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Re: Critique todays lifting, please.

Posted By: sjaak smorenburg (ip503d3dd0.speed.planet.nl)
Date: Friday, April 18, 2008, @ 12:59 a.m.

In Response To: Critique todays lifting, please. (Alex Carter)

Thanks for putting up your training lifts Alex, We're brothers in arms, I'm putting up my strugglings under 941200.

I think you are doing a lot of things right already. You can't make sudden changes, even if you want to. If I am allowed to say one thing; you could try for even better results by dragging the bar against the thighs longer. Try to postpone your final explosion. Try to do your shrug only when the bar is halfway along the thighs at the earliest. Premature explosion will make the bar go forward.

As I understand it, Ideally, the pull above the knees is the torque of the head-hip movement; Hips going forward, head going backwards, straight arms are the links that connect the bar without slack, ditto arched back, scapulae retracted, chest out to bring the torque to the bar efficiently and keep the bar as close as possible to the body.

You could try practicing slow pulls above the knees dragging the bar across the thighs now and then. I remember Jim Schmitz on his tape demonstrating deadlift and shrug. That comes close, try to drag the bar across the thighs and mimick the head-hip torque ending up on your toes with the body in a rearwards arc, shoulders and head ending up behind the hips. you will see that the knees will go under the bar automatically when you pull like this.

Lifting from the hang works awesome also.

*warning* you could lose balance, keep free falling space to the rear in mind.

As an all around recommendation you seem to rush inbetween lifts: What helps greatly, I find, is setting up for each lift, taking your time and concentrating. A great working tip is to squat fully at the bar before getting into the start position for a nice pre stretch. Then go into the start position pulling everything tight.

Sjaak

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