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Not necessarily. I rarely get DOMS, normally if I do, it's only from working an area or muscle that is not normal for me to use. That said, I just train through it, the soreness seems to ease with training.

Nice decision to make sure you take care of yourself! The best pointers I can give are: 1) Have a plan for how you are going to train, and some goals, and stick with it, otherwise you may go in and just start flitting around, never really progressing or achieving much. 2) Don't worry about anyone else, stick with your…

Once you've learnt to kick a football, or form a scrum in rugby, would the team ditch the coach? I think people assume the coach is not necessary, because they just think about weight training in a gym, as opposed to competitive lifting as a sport itself.

Why you need them? 1) A coach - the classic lifts are technical, particularly the snatch, they happen quickly. A coach that understands the lift and the technique, will save you hours of getting it wrong, and potentially injuring yourself. Self coaching is particularly hard because of the speed aspect, you either make a…

LOL! I think non-weightlifters won't understand the need for a coach, a platform and bumpers! You need all of these things to do it properly and safely. The real question is what do you want out of it? Is it just a bit of fun, and will you enjoy the other WODs, or do you want to get good and compete? If the first, I think…

Sounds like there is a strong chance that ankle mobility is hindering you, IMHO. If you have limited dorsiflexion at the ankle (moving you foot towards your shin) it will make squatting to good depth much harder. You need to keep your centre of gravity (or combined CofG of you and the bar) over your base of support - the…

Don't grip the bar, just let it sit in your fingers. It's worth doing a bit of work on tricep and wrist mobility, but realistically having external rotation at the shoulder will make the biggest difference. It's also worth practising with a heavy bar in the rack, you can even get a friend to help lift the elbows a little.

Nothing new, explains why musclemag went bankrupt in the last week or so.

I agree with your examples, but I'm not convinced that they enjoy destroying things. I'm sure the TV execs would rather have a hit series! It seems like the people in charge have an insulting view of the general public, and assume that they cannot understand anything non-american, yet given the popularity of some of the…

I like that, not only is it functional, but it looks more pleasing that a load of welded metal too.

The problem with the assisted pull-up machine (and lat pull downs) is that the assistance stabilises you, as well as providing upwards assistance, so it doesn't translate well into an unassisted pull up. The suggestion of negatives is good, but I would also recommend making your own "assistance machine" by using normal…

Biggest injury risk would be a dislocated elbow in the snatch, if you hyperextend it, or have a loose joint, or dropping the weight on yourself. Both are pretty rare for the average person, as long as you learn when and how to bail from a lift. There was actually a study* on this in 1994, and weightlifting was either the…

really? EDIT: Vasily Alexeev is actually awesome, just not very easy on the eye!

I got a strike in the forums a while back, for actually talking about one of my workouts, don't push your luck!

The bit that looks like lunging is just a split jerk. Bar from floor straight overhead - snatch. Bar from floor to shoulders - clean. Bar from Shoulders to overhead - jerk.

I think it depends on definition of strong correlation, without cracking out Pearsons coefficient or similar, to me strong correlation would be something like hours worked and total pay, for someone who is on an hourly rate. I think it also depends who we're talking about, for the average gym warrior, the correlation is…

Trust you to find the outlier! I'm assuming he actively tries for both disciplines though, rather than just happened to train for one and fall into the other. Although there are always exceptions.

I wish someone had told me about this smith machine device, I think it would have helped when my avi photo was taken! On the topic of size and strength correlation, someone forgot to tell Naim Süleymanoğlu about this! More seriously, they CAN be correlated, but it's not necessarily a strong correlation, and not essential.…

So, whilst I agree with the OP that this programming is not great, I don't think it's exclusive to crossfit, I also see PTs, Coaches (both at public gyms and in organisations such as schools) and individuals working on their own all use crappy programming. I also see crappy form all the time, because of ego weights, which…

Same here!

Oh, I thought it was Hebrew, easy mistake to make!

I'm reading backwards, so this will prob make more sense in a minute! :smile:

It's not that there is anything terribly wrong with HIS form, its that it's cited as an example for adults to copy, which can't happen, due to having a completely different physique.

Awesome form if you're head makes up 1/4 of your total height, maybe I'm just different, but my head is a lot smaller in proportion to the rest of my body!

:brokenheart: LOL!

The 20kg plate on each side was inferred! On the plus side, at least my squat rack doesn't suck, I've had 60kg on one side, and nothing on the other, with no tipping.

In that scenario, I would just switch it up, so use two 10kg plates each side, I really don't care about reloading and reloading the bar*. *said the guy who never shares a lifting platform!

Amazed at all the people that think it's OK. I assume it's a reading comprehension issue (Hint: the OP is NOT talking about being a couple of hundred below their goal), rather than that they genuinely think the body is a mystical machine that doesn't need energy. Don't really have anything else to say, just had to join in,…

From what you say it sounds incredibly minor and is probably nothing. In my experience the most common cause of what people refer to as buttwink, is overextending the spine to start with, and then having it go into neutral as it comes under load in the bottom position. Most people are taught to fear spinal flexion so much,…

Do you have a picture or a video? In my opinion, the term 'buttwink' is overused, and also overrated. It's pretty natural for the lower spine to lose some extension as you drop below parallel in the squat. The only times I would suggest it needs addressing, are if it happens earlier in the squat, or if you actually go into…