie and fucking cookies victory together! So what do you say all? If you read this, tell me you want to compete! Tell me you want to be my teammate!

A List of Good Reads

I sure am having fun writing this blog! To the three or four of you who do read this blog I thank you. All blogs grow. The blogger gets better at putting together actual thoughts and everyone enjoys the experience more. Today I want to give you a list of blogs and books I read. I read a lot of other peoples stuff because some of them are just funny, some of them have good information and sometimes (in case of that fuckhead liberal website moveon.org which I do battle with the leftist side weekly) I am gaining knowledge of my enemy. Liberals piss me off. Without further adieu here is my recommended reading list.

www.jonnorth.blogspot.com

The father of the attitude nation! Only sometimes does he give technical advice on the Olympic Lifts. I watch his technique on YouTube enough as it is. Today he talked about not knowing what a Low Bar Back Squat was! He is fucking hillarious and crazy as shit and I love it!

www.beastmodaldomains.com

Epic makes fun of the silly shit exercisers do. He also constantly lambashes RX Star and I love that. He also went to regionals. He is really fast at exercise and fast is cool.

Olympic Weightlifting by Greg Everett

Most of you that read this blog do CrossFit. You would benefit from this book. Greg breaks the lifts and their variations down in simple terms. Also there are great pictures in there for those of you that just plain can't read. Just remember Greg got kicked out of CrossFit by Dave Castro for suggesting to a crowd that Annie Sakamato was doing a clean wrong because of the way CrossFit teaches the shrug. BANISHED!

Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe

Another Guy that got kicked out of CrossFit. (Aren't Rebels cooL?) Another book X-fitters need to read! Mark makes fun of you and helps you in one book! He is a huge proponent of the Low-Bar version on the backsquat. So many ways out there to put a barbell on your back and move up and down with it, eh? Read it, get strong!

Lone Survivor by Marcus Littrell

Ever think that your life sucks? As a Navy SEAL Marcus Littrell was with his four man team on top of a mountain in Afghanistan and fought 150 Talibs and was the only member of his team to survive. I won't spoil the book for you but know that the guy went through real hell. Your 9 - 5 will seem fucking nice after this book.

To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee

Its a fucking classic. Atticus and his struggle to keep an innocent man alive almost makes my tough ass me cry every time!

www.newsbusters.org

I don't believe the liberal media on anything! Fucking Chris Matthews' heart melts every time he sees the president smile! Ick. I go to www.newsbusters.org for my daily conservative media approach.

www.moveon.org

Perhaps the biggest leftist pile of fucking lies and bullshit ever. My daily dose of conflict if I don't get it on FaceBook. I regularly go to this website and have meaningful debate. I know I've won when they tell me to go back to foxnews! Fuckers. It is owned by George Soros. Do some research on that fucking communist if you are at all interested in the American Flag having a sickle and hammer on it. I'm sure I'll put up some other good reads from time to time but those are my big ones.

Today's workout goes as follows;
Snatch - Heavy Single; 80% x 1 x 5
C&J - Heavy Single; 80% x 1 x 5
Halting Snatch balance - 115lbs x 5 x 5
Halting Jerk - 155 x 5 x 5
Back Squat 2 x 10

Training Manifesto

Before we dive into this Epic Doctrine of my training style let me first tell you a few things to stop fuckheaded comments. I do not have any credentials or degrees in the information I am going to share. I read a lot of open source documents from authors who are highly respected in their communities. Gentlemen like Greg Everett, Kenny Powers, Mark Rippetoe and Louie Simmons. I am a staunch believer in the teachings of Jon North and am a member of the Attitude Nation. Tyson Hips Baby! So now that you know that I am not a professional, merely a guy who likes to learn new things and pass on that information to others, lets begin.

Training Manifesto I by Reece Messerly

1. Find your thing and follow it. There are people out there that believe it or not love to run. They do this shit for hours and hours a day. Crazy right? My thing is Olympic Weightlifting. Which means I bang weights off the floor of a gym hidden in a valley somewhere in Southern California. What do me and the people who I mentioned have in common? We are active and we enjoy our sports. (Yes running a long fucking way is sport) You have got to find that thing that keeps you going back to the gym everyday. That Olympic Weightlifting thing will be the base for the rest of this doctrine.

2. Lift Heavy Every Day

Heavy is a relative term. Heavy for you. Of course that runner won't do this, but for my training I must lift heavy. Since Olympic Weightlifting Competition requires you to lift heavy six times it does me no good to lift light weight a bunch of times. That means the Snatch and Clean and Jerk, front squats and back squats are taken to max every day.

3. Squat four or five times a week. Your legs are the base of almost every athletic movement. I want to train my legs to support all movements required during the competititon lifts. This means I squat most days that I train.

4. Fix your weaknesses.

This is where we must be honest with ourselves. I've got super poor overhead stability due to the fact that I don't pinch my should blades together. Noted. I'm fixing it. My shoulders aren't that flexible. Noted. My leg strength is lacking. Noted. (see 2 and 3) I would also like to improve shoulder strength. Noted. The point behind this is we all have weak points in our game and to be successful we must correct them, sometimes painfully. You just have to make that weakness a strength then move on.

5. On to the programming.

I don't do cycles or programs anymore. I can't stay focused long enough. I do the competition lifts every day and heavy. After each of the competition lifts I perform back off sets. I do one or two supplementary exercises. With the supplementary exercises I do let me say this. I am beginning strength training for Weightlifting. I bet you are looking at the computer screen like there is a giant dick growing out of it. I recently picked up a piece of Literature from Mark Ripetoe that made sense to me. So, in order to get strong and better at weightlifting I am going to strength train the slow movement for it. I then squat (front or back) heavy. Then I throw in some ab and lower back work, stretch and call it a day. Its really a simple formula. There it is. I would love to discuss this with anyone. The above is really kind of an experiment I am doing on myself. Good luck, train hard!

Breaking my Cherry

Oh Fuck yeah! My first post! So as this is my first post let me explain what is in this blog so that later on when you think I am just rambling the fuck on you know whats happening.  This blog will be about anything and everything.  From every day happenings and encounters to my new found love for Olympic Weightlifting and the people who help me there.  It might have a exerpt or two on politics, the awesome things the love of my life LoDawg (that is here name on my blog) does for me.  I may even talk about my work (rarely) and will definitely answer questions about anything.  So about me. I am self described as being awesome and super fucking competitive.  Losing is fucking lame, so I work hard not to do that very often.  I hate wearing shirts.  I love being outside.  I love hunting and fishing and eating dead animals.  Veagans are just pussies. I love LoDawg.  God blessed me with her. I recently started designing my own workouts just to test how good of a programmer I am on myself. I own three animals and you'll get to hear all about them in future posts. 

So why did I do this?  Because everyone I respect has blogs, so why not me too?  Okay lets delve into the fucking vortex that is my mind for today!  Also I just realized I could make this a training log. Fuckin A!

I told Dicky A (life coach) and Jeremy (training supervisor) that I wouldn't write about weightlifting to much, but I am going to post my workouts here daily so we can all discuss them.  I'll put up the Reece Messerly Weightlifting Manifesto later.

Today:
Snatch - 130 x 2 x 5
C&J - 175 x 2 x 5
Pendlay Rows - 3 x 3
Weighted Pullups 3 x 3
Back Squat - 165 x 20 x 2 (I'll do the second set of 20 if I'm not fucking dieing)

Finish it off with back extension and ghd situps. 

I'm posting this now.