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

[jb4476]

5/6, went 96, 100, 104 in the snatch no misses, than 114, 120 miss (tfw no leg drive in jerk), 120.

JUNIOR F*CKING NATIONALS BABY!

vidz upcoming

Absolutely sick job. 5/6 in your first meet is outstanding. Good luck in JNats.

[dbk1]

Hell yeah nice work.

224 to qualify at 94? Damn. I guess it makes sense. My poverty lifting after three months qualified me for uni nats lulz

nahh qualifiying total was only 218, I had it after my first c+j so I went for more obv

Absolutely sick job. 5/6 in your first meet is outstanding. Good luck in JNats.

thanks josh! shouldnt have missed 120 the first time I forgot about the whole leg drive part of the jerk ehehehe

[forcefedfreak]

I squatted 184x3 Yesterday. That is all.

[dbk1]

^^^ when will it be my turn to squat big weight???

[ftwrestler]

awesome watching everyone progress right now

living vicariously through you guys till i am all settled in my house lol.

then it will be mine turn....

[strengthsthetic]

5/6, went 96, 100, 104 in the snatch no misses, than 114, 120 miss (tfw no leg drive in jerk), 120.

JUNIOR F*CKING NATIONALS BABY!

vidz upcoming

gjdm

[huntito]

Today I went for a small session at our facilities

arrived there just after some geriatrics group left and was completely alone,
we recently cleaned everything up so I couldnt find any CDs for our stereo, EXCEPT for a Katy Perry LP someone seemingly left behind from the group

I never PR'd harder than today

brb no self respecting german should not PR to this song, and yes.. i know the lyrics are english gibberish lol



btw whats your favorite Bundesliga team? been following Dortmund and Bayern like crazy lately lmao

^^^ when will it be my turn to squat big weight???

brb cumming
fuarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrk bro great job, I srs need to get some bumper plates in this garage so i can train consistently again... could only snatch 60kg and CJ 80kg at school tonight cuz im so scared to drop the weights and get kicked out... but we're definitely celebrating when you get back bro

[Doncanutcho]

btw whats your favorite Bundesliga team? been following Dortmund and Bayern like crazy lately lmao

The city in which I live is directly neighbouring Dortmund and Gelsenkirchen
so I usually root for Borussia Dortmund or Schalke 04
If it comes to a derby I prefer Schalke though

My opinion on FC Bayern expressed in a song:

For those who cant understand: they suck and nobody likes them

[dbk1]

brb cumming
fuarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrk bro great job, I srs need to get some bumper plates in this garage so i can train consistently again... could only snatch 60kg and CJ 80kg at school tonight cuz im so scared to drop the weights and get kicked out... but we're definitely celebrating when you get back bro

both of those things need to happen lmao. maybe we should become pimps to make sum quick monies

[trailless]

Guys! I don't really contribute much to this section... I'm s miscer.... but I'll start contributing. I'm still a noob at oly lifting.

Anyways, yesterday I was contemplating whether or not to switch back to bodybuilding... im not going to be ashamed to admit or but I'd like a nice physique. I'm bulking right now and I'm getting fat... missing my low bf.

Then.I woke up this morning and.laughed about it.

[schabowy90]

^ bro both are important to me and I balance them...you don't have to get fat to be an OLY lifter. This is not powerlifting. I still do a lot of pull-ups, ring dips, shoulder pressing, very strict curls etc every few days

in my opinion, caloric intake is over exaggerated in some instances for all weight based sports, but especially for weightlifting. I think the more important thing is to focus on QUALITY over quantity. Things that promote great recovery AND proper hormone functions.

High or moderate fat and protein, low to moderate carbs. Omegas, low inflammation foods.


Stay safe.

[Robination]

you don't have to get fat to be an OLY lifter. This is not powerlifting.

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[jb4476]

Guys! I don't really contribute much to this section... I'm s miscer.... but I'll start contributing. I'm still a noob at oly lifting.

Anyways, yesterday I was contemplating whether or not to switch back to bodybuilding... im not going to be ashamed to admit or but I'd like a nice physique. I'm bulking right now and I'm getting fat... missing my low bf.

Then.I woke up this morning and.laughed about it.

My physique has improved with Oly lifting. Training is so fuarking hard and frequent that "maintanence eating" looks like most people's permafatbulk mode. What is your intended weight class? 77?

[jb4476]

Remember that vid of Lu X. doing a 150 snatch double? And when he dropped the bar it made almost zero sound when it hit the floor. Seriously, where do these people find such equipment that totally defies physics? This is 200 k making less sound than closing a door.

[matjusm]

Remember that vid of Lu X. doing a 150 snatch double? And when he dropped the bar it made almost zero sound when it hit the floor. Seriously, where do these people find such equipment that totally defies physics? This is 200 k making less sound than closing a door.

That is a really weird video as I can see that they´re using the Eleiko colored plates here. The reason I say so is because I used to train at a gym that had Eleiko weight sets, both the black rubber kind and the colored plate kind as shown in this video and in my experience the colored plates were significantly less pleasing to the ear than the black ones and made a sound nothing like what is heard here. Though then again it could also be the platform: different platforms use different material and are of differing thickness, all of which play a role.

[DaTruth1]

That is a really weird video as I can see that they´re using the Eleiko colored plates here. The reason I say so is because I used to train at a gym that had Eleiko weight sets, both the black rubber kind and the colored plate kind as shown in this video and in my experience the colored plates were significantly less pleasing to the ear than the black ones and made a sound nothing like what is heard here. Though then again it could also be the platform: different platforms use different material and are of differing thickness, all of which play a role.

Brand new/high quality platform + lots of plates on each side, to absorb more of the impact? (total bro science hypothesis). I find the colored eleiko plates more shock absorbing than the black ones, especially the competition plates - those barely bounce at all in my experience.

[DaTruth1]

I am late with this, but damn I have been blastin this track on repeat all weekend

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LOZhaxTw0I

[huntito]

The city in which I live is directly neighbouring Dortmund and Gelsenkirchen
so I usually root for Borussia Dortmund or Schalke 04
If it comes to a derby I prefer Schalke though

My opinion on FC Bayern expressed in a song:
[youtube]G3KPBRajN10[/youtube
For those who cant understand: they suck and nobody likes them

ever since all my friends started playing FIFA they started calling me Huntelaaaaaar (my name is Hunter), so Schalke has a soft spot in my heart too lol

Remember that vid of Lu X. doing a 150 snatch double? And when he dropped the bar it made almost zero sound when it hit the floor. Seriously, where do these people find such equipment that totally defies physics? This is 200 k making less sound than closing a door.

[youtube]sGFbsMKkoYs[/youtube

dat dere eleiko platform that costs more than a car should have some sound deadening technology in it... just saiyan

[strengthsthetic]

@jb what's your pressing/push pressing regimen? I need to know what to do to increase my push press, don't care too much about strict but I'll include it if push pressing too often is too taxing. Also how long did it take for you to get from 70-80 push press to 100kg region?

[DaTruth1]

^^ not sure why you want to increase your push press but I warn you it will probably not have much carry over into your jerk...

[forcefedfreak]

^^ not sure why you want to increase your push press but I warn you it will probably not have much carry over into your jerk...

Disagree. Almost everyone I've coached has benefited from increasing their pressing strength.

[DaTruth1]

Disagree. Almost everyone I've coached has benefited from increasing their pressing strength.

I guess most of the guys I train with haven't been weightlifting for more than a couple years, so maybe just none of us have been limited by pressing/push pressing strength yet - but all of us are very weak pressers and our coach has only programmed in push presses into a handful of weeks and never any presses but we are all strong jerkers (relative to our lifts, I suppose).

Who would you program in push presses for (all lifters? or to target a specific weakness?) and how do you program them in?

[jb4476]

@jb what's your pressing/push pressing regimen? I need to know what to do to increase my push press, don't care too much about strict but I'll include it if push pressing too often is too taxing. Also how long did it take for you to get from 70-80 push press to 100kg region?

Well, I used to train the (front) strict overhead press and the front push press. I don't have my old logs. However, I believe that I push pressed 75x4 sometime in August of 2011, and then in Febuary of 2012 I remember that I push pressed 95x4 (I remember both of these specific PRs because the first was the day before I left Australia, the second I remember being particularly pleased because I was incredibly hung over). That should answer your question about the timeline. I also recall that I wasn't doing any heavy back squatting back then, which is really the key to driving up the lift. I believe that with superior programming, I could have done it faster.

I don't train the front push press anymore because I believe the behind the neck version to be far superior. I currently do the following:

Strict press 3x/week
BTN PP 2x/week

I won't do both on the same day, either. Pressing movements go before squatting movements (having leg strength in the tank affects both of these lifts, especially the push press obviously. The reverse is untrue. A heavy, draining push press max will not really affect your squat session immediately following). The programming for both lifts is very simple. On any given day, I attempt a rep PR of some kind. I like cycling through rep ranges. The way I will do this is warm up to one max effort top set. All of the warming up is directed toward the top set in which I attempt a rep PR. So on any given day, there is really not a great deal of heavy volume for any lift, I hate doing sets across and emphasize frequency over volume for all forms of squatting and pressing. This is how I program front/back squatting and press/push pressing and I stand by the results.

So here is how progression of the top set works: You write down a set of possible targets over a spread of rep ranges from (say) 2-10. For any given exercise, you warm up to a max effort top set in which you attempt one of the targets.

When you hit any of those targets you write a new set of targets. Here's a real life example from me. I recently hit a new strict overhead press PR of 170x8. I had written down four targets, I wanted either 162.5x10, or 170x8, or 185x5 or 195x3 (these ones are in lbs, obviously. I am not a smaller Ken Patera). Since I hit one of the targets, I wrote down a new set of targets. These are 165x10, 180x7, 190x5 or 200x3. As to which particular target I decide to attempt on a particular day, that is little more than personal preference. If I hit a 7-rep PR then I might try my next target to be a 5-rep PR among the next set of targets, and so on. You get the idea.

I want to emphasize the fact that although the targets follow a "linear progression" the actual program does not. Because especially if you do the same exercises again and again with that much frequency, some days you feel good, other days you feel bad, some days you feel like absolute ****ing ****, and other days you feel really, really good. On any given day, for the exercises I intend to do, I will walk into the gym with the intention of hitting a prescribed target. If it's a good day, that will happen and I have a new PR, but plenty of days feel just awful and that doesn't happen. That's OK. It's a normal part of training. Just do what you can, when you can.

[schabowy90]

Gonna power jerk tomorrow. Get off me bros. I hate split jerking. Never hit the same looking jerk twice. Srs

I guess most of the guys I train with haven't been weightlifting for more than a couple years, so maybe just none of us have been limited by pressing/push pressing strength yet - but all of us are very weak pressers and our coach has only programmed in push presses into a handful of weeks and never any presses but we are all strong jerkers (relative to our lifts, I suppose).

Who would you program in push presses for (all lifters? or to target a specific weakness?) and how do you program them in?

Look how effortless and flawless the Russians jerks are. They probably press more than anyone.

[Robination]

hmm apparently liao hui will be participating in the national games next years

for the chinese brahs, video of some of and only the top names/london 2012 participants:
http://sports.cntv.cn/20121226/101405.shtml

[CuriousGM]

Gonna power jerk tomorrow.

[forcefedfreak]

I guess most of the guys I train with haven't been weightlifting for more than a couple years, so maybe just none of us have been limited by pressing/push pressing strength yet - but all of us are very weak pressers and our coach has only programmed in push presses into a handful of weeks and never any presses but we are all strong jerkers (relative to our lifts, I suppose).

Who would you program in push presses for (all lifters? or to target a specific weakness?) and how do you program them in?

See I think it's newer lifters that can benefit most from it. I've got some lifters that have great jerk technique, but it's their general strength that's limited them. I usually program in some pressing 2x a week at the end of a session (before abs) usually 5x5s or 5x3s.

[DaTruth1]

See I think it's newer lifters that can benefit most from it. I've got some lifters that have great jerk technique, but it's their general strength that's limited them. I usually program in some pressing 2x a week at the end of a session (before abs) usually 5x5s or 5x3s.

Interesting. I am sure it wouldn't hurt, but then again I am most limited by my clean recoveries so until that is up to par I am not going to worry about anything else. My coach doesn't seem to think pressing is important for us so there must be a reason for that.

[forcefedfreak]

All I know...it's not just snatch and clean & jerk. There's a reason why The Russians, Chinese, Kazhaks, and South Americans do general training. nom sayin?

[strengthsthetic]

^^ not sure why you want to increase your push press but I warn you it will probably not have much carry over into your jerk...

Yes it won't help get any more height on the jerk but it will provide a more stable lockout won't it?