It didn't have to have no leg drive- it just wasn't allowed to touch your legs. Which does eliminate a lot of the leg drive it's possible to use, but not all of it. The clean and press was just that,...
It is precisely because there is nothing else like the "history" of Paul Anderson that people (including myself) doubt the outlandish claims made nowadays about his lifts. In particular it seems very...
Supposedly the routine started life as a specialised squat routine, and it is more often offered as a 1 lift routine to concentrate on a single lift. What I meant about deadlifts was in the context...
Technically of course it's absolutely true to say that athletes taking anabolic steroids are cheats, but it is very hard indeed to argue convincingly that their victories are meaningless. The fact...
You could do some assistance on that program, it's not really all that much work until you get to the 6x6, 5x5 stage. Even then you could still do a bit, eg first Bench/Squat days do some shoulder...
Honestly, Americans and irony! I agree with you on WS, and have said so before on FI. Did none of the exaggerated wording give you a clue? Mind you, you never know on this board I suppose...
Kyle, have you not understood Westside?! If you squat and deadlift all the time, your progress will just stop. If you do box squats and good mornings all the time, your numbers will continue to...
DW's 325x10 video is not at all bad. Yes, the back is slightly rounded, but not especially badly, and no more than plenty of top PLers. It is a vast improvement on all the vids I've seen and he...
Doing more work later is fine, even the same movements (Sheiko's PL programs schedule in benching twice a day quite often), as long as you're not pushing yourself close to failure either time....
I strongly disagree with this. In my opinion a coach is next to essential. There is a reason why you wouldn't succeed without a coach: the Olympic lifts are enormously technical and it is almost...
Kliplemet, you must be relatively new here. If you persist in arguing with Pridg01, you will continue to see that it is simply not possible to disagree with him. He is right about everything. Anyone...
I understand what you mean. What I'm saying is that although you do indeed need to accelerate the bar more in a power clean than in a speed DL, you don't have to accelerate it more *off the floor*....
Most Olympic weightlifters train much closer to their max on a regular basis than do powerlifters. Many, especially those coached according to the Russian/Bulgarian school, work up to a "training...
Just because it uses the kind of weights you'd expect to use for training explosiveness on DLs (although I'd go more 60-70 rather than 50%) doesn't mean it's useful for that reason. The reason why I...
I agree. I hear a lot of people advocating power cleans as DL assistance, and speed is the reason they cite, but I don't think it stands up to scrutiny. As you say, the weight is much lighter (even...
