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Keep up the good work Tomo. Best of luck.

Yes, the squat routine is very demanding and you'll want to take it easy on pretty much everything else but squats. It's only 6 weeks long but it is a very demanding 6 weeks. Remember, it is important not to miss a single rep. when doing the squat routine so be honest with yourself on your...

No, like the others, my deadlifts increased when I added the Olympic lifts. It was the Olympic lifts that seemed to suffer from continuing the heavy deads.

In my own case, I found it didn't work well to push both deadlifts and the Olympic lifts at the same time. Like many others, I switched from Powerlifting to Olympic Lifting and thought I could maintain a high level in one while progessing in the other ... didn't work. Maybe it was the radical...

Re: Rows & Deadlifts vs. Power Cleans & High Pulls (Olylifters? Glenn or CCJ, perchan

I agree with the other in saying do all of them but for me doing cleans from the hang seem to develop my lats better than any exercise.

I do agree that GMs tend to feel a bit dangerous especially when done heavy and over a wide range of motion. After watching the "Training Hall" tapes, I shortened the range of motion on my heavier sets of GMs and that has made all the difference. Aside from that, if I had to choose one exercise...

I agree with you on switching from deadlifts to power cleans. In fact, I'd drop the deadlifts all together in favor of clean and snatch pulls if I were involved in explosive sports.

CCJ, Madcow2, Yeah, I'm still not 100% sure that the leg presses were the root cause to my backsquat improvement but it sure seems to be more then just a coincidence looking back at it now. Also, I was doing better at the power clean and snatch as well at that time so the movement definitely...

Any lifters include them in your workouts? I started doing them last Summer because my hip was bugging me and needed a break from all the squating. Anyway, by December I had added 50Lbs to my normal working set of back squats but didn't put two and two together at the time. I stopped doing the...

I'd vote for high pulls if done correctly.

Wow, I haven't been here in a while but I can't ever remember there being so many polls. Maybe if there were a script to erase them after a week or so, it wouldn't get so out of hand?

I think his leg action i.e. flaring his legs out on the way down, has more to do with how he receives the weight during a clean than anything else.

Over triple bodyweight squat for a double like it was nothing ... must be nice.

Well in some cases that is true but most cases OL have very strong squats. Pisarenko was said to be able to clean more than he could front squat but he usually stood up from his cleans like they were nothing. Alexeev also was said to be the same way. So generally speaking, both Pisarenko and...