Could I qualify for the 2016 Olympics, starting training now?

[strengthsthetic]

i <3 u 2
it took me like.. ****.. almost a year (with a few interruptions) to go from a 160 c&j to 170 c&j. i did everyday max training for a lot of that year. then look at clarence's progress lolz. **** .

your progress is similar to Clarence's though..

[muscletraps]

Sorry man, your age, bodyweight, and lifts really cannot keep up with your goals of making it to the olympics, especially in 4 years.

[chigiskov]

your progress is similar to Clarence's though..

yea...no

[fraverdenstreet]

yea...no

this lol.
when i first watched clarence's vids, he was snatching 145 for a single. a month or two later it was 150 for a double. guuu
no hate or anything, i love clarence. im jus sayin is all. i could care less if he was taking restoratives or not, just like i know klokov does but i still admire him

[scarboro]

Not to defend clarance or anything because I have no proof/information that he isn't taking anything but he's a pretty athletic/explosive guy. If theres one type of person who can make that type of progress it's probably some guy like him with a huge vertical.

[jimmie1983]

Have you guys seen Clarence bang out 4 reps of 240kg on squat like it's nothing. Then you go onto a channel like Cal Strength or MDUSA and watch them getting killed by this weight.

Clarence a kid at 18 with no coach is schooling USA lifters who do Oly lifting full time. It's hilarious.

And you're an idiot if you think the difference is because of drugs.

edit: that is also at lower body weight

[jimmie1983]

fkn this. I'm not debating his numbers being that of someone who works really hard for close to a decade natty, its the PROGRESS that is SUSPECT. learn to read delusional people.

oh yea training to max everyday for 3 years is feasible for natty athletes right?

but thanks jimmie i'll be sure to eat my steaks everyday and i'll add 100 kgs to my squat in the coming year, i'll just "work harder" too. great tips mate!

inb4, wait in after me being a "hater" lmao

I'm being serious. Are your training sessions intense?

[GoJu]

I'm being serious. Are your training sessions intense?

[PhreEkGarden]

It's funny that people talk about some peoples progress being 'suspect'... like every weightlifter in the olympics isn't 'suspect' anyway.

[PretentiousKunt]

I don't know. He has changed his technique and gained 8-9kg in a year. That said; on Pendlay forum a few months back there were two new users who had confessed that they had been taking dat dere and it wasn't the coach B's fault (basically taking the piss). Under the users name Pat Mendes and Josh Gilbert. Both users were banned and had an IP address from Limerick...

[WHT_LIGHTNING]

lol at this jimmie dude

[strengthsthetic]

I don't know. He has changed his technique and gained 8-9kg in a year. That said; on Pendlay forum a few months back there were two new users who had confessed that they had been taking dat dere and it wasn't the coach B's fault (basically taking the piss). Under the users name Pat Mendes and Josh Gilbert. Both users were banned and had an IP address from Limerick...

lol link?

[PretentiousKunt]

lol link?

It got deleted after they phoned Pat Mendes and asked him (within 30 minutes) then the user named "ADMIN" deleted the thread which he said his IP address etc. Others had seen the posts though; it was more or less saying "I and I alone took the HGH, wasn't broz fault etc etc". Some people actually took it seriously and said "good for you pat etc".

There's only a handful of lifters from limerick so I know that's a big assumption. I hope he hasn't taken anything yet because it'll just make him an even better lifter later.

[BadSnatch]

If you need to ask an internet forum for their approval to train for the olympics, you probably don't have the drive anyway.

[DaTruth1]

Lol no you won't make it to the Olympics. Do people actually start a sport with the sole intention of going to the Olympics? Give weightlifting a try, you might be good at it, or maybe even great. Even if you suck, you still might've found a new sport that you love.

[Falcon96]

Don't listen to them just go for it

[feces99]

Reminds me of a great James Taylor quote: "The meaning of life is to enjoy the passage of time"

[SiZzLaX]

Nope.
srs.

even training for entering the 2020 olympics in your case would be a 1 in a million.


people train from like age 10, go to atheltic universities, it's their lives every day. training twice a day. taking PED's starting in their mid to late teens already, being gifted genetically with fast twitch fibers etc etc etc.
Even then only the top couple percent of THOSE lifters make it to the OLY scene.

but go for it, find a coach, get training, compete locally, compete nationally, compete internationally. keep at it

it's very unlikely you'll do it in 4 years. But give it a shot.. I think the guys in your weight class are doing over 180-200kg+ snatches and clean and jerks.

[Smolovicus]

Have you guys seen Clarence bang out 4 reps of 240kg on squat like it's nothing. Then you go onto a channel like Cal Strength or MDUSA and watch them getting killed by this weight.

Clarence a kid at 18 with no coach is schooling USA lifters who do Oly lifting full time. It's hilarious.

And you're an idiot if you think the difference is because of drugs.

edit: that is also at lower body weight

You know Clarence lifts full time as well?

I have trouble discerning the logic behind any of your posts. You make a satirical or condescending observation, then conclude on an even more degrading (yet entirely baseless and, ultimately, arbitrary to its core) statement like "you're an idiot if..."

How would believing that make anyone an idiot? As you just explained, this is an 18 year old kid with no coach outlifting heavier adults who train just as often and just as intensely. Please note that I am not even insinuating that he does partake in the sauce... only that it is hardly an amateurish assumption.

Being completely honest, I just think the guy is a gift to weightlifting. Absolutely ridiculous genetics for the sport. 99/100 people will not be able to lift every day as he does, and much fewer of those would see such consistent progress.

[jimmie1983]

He is a student

[netopia]

I'm not going to join the "is he or not" debate I'm just curious where clarence0 would get his ****

i mean ireland isn't a big lifting country, not saying he isn't juicing because it'd still totally be possible and not at all out of the question.

WHT_LIGHTNING nice FS, how is your lifting going man? also are you gonna be a 105 or 94

Its not hard to get juice in Ireland.

[yummy22]

Possible to qualify yes

naim started training about 12 and hit world record at 16 -would have won the olympics if no for boycott then-

Its its likely? No

Especially if your as weak as you are now at 22.

Your also 6'4 so you will need to weigh at the very around 380lbs adding 200lbs to your frame in 4 years would be hard enough even with all the drugs you want

[yummy22]

Its not hard to get juice in Ireland.

everyone buys juice on the internet so you can get in anywhere

most of europe you can go to pharmacy and buy w/e you want for a fraction of the cost

juice wont help you be an olympian anyways even the worst lifters at the olympics use juice and some of the shw guys lift less then 77kg lifters

[yummy22]

Him and/or his coach have said it, I'll see if I can find the video.

lol don't bother I can find a million examples of lifters hitting more in non drug tested contests and in training its obvious they all use out of contest and come clean for contest



here is just one example of russian lifter training before 2011 world championships hitting 210kg snatch

What did he hit at the world champions you say?

198kg and it was not easy at all

Andrei Rybakou hit 191kg at non tested meet before his 08 silver medal where he snatched 185kg and it was tough-where as the 191kg was easy and fast-

[chigiskov]

everyone buys juice on the internet so you can get in anywhere

most of europe you can go to pharmacy and buy w/e you want for a fraction of the cost

juice wont help you be an olympian anyways even the worst lifters at the olympics use juice and some of the shw guys lift less then 77kg lifters

most of europe? notsureifsrs roids are highly controlled in europe

[Ascension2016]

OP shares my dream. Although he may have given up on it, this is my ambition, my most arduous desire. I have decided on this goal and this goal alone to define this early stage of my adult life. I have a flame of infatuation burning deep within me so hot that it scorches me every night to remind me that I have still to achieve my dream. The only way I will relinquish my hunger for success is through the most grievous of injury, complete muscular failure, or death. I will not be dissuaded, I will never be convinced that I cannot achieve this. This is not the kind of dream you make known to others, the sort of frivolous fancy people spout to convince themselves that they have something to achieve in life. No one knows this about me. People assume I have started going to the gym simply to "get fit" etc. This is a silent desire, something deep within me that keeps me awake at night and aching to further it at day. I began on the first of September 2012. In the past 3 months I have went from sedentary and lifeless to possessing a 70kg clean and jerk and 45kg snatch and tasting life for the first time. I will not stop until I breathe the air of champions. I will not stop until I walk among kings. I will not stop until I am standing on that podium fulfilling my aspirations. Committing my feelings to text has made me realize that this is real, not just a fervor hidden in the deepest recesses of my mind. I will look back on this day 4 years from now, and if I have failed in my dream by then then I will look to the future and try, try again. But I will not fail. This is my destiny. This is my ascension. I will not fail.

[feces99]

OP shares my dream. Although he may have given up on it, this is my ambition, my most arduous desire. I have decided on this goal and this goal alone to define this early stage of my adult life. I have a flame of infatuation burning deep within me so hot that it scorches me every night to remind me that I have still to achieve my dream. The only way I will relinquish my hunger for success is through the most grievous of injury, complete muscular failure, or death. I will not be dissuaded, I will never be convinced that I cannot achieve this. This is not the kind of dream you make known to others, the sort of frivolous fancy people spout to convince themselves that they have something to achieve in life. No one knows this about me. People assume I have started going to the gym simply to "get fit" etc. This is a silent desire, something deep within me that keeps me awake at night and aching to further it at day. I began on the first of September 2012. In the past 3 months I have went from sedentary and lifeless to possessing a 70kg clean and jerk and 45kg snatch and tasting life for the first time. I will not stop until I breathe the air of champions. I will not stop until I walk among kings. I will not stop until I am standing on that podium fulfilling my aspirations. Committing my feelings to text has made me realize that this is real, not just a fervor hidden in the deepest recesses of my mind. I will look back on this day 4 years from now, and if I have failed in my dream by then then I will look to the future and try, try again. But I will not fail. This is my destiny. This is my ascension. I will not fail.

thought id add a soundtrack to this post

[dbk1]

thought id add a soundtrack to this post

approximately 1 month later



in another note, do you know eminem wrote lose yourself between takes for 8 mile? and the whole thing was recorded in one take???

[feces99]

approximately 1 month later



in another note, do you know eminem wrote lose yourself between takes for 8 mile? and the whole thing was recorded in one take???

props to him. now if he can stop rapping about how much he sucks as a person....

[dbk1]

props to him. now if he can stop rapping about how much he sucks as a person....

he had like 5 good songs on recovery, the rest kinda sucked. drugged up eminem > sober eminem