You don’t always PR.
The longer that you train, the harder it is to make huge progress. For example, Friday, I posted a 10lb PR on Clean and Jerk. I had been stuck at my previous max for a year. Most novice lifters meaning anyone who has been lifting for less then 2 years will see significant progress for the first two years. After that, it requires way more work and time in order to progress.
There are a few reasons for this but the major one is neurological gains. You see for the first two years of lifting consistently, your body doesn’t really know how to use all the muscle that you have available to you. So you train and train and the body learns how to tap into the reserves you have. Sure you’re building more muscle too, but you’re still learning how to fire everything in the right order, and when that happens you’ll make progress.
After you’ve learned how to fire all the muscles and use everything you’ve got in reserve, this can take up to two years of training, then you’ll be exclusively on building more muscle and more connections in order to make progress. This requires time. It’s a slow process and requires a lot of work. This means that sometimes you go to test PR’s and you don’t PR. It’s not the end of the world, it just means that it wasn’t your day.
Keep training working on those weaknesses and do your best. If you hit a 5lb PR be grateful, especially if you’ve been training for a long time.
Always celebrate a victory! In the meantime, enjoy the process!
5-23-16
Max Testing: Snatch
Met Con:
2K row
1 miles run
for time
…NO CHERRY PICKING…