Oly lifting bad for sport ?????

[JL_204]

I would reccomend that 2 days a weeks focusing on explosive movements would really help punching power, core strength and footwork.

I agree. They may not be sport specific but there is definately a carry over.

 

[b fold the truth]

If the coach can't COACH them on the OLY lifts...they they probably should NOT be doing them.

My training partner has a pretty extensive background in OLY lifting and he told me today that everyone needs an OLY coach with them for 1 full year of training before they can really begin to KNOW the OLY lift. He watched me try a hang snatch today and got so frutrated with my form as well as the language barrier (he is Russian) that we just gave up...lol.

B True

 

[musketeer]

Appreciate all of the feedback, gues I need to research it more on goog...

 

[coolcolj]

http://www.sportsci.org/news/news9709/hatfield.html

 

[AEKDB]

http://www.sportsci.org/news/news9709/hatfield.html

I had lost that link!! Karma to you.

Reading the lifts towards the bottom I see deadlifts and twists. I think the Dr would agree that it is okay to add the clean and jerk.

 

[musketeer]

http://www.sportsci.org/news/news9709/hatfield.html

Thanks man! I can't argue wit hHatfield, but I think he's a bit of a dinosaur!

 

[Anthrax Invasion]

I don't think olympic lifts would be bad for boxing, but they're not the end-all, be-all of your performance in the ring. Technique and conditioning would likely come first, since a boxer needs to go for extended periods. More strength would only likely help, provided the increase doesn't hinder any other attribute. Increasing the ability for the muscles utilized in boxing to be explosive (i.e., those involved in punching) would be beneficial. I can't see any reason why they wouldn't.

 

[putrefied_dead]

i recall some post in one of the forums.... maybe it was something about bodybuilders vs powerlifters (?). anyway someone made some comment about andrew golota... the guy is 6'8", 275 and cannot bench more than 300 (i think that was the figure). not sure about the authenticity of the numbers on the bench... but assuming it was close, then that does add an interesting angle to this discussion.

 

[cubuff27]

Go take a visit to the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs and you will see almost every sport and their mother doing Olympic lifts....Even the divers are doing it!

I grew up there, only reason I know!

 

[BiggT]

I want to add that a lot of times coaches, and many of them well-known coaches, knock the olympic lifts. The real reason for this is because either they never learned how to do them, they simply suck at them, or they have no clue how to coach them, or any combination of these three.

These coaches will say the o-lifts aren't sport-specific, they are harmful to the joints, they are a waste of time, or my personal favorite, box squats will get you the same kind of explosion.

These coaches lose my respect for their trying to justify not incuding olympic lifts. I would have all the respect in the world for them if they simply said something like I really never learned the o-lifts myself and am not 100% comfortable teaching them as I don't want you to get hurt and I don't want to teach you to do something wrong, I feel other methods can prepare you equally as well......but you never see that and you get coaches knocking the lifts because they can't just admit that they don't have the first clue about them.