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| » yoke training advice (Go to post) | 06-01-2012 @ 22:38 | ||
martinb said: its adjusted and thats too heavy, start very light, train fast thanks Yeah 230 kg was too heavy, but I got some reasonable speed on 190 kg after. | |||
| » yoke training advice (Go to post) | 06-01-2012 @ 22:21 | ||
| Got some yoke training in today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLKzohMfv9g&list=UUwZqoIRvP... I found a fairly high bar position was best. Pick up was hard though because the yoke was so low! Question to anyone that has done yoke in comp: do they always allow the bar to be adjusted to how the athlete wants it? or is it like any other event and you take what you're given ? | |||
| » Tuns Training log (Go to post) | 06-01-2012 @ 20:46 | ||
| Yeah, 10 reps on 97.5 is great ! | |||
| » 5/3/1 (Go to post) | 06-01-2012 @ 15:19 | ||
mrbeige said:Nice lifting dude; great work on the two PBs as well  Thanks man, its getting there! | |||
| » 5/3/1 (Go to post) | 06-01-2012 @ 15:19 | ||
AndyCoupe said:Im nailing the cleans aswell at the moment How do you mean it was easier cleaning with the 15k plates? Because it was closer to the ground? Good work anyway Yeah the 15 kg plates put the bar closer to the ground than the 20's and 25's so you have more space to build momentum for the bar to be pulled up to the shoulders. | |||
| » 5/3/1 (Go to post) | 06-01-2012 @ 15:17 | ||
| Went to Genisis in London today, met David Bulldog himself Log: thin 35 kg log for a few reps on warm up 75 kg x 1C3P 80 kg x 1C3P 90 kg x 1C3P PB Much easier to press than the standard spec logs, although they make for a harder clean. 95 kg x clean and very nearly pressed it. I had the right hand side locked out, was pushing up the left just as the plates on the left hand side fell off and very nearly hit the female oly lifter to my left. 95 kg x clean and press Standard size log (93 kg empty): 93 kg x 1 PB 93 kg x 1 Right arm was locked out and left arm was at eye level, really bad. Only just made the rep 93 kg x clean failed press Squats: 60 kg x 5 80 kg x 5 100 kg x 5 120 kg x 5 145 kg x 4 (dumped 5th) The squat rack was on a slight incline which was really annoying, also the 145 set felt much heavier than it should have done (maybe because I maxed 2 days ago), so I left it there. Will 3 x 5 145 kg on tuesday though. Cleans: 60 kg x 3 75 kg x 3 92.5 kg x 1 fail 2 PB 92.5 kg x 1 fail 2 Must have been a bad day for me. Decided to abdanon 3 x 3 and work up to a single 95 kg x 1 PB 100 kg x fail Yoke: Not sure what it weighed but I strict pressed it pretty easily, so will assume 50 kg. 50 kg x 30 m 130 kg x 30 m 170 kg x 30 m Still fairly easy 190 kg x 15 m 230 kg x 3 m 230 kg x 4 m http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLKzohMfv9g&feature=youtu.b... 190 kg x 30 m Looking back at the video the frame was far too low for me. I had to half squat it up so no wonder pick up was hard. Was going to do farmers next, but I was tired and the 95 kg farmers were too impractical for a weakling like me to get out of the lock out. Skull crushers: +20 kg x 10 +32.5 kg x 10 +32.5 kg x 8 +30 kg x 10 Pull ups: BW x 8 | |||
| » 5/3/1 (Go to post) | 06-01-2012 @ 09:22 | ||
NavM said:nice lifting mate, got a couple questions about madcow 5x5 since i saw you ran it for 6 months. how often did you miss squat reps? and did you find that repeating the weight you missed the next week was enough to carry on the progress? Cheers mate Squats were the lift I managed to get progressing without missing reps for the longest. When I started the programme I was working up to a top set of 115 kg x 5, and adding 2.5 kg each week. The first time I missed a rep was at 130 x 5 (actually got 130 x 3), I repeated 130 for 5. Then I kept progressing linearly until 150 kg x 5. I tried a couple of times for 152.5 x 5 but never got it. Then I switched to 5/3/1 for all my lifts squat inlcuded. | |||
| » SMed's Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Go to post) | 05-01-2012 @ 19:34 | ||
Shaun said:I don't think you need Smolov to get to a 180 squat. It's always tempting to do more advanced s**t than you need, but simpler methods should always be tried first. Hence why I'm back on Starting Strength. x 2 After coming off after a lay off its always best (in my expereince) to jump on starting strength to get the numbers back up. Not to mention that you won't be able to deadlift whilst doing Smolov. | |||
| » Low Bar Squat Form Check (Go to post) | 05-01-2012 @ 19:28 | ||
Rico said:Looks good but one thing i would mention from experience is make sure your wrists don't take much (or any) of the weight or your elbows and shoulders will f**k you in about two months time. This happened to me and the solution was to have a wider grip with thumbs over the bar so that the outer bit of my palm is the only part in contact with the bar. I did worry about this. I can't do more than 60 kg before I need to use wrist wraps... maybe I am supporting a little too much through my wrists | |||
| » Low Bar Squat Form Check (Go to post) | 05-01-2012 @ 13:54 | ||
slimsim said: Would it not affect you lifts massively, in a negative way? Front squats are more quad dominant and most lifters back squats (even those using a high bar position) are far heavier than their fronties. Obviously, I know there are other factors such as centre of gravity, body position etc. but mechanical efficiency must be part of it. I also thought a low bar position was used specifically to allow better/more efficient use of the hip muscles, so would you not be wasting the point of a low bar position in the first place? Of course, I've never done a low bar squat in my life so could be talking s**te!!  Yeah fair enough. Having done high bar squats exclusively in the past, I guess my hips are going to be a weak link in the low bar variant. | |||
| » Low Bar Squat Form Check (Go to post) | 05-01-2012 @ 13:51 | ||
Rodger said:Can someone explain what the pros and cons are of high / lower squatting? (Im not even sure what I do Im guessing its high bar!!) A high bar squat is the default position that most people take when they start squatting, with the bar resting on the upper traps, just below the neck. Most olympic lifters use this. The low bar squat is when you hold the bar a couple of inches lower on your back, more commonly used in powerlifting. It took me a couple of weeks to get the bar position right. Having the bar held in the low bar position means that the weight is further down the lever that is your back (if that makes sense), and this is mechanically advantageous over the high bar squat in terms of shifting weight. High bar means you can go a little deeper, but not use as much weight. Low bar allows more weight, and I believe targets more muscle groups. | |||
| » Low Bar Squat Form Check (Go to post) | 05-01-2012 @ 13:03 | ||
milsy said:Get your feet abit wider and toes slightly out the way your squatting now is fine but it will be very quad dominant and try to control your decent a lot more Why would my toes need to be out further? I always thought that the closer you could have your feet to being parallel to each other the better? Nothing wrong with a quad dominant squat is there? Yeah, looking back at it, I need to descend slower. | |||
| » Glovers log 2012 (Go to post) | 05-01-2012 @ 12:50 | ||
| Hi mate, I'm doing Champions of the Future too in March in the u105's. We have pretty similar stats I see. | |||
| » Your least favourite WSM final (Go to post) | 05-01-2012 @ 12:45 | ||
johnHorton said:going back to Glenn for a minute if you dont mind.....I met him several years ago and he was an absolute gent. we had a family photo with him..my [ex-]wife, my eldest son who was about 5 at the time,and my youngest son,just a few months old who glenn made a fuss of and held him for the photo. as soon as the photo was snapped,Glenn handed the baby back to my wife. Glenn turned his back to walk away,and, boom!! my son violently vomitted all over the place. I was just releived it was all over my wife and not Glenn !! hahaha | |||
| » Bishop to C4 (Go to post) | 04-01-2012 @ 16:43 | ||
| When you had a weigh in on the same day as a comp, what was the heaviest you managed to get down to 105 kg from? Hope this makes sense | |||
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