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  • ErinRibbens
    ErinRibbens Posts: 370 Member
    That is awesome. I'll admit, those weights scare the living $#@! out of me. :laugh: At least doing them heavy.
  • chubby_checkers
    chubby_checkers Posts: 2,352 Member
    That is awesome. I'll admit, those weights scare the living $#@! out of me. :laugh: At least doing them heavy.

    Agreed!
  • Amazing1985RSD
    Amazing1985RSD Posts: 280
    Thanks, everyone. I still have a lot to work on though lol.
  • cats847
    cats847 Posts: 131
    Thanks. I had a friend who used to study the Olympic-style lifts with a coach, joined a team and participated in state-wide competitions. I remember him telling me that he had been doing a lot of things wrong when he tried doing them by himself (prior to being coached). Remembering that is what makes me hesitate to try and learn them on my own, but maybe with good resources, it's worth a shot...
  • booyainyoface
    booyainyoface Posts: 409 Member
    im sure you know... but at about 23 seconds in the C&J video... you don't open your hips up so the bar hits your thighs and throws the bar path outwards instead of upwards, so your shrug and pull lack :)

    this is the hardest thing and i am certainly no expert, but doing progressively heavier clean pulls (like heavier than my 1rm clean), (so the setup, 1st slower pull, then the "explosion" of open hips-shrug-high beautiful elbows) but not actually completing the clean (so just don't get under the weight) will really teach you how important the straight bar path is, and will really let you feel where any one part of your explosive movement is being compromised. :)

    edit. sorry if this doesn't make sense... i am not the most articulate after a 12 hour day, and my brain isn't thinking very linearly right now!!
  • Amazing1985RSD
    Amazing1985RSD Posts: 280
    What I was doing was pulling the bar straight up then sweeping it in. It's supposed to come in directly from the ground. Thereby decreasing the amount of space between the bar and thighs after it passes the knees.
  • booyainyoface
    booyainyoface Posts: 409 Member
    oh... it looks like its going outwards and your popping it off your thighs (in the clean only, not your snatch). i highly recommend that you download the app "coaches eye" you can slow down your videos, draw lines to see your deviations from the ideal bar path, and draw lines to see how your body misaligns at certain points in the lift (also great for mobility ideas). it seriously has been a valuable tool in training my oly lifts, especially as I don't get to lift with an oly coach more than 2x a week.

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