Just an absolutely atrocious display of weightlifting by me today.
1. Anybody want to diagnose my snatch problems? I know it's not the best camera angle but if you have any tips I'd love to hear them.
Oh how I know that feel bro lol. I struggle so much with the snatch it's the worst. The most I think I've ever done so far is 66kg... but my coach is slowly fixing my imbalances/problems.
Some things that he's taught me:
1) When coming out of the bottom position, don't lead with your ass "Rippetoe hip-drive" style. That just causes the weight to dump forward. Lead with the chest, you should really feel it in the quads if they're not developed.
2) It looks like you keep on ending up on your toes in the bottom position. Work on flexibility. If you're already flexible, then work on landing in a more stable bottom position through hang snatches and the like.
3) Your rhomboids may need some strengthening. They form a nice and tight upside down V in your back and are mainly responsible for retracting the scapula. If they're too weak like mine, then they give under too much stress which ultimately causes the shoulders to dip forward, which causes you to lose the weight forward.
That's about all the stuff my coach has told me that I can remember, best of luck man.
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Reidy you're underpulling on both your lifts - get your hips through and squeeze those glutes. You're catching your snatches WAY too forward, aim to get the bar over the back of your head. Your jerks are weird, move your feet faster and keep them as close to the ground as you can - it should feel like your feet are gliding over the platform when you split. You're putting too much effort in driving the bar up, you should really focus on pushing your body down.
Just an absolutely atrocious display of weightlifting by me today.
Workout called for 20 minutes to establish a 1RM snatch, rest 5 minutes, then 20 minutes to establish a 1RM clean and jerk. I did the same thing last Saturday and somehow totaled 11 kgs more then than I did today. Ugh.
1. Anybody want to diagnose my snatch problems? I know it's not the best camera angle but if you have any tips I'd love to hear them.
2. Pretty awful clean and jerk day as I was only able to hit 98 kg when last week I hit 104. I think it's partially due to a lot of overhead volume this week and partially to my legs being tired as **** from front squatting yesterday.
Either way, just a ****ty day of lifting.
Your butt is shooting up too early on the snatches, and you seem to be letting it swing out in front of you a little bit when you're dropping under, causing you to lose it out in front
I was annoyed that I just missed my rep PR attempt on the back squat yesterday, but I got a new rep PR today with 300x6. LA bros, our week with Takano will be cut short for a third time in a row, he won't be here on Thursday/Friday because he's attending the US open in Palm Springs. He said "you should go, it would be a valuable learning experience", which is true, but it's still the academic year and Palm springs is over 100 miles away, and I don't think I can just rent a car, leave for a few days and spend my parents' money on accommodation and gas to attend the US Open.
Reidy you're underpulling on both your lifts - get your hips through and squeeze those glutes. You're catching your snatches WAY too forward, aim to get the bar over the back of your head. Your jerks are weird, move your feet faster and keep them as close to the ground as you can - it should feel like your feet are gliding over the platform when you split. You're putting too much effort in driving the bar up, you should really focus on pushing your body down.
Yeah, you're doing the same thing I'm doing. Coach keeps saying to stop cutting the pull short. You have to follow through or the bar will always be too far in front and you'll never receive it correctly. Keep trying to really extend as much as possible and you will receive the bar better, or, as Coach says in typical Takano fashion, "you need to myelinate more neurons".
This. Btw, your training methods are very effective. I'm making sure to get at least 8-9x squat sessions per week (4x front, 4-5x back) and it works very well.
i love it. I make 2 back squat days high reps and 1 front squat day high reps
every saturday i do a 20 rep squat. keeps my knees healthy. THe most annoying part of training 13x a week is the PT time. I am doing my own physical therapy every ****ing day when i just want to take a shower, eat, and go to bed.
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i love it. I make 2 back squat days high reps and 1 front squat day high reps
every saturday i do a 20 rep squat. keeps my knees healthy. THe most annoying part of training 13x a week is the PT time. I am doing my own physical therapy every ****ing day when i just want to take a shower, eat, and go to bed.
What do you do for PT? Just lots of foam rolling, massaging, etc? I feel like I asked you this before lol
Speaking about PT, my PT-school pre reqs are looking quite nice Just need to take A&P, Statistics, Ochem II and Physics II.
FTW was it you who wanted to go to PT school or was it ForceFed?
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Originally Posted by jb4476
I was annoyed that I just missed my rep PR attempt on the back squat yesterday, but I got a new rep PR today with 300x6. LA bros, our week with Takano will be cut short for a third time in a row, he won't be here on Thursday/Friday because he's attending the US open in Palm Springs. He said "you should go, it would be a valuable learning experience", which is true, but it's still the academic year and Palm springs is over 100 miles away, and I don't think I can just rent a car, leave for a few days and spend my parents' money on accommodation and gas to attend the US Open.
I want to go so so so bad. two lifters at my gym in philly and my coach will be competing. Would love to watch them compete but 100 miles is far as ****
Just an absolutely atrocious display of weightlifting by me today.
Workout called for 20 minutes to establish a 1RM snatch, rest 5 minutes, then 20 minutes to establish a 1RM clean and jerk. I did the same thing last Saturday and somehow totaled 11 kgs more then than I did today. Ugh.
hate this, some people need more rest between sets and im one of those people. i will not perform well being forced to warmup within a certain time. get used to how you normally warmup and in a meet give yourself that amount of time to warmup
hate this, some people need more rest between sets and im one of those people. i will not perform well being forced to warmup within a certain time. get used to how you normally warmup and in a meet give yourself that amount of time to warmup
try 45sec rest between triples.
heavy singles will feel easy by comparison
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Posted this on the Misc, but I figured some of you here would also be interested. I've been working on a little project that discussing various training stuff, have a YouTube video and a blog. You guys may want to check it out, will be posting new stuff weekly and also talking about any topic that anyone brings up (if it is relevant).
Posted this on the Misc, but I figured some of you here would also be interested. I've been working on a little project that discussing various training stuff, have a YouTube video and a blog. You guys may want to check it out, will be posting new stuff weekly and also talking about any topic that anyone brings up (if it is relevant).
i mean im good, but other people that visit the blog are going to want to know.
Yeah, going to cover all sorts of topics. Actually just put a video up of an average meal for me. I will likely write about nutrition for performance in the near future.
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Posted this on the Misc, but I figured some of you here would also be interested. I've been working on a little project that discussing various training stuff, have a YouTube video and a blog. You guys may want to check it out, will be posting new stuff weekly and also talking about any topic that anyone brings up (if it is relevant).
Do you guys train press? Is there any carry-over, or is it just for aesthetics?
Strict press? Oh hell yeah. I do it more than push pressing. Those and klokov presses. Amazing. Srs. I have short arms, so for me the lockout portion is cake. It's the lower and middle part of the pushing motion I needed to strengthen, which strict press allowed me to do.
Before I would makes cleans and miss jerks. Now I'm like rob Blackwell.
Today when I stood up with 130 there wasn't a doubt in my mind I would make the jerk.
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Yeah, going to cover all sorts of topics. Actually just put a video up of an average meal for me. I will likely write about nutrition for performance in the near future.
excellent.
looking fookin joocy btw cuz
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