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Harry_Manback wrote:Nice lifts Nick.

I'm still sick but managed to get in for some back squats and rows last Friday. Felt weak as shit and light headed so had to cut it short.

Back squats: 240# x 5, 225# 4x5

Been walking like a gimp since.

I need to get a few 5x5s at 100 kg in. Ive been doing more 1-3 rep work at lower sets, progressing through weight to a heavy single.

Klokov

300kg deadlift

http://instagram.com/p/mnVhBcDHH3/

^^^ That makes my butthole pucker.

I'm back...sort of. Decent workout, but I've lost some mojo on the bench and OHP. First time trying squat cleans - working on form and wrist mobility.

Squat cleans 155# 1x5; 135# 4x4
OHP 115# 5x5
DL 215# 2x5; 315# 1x5
Bench 185# 5x5

cleans yea man nice. Any Qs let me know. I know vid was be like "power that shit up ja ja" but im all about riding that shit down into the squat.

new05002 wrote:cleans yea man nice. Any Qs let me know. I know vid was be like "power that shit up ja ja" but im all about riding that shit down into the squat.

Dumb questions: how wide is your grip on squat cleans? This probably influences my wrist mobility...wanna make sure I'm doing it right.

Where do you line up the bar?

Wide. Its basically the same width as my jerk grip more or less.

Not sure if you can tell on this video or not but my hands are well outside my knees. Something we are coached on at OLY class. This will help to allow you to flex you arms outward and get your elbows through allowing you to put the weight on your front shoulders

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bw7h0l3tmM

Cool thanks, that's helpful. Sounds like I need to widen my grip.

So I've still had problems getting my power clean form down. For the life of me I can't get my arms right and it's kind of annoying.

HOWEVER

At the gym the other day I was able to do clean & jerks with proper form and one of the PTs who had been giving me advice asked how I was able to fix it so fast. I tried doing a power clean and fucked up the form but when I went back to C&J my form was great. He even looked confused as hell and told me to just keep doing C&J.

I'm trying to wrap my head around the biomechanics of this and I guess it kind of makes sense but even still I think this is very unusual.

being able to switch from power cleans to cleans and back and forth takes some time to get used to. Its a mental switch you have to acquire over time. Same thing with power snatch and snatch. However if you are at BW cleans, skipping the power is fine. For me at 205# (close enough to BW) I am always going to be riding that into a full squat even if I catch it on my shoulders above parallel.

ahhhhh yissss I finally paid for my 2. Thanks Nick and Vid!


and man I tried Vids A workout yesterday. Got done in an hour! That is perfect for me. Going to try and do it 3 to 4 times a week this summer if time allows.

Squat cleans are hard. 135# 4x5 and I crapped out on the fifth set.

Just keep swimming...just keep swimming...

vidret wrote: it's the upper body mobility that kills. weeeeaaaaaak!AWESOME!

Me too dude. Me too. I wanna be like Nick when I grow up.

lol you guys kill me.

ill do some FS for you guys today. I think I might go lighter cleans and snatches as practice for next Sunday. Follow that up with heavy squats.

Someone asked about clean grip width

I took this photo last night at the gym. Its a little odd to see it like this but my grip is outside of my knees by about 5-6" or so