It's not that bad, you just have to be a little more careful to keep your form tight when you get tired. It's just a bruise that will go away in a couple days... didn't do anything permanent.
Infact I smashed myself good in the complex routine I am doing with a front squat to push press (during warmup) last thursday.
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Blog entry: November 1, 2009, Pancakes LiveSTRONG daily plate log
I haven't hit myself yet, but I did skin the edge of my nose once. I didn't pull my head back enough, and I felt the knurling rub against my nose. Luckily it didn't make full contact, that would've hurt.
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I've never done it with push presses. But with the FS to PP I was overly excited I think, seemed like a fun lift so I was trying to be all explosive and hitting myself never even occured to me!
Oh well.
Today's complex has a muscle snatch in it. Should be fun.
Og.
__________________ 2009: No races, No times. Slow year. So, now you're 96 cals short. You're now in starvation mode. Doomed. - LostDog
Blog entry: November 1, 2009, Pancakes LiveSTRONG daily plate log
Infact I smashed myself good in the complex routine I am doing with a front squat to push press (during warmup) last thursday.
I'm doing a comlex now with this move, and it never occurred to me that I could hit myself!! Now that I know ... and I'll pay attention ... it will probably happen!!
I think it was Buk or Lou that told me about a guy flattening himself doing a high pull. Ouch!
It could've been me, relating a story from Charles Staley, who said he once knocked himself unconscious on a high pull.
I've dinged myself in the chin a couple of times, but I guess I never pulled hard enough to put myself on the mat.
When you get that slight but distinct taste of blood in your mouth, you tend to pay better attention to what you're doing.
My latest problem is hitting myself in the throat on power cleans. I don't do it often, and never hard enough to leave bruises (or worse!), but it does make me wonder if I'm ever ever going to get my form right on that damned lift.
Ow. Listen to Lou and Alwyn.
It's just a bruise that will go away in a couple days... didn't do anything permanent.
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