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

[jb4476]

I wanted to do that to fix the problem but I'm doing smolov atm and don't want it to mess with my back squat increasing. Do you think it will be a problem going heavy on front squats as well if I want to keep aggressively increasing backsquat?

Works for me. I'm pretty well adjusted to constant squatting at this point, but there is no reason that you cannot go heavy on both the FS and the BS.

[schabowy90]

I wanted to do that to fix the problem but I'm doing smolov atm and don't want it to mess with my back squat increasing. Do you think it will be a problem going heavy on front squats as well if I want to keep aggressively increasing backsquat?

How many days a week squatting

[Kadisha]

Works for me. I'm pretty well adjusted to constant squatting at this point, but there is no reason that you cannot go heavy on both the FS and the BS.

I can vouch for this. I've been doing BS and FS for the past two months and my BS has skyrocketed. If you get eat well and sleep well you'll recover by the time you're hitting BS again.

[CuriousGM]

Coach's Eye is broken as sh*t on Android; this is the only video I've been able to salvage.

[BTBAM]

can someone tell me why my back is all crouched over at the bottom of the clean. To me it looks like everything is ok until I reach the bottom :| it's really limiting what I can clean

It is a mobility thing. You need better hip mobility to be able to drive your knees towards outside of your torso, instead of them going straight forward. Doing this will make your back much more stable and upright in the catch and bottom of a front squat

[strengthsthetic]

Works for me. I'm pretty well adjusted to constant squatting at this point, but there is no reason that you cannot go heavy on both the FS and the BS.

I could squat heavy everyday but not at the volume I'm using..

How many days a week squatting

smolov, 4x a week with alot of total reps

I can vouch for this. I've been doing BS and FS for the past two months and my BS has skyrocketed. If you get eat well and sleep well you'll recover by the time you're hitting BS again.

maybe I'll do very low volume front squats in between

It is a mobility thing. You need better hip mobility to be able to drive your knees towards outside of your torso, instead of them going straight forward. Doing this will make your back much more stable and upright in the catch and bottom of a front squat

I figured that was an issue as well.. what stretches do you think are good for getting my knees out more? pigeon pose?

[trailless]

I wanted to do that to fix the problem but I'm doing smolov atm and don't want it to mess with my back squat increasing. Do you think it will be a problem going heavy on front squats as well if I want to keep aggressively increasing backsquat?

No problem. Even today I did back squats and front squats.

[ftwrestler]

132kg fs for some pretty easy doubles today.


also deadlifted 140x10 and 160x5 for the lulz

[jb4476]

Had to bail out on going to CF today. Too much in the way of academic commitment for work due in the next 24 hours. Going to the school gym to squat and press is one thing. That takes one hour at most, and that hour is usually 10 pm-ish. But biking to CF, doing Oly lifts and then strength work and then biking home will consume at least 3.5 hours and those 3.5 hours are usually in the worst time block imaginable, it clashes with everything and it's incredibly mentally draining. I feel bad because Takano will be irritated, but I feel like I'm being pulled in 1,000 directions. I need to do well in school, I need to get into grad school, I'm still doing research, I want to be better at Oly and to recover properly I need enough sleep (something students here famously lack). But it does really make me feel really bad when I am forced to bail on going to CF, which is a bit strange since I'm paying him.

[Robination]

Had to bail out on going to CF today. Too much in the way of academic commitment for work due in the next 24 hours. Going to the school gym to squat and press is one thing. That takes one hour at most, and that hour is usually 10 pm-ish. But biking to CF, doing Oly lifts and then strength work and then biking home will consume at least 3.5 hours and those 3.5 hours are usually in the worst time block imaginable, it clashes with everything and it's incredibly mentally draining. I feel bad because Takano will be irritated, but I feel like I'm being pulled in 1,000 directions. I need to do well in school, I need to get into grad school, I'm still doing research, I want to be better at Oly and to recover properly I need enough sleep (something students here famously lack). But it does really make me feel really bad when I am forced to bail on going to CF, which is a bit strange since I'm paying him.

I don't know that academic feel

what's so good about LaTeX?

[brahskimoseph]

How do you guys jerk heavy ass weight? It seems like when I go heavy (Past 270) I don't feel like my hands are in a position to jerk the weight. I never really learned how to jerk it no homo

[Robination]

How do you guys jerk heavy ass weight? It seems like when I go heavy (Past 270) I don't feel like my hands are in a position to jerk the weight. I never really learned how to jerk it no homo

post a video

also, 5'11" 245lb

Age: 17

okay

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[jb4476]

I don't know that academic feel

what's so good about LaTeX?

It makes everything beautiful.

[Robination]

It makes everything beautiful.

lawl my math teacher is telling us to get on it, but not sure if I want to learn how to use it.

[BTBAM]

I could squat heavy everyday but not at the volume I'm using..

smolov, 4x a week with alot of total reps

maybe I'll do very low volume front squats in between

I figured that was an issue as well.. what stretches do you think are good for getting my knees out more? pigeon pose?

Knees out is usually a function of anterior hip flexibility. Do super couch stretches til you die, quadriceps stretching, and psoas stretching. Also, hit the pigeon pose often as that will help, but mostly the front hip stuff I mentioned.

[strengthsthetic]

Knees out is usually a function of anterior hip flexibility. Do super couch stretches til you die, quadriceps stretching, and psoas stretching. Also, hit the pigeon pose often as that will help, but mostly the front hip stuff I mentioned.

k sweet. btw when i sit down in a chair and push my knees out as far as possible my external rotators around where my hip/glute/IT meet feels a bit painful (not like really bad but I can feel a bit of pain) I was wondering what this means?


BTW decided I'm gonna get grey rehbands, gonna get some warm pants too, which do you guys think would be better?

1)

2)

the description for both on jackals gym is the same (same function, indications, material and thickness). I like the look of the blue one better but don't know which is better for weightlifting

[brahskimoseph]

post a video

also, 5'11" 245lb

Age: 17

okay

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Ok I'll try to get one tomorow.

[schabowy90]

153x3 fs pr.


Now to get my pull strength up...

[jubjub007]

woot 145 power clean lol sadly das pounds. still working on catching it lower, i think i may need to front squat more in addition to heavy high cleans

[jb4476]

153x3 fs pr.


Now to get my pull strength up...

Holy ****. I remember you told me once that FS and BS were really close and it was weird. Have you set any BS PRs recently? Because if not our BS numbers are the same but I think you just tripled my FS 1 RM.



Srs jelly of your tremendous FS progress.

Kind of annoyed that academic commitment (specifically piece of work with strict 8 pm deadline) kept me from Takano but today was still extremely productive. Went to gym at 8:30 and did BTN Push pressing, front squatting, back squatting followed by clean triples. I'm pleased by how conditioned I've become to Oly. Before, after squatting I was tired and so if I Oly lifted second it was mediocre, and conversely if I Oly lifted first I was totally dead and couldn't squat at all. Now either way works fine. Take a 20 minute break, wander around and I'm good to go. Cleaned 108 kgx3 after doing push pressing and maxing out on both squats. That's a PR. Thanks ftwrestler btw for showing me the value of triples and doubles on the main lifts. Feel like I respond really well to them.

My stupid ****ing camera fell over and stopped recording after rep 1.

[dbk1]

Holy ****. I remember you told me once that FS and BS were really close and it was weird. Have you set any BS PRs recently? Because if not our BS numbers are the same but I think you just tripled my FS 1 RM.



Srs jelly of your tremendous FS progress.

Kind of annoyed that academic commitment (specifically piece of work with strict 8 pm deadline) kept me from Takano but today was still extremely productive. Went to gym at 8:30 and did BTN Push pressing, front squatting, back squatting followed by clean triples. I'm pleased by how conditioned I've become to Oly. Before, after squatting I was tired and so if I Oly lifted second it was mediocre, and conversely if I Oly lifted first I was totally dead and couldn't squat at all. Now either way works fine. Take a 20 minute break, wander around and I'm good to go. Cleaned 108 kgx3 after doing push pressing and maxing out on both squats. That's a PR. Thanks ftwrestler btw for showing me the value of triples and doubles on the main lifts. Feel like I respond really well to them.

My stupid ****ing camera fell over and stopped recording after rep 1.

you need to make your clean pull much more fluid, it looks like you are pausing slightly when you finish jessica-north style but your form is so much better man, you should be really happy of the progress youve made

[jb4476]

you need to make your clean pull much more fluid, it looks like you are pausing slightly when you finish jessica-north style but your form is so much better man, you should be really happy of the progress youve made

Thanks man! I am very pleased and I hope to continue to correct the various problems that remain. I hope Takano as well will be happy with today's success when I tell him and that he won't be too annoyed that I missed today (and Friday due to sickness, which caused me to miss today because it pushed back the work that I needed to do). I feel really bad when I miss going to CF, not because it causes me to miss training because it didn't, but because it gives me a reputation for inconsistent showing in his eyes, but academic commitments have to come first.

[WHT_LIGHTNING]

I MIZZ YOU GUYZ




BTW



YES MY TOES ARE JACKED

and you know I'm drunk off that Russian Standard, lol.

Ran a 5k in 21 minutes tho, getting back there. New Year, different goals.

[jb4476]

I MIZZ YOU GUYZ




BTW



YES MY TOES ARE JACKED

and you know I'm drunk off that Russian Standard, lol.

Ran a 5k in 21 minutes tho, getting back there. New Year, different goals.

Holy fuark look who it is. How you doing? And you must be lean as **** now. Have you ever smashed your toes repeatedly with a hammer? Because they kind of look like nails that have been bent out of shape (srs).

[jb4476]

Coach's Eye is broken as sh*t on Android; this is the only video I've been able to salvage.

Mirin' jerk. I need to learn to keep the elbows up in the dip like you do. As it stands I derp the **** out and hunch the dip, ****s the whole thing up.

[dbk1]

Thanks man! I am very pleased and I hope to continue to correct the various problems that remain. I hope Takano as well will be happy with today's success when I tell him and that he won't be too annoyed that I missed today (and Friday due to sickness, which caused me to miss today because it pushed back the work that I needed to do). I feel really bad when I miss going to CF, not because it causes me to miss training because it didn't, but because it gives me a reputation for inconsistent showing in his eyes, but academic commitments have to come first.

I'm sure he understands. being a full time student and lifter takes alot of time out of your day. did my first double session today and I had time for pretty much nothing else besides HW and lifting. felt good doe

I MIZZ YOU GUYZ




BTW


YES MY TOES ARE JACKED

and you know I'm drunk off that Russian Standard, lol.

Ran a 5k in 21 minutes tho, getting back there. New Year, different goals.

i dont wanna compete against u bro ur stronger than me

also jelly, my coach said only 1 night of drinking a week

[schabowy90]

@JB 150x5 recently on a pretty ****ty day. not sure how much itd be at a peak day. probably not that much more maybe 155

its da power of the eleiko belt yo! on fs i mean. semi srs. I will say by the 2nd and definitely the 3rd rep my core starts to wobble a bit in the front rack position. ****s brutal lol

[ftwrestler]

came into post about a paused BS that i thought was impressive................never mind



145 with a 10 second pause at the bottom. seems trivial compared to you guys now. snap

[JiP]

Coach's Eye is broken as sh*t on Android; this is the only video I've been able to salvage.

Strong lift!

[DaTruth1]

yall might not care but I finally figured out how to powerclean. I'd usually struggle to hit 100 barely above parallel/riding most of them down. Today I started shrugging after my pull and that did wonders today and I hit 105 WAY above parallel. Hopefully this translates into my full cleans.