bent over rows...why jerk?

[Citruscide]

i found a use for the "hot dog bun" pad/squat pad at the gym. i use it for zerchers and people look at me funny when im setting up for the lift.....oh well. its all in fun.

I actually used that when I was at the 24-hour fitness in Anaheim Hills... but my gym is devoid of any pads... devoid of magazines too... kind of devoid of anything except rock music and mirrors... dirty floors and.. oh.. nevermind.

C-ditty

 

[Exodus]

I usually use a T-shirt or something to wrap around the bar on my zerchs... haven't gotten them much over 275 for any amount of reps though.

C-ditty

i've done 405 for 3 reps with nothing but the bar and no kind of padding.

X

 

[coolcolj]

good pic on the overhead squats spatts. nonerz was doing them last night and that will help her get a visual. shes very visual. she wants to learn a snatch also. i have a buddy who is a club coach so i may ask him to learn her. im not grasping the technique for a snatch too well (no pun all you jokers). do you have a vid of that i can refer her to?

Try single arm dumbell ahng power snatches, keeping the feet on the ground but going up on the toes, full extension and shrug. Warmup up the neck though, swap arms every 2 reps etc.

These are really helping my snatch form, and since they are lighter and less technical, a good way to get into it.

 

[spatts]

CCJ, doing snatch grip deads is helping me with my deadlift form. I just started doing it 2 weeks ago, and I can already tell a difference in the way I feel the move. Before I was thinking of pulling back, but over. Now I think about pulling back but up and under. That probably makes no sense whatsoever to anyone but me, does it? lol

Anyway, just another example of Oly technique pouring over in to powerlifting. Keeps the bar in a better path.

 

[b fold the truth]

Probably. I've never been formally trained on those. I'll let you school me.

I'd love to. I've been working with female athletes all week trying to show them how to arch on the bench press, do good mornings, and how to squat. I try to be as professional with these ladies and come across as a pro and not just some pervert trying to molest them.

I'm sitting there trying to put my hands around their waist and show them how to arch on the bench, keep their air in, where to put their butt, how to tuck their shoulders, and where to bring the bar down...and not look like I am getting fresh. It was even more difficult the other day when one of the female throwers was having problems moving her hips back on the GM's instead of just bending over with the weight. You have to be 'casual' when you grab their hips and pull them back when doing gm's...to still make them feel comfortable.

I was beginning to wonder today when the girls kept asking me to come over and use my hands to show them how to set up on the bench press again though...lol.

I also nearly broke a baseball player or two into pieces the other day because they were LOOKING at one of my female throwers while she was box squatting. She was sitting back so far that her jogging pants were being pulled down and it was showing quite a bit of her butt and her panties... Darn it...I can't help but be protective...but in the gym people should act like all serious lifters are equal, like athletes, and with respect...not as objects.

B True

 

[bignate73]

bfold, here is a trick to help with GM's SLDL's etc:

stand someone facing a corner of a wall or slightly offset of a vertical bar (as in the side of a smith machine). with about 1 feet of space from shoulder to wall, have them bend forward with slightly bent knees. what will happen is that the feet stay planted, the shoulders start to go forward but hit the wall and the butt is forced back. have their arms just hang limp so they dangle to the ground (here is where you indicate the bar is), OR... they can do the same procedure holding on to a broomstick to learn the GM. if that doesnt make sense let me know, i can do some pics or something.

 

[spatts]

Um...ok. I just want to know how to flip a tire.









j/k, B. You're doing a great thing. I hope you're learning about yourself too. I know I learn, more than teach, from coaching.

 

[b fold the truth]

Um...ok. I just want to know how to flip a tire.

j/k, B. You're doing a great thing. I hope you're learning about yourself too. I know I learn, more than teach, from coaching.

Darn it...I was hoping that you wanted the hands on molestation approach.



B True

 

[bignate73]

when you teach something your understanding of that subject soars!

being able to come at a subject from any angle to have it sink in is the hallmark of understanding it.

 

[spatts]

Darn it...I was hoping that you wanted the hands on molestation approach.



B True

You've got an IM, coach.