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training while injured questions

Posted By: Tom Banister (148.177.1.213)
Date: Monday, December 11, 2006, @ 6:24 a.m.

First the scenario: I'm a 49 year old, with limited weightlifting experience. I've got a real good clean, but I've need a lot of work on my jerk. My snatch has always been a little crappy because of shoulder problems. I can't (or shouldn't) do any overhead work from now until March sometime, and then I'll have a month or two of no weightlifting. I plan on doing lots of cleans and various snatch grip pulls. I several ideas for helping my jerk without actually putting the bar overhead. To help practice my split I was going to do split cleans. I had this idea to do what I'm calling a jerk-toss, where I would drive the bar as high as I can and then get the heck out of the way. By the way, at my age I always do a lot of general strength and conditioning work in addition to practicing weightlifting.
Questions:
- Are there significant problems with my jerk-toss idea?
- Does anyone have other suggestions?

Messages In This Thread

• training while injured questions
  Tom Banister (148.177.1.213) -- Monday, December 11, 2006, @ 6:24 a.m.
  • Lunges, bar on the front (like in a fr.squat) *NM*
    Jim Storch (cpe-74-67-92-193.stny.res.rr.com) -- Monday, December 11, 2006, @ 11:51 a.m.
  • What kind of Shoulders problems ?? *NM*
    TIM SWORDS (host250.bayer.com) -- Monday, December 11, 2006, @ 12:26 p.m.
    • Re: What kind of Shoulders problems ??
      Tom Banister (cpe-69-205-119-145.rochester.res.rr.com) -- Monday, December 11, 2006, @ 4:21 p.m.
  • Re: training while injured questions
    Gene Flynn (nc-76-5-172-14.dhcp.embarqhsd.net) -- Monday, December 11, 2006, @ 4:18 p.m.