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The absolute number doesn't matter, what does matter is that you've pretty much doubled what you could do a month ago. Keep getting stronger and putting more on the bar, and you'll be putting up beast-like numbers in no time.

Yes, it is Martin, and he is definitely strong. Also, this isn't aimed at you, but my point was the majority of people will just assume the guy who looks like he has muscles is stronger, discounting the guy who looks like a random fat man (Hossein Rezazadeh) who is actually a complete beast. I consider this aspect the…

It's not as simple as just an amount of time, it depends on what you are doing in that time too. Something with a lot of CNS activity, such as plyometrics, is going to take a different toll than steady state cardio, or standard isolation weightlifting. The simple indicators of overtraining, would be to track sleep quality…

What kind of flexibility? What is your end goal? Flexibility for the sake of it is pointless, and although if you're hypomobile, increasing flexibility up to a point can help resist injury and increase performance, beyond this point, you end up risking being hypermobile and increasing the risk of injury, and reducing…

Who would you (or perhaps the general public, who haven't read this thread) pick if asked who is stronger, the guy in the top picture, or the guy on the left in the bottom picture? An illusion maybe? I doubt he was saying bodybuilding isn't hard work, I would guess it's more an attack on aesthetics, or what he considers…

If you're interested, I have a knife you guys can borrow!!!

I've seen this pic posted a few times before, problem is this babies head is about 1/4 of it's height, and a significant proportion of it's mass. I've yet to see an adult human with the same proportions and mass distribution! However, it is a decent example of the advantage of having a relatively longer upper body v lower…

When you're too busy lifting, eating or recovering from lifting to worry about whether you should be considered as someone who lifts or not.

The more you put your butt back, the less upright you will be, so first question is how are you trying to squat? Low bar, hips back a lot, close to vertical shins, but lots of forward lean. OR High bar, hips more down between ankles, lots of forward lean of shins, and vertical torso. As for knees past toes trashing knees,…

The guy and the girl in those videos are not really comparable, as they're doing completely different things. Firstly, the obvious, are your feet wide enough that you can get your hips in between them? To avoid falling over, you need to keep your weight over the middle of your feet, if you have a narrow stance, your hips…

On top of this, surely the goal is to always do more than last time, even if that's not what you actually do this session. Beyond the beginner stage, you will have to have some kind of periodisation to achieve it, but the next ultra short term goal is still more weight on the bar.

The guy in the white t shirt is the same size as you, so clearly anyhting less than 200kg is completely unacceptable!!!! :wink: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3gkFt8wquw In all seriousness, more than you did last time is always good.

Surely from Belgium it should be "mayolover"! O_o At least I thought it was frites & mayo in Belgium!

Yeah, definitely a lot to discover in this area. Anyway, really I just wanted an excuse to post this video I saw today. I wish I had one of Vasily Alexeev doing a vertical jump, as that always shocks people, but it's still a good example of how the power from weightlifting applies to general sports.…

What I find particularly interesting, is the relative proportions of his physique. It looks way more functional than the ideal that many guys try to achieve today - Much bigger\thicker core, bigger back\lats relative to chest, relatively smaller arms, and much bigger quads\legs in general. EDIT Compared to this.

In that sense, I don't think you need to do anything particularly special, but you do need to move, rather than be rooted to your desk. Obviously depends on training too, a snatch is going to have different demands from a hamstring curl.

Why do you disagree about the mobility? Not an article, but by painkillers it is referring to NSAIDs, in which case by reducing inflammation, you're going to reduce bloodflow, and so reduce the delivery of substances required for growth and repair. As for the gastro-intestinal effects, they're widely known, and not…

I typed a load of stuff, then changed my mind, as I'm not sure we're on the same page, when I say decelerate, I mean that say you do a bench press, as you approach lock out, you have to slow down the weight, because it stops at the top, because of this, as you approach lock out, you reduce the force you're applying, so the…

I love those dumb elks! That's dumbbells + autocorrect!

In theory that would work, but the problem is that if you just do the 'normal' lifts but fast, you have to slow the barbell or dumb elks down at the end of the movement. With olympic weightlifting and jumping, you are accelerating the bar or yourself through the whole range of motion, and the in the case of weightlifting…

Yes, weightlifting. Cleans, snatches, jerks and the different variations of them.

Agreed, I was thinking more from a programming perspective, rather than a technical perspective. If she's playing at a high level, the coach must have some idea of the demands of the sport, or at least where to find the appropriate strength and conditioning people.

So why not ask your coach? Find out your weak areas, and the core areas of the sport. For netball, at a basic level I assume you want to do a lot of conditioning and agility work to mimic the flow of a game, and some basic strength and power work for jumping, acceleration and direction changes, and so that if 2 of you go…

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I honestly don't think the weight of the bar is your problem. In fact, I would go as far as to say that you could probably go heavier, to solve some of the issues. Firstly, you are gripping the bar in your hands, and supporting it with your wrists, the weight should actually be supported on your shoulders\chest, when this…

Do you have a coach? Get them to show you high hang snatches and cleans, and maybe drop snatches\cleans too. Most people pull the bar way too high, and for whatever reason, speed, fear, technique something else, they can't\don't get under the bar when it's pulled to a normal height. This is typically what separates good…

Can't help with the powerlifters, but can with the Olympic lifting. There are a few of my female friends on here who are weightlifters or do the Olympic lifts as part of their training, and I also train with some female weightlifters in real life. I'm also happy to talk about the olympic stuff myself, if being male doesn't…

I see loads of people do power cleans, although sadly a lot of them with terrible form, "jump and shrug, bro!" and rack positions that look like some kind of wrist torture etc... I do them, although not as much as "normal" squat cleans. My training is based around weightlifting, so it's a no brainer for me, but they have a…

Check out the weightlifters training - http://youtu.be/yP49r5wnOPo All of them (male and female) are wearing either compression shorts, compression leggings or a lifting suit (maybe rolled down to create the same effect as shorts), the only slight exception being Idalberto Arranda who has some trackies on over a lifting…

Yes and No. You want to be happy with what you're getting, but you're paying for her expertise. If you tell her your goal, and she works out the best way to achieve that goal, and it works, you should be happy that you're getting your moneys worth. Otherwise if you already know how to achieve your goal, then go ahead and…