Forum: Olympic Lifting

I remember seeing some videos of some pretty massive overhead presses... don't know any names off the top of my head, but I'll never forget the image of that one guy locking out 500lbs. Unreal. Even my biology professor, a former oly lifter, claims to have pressed 365 at a bodyweight of 250...

I never could do cleans... even when I was playing football, I always tried to weasle my way out of doing them by saying I had wrist problems (which was moreso a general lack of wrist flexibility than anything else), so I did clean pulls instead. Well, I want to begin doing them now. So I have...

Just curious... what's the closest front squat:back squat ratio you've seen in other lifters, whether elite athletes or average meatheads. Post your own ratio if you like, too. In fact, please do.

We're all familiar with how olympic lifters typically have very high vertical jumps, but I'm just wondering... are their verticals developed solely due to their olympic lifting, or do they include plyometric training in their routine as well (for whatever reason)? If so, do plyos help the oly...

Just curious where you train.

I thought there was a thread from a while back showing some of the pretty nasty physiques some oly lifters have... but I can't find it. So um... post em please, I guess. Thanks.

Olympic lifting is an eventual goal of mine, but I have always read people saying that they advise learning "x" lift before "y" lift. Should I focus on one lift before trying to learn the other? If so, which do you recommend? Why? Also, do you advise I learn the hang or power versions first?...

Hello, I've been practicing the Power Pull recently and have wanted to get down a few more OLY lifts. I gave the Hang Cleans a go yesterday and completely failed that (looked like a cheated reverse curl lol) and tried again today. I know I have a TON to work on so it would be great if some of you...

How can I increase the flexibility of my wrists and forearm for power cleans? I am able to power clean with good form until the last phase where the bar is supposed to wrest on your delts/chest because my wrist is not flexible enough to bend that far back so I have to hold the bar a few inches...

watch?v=GmMxXQgyJ88 (still not enough post to link) Now if he could just get his snatch up.

.... I've fallen in love lol!! Seems that even though I'm not making quick progress on the strength part (since I'm really worried about my form) of the lifts, all of my other power lifts feel better and making new PR's quicker. Only problem I have is with snatches. I still have to muscle it up a...

RJsYJ8AUK2Y&feature=channel&list=UL As title says. I know it's not a lot of weight, but I just started doing these kinds of lifts and don't wanna hurt my self lol

Since the jerk I worked with never helped out, I would just take 2 cans and do Oly lifts with them into the packers. so I basically did 4 days straight of Oly lifting. Just a random thread, thought I would share my experience with you guys lol.

Hey guys, just got these videos from the weekend of me lifting and figured I'd post them here. I weighed in at 68.9kg Snatch 76/80x/80 Clean and Jerk 101/104/107x.. 76kg Snatch uq0X4F6gSw0

Last weekend I did a competition for fun, my pbs are 85/110 but I just did this competition to get back in the swing of things when I got back from vacation a week and a half ago. Anyways here are the vids. 77/80/83 95/100/105 dNCL6CQVXQg Dw1Jpl7avWA w-hjEdD54SU CWEG6wbMb1o

I have a friend looking for coaches in South Carolina, we are failing badly in this search, specifically in columbia/lexington.. Any ideas?

kUFP81VIKzI This was a 5kg pr- a lift I had never attempted before, for the win of the weightclass do or die, so forgive the TERRIBLE start. For some reason my 70kg snatch won't load to youtube :( Comments are appreciated.

Does anyone here have any material on the types of sprinting a jumping oly lifters have done in their training? It would be very much appreciated. My coach and I are adding a sprinting/jumping day after this meet for conditioning, and because I want to dunk a basketball (I can grab the rim with...

Will be making more tomorrow

K5QoXI4G5fE&NR Kryzysztof Szramiak. His quickness under the bar is just like Tanner Sagir's.

youtube(dot)com/watch?v=CVoywxTN26Y&feature=youtu.be This was 5x5, this is as high as I go on reps with power clean. But please give pointers on what I need to fix and thank you in advance.

Self taught. No bumpers in this gym. Lifting starts like 0:15 I think, can't trim from mobile. Third rep felt the best. This was my tenth set of triples bEu3ImkwoSw

Hi, I'm look for some advice on how ye would go about this project. CASE STUDY -4 week program. -3 full body workouts. -Technical movements first ( barbell snatches, cleans, jerks,Kettlebell swings snatches cleans) -Lower body strength movement next (squats, deadlifts, Kettlebell squats...