Hey does doing cleans/jerks make you bigger?

[bruce9241]

The reason I ask is I've been watching a lot of olympic lifting videos. Most of these guys who lift aren't very big muscle wise.

Here is a video showing what Im talking about. The kid is 15 and cleans 308lbs, but he looks pretty scrawny.



Is it due to the kid not eating protein because he doesn't want to grow muscle/weight because he wants to stay in his weight class? Or does clean and jerks not build the mass powerlifting builds?

 

[Big_BK]

Olympic is all about form for putting up big numbers, you can;t just muscle the weight up if you want to succeed.

 

[bruce9241]

Olympic is all about form for putting up big numbers, you can;t just muscle the weight up if you want to succeed.

Do you think that kid in the video cal Deadlift atleast 500 pounds? I think he probably could if he's cleaning 308.

 

[Big_BK]

Hard to say but thats fucking insane for a 15year old. He must be on all sorts of shit we've never heard of, lol.

 

[bruce9241]

From the looks of it he can front squat 308 pretty easily. If he can front squat that then he can probably back squat 450 plus. If he can back squat atleast 450 then he should be able to dead lift 500. I don't know, just wondering.

 

[Tblock1]

From the looks of it he can front squat 308 pretty easily. If he can front squat that then he can probably back squat 450 plus. If he can back squat atleast 450 then he should be able to dead lift 500. I don't know, just wondering.

He's strong and has good technique. Don't got to be huge to be strong. Also I think the way clean and jerks build muscle is by rounding out any weaknesses in your body.

 

[Jocques Straap]

Food makes you bigger.

 

[gstacker]

That's kids tite!

 

[moya]

clean and jerks will make you into a bad motherfucker...

 

[joe d]

lifting heavy weight will do the labor part. you have to eat for the rest. if that kid jugged a gallon or so of milk a day he would be big but thats not what he wants and it would get in the way of his lifts.

 

[bblazer]

Let me put it this way.

The 2" axle clean & press has replaced my bench press. My back has gotten thicker, my traps/yoke bust out of my shirt, and my delts scare even me. Add to all of that, I can now double overhand DL up to 405 before I have to switch grip.

B-

 

[oso0960]

Another thing I didn't see mentioned yet is that olympic lifters usually train with no more than 3 reps per set. Sure they probably see a little bit of muscle gain, but it's mostly CNS adaption.

 

[the_alcatraz]

A 308 lbs clean and jerk is excellent...even better if you're 15 lol