You doing any kind of consistent PL training? Or are you pretty focused on the strongman these days? Sounds like fun. If I were strong, that is.
Any plans for upcoming PL meets?
I just returned from Master’s Nats. Got to see lots of great lifting. Met Mr. LSU, your handler from Puerto Rico. He’s going to handle Brook at Women’s since neither of her training partners can go with her.
ya, diggin your new focus…
I’ve got my eyes on a comp at the end of Summer…FINALLY! :WOOT:
Looks at K…what are you talking about woman?! You are mentally tough AND strong…
smacks butt
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
You doing any kind of consistent PL training? Or are you pretty focused on the strongman these days? Sounds like fun. If I were strong, that is.
Any plans for upcoming PL meets?
I just returned from Master’s Nats. Got to see lots of great lifting. Met Mr. LSU, your handler from Puerto Rico. He’s going to handle Brook at Women’s since neither of her training partners can go with her.[/quote]
How’d RG do?
I’m going to do state games. I’m not really training super different, except I haven’t gone for a 3-lift single in ages. I figure the strongman is helping my back and shoulders, and those will certainly carry over to PLing.
There’s a sub-140 section for the Parker Days…
He went 7/9. 462 squat, 253 bench, 402 DL. Not too shabby for someone who will be 72 this year. Should make the world team.
I’m doing the state games too. May go to RMLC some Friday evenings this summer. I’ll let you know if I do. Could be a rousing good time.
Okay ladies and gents.
Give me clues for cleans.
I can clean 140, and I can press 140, but I can’t clean AND then press 140. My strongman, my weight class anticipates 140 axle clean and press, cleaning each rep.
Help? I know my form is meh, and I get tentative and scared. I’ll try to take a video this week.
Carl is a really good resource from the smelly Old Folks Home regarding Oly lifts. He’s competed for quite some time and has really beauteous form. Get a vid and then ask him to review and comment.
i think if you already have the clean you’ve got the hardest part down. I have a similar prob…mines stuck at about one thirty five. I can push press one45 but not clean it :{
maybe train push presses more? that’s what i’m going to try. seems like i can kinda sit with the clean and get my leg drive going for the rest. in theory. bounce, and bounce and bounce…or like they oly people say–get under the bar…but i can’t do that either!
I also i’ve banged my collar bone a few times and felt like i was twisting my back oddly…it is scary :{ ALSO when i tired to log press with the stuff at rmlc with a much lower wt i couldn’t, its tricky with the different grip! and i take it they are not using regular bb at the meet either ?
Yeah, they are using a 2" axle. It’s nice, because it’s on tires and so the ROM is shorter; but it’s hard because the grip is wonky.
do they have those axles at the Colorado gym on havanna?? i’d like to try em.
[quote]brute_fury wrote:
do they have those axles at the Colorado gym on havanna?? i’d like to try em. [/quote]
They should have them there Saturday.
OW. My cervical vertebrae are mad at me! I am SORE too! I wasn’t expecting that from the small amount I did, how sore i am 
WORD! Thank you for inviting me I’ll be next week :)!
Cleaning each rep sounds rough…can you find out to be sure?? If you can clean it thats the hardest part(like Brutiful said)
you can DO IT!!
[quote]pushmepullme wrote:
Okay ladies and gents.
Give me clues for cleans.
I can clean 140, and I can press 140, but I can’t clean AND then press 140. My strongman, my weight class anticipates 140 axle clean and press, cleaning each rep.
Help? I know my form is meh, and I get tentative and scared. I’ll try to take a video this week.[/quote]
Which way are your elbows pointing after you have cleaned the weight up? With the bar racked on the shoulders/clavicles, are you still gripping the bar or have you let the bar roll down your fingers? What you don’t want is for the bar to sitting/resting on the pectorals. You want it higher than that.
You need to rack the weight nice and tight. Then squat down, think along the lines of a deep push press. Then explode upwards. Use the legs and hips to get the bar moving then the arms can press it out to full extension.
PS
I liked you run down on the Strong Man Contest. Very cool.
The press of the clean and jerk should be more of a shoot up with the hips/legs. Arms should hardly be involved besides the lock out.
[quote]Bujo wrote:
[quote]pushmepullme wrote:
Okay ladies and gents.
Give me clues for cleans.
I can clean 140, and I can press 140, but I can’t clean AND then press 140. My strongman, my weight class anticipates 140 axle clean and press, cleaning each rep.
Help? I know my form is meh, and I get tentative and scared. I’ll try to take a video this week.[/quote]
Which way are your elbows pointing after you have cleaned the weight up? With the bar racked on the shoulders/clavicles, are you still gripping the bar or have you let the bar roll down your fingers? What you don’t want is for the bar to sitting/resting on the pectorals. You want it higher than that.
You need to rack the weight nice and tight. Then squat down, think along the lines of a deep push press. Then explode upwards. Use the legs and hips to get the bar moving then the arms can press it out to full extension.
PS
I liked you run down on the Strong Man Contest. Very cool.[/quote]
Thanks! I’ve been getting a lot of coaching on my C&P from one of the strongman dudes. He tore his calf so now he’s our coach, lol. I know that I am getting the bar to the right place after the clean - that is MUCH better than it used to be. The bar direction is much closer to vertical than it used to be, too.
What’s blowing my mind now, is that apparently my push press is totally strict. I feel like I’m popping and using my hips and all that good shit, and I’m never sore in my shoulders or triceps, but the people watching me say that I’m all beast press and no push press. So that might be good for being strong, but it sucks for doing strongman.
Competition in a couple of weeks. Right now I’m going to work on bruise mitigation and stability. For the competition, I know I won’t win. I’m just going to work on being stable and using good form, and surviving the events.
Oh, and the red marks on my collar after my clean work are not as high as that dude, but definitely not as low as that chick. They are just on or slightly below my collarbone.
And Oh, again, I keep a full thumbs-around grip throughout the movement. I am not comfortable monkey gripping an axle, and my hands are definitely not big enough to hook grip it.
surviving the vents is not a easy task either! I’m still sore form teh farmer’s walk! i bet i have a bruise but i can’t tell.
I’ll pop by the cheer for you!!!
…saturday SATURDAY SATURDAY!!! 
I wish you strong vibes and luck and the least bruising possible
PS-> I miss eavesdropping in on your training…how are you doing for the state meet prep?
