Yeah they are just getting started and that 19-25 testosterone is getting their swole on. They are doing trap bar. I’m doing snatch grip.
My son 19 told me he wasn’t doing snatch grip but he was gonna do trap bar and he and his buddy did. I’m honestly glad they decided to do their own thing instead of blindly follow my plans for them.
I did follow them on some accessory moves today. The single leg Bulgarian squats with a hip were terrible but I did them. The 2 min leg press sets with bands were more terrible. Both of them were their ideas for leg torture.
@I_Luc do you do trap bar dead lifts?
What do they hit?
That seems close for snatch grip for a big guy. My pinkys are almost to the collars when I do it. I once heard/read that you measure from the outside of one shoulder to the opposite finger tips and use that as your grip width.
I’m 6’ (not sure how tall hog is), and my snatch grip is right about where his is. Any further and my shoulders don’t like it. Not to mention my hands start running into the rack supports.
Hey, I did muscle snatches today and my index finger is about 1.5" outside the ring. You’re not too far off with your grip. My wingspan was 6’7" in high school. It might be longer now after years of wear and tear on my shoulder.
45x15
SS
65x10
95x5
115x3
135x3
155x1
175x1 (pr for weight presses over head)
185x1 (pr)
205x1 (pr)
225x 0 (missed lockout and brought it back to the loaded position and racked it)
225x0 (bad miss dropped it)
V: 165x5,5,5
DE: bench bar weight 95 +double red mini around 100-110 at lockout/ 195-205)
X3 EMOM x 10 min
Acc: felt great today
DB incline press 55x10,10,12
Face pulls: 80x15,20,20
Tate press: 20x15,20,15
Wide grip lat pulls: 100x10, 130x10, 160x10
Seated cable row wide: 130x10,20,15
Push-ups: 4, 15
Dip bars: 2 partials
Highlights
Fail
225 was not happening but is not far away. Maybe could have squeezed out a single of 215. Really was a solid day of OHP work.
I’ll be out of pocket Thursday, Friday, Saturday. I’ll try to squeeze in these workouts. We will see.
Nice! Way to get some good weight over head. Do you have the mobility to front rack? I think you’d see a huge improvement in your stability and transferring of force into the bar.
Yeah exactly. I think for the push press, the goal is end up somewhere in between a clean grip front rack and the starting position of your strict press. So bar racked, but elbows not pointing totally in front. Basically just enough meat on it so your leg drive transfers to the bar without your arms needing to regain their starting spot.
I do push press from the front rack position. It takes some stress off the wrists. They don’t have to support the load when you dip and drive and that saves me a lot of pain. I’m sure it helps performance a bit too. The wrists can flex; the delts can’t.
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Front rack position is something I will work to develop, but my wrist mobility is not currently allowing that. I did purchase some wrist wraps. Everyone in the country currently seems to have great sale prices on wrist wraps. 225 was hard on the wrist for sure and knocked air out of my bracing position when it was on my pecs/ delts. I’m glad that 225 is within reasonable reach. Maybe 6months out. By Christmas hopefully!
@mortdk Sorry to let you down on the thunderstruck man. I took too big a jump from 205. I should have tried 210 or 215 but I wanted it all. I was lucky to escape that second attempt. The first attempt (no video) was much better…
Youll get it before then, once you are able to get it into a proper front rack position 225lbs will shoot up. Start working on thoracic and wrist mobility and you will probably have it within 2-3months, maybe sooner depending on how quickly you can develop the mobility.
