snatch testing

today I wanted to know where I stand and what I can expect for the initial conditioning test for the RKC I have coming up on February 20th. The way the testing goes is for males under 50 (or 40 I can’t remember which but it doesn’t matter since I am a mere 27) you take your body weight in pounds and divide it by 2.2 and that is the number of snatches you must do with a 24kg kettlebell (53lbs) in 5 minutes. For me last time I weighed myself I was 159lbs which comes out to approximately 73 snatches. I set my gym boss timer to go off every 30 seconds and strove to do 10 snatches every 30 seconds or 20 snatches a minute. It went like this

30 seconds 10 snatches
30 seconds 10 snatches
30 seconds 10 snatches
30 seconds 10 snatches
30 seconds 10 snatches
30 seconds 10 snatches
30 seconds 8 snatches
30 seconds 8 snatches
30 seconds 7 snatches
and then 7 more snatches before time was up

90 snatches in 5 minutes…thank God I was getting really worried I wouldn’t pass the initial test.

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