A little hijack question: What have you all done to increase flexibility in your wrists to hold a clean to front squat?
[quote]BIGRAGOO wrote:
A little hijack question: What have you all done to increase flexibility in your wrists to hold a clean to front squat? [/quote]
Grin and bare it!!
Also someone mentioned taking the same grip you would when you have the bar racked in the catch postion and use your other hand to gently push up under the elbow of the hanmd which is holding the bar.
[quote]Hanley wrote:
BIGRAGOO wrote:
A little hijack question: What have you all done to increase flexibility in your wrists to hold a clean to front squat?
Grin and bare it!!
Also someone mentioned taking the same grip you would when you have the bar racked in the catch postion and use your other hand to gently push up under the elbow of the hanmd which is holding the bar.[/quote]
Grin and bear it, huh? Damn, I was wanting a magical solution. My wrists don’t bend back far at all.
[quote]BIGRAGOO wrote:
Hanley wrote:
BIGRAGOO wrote:
A little hijack question: What have you all done to increase flexibility in your wrists to hold a clean to front squat?
Grin and bare it!!
Also someone mentioned taking the same grip you would when you have the bar racked in the catch postion and use your other hand to gently push up under the elbow of the hanmd which is holding the bar.
Grin and bear it, huh? Damn, I was wanting a magical solution. My wrists don’t bend back far at all.[/quote]
Grin and bare as in just smile and accept it and keep working with it til they get flexible!! That’s what I did… But now thinking back my wrist pain was almost unbareable during it but that’s all in the past and my wrists are fine now and i can front squat without wny problems.
I think upper back (and maybe tricep?) flexibility are important here cos the higher you can hold your elbows, the less you’ll have to bend your wrists.
I had horrible wrist flexibility, since i type all day on a computer. Was very painful to bend my wrists back. The coach had me doing an exercise where you place the palm of you hand on a wall, bend your wrist at 90 angle, stand with arm extended and push into the wall, spread your fingers apart. Actually I need to make a video of this and put it on our website. Now I don’t have any problems… give yourself a month or two and your wrists won’t be a problem.
deathroe is right - stop benching
this is always a good thread (bench vs overhead) http://www.T-Nation.com/readTopic.do?id=802617
For shoes I wear the chinese DoWin
shoes, I have wide feet they fit better
than adidas. shoes are a must.
More great stuff.
Funny, lots of advice to stop benching, but I haven’t benched more than 2 times in the last year or so. I do more overhead press types.
More regular stretching of shoulders and wrist I think will be the key for me, at least as I work to get to do an OH squat.
This is the kind of thread that makes this site rock.
Hey guys, I just wanted to say thnks for all this help. I went to my first trained o-lifting session ever last week and it was a blast. I went to Lost Battallion and plan to become a regular. The tips and stratching I got from this thread seemed to help me prepare some, though nothing beats good coaching in person. But thanks anyway.
O-lifting rules. Power, pure and simple, expressed in explosive fun. Good times.
[quote]bald_eagle wrote:
Don’t rush, take one step at a time. I didn’t have any flexibility issues; could do deep squats, overhead etc easily but I tried to lift much too quickly and injured my shoulder. Luckily didn’t lose my flexibility but had to stop training for a month. The culprit in my case was “motor control”
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Wow, you too?
[quote]Krollmonster wrote:
Doing these things has helped my shoulder flexibility a lot. Now, in my OL shoes, I can atg overhead squat the bar with the bar only an inch or two wider than my shoulders.
Good luck.
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You should be in a snatch grip when doing overhead squats.
[quote]Chris Adams wrote:
Krollmonster wrote:
Doing these things has helped my shoulder flexibility a lot. Now, in my OL shoes, I can atg overhead squat the bar with the bar only an inch or two wider than my shoulders.
Good luck.
You should be in a snatch grip when doing overhead squats.[/quote]
I do the OHS with a snatch grip, but sometimes at the end of a workout I do them with just the empty bar and keep moving my hands closer and closer and eventually do the lift without shoes on. Just to work on increasing flexibility.