powerless cleans

squats: 250x5, 4, 3, 3, 2.
dips: 7, 7, 7. again, really focusing on getting the shoulder below the elbow.
power cleans: 0.

seriously. i was warming up with 135 on my way to up 150 and i couldn't rack it. not even close. i really don't know why. i was re-reading Starting Strength and realized that i had been doing my cleans incorrectly. the jumping point is between half-way and a third of the way up your thigh but i had been jumping at a little below knee height. doing it this way causes the bar to take a long elliptical type trajectory instead of straight up and down. so, the new way i was doing it today should have been more efficient. except that i couldn't do it. uggh. i'll drop the weights and work on my technique.

then i did 6 sets of 10 reps of medicine ball slams. i wanted to do some barbell rollouts but it was tricep circuit day and i couldn't get close to the rack again.