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1. Yes, perhaps coupled with a weakness that causes you core to effectively collapse when you reach a low position.
2. Stretch your glutes, hams and hip flexors. Also, using an exercise ball, squat...

Definitely powerlifting, or even better a hybrid of powerlifting and olympic lifting with some agility work thrown in too!

If you're training for sports you need to teach your body to work as a...

Yeah, once the 2nd pull technique is sorted hang cleans would probably be the most important exercise, as well as work on dropping under the bar (clean equivalent of drop snatches).

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Normally I would agree with you, but if he's having trouble with clean form (especially a lack of pulling in the 2nd pull) then I'd suggest that clean pulls would be the way forward, for a while at...

High pulls are a good exercise - not dangerous at all. Make sure you keep the bar close to your body at all times - explode through the hips.

Oh dear God it isnt!!!

To pull the bar up in the clean, you need to exactly that - PULL. When the bar gets just above knee height, drive through with the hips as if you were doing a vertical jump....

In this case, I would argue that the power pull would be the better option as far as building power is concerned. The only reason for perhaps using the power clean would be to allow an easier means...

Yep, the lowest injury rates in any power sport I think. Also, they're faster than sprinters over short distances!! :D

Yep, squatted with sunburn in the summer this year. Well I say I squatted, I did 2 reps, almost cried and switched over to some pressing and power jerks instead!! If you can bear it, do it. If not,...

Most likely tightness in your hams and hip flexors. Search on google for hamstring and hip flexor stretches (both dynamic and static stretches) and use them. They should loosen up within a few weeks.

Don't use a belt. If your lower back is weak then make it stronger. Don't make the problem worse by using a belt to covver up the weakness.

As for breathing, it's quite simple really - breathe in...

Mine does :D In fact, it only has bumper plates! :D

http://www.msbn.tv/usavision/displayPage.aspx?id=730

That link's got a list of all registered clubs in the USA for anyone that's interested...

If that's the video I'm assuming it is, then it's not a gym, it's the training hall for the '93 world champs. I don't think gyms like that exist, apart from national academies perhaps...

Also, I'd...

Buckling knees means weak glutes. Add in some glute strengthening work and the problem should fix itself.

No swinging. Please, no swinging, only pulling. Pull the bar, dont swing it. Pull. Pull. Pull.

Also, don't use 8 rep sets for cleans. The fatigue will cause your form to suffer which can be...

Thirded. (Is that a word?!)

High rep olympic lifts? Don't be silly! You're just setting yourself up for injury, or at the very least poor technique.

I grip with my pinkies on the smooth ring on an olympic bar, which allows me to keep a full grip on the bar when I rack it.

Actually, haemorrhoids can be caused by increases in intra-abdominal pressure, so it's not surprising that people get them from doing deads/squats.

Have you tried upping your fibre intake to help...

No. You need to do the snatch aswell :D

I agree with Krollmonster here. If you're new to o-lifting, no matter how much you've lifted before, you need to start light, for two reasons...

1 - Even light weights are gonna seem heavy when...