/OWG/ Olympic weightlifting general

This and /plg/ are what keep
Me on this shit hole site.


>If you are new to weightlifting please read these first and check the other sources they link to before asking questions:
pastebin.com/1HgVcGam (embed)
pastebin.com/wCXeXfkk (embed)
chinfl.blogspotco.uk/2013/07/how-into-weightlifting.html
reddit.com/r/weightlifting/wiki/faq
iwf.net/doc/technical.pdf
yashathoughts.com/
[Gist] wl.md (embed)

>The information that you are looking for is probably in the above links.
That includes routines, shoes, information on the lifts, etc. Check out the pastebins for literature or the reddit faq for general information.

Included in this youtube playlist are videos related to weightlifting which you may find useful or insightful:
youtube.com/channel/UCl3WCm2GfvLxvH877oJ1xEA/playlists

Feel free to post PRs, form checks etc

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Other urls found in this thread:

youtube.com/watch?v=THN5Y3heKug
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>tfw you reach a breakthrough in technique

Feels so good bros

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What's behind the discrepancy in the popularity of /plg/ versus /owg/? Is powerlifting just more accessible?

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>too much of a soft, manlet, GDE bitch to compete in powerlifting/strongman competitions
>discover you can play with a bouncy bar instead
>become a crossfit cuckold
>mfw

what it's like being such embarrassing, weak little faggots? you look like shit, you (might) do some totally useless bar bouncing instead of actually lifting weights and everybody thinks you're a bunch of pompous shit stains since EVERY crossfit dumb fuck fits that bill.

tell me so i have more reasons to laugh at you.

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Just curious bros, if you guys had a week FS comparative to your BS, how long did it take for your FS to catch up? My BS is 160kg, my FS is 110kg. Doing the RSR for my FS, hoping to hit 140 in a couple of months.

Swear I see this bait every owg, are the breaks between your powerlifting training sets so long you have time to constantly f5 the catalog to wait for a fresh owg?

FS is quite dependant on how strong your upper back is in order to keep a good bar position over your midfoot. That could be limiting you so either pause FS or SSB squats if you have a SSB available would help

What’s the best bang-for-your-buck ab exercise I should use (or work towards to do, assuming I can’t)? My anterior chain sucks.

Front Rack Holds.

dragon flags, ab wheel rollouts and landmines for obliques.
for ab wheels, contract the abs, tuck the tail bone, dont arch your back, relax hip flexors. when going up again, pull yourself up with the abs instead of pressing with the arms. bit hard to describe, but you'll feel an intense burn in your core if you do it like this.
do your ab workout between your main lift sets, you save time and build work capacity this way.

Drop your back squat and do more reps so your front squat has time to catch up, do doubles for fs

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am I retarded for warming up for back squats by basically maxing on overhead squats?

Right,
I started Oly lifting 2 weeks ago and watched Clarence Kennedy all day and night as I am a visual learner...

Snatch = 45kg
C&J = 65kg

all at 65kg bodyweight..

>dragon flags
how to do these without feeling like my spine is going to snap

Sup

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you think?

Rate my 205lb miss, I think the bar got too ahead of me, or my knees caved in? Not sure

pl is literally a special olympics event

nice blog

the bar swings out in front of you

Too much hump

Hump?

H

I think he means that your hip contact is too hard, do it a little bit less to try to get the bar path a little more straight up

>powerlifting

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>111kg snatch
>that bodyweight
>those stats
>impressive

Lmao fucking weightlifting posers

Probably more accessible, less need for a coach. Involves lifts that most people do anyway for bodybuilding/strength purposes.
Think how often you see people S/B/D compared to snatch/c&j

Yes they are

first, you're not mantaining and upright position, you're basically deadlifting the bar in oppose to pulling it, which also means you're not keeping your chest UP enough

me again, see how you're banging the bar against your body instead of proper pulling and extending? keep your chest up during the pulling phase, then extend.

If you keep pushing the bar like that instead of properly extending the bar gonna end in front of you and you gonna fail just like in the video

I’ll give it a shot next time, it’s p cool how eveything feels smoother from week to week.

oh shit that tall girl from the /shg/ threads

give it a week

Thanks man, are you push press bro btw?

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nah, i am
on extension though--watch how these kids are using their legs:
youtube.com/watch?v=THN5Y3heKug
doesn't matter what lift, snatch, clean, or jerk
legs are extended powefully and fully
all three joints, ankle, knee, hip
the movement is fast, but it's complete, every time
in between sets just practice this, without the bar. keep your lower back tight, dip your legs, and extend. feel everything tight and working. hold that, repeat that, ingrain that feeling. then aim for that same feeling in your lifts.

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Trying to learn power cleans.

I understand that the bar makes contact with my thighs just under my balls but where do I start the pull from? If I start when the bar is around my balls my legs are almost fully extended and I don't have any power.

>thinking that’s impressive

You're basically the next Naim

idiot

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Post boipussi, twink.

power comes from triple extending the traps hips and calves. triple extension can happen with legs nearly fully extended

nice wide-grip-forward-swing-stand and pronated-jumping-cheat-curl + spastic-lunge numbers.

behold the mongoloid that is the powerlifter
more like: too impatient, dumb, and uncordinated to practice technique and explosive type lifting, instead do the same bro lifts you always do, but with people watching and call it a sport.
also: most people (klokov to note) says bounce from bar assistance doesnt really factor in until 180kg or more, can you oly lift that much? then stfu mongoloid

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Stupid question, but when people refer to lifting 2 plate, 3 plate, etc. are they referring to lbs or kgs?

2 plate is 2 plate m8

Is it weird if my balls always make contact with the bar when going up?

Yes. You'll be infertile soon enough

goddamn cowgirl thread
contact happens wherever it happens, don't aim for a specific spot on your thigh
explosive phase similarly begins where it begins
to get a feel for it, take up the bar in a clean grip, stand up, then, keeping lower back tight and arms relaxed, crouch like you're getting ready to jump--this is where you explode from
pull from the floor to here, in a straight line, and then extend as hard as you can

Yeah, you definitely "caught" the bar with it just a bit in front of your shoulders, which doomed your attempted to hold it overhead.

>I understand that the bar makes contact with my thighs just under my balls

This likely isn't the case. Or shouldn't be. Unless you have STUPIDLY short arms, contact on your thigh for cleans will be considerably lower. I, for one, have the arms of Slenderman and my point of contact is closer to my knee than my hip.

>Chest up
>Upright position

Where are you getting this shit from?

youtube.com/watch?v=ItOU929qDgk

Does his chest seem up to you? Does he seem upright during the pull?

It appears his back actually gets slightly more horizontal as the bar reaches knee level. He is staying "over" the bar for a long time, because you don't pull olympic lifts (or any other pull) with your knees, but with hip extension.

Typically people are referring to 2 plate as two 45lb plates on either side

The "X-PLAYT" refers to the number of 45 lbs plates on either side of the bar. This leads to fun jokes about some bantamweight only deadlifting "LMAO3PLAYT" when they're using the 25 kg (55 lbs) competition plates.

If you want the "PLAET" equivalent in kgs, use the 20 kg plates, they're a pound lighter than the 45 lbs plates, but it's close enough.

But if you wanna be a super strong triple WOWOW badass, get PLAYTS with the 25 kg plates.

i nearly dislocated my shoulder trying to squat jerk 100kg which is like 80% of my max clean and split jerk. how does he do it bros.

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not that guy
pull from floor past knee is all quads, all knee extension
angle of back and hip should stay fairly constant, maybe slight opening at the hip
chest should be 'open', but not exaggerated
obviously the explosive phase involves hip extension, but that's where it starts and ends

>PLAYT
>PLAET
Not sure if newfag or reddit. Either way, I'm filtering your tripcode

Oi

You're all weak autistic larpers

You're the newfag. Wacky PLAET shit has been on Jow Forums since at least 2011.

t. Ya boy FIGJAM, dodging your filter

"No!"

Thanks guys

Max Lang appreciation thread

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No

Thanks

Looks more like at least 120 to me. The plates are red.

Almost got digits

What i mean by chest up is that you don't deadlift the bar during the pulling phase, and by pulling i obviously don't mean exactly pulling because you're using mostly your quads and posterior chain

The dude is obviously deadlifting because he moves the bar first with the hips and not the whole body, he's not exactly activating his quads, and when he does that the bar gets farther from his hips and when he extend his hips are basically travelling more and baging on the bar, which means during the second pull the bar goes up but slight forward, and that's why he's failing the catch, because the bar moves forward more than it should.
By lifting with his chest open, he's using his quads and the bar is pulled closer to his hips, so when he extend he's not banging the bar like in the video

he needs to keep his ass down in the first pull, back angle shouldn't change from the setup to when you got the bar over knees

Exactly, he's moving his ass up, a cue to fix this is maintaining open chest

Why the fuck can I go heavier in power variations than in the full lifts? what the fuck

>rebeka puts a poll up on insta to see if we think she should change back her hair color to the blondeish color
>like 70% of us said no
>she does it anyways

Really makes you think

You could have confidence,mobility, technique or positional issues or a mix of all or some of them

Good luck

Mobility and Stability maybe?? Your body probably don't feel comfortable enough to do the full movement, maybe reducing the weight and focusing in squat cleans and squat snatches instead of the power variation until you feel comfortable doing it

yes

Cheers boys

Plain and simple: Bad form.

>yoy have to focus on mobility and form
Yeah ok...
>but never do more than 3 reps

HELP

what's the problem

How can i work on form when it is impossible to do this shit slowly, nor can u repeat reps much more than 3 times. Unless i take hours in the gym at once doing the same thing.

I improved my tech with just EMOM singles with the bar for like a half an hour. Form tends to get worse if you go for higher rep sets, so doing like 20x1 is better than 4x5.
Mobility: just stretch and warmup before lifting
getting lots of first reps is important, cuz in the competition you only get one rep too.

God rebeka is so good

Just hit 110kg bench. Is this any good for weightlifting

not really

Yes. You're probably exaggerating by pushing your hips forward aggressively. You don't fuck the bar. You should extend and the bar being close to your body is what will cause contact.

At what point does the lift deteriorate into a power lift?

try not being a faggot

what? snatch/clean is a power if you catch it high enough...

>i just ate an orange. will I grow wings

that's the amount of correlation.

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