Calling all OL'ers......:)

[wisdommaster1]

you start real deep in the hole (giggity). ive found that to be detrimental to my form so i start hips back shoulders over the bar. Im still working on grip position and where to place feet in the catch. it is a spiritual zen quest nomsayin?

could start with hips further back/shins more vertical? That should help maintain the integrity of your back during the pull provided you activate your posterior chain + upper back well

thanks, I did some more snatches yesterday and played around a bit my starting position. Will be back in today and will try moving my hips back, I'll try to get another video today as well to see if I'm looking better/worse.

[Keefinator02]

Two videos of me from the Arnold both openers but all they had uploaded on CoachsEye.

http://www.coachseye.com/DutU

http://www.coachseye.com/WFsN

Any advice? I think it looks pretty slow but I defiantly feel I am a little more speedy when I need to be with heavier weights. The bottom position on my snatch didn't look very comfortable although it feels very comfortable, and the jerk is a work in progress, I think it looks a little better with heavier weights.

Ended up going 84 and 111, videos are 84 and 100.

Saw videos up on CoachsEye of a couple other bros that post on here, good stuff guys.

[Keefinator02]

No idea how to Embed those. ^

[schabowy90]

decided to try some crossfit last night after working set of snatch complex :P



anyone going to MDUSA May 3? ill be dereeeeee

No idea how to Embed those. ^

the coaches Eye vids are pretty sweet.



FT sorry about dat food poison

[WHT_LIGHTNING]

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1. What do you do for a living? (full-time student counts)
2. Do you have a coach? (online, in-person, self-coached)
3. What's your favorite color?




I'll start
1. Full-time student and I work part-time on weekends (Fri night, Sat and Sun)
2. Had an in-person coach for about a year, and then I took a lot of time off. Have an online coach now.
3. Royal Blue

[Reidy]

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3. What's your favorite color?




I'll start
1. Full-time student and I work part-time on weekends (Fri night, Sat and Sun)
2. Had an in-person coach for about a year, and then I took a lot of time off. Have an online coach now.
3. Royal Blue

1. Work in advertising, currently waiting to hear back from Google about a job I interviewed for earlier this week.
2. No coach, trained with Vasily Polovnikov and Nikita Durnev a couple times but otherwise totally self-trained. Doing the LSUS program now.
3. Navy blue

[Keefinator02]

Random Questions for everybody in this thread

1. What do you do for a living? (full-time student counts)
2. Do you have a coach? (online, in-person, self-coached)
3. What's your favorite color?




I'll start
1. Full-time student and I work part-time on weekends (Fri night, Sat and Sun)
2. Had an in-person coach for about a year, and then I took a lot of time off. Have an online coach now.
3. Royal Blue

1. Accounting Full Time and Alittle More Due to Tax Season, Studying for the CPA exam.
2. No coach, doing LSUS last week of tens next week!
3. Some type of Blue.

[Keefinator02]

1. Work in advertising, currently waiting to hear back from Google about a job I interviewed for earlier this week.
2. No coach, trained with Vasily Polovnikov and Nikita Durnev a couple times but otherwise totally self-trained. Doing the LSUS program now.
3. Navy blue

Any advice for LSUS?

[wisdommaster1]

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1. Software Tester and Crossfit Trainer
2. Self-coached
3. Forest Green

[schabowy90]

work for accntg firm doing IT audit

two coaches really, get coached about once a week

blue and pink (srs)

Any advice for LSUS?

contrast shower everyday

thanks, I did some more snatches yesterday and played around a bit my starting position. Will be back in today and will try moving my hips back, I'll try to get another video today as well to see if I'm looking better/worse.

might be a muscle imbalance/deficiency if you cant physically keep your chest up. it actually looks decent, just the obvious "deadlift snatch"

[wisdommaster1]

might be a muscle imbalance/deficiency if you cant physically keep your chest up. it actually looks decent, just the obvious "deadlift snatch"

what muscle would be deficient? I think it might be a result of me rushing the first pull. I did some snatch pulls yesterday that felt better but I am going to take a video today of me doing snatches or pull with a slower first pull and see if I can my chest stays up

edit: I got my USAW cert last weekend and the guys from Columbus weightlifting taught the course. They obviously mentioned my hips coming up but when I slowed it down (quite slow) it seemed to sort itself out

[Black_Spit]

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1. Inventory Manager at a Big Box retail chain.
2. 75% self coached. I get guidance from a very good Powerlifting coach + what feedback I get online. But, as far as Oly coaching... I've been almost solitary.
3. Negged.

[ftwrestler]

FT sorry about dat food poison

im pretty much good now. my tummy is still a little picky tho. Good thing it still likes ramen

Random Questions for everybody in this thread

1. What do you do for a living? (full-time student counts)
2. Do you have a coach? (online, in-person, self-coached)
3. What's your favorite color?

1: part time work in a hospital kitchen, self "employed" as PFT and oly coach, full time student, house dad
B: up until this year i was self taught, and i still kind of am. FFF does my programming and gives me critique, but i still need to make the adjustments myself. Ive never had a coach next to me physically
pie: Purple. loooooove the color purple. especially royal colors of vivid purple. indigo. it is a super chill color. my goal is to get my wardrobe to about 50% purple. srs

[ftwrestler]

i have been working on my cues for jerks and i want to see if you guys can see the difference. Peep the jerks in the first minute and look at the front rack jerks that look 100x easier


other than that i gave made some ballin PRs the past week. almost every vid in here is a PR from the past week-ish

[Keefinator02]

i have been working on my cues for jerks and i want to see if you guys can see the difference. Peep the jerks in the first minute and look at the front rack jerks that look 100x easier


other than that i gave made some ballin PRs the past week. almost every vid in here is a PR from the past week-ish

****ing nice man good stuff.

[Keefinator02]

work for accntg firm doing IT audit

two coaches really, get coached about once a week

blue and pink (srs)



contrast shower everyday



might be a muscle imbalance/deficiency if you cant physically keep your chest up. it actually looks decent, just the obvious "deadlift snatch"

I have been doing Epson salt baths twice a week and feel alright hit a PR set of ten back squat this week while saving some energy because I am going for another PR set of ten for my last week.

The pulls are by far the hardest thing for me so far for tens.

[WHT_LIGHTNING]

1. Work in advertising, currently waiting to hear back from Google about a job I interviewed for earlier this week.
2. No coach, trained with Vasily Polovnikov and Nikita Durnev a couple times but otherwise totally self-trained. Doing the LSUS program now.
3. Navy blue

Team Blue(ish)

Vasily seems like an awesome dude

1. Accounting Full Time and Alittle More Due to Tax Season, Studying for the CPA exam.
2. No coach, doing LSUS last week of tens next week!
3. Some type of Blue.

Love Blue. My Brother-in-law is a CPA, I hope you have more personality than him, lol

1. Software Tester and Crossfit Trainer
2. Self-coached
3. Forest Green

Nice, have thought about getting into training, but IDK. Gonna get my CSCS when I graduate, and will probably do at least a little of grad school (GI Bill time left) but IDK. Olive Drab is probably my 2nd favorite color (Marine in me showing)

work for accntg firm doing IT audit

two coaches really, get coached about once a week

blue and pink (srs)

Luv Pink too. SRS. Always thought you were like 19, lol

1. Inventory Manager at a Big Box retail chain.
2. 75% self coached. I get guidance from a very good Powerlifting coach + what feedback I get online. But, as far as Oly coaching... I've been almost solitary.
3. Negged.

h8r

Really only put the color question in there because 2 questions is kind of lame. I work at Lowe's on the weekends, I do not envy the **** that you might have to deal with, but if you just deal with inventory, you might avoid most of that ****.

1: part time work in a hospital kitchen, self "employed" as PFT and oly coach, full time student, house dad
B: up until this year i was self taught, and i still kind of am. FFF does my programming and gives me critique, but i still need to make the adjustments myself. Ive never had a coach next to me physically
pie: Purple. loooooove the color purple. especially royal colors of vivid purple. indigo. it is a super chill color. my goal is to get my wardrobe to about 50% purple. srs

Same deal (and person) as you with the programming/coach; obviously it's not that ideal but I enjoy it more than I did with my last "in-person" coach. Plus I think it will help to make us better lifters and in your case a better coach (me too, if I can get into that "business"). How did you get your wife to agree to house-dad? I need deets on that.


Final thoughts, figured more people here would be the full-time student/no job type. Interesting, I figured most of us were without a real-life coach as well.

[ftwrestler]

How did you get your wife to agree to house-dad? I need deets on that.

i didnt lol. i just went through with it and said "if i am going to take care of him while you get deployed this year i need to work alot less"

[Black_Spit]

I do not envy the **** that you might have to deal with, but if you just deal with inventory, you might avoid most of that ****.

I was a store manager at GNC for many years before switching to a big box location (Petco) about 5-6 mo ago. The main reason for the switch was I wanted something closer to home.

Actually I've kinda regretted it. Its just a log more actual work for me lol for the same pay.

I have an interview with the State March 31 for a nice sit-down job. I have a buddy who will help me get in. So fingers crossed on that.

[olyw8lifter]

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1. Attorney - Intellectual Property and Business Law
2. Not anymore, started out with a coach for about 8 years, then moved and can't afford one now.
3. Navy Blue

[strengthsthetic]

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1. Optometry student, jobless
2. youtube videos of professionals lol
3. blue or green

so desperately want to get back to full squatting, powers pulls and box squats are getting very tedious

I hit a 105kg power clean in late January and I've never been able to hit it again since, only up to the region of 95-100. Has this ever happened to anyone? So frustrating.

[ftwrestler]

1. Optometry student, jobless
2. youtube videos of professionals lol
3. blue or green

so desperately want to get back to full squatting, powers pulls and box squats are getting very tedious

I hit a 105kg power clean in late January and I've never been able to hit it again since, only up to the region of 95-100. Has this ever happened to anyone? So frustrating.

i max out so little i never really find this out. reps are more important, it used to happen to me all the time when i first started, but then i shifted to triples

[strengthsthetic]

i max out so little i never really find this out. reps are more important, it used to happen to me all the time when i first started, but then i shifted to triples

yah. Tripling 70kg feels same difficultly as 1 75kg power snatch. Will try different reps out.
Is it possible that getting off creatine = lifts go down 10kg? just got some creatine again so I'll see if it makes that big a difference lol

[Greco-Roman]

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1. Full time Student; Stony Brook University; Mathematics and Economics major, Computer Science minor. (I private tutor kids in NYC and coach weightlifting on the side)

2. I have a "guide"...not really a coach

3. Red

[ftwrestler]

yah. Tripling 70kg feels same difficultly as 1 75kg power snatch. Will try different reps out.
Is it possible that getting off creatine = lifts go down 10kg? just got some creatine again so I'll see if it makes that big a difference lol

initially i see some big strength losses if i stop taking, but i never really stop taking creatine except for maybe like a month out of the year

1. Full time Student; Stony Brook University; Mathematics and Economics major, Computer Science minor. (I private tutor kids in NYC and coach weightlifting on the side)

2. I have a "guide"...not really a coach

3. Red

ive got sume bad newz

[wisdommaster1]

mixed butter + heavy whipping cream in my tea this morning... why have I not been doing this sooner?



also the new adipower colors are sick! I want them so bad but it seems foolish to have 2 pairs of the same shoes when my other ones are in very nice condition... but dem colors

[Greco-Roman]

'vat is wrong with Red?



Snatch PRs and Pause BK PR

[ftwrestler]

'vat is wrong with Red?



Snatch PRs and Pause BK PR

i have never tried a paused double and i dont think i ever will lol

[Greco-Roman]

i have never tried a paused double and i dont think i ever will lol

lol they're not bad if you don't hold you breath in the bottom (I don't). If you do, you get really dizzy after the set.

[Reidy]

Any advice for LSUS?

I literally just started it this week but early returns are to eat a ****ton of food and make sure you're resting and recovering. **** I'm sore.