Man he was a strong guy
/owg/ - Olympic Weightlifting General
Josiah Hill
Colton Allen
pull
higher faggot
Daniel Stewart
tfw you've been doing the lifts for over half a year now, and can barely snatch and only clean/jerk 100kg
Josiah Martin
Chinese
Christopher Bennett
Split jerk works well across the board. Proportions primarily depend on shoulder and lumbar flexibility. If you can't externally rotate your shoulders all the way while holding the bar vertically up and keeping the lumbar straight, you probably won't be able to squat jerk efficiently. For casual lifters, the strength of the overhead squat also is stressed in the squat jerk, this is almost never a problem for elite lifters who are already training beyond their strength, but you'll need to strengthen the overhead position a lot more with the squat jerk as well.
Split jerk eliminates the problem of the weak overhead position and the hyperflexibility, but you'll need a lot more driving power and takes more time to hone than the squat jerk since it's not one size fits all and there's some nuance in recovery. Theoretically, if you're overhead squat is extremely strong, squat jerk enables you practically be only limited by how much you can OHS and clean so you can lift more weight, but it's going to need a lot of strength/conditioning training. Tons of the best Chinese lifters (Chen Lijun, Liao Hui, Lu Yong) split jerk.
I train both although I prefer the stability of the squat jerk since I can externally rotate my shoulders pretty far. It does help to have short femurs so you're more stable in the overhead position, but not absolutely necessary. Split jerk is great for developing power and cuing positioning though.
Ethan Butler
good day today
Grayson Murphy
Doesn't this guy have the highest weight/strength ratio?
Jordan Myers
low bodyweight tends to fuck up most measures of strength, e.g. the Wilks score goes to shit when you're under ~60kg
Levi Baker
Indeed
Jackson Robinson
So I've been having trouble forever with arm pulling in the snatch/clean and jerk and I recently found this video by Rip on the subject:
youtube.com
I recently tried flexing my tricep in my last session and it actually helped a lot with my arm pull. Has anybody else tried/used this method and has it led to any long term negative effects?