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

[scarboro]

I bench more than I can front squat...

I'm in on that crew for sure. My best front squat is still 130kg paused. Doubt I could do it now and I just CG benched 205lbsx14, 225llbsx10. It's pretty sad how I know what I need to improve yet I've been wasting time 'procrastinating' my lifts.

Your deadlift is freaking beastly man!

Says the guy with probably the best overall strength in this forum

[dbk1]

Anybody here familiar with Anthony Pomponio? He's an 85kg lifter from California (I believe) who from what I gather took up the sport after playing college football. He's popped up in a few Cal Strength and Podium Gold training videos, and he's pretty ****ing strong for a relative newcomer. I just came across this video of him on his channel power snatching 127 kg for a double, and then power cleaning 150 kg followed by 5 straight jerks.

oh **** dude played for Whittier, if he was a bit younger I coulda played him
super confusing that theres a bodybuilder also in SoCal with the same name

[jagboy]

Anybody here familiar with Anthony Pomponio? He's an 85kg lifter from California (I believe) who from what I gather took up the sport after playing college football. He's popped up in a few Cal Strength and Podium Gold training videos, and he's pretty ****ing strong for a relative newcomer. I just came across this video of him on his channel power snatching 127 kg for a double, and then power cleaning 150 kg followed by 5 straight jerks.



Dude is yoked out of his mind also.

oh **** dude played for Whittier, if he was a bit younger I coulda played him
super confusing that theres a bodybuilder also in SoCal with the same name

It's the same guy from what I've gathered on his FB page

Yeah i recently subbd him on youtube. I saw him in the 85 kg natl's vid and was like this guy is jak3d(no homo)

He placed 5th 2 years ago at nationals.

I really curious about his height.

[Smolovicus]

Looked at that vid's channel...



what in the actual phuck, why do I even lift.

[dbk1]

It's the same guy from what I've gathered on his FB page

Yeah i recently subbd him on youtube. I saw him in the 85 kg natl's vid and was like this guy is jak3d(no homo)

He placed 5th 2 years ago at nationals.

I really curious about his height.

5'8

holy fck its the same guy??? mind = blown he's huge

[Reidy]

It's the same guy from what I've gathered on his FB page

Yeah i recently subbd him on youtube. I saw him in the 85 kg natl's vid and was like this guy is jak3d(no homo)

He placed 5th 2 years ago at nationals.

I really curious about his height.

I think he's 5'7.

Apparently makes bench pressing easier... 226 x 32, holy ****.


Pretty sure he's an amateur bodybuilder as well.

[jagboy]

5'8

holy fck its the same guy??? mind = blown he's huge

fuarkk can't blame him being strong/jacked as fuk on being a supermanlet


ill default to my second insecurity defense....


dat der cell tech....

[dbk1]

fuarkk can't blame him being strong/jacked as fuk on being a supermanlet


ill default to my second insecurity defense....


dat der cell tech....

dat der manlet tech

[LudiWithKnives]

where are your singlet pics jagboy....

[NooDawgg]

hey, i had a question on cleans... how do u guys go from catching your clean then to jerking it?

when i catch my clean at the bottom, i can FS it up pretty easy, but the bar is resting on the middle of my fingers, making it very difficult (not to mention dangerous too) to jerk it.

was wondering what i should work on to be able to catch the clean like this:



all he has to do is lower his elbows and hes in a good position to jerk

[jb4476]

ftwrestler, here is the promised video:

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3w_...hucFNySDg/edit

Very close, but no cigar. I considered going for the last rep for a second, but I knew I didn't have enough left in the tank. I gave it everything I had. But that's OK. It's actually very common for me to hit one less than the prescribed reps for one session, only to make all the reps on the next session when I attempt the same thing. So, I will try again next time I FS. Which is Sunday.

[ftwrestler]

ftwrestler, here is the promised video:

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3w_...hucFNySDg/edit

Very close, but no cigar. I considered going for the last rep for a second, but I knew I didn't have enough left in the tank. I gave it everything I had. But that's OK. It's actually very common for me to hit one less than the prescribed reps for one session, only to make all the reps on the next session when I attempt the same thing. So, I will try again next time I FS. Which is Sunday.

looked like you could have gotten a 3rd honestly. good job jp man

[Reidy]

Inspired by the Poverty crew (and since I'm no longer a broke college kid)... I present to you: Middle Class Weightlifting, Episode One.



Pretty ****ty day of lifting. Snatches were okay, felt pretty fast compared to my lifts of late. Cleans were a different story, as I hit 3 doubles at 102 kg which felt incredibly heavy/hard, when normally that's a weight I can smoke easily.

I then hit 107 kg and 111 kg, and went for a PR of 120 kg. I've front squatted 125 for triples so I thought I'd make this easily, but for some reason I missed all 4 attempts. I'm chalking it up to fatigue/my awful diet this week. Need to clean it up and hone it in if I want to hit this weight before the end of 2012 (and possibly civilization as we know it.)

Finished up with front squats, hitting 111kg for 5 triples, really focusing on keeping tight and upright and not losing my center of gravity. I worked up to 125 kg for 5 triples last week, but figured maybe it's time to drop the weight a bit and really work on keeping tight.

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Anybody have any thoughts on the missed cleans? I'm not really sure what went wrong and just last week I front squatted 139 kg so I'm not sure it's simply just lack of leg strength.

Like I said earlier I'm chalking it up to just one of those weak days we all have, but any thoughts/critiques are appreciated.

[jb4476]

^The first and third clean were clearly caught too far forward and you had to ditch the bar. I have no idea what went wrong in the second clean. Catch looked fine but you couldn't stand with it. Maybe your legs were just weak and tired on that particular day. It happens. It happened to me yesterday, but then I almost PRed today.

[dbk1]

that feel when 100kg snatch

poverty weightlifting episode 3 in the works!

^^^Reidy every single one of those cleans got out in front of you. if you had pulled that bar right to your chest you would have gotten them. that being said 120 will fall real soon, plenty of pulling power and what sound like a lot of leg strength

[jb4476]

Be sure to include you nearly killing Carlos and also me losing one hand on the bar in the clean. Those were pretty funny (only because Carlos was unhurt).

[Reidy]

^The first and third clean were clearly caught too far forward and you had to ditch the bar. I have no idea what went wrong in the second clean. Catch looked fine but you couldn't stand with it. Maybe your legs were just weak and tired on that particular day. It happens. It happened to me yesterday, but then I almost PRed today.

I hear ya, watching those now I can see what you're saying. Even my cleans at 185# tonight felt kind of "off," both technique-wise and strength-wise so I think it's a combination of both of those.

@dbk -- did you hit 100kg?

[dbk1]

I hear ya, watching those now I can see what you're saying. Even my cleans at 185# tonight felt kind of "off," both technique-wise and strength-wise so I think it's a combination of both of those.

@dbk -- did you hit 100kg?

yes sir

[Reidy]

yes sir

Congrats dude. I hope to get there one day.

[feces99]

i can haz inebriated oly forum teim now?

ps: im now 18, i can totally be in a porno

[huntito]

jb/huntito -- Can I get in on that 100kg snatch race? My best snatch to date is 77kg.

All -- Regarding the new Calling all OL'ers thread, and this thread in general... do you guys think this may be the largest collection of like-minded amateur weightlifters on the internet? I was thinking about this yesterday and I can't really think of any thread/forum that's as active as this single thread is. I've visited PendlayForums and Catalyst Athletics, and while people post there, I don't get the same sense of community/activity that I see here.

Sure brah just make sure you record it when you get it!
I agree with you on the whole sense of community/camaraderie. Even though I have poverty lifts everyone here is such a big inspiration. To be honest, I just want to be better than all of you lol

check the ego at the door bro beans. makes training easier

so much this. brb great Poverty Weightlifting video coming up brah

hey, i had a question on cleans... how do u guys go from catching your clean then to jerking it?

when i catch my clean at the bottom, i can FS it up pretty easy, but the bar is resting on the middle of my fingers, making it very difficult (not to mention dangerous too) to jerk it.

was wondering what i should work on to be able to catch the clean like this:

First off, you gotta find out what's comfortable for you when it comes to the jerk. You should however be very weary when trying to emulate what the Chinese do lol. They're some crazy mother ****ers brah.

Inspired by the Poverty crew (and since I'm no longer a broke college kid)... I present to you: Middle Class Weightlifting, Episode One.
Anybody have any thoughts on the missed cleans? I'm not really sure what went wrong and just last week I front squatted 139 kg so I'm not sure it's simply just lack of leg strength.

Like I said earlier I'm chalking it up to just one of those weak days we all have, but any thoughts/critiques are appreciated.

Keep the vids coming! 1 request though, get them at a different angle lol. As far as nailing that clean... like dbk said, keep the bar nice and tight to the body and it'll just feel perfect once you catch it in the bottom

i can haz inebriated oly forum teim now?

ps: im now 18, i can totally be in a porno

Welcome to the dark side brah

[ftwrestler]

yes sir

that was fast. now i need to hit 101 or something lol

[huntito]

that was fast. now i need to hit 101 or something lol

and so... the 1-up wars begin lol

[matjusm]

I was wondering whether any of you guys have tips on how to bounce out of the "hole" when catching the clean? I only manage to do it sometimes and more often than not I just stop at the bottom and then struggle up with it (I really need to get my squat up). Its just wasted energy that I could be putting into my jerk but I'm just not since I haven't mastered the technique yet.
Any ideas?

[strengthsthetic]

I was wondering whether any of you guys have tips on how to bounce out of the "hole" when catching the clean? I only manage to do it sometimes and more often than not I just stop at the bottom and then struggle up with it (I really need to get my squat up). Its just wasted energy that I could be putting into my jerk but I'm just not since I haven't mastered the technique yet.
Any ideas?

can you do it when you back squat?

[dbk1]

we president now

[ftwrestler]

strong coaching.

"th

"throw" is something i am adding to my list of "too far in front" and "add more the 2nd pull" lol


looked like you were good for more than 102kg on the snatch

[scarboro]

Lol I love your poverty videos.

My gym night went a little worse so i'll cliff it.
-Friend ninja filmed me 70kg klokov press (waiting on him to send)
-not allowed to film(even tho gym was pretty much empty)
-girl who works there comes over and yells (this is the 2nd time)
-I pretty much roid raged
-Loaded up metal bar on floor with metal plates and started deadlifting & banging 315lb loudly
-Did this for a while till they were looking like theyre were gonna kick me out (kept getting warned)

[jagboy]

where are your singlet pics jagboy....

high resolution pic coming today man

lol

[Reidy]

Sounds like you got a bunch of dicks who run your gym Scarboro. Is it a globo gym?

My gym has a strict no cell phone policy UNLESS you're recording or logging your lifts, so I'm good.

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I had a much better day today than last night. Tied my pathetic snatch PR (75 kg) and had 78 overhead 7 times but couldn't lock it out once. Then I clean and jerked 102 kg, just missed tying my 104 kg PR (probably would have had it if I hadn't set up so close to the front of the platform and could have saved it), then just missed 106 kg.

Then I squatted 161 kg for a new PR after 90 minutes of snatching and clean and jerking.

Finished up with some strict presses. Now I'm going to go eat 4,000 calories and then pass out for 10 hours.