Fortified Iron

(updated 11/9 12:01 pm)

Here is video from day three (Wednesday) at the IPF World Championships. The women's 132 and 148 classes and men's 165 and 181 classes competed on day three. Videos will be updated as available day.

The World Championships are being held in St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada through Saturday.

(updated 11/9 11:42 am)

Here is video from day four (Thursday) at the IPF World Championships. The women's 165 and 181 classes and men's 198 and 220 classes competed on day four. Videos will be updated as they are available.

The World Championships are being held in St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada through Saturday.

The shop in UK where from I plan to order has only APT Convicts knee wraps.

Would 2m Convicts be too much for a 400lbs squatter? I don't use any other gear aside from belt and wraps.

Can anyone concur ?

Ate a HUGE breakfast and weighed in at 82.3kg

Snatches

Warmups
Bar Work
40kg x 3
50kg x 3
60kg x 2
70kg x 2
75kg x 1
80kg x 1

Attempts
85kg - Good Lift
88kg - Good Lift
90kg - Good Lift, had to run it out a bit but not bad

Meet PR on the snatches!

Clean & Jerk

Warmups
Bar Work
40kg x 3
50kg x 2
60kg x 2
70kg x 2
80kg x 2
90kg x 1
95kg x 1

Attempts
99kg - Good Lift
105kg - Good Lift, this ties my best split jerk
110kg - Good Lift - 5kg PR!

Resulted in a 200kg total which is a 10kg total PR!

Pulled the 110 way too high as usual and the jerk wasn't pretty - but I got 3 whites!!

Best lifting to date, just a little over my 2 year anniversary.

Much thanks to Mezzie for ALL the help he's been giving me over the past while

Here are the vids of today's lifts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8Pr4MyKrS4

Like $200 in total stuff. The top piece was some old butcher block we had at the house. We plan to attach a layer of plywood on top of the butcher block. Puts the bar at around chest height with bumpers.

My giant brother is in the picture to show scale, he is 6 foot something.

1 - Post lifts and movements that make you feel quick and explosive.



2 - What are your nuiances in your form disc/shot? (What do u do specifically in your form which sets you apart, hold the shot lower? Tape wrist a certain way? dorsi-flex toes into the middle)?



3 - Favorite implements too use for shot / disc? (hollowood, Orange Flyer , OTE, Polanik)




4 - whats your darkest secret ?

I know a lot of sumo-style deadlifters include a lot of conventional stance DLing in their training, but does the opposite apply? do a lot of conventional pullers get any carryover doing sumo-style deadlifts? the weaknesses for each is the strength in the opposite no? the sumo deadlifter's weakness is gonna be breaking the bar off the floor, while the conventional deadlifter's weakness is usually around mid-shin?

I have problems whenever i hold anything over 120kg/264lbs. I can't hold the bar long enough because of the pain - the bar rests right on my clavicles no matter how many times i try setting the bar.

The strength is there to perform the lift, i just can't hold the bar which is pretty frustrating. Elbows are high, wrists are bent back, the bar is crushing my windpipe so i THINK i've got it right.

Would a video help a little more? Thanks.

I put up a post in my semi pro football message board advertising my offseason program for semi pro players. It has a lot of pictures and videos from last off seasons group. Some of the highlights include a 545 pound squat by one of the linemen.

Take a look:
http://www.newenglandfootballleague.com/VB...hread.php?t=998


-Aaron
www.beinekestrength.com

So I've always taped my wrist since I've become serious about throwing and never had any issues. When I switched over to the 16lb shotput last year I had some wrist pain but with some Duct tape all was good. This year my hands/wrists are stronger. But after a couple weeks of consistent shotput throwing getting ready for indoors I am unable to do a full throw. No matter how much I tape my wrist when my wrist is extended it hurts, doesnt really matter how much pressure is on it, even just bending my hand to put the shot against my neck. The pain is on the thumb side of my wrist on the back and side of wrist flexion.

Any advice?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF6i-zkCTgw

Worked up this yesterday, just wish I caught the second rep higher...was supposed to be 2 power snatches.

I'm writing a research paper for a Comp class in college. My topic relates the career paths and common traits in the sport approaches and the lives of superstar athletes. Being a big fan of Olympic weightlifting, I wanted to include one Olympic lifter in my paper. Anyone like Dimas, Suleymanoglu, Alexeev, etc.

I only need one lifter. Wikipedia doesn't really have the level of info I'm looking for. In the searching I've done so far, the only indepth stuff I've found is on Alexeev (who would be great) but not as much as I'd like. Most of it related to his training but there was some good stuff on his mentality as well.

I want to know what one of these guys was like when they were younger, how much they trained, how focused they were on the sport, how they pushed themselves, their mentality, facing adversity and perseverance, home life, personality, mentors, making it to the top and staying there- basically ANYTHING that could be relevant and help me, the more info the better. For example, I've found a lot of info on how disciplined Michael Jordan's home was and how high his parent's expectations were when he was a kid. This type of thing is great.

I don't know if there IS any info this detailed on ANY elite lifter, but I figured this was the place to ask. I'd really like to include an Olympic Weightlifter because I have great respect for the athletes and know how demanding the training and lifestyle is.

Any recommendations or resources?

thanks

-Jeff

This is the best section to look for good squat programs so need to find a new one. I did smolov 13 week program for front squat in summer with amazing gains. Now I want to start a new program not quite as hard for back squat-since I'm in school and little more busy so doing a program like smolov be little crazy-. Currently squatting 3x a week.

So what have you guys done and you think be good program?

simple question: your reasons for and against bench pressing as part of an olympic lifting training program.

personally i think its a good strength exercise but may lead to poor jerk technique relying on the shoulders to support the bar, with head somewhat in line/behind the bar, as opposed to a good "head in front of the bar" lockout supported mostly by the upper back.

any anecdotes regarding pro's/certain nationalities using it as a training tool would also be appreciated.

Just want to let everyone know that Scott Nutter was in a bad car accident yesterday. He should be fine. He had surgery on his hand and had a bunch of cuts sewn shut, but long term he should be ok. He is a very lucky man. So if everyone could have Scott and his family in their thoughts and prayers that would be great.

Thanks.

Charlie

Elite Barbell

175kg clean by there hammer thrower from last year http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMja22tsJJA Also his 725 squat raw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdF51CKXF8Q...feature=related

Bo taylors 130kg snatch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnJ5WAl-KuQ

495 bench from there Shot putter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llxunL2-fPo and his 745 squat http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjAl7KOuBrY

Some good technique, the weight program they have over that at UCLA must be pretty good to produce mid 700 squatters for there senior throwers.

Edit: if you want post videos of throwers moving big weight, either pro, college, or high school