Just a question i have always wondered about these lifters. How the hell do they lift so much weight above their heads. I mean some guys are really small and not even really muscular yet they still lift some scary weights. forget about drugs i still cant understand how it is physically possible to do some of the lifts i have saw on videos. crazy!!
[quote]irishpowerhouse wrote:
Just a question i have always wondered about these lifters. How the hell do they lift so much weight above their heads. I mean some guys are really small and not even really muscular yet they still lift some scary weights. forget about drugs i still cant understand how it is physically possible to do some of the lifts i have saw on videos. crazy!![/quote]
Technique. Dedication. Intelligent and Constant Training/Practice. Conditioning.
CNS efficiency, perfect technique, training 5-6 days a week 2 times a day, buckets of drugs.
They may not have huge upper bodies, but their legs are usually very well developed. Leg drive is a huge part of oly lifting from what I understand.
I know of a female oly lifter who could strict press around (but not more than) 100 pounds overhead. She clean and jerked around 250.
[quote]irishpowerhouse wrote:
Just a question i have always wondered about these lifters. How the hell do they lift so much weight above their heads. I mean some guys are really small and not even really muscular yet they still lift some scary weights. forget about drugs i still cant understand how it is physically possible to do some of the lifts i have saw on videos. crazy!![/quote]
magic. shazam.
seriously mate, do some reading.
They can’t. It’s all trick photography and mirrors and such.
At least that’s the theory that helps me sleep at night.
They’re not real plates, they’re hollow.
[quote]supermick wrote:
irishpowerhouse wrote:
Just a question i have always wondered about these lifters. How the hell do they lift so much weight above their heads. I mean some guys are really small and not even really muscular yet they still lift some scary weights. forget about drugs i still cant understand how it is physically possible to do some of the lifts i have saw on videos. crazy!!
magic. shazam.
seriously mate, do some reading.[/quote]
There is always someone with a smart answer, well done, good man!
They start lifting in the mothers womb.
Most of the really skinny lifters you see (the winner of the 77kg. category in the 2004 Olympics, for example) are very young, and this is something I have noticed over the years. That is, that an athlete’s strength will develop faster than his size will, however with age and consistent lifting they do pack on some size and thickness, so much so you would not believe they lifted at such a lighter weight at one time, even though the training methods don’t change all that much (Anatoli Khrapaty, for example). Oh and forget about the buckets full of drugs, the drug testing these guys have to go through nowadays is insane. I am not saying they are clean, but they have had to cut WAY back and make do with less in order to pass the random, out-of-competition testing programs. Proof of this is the lack of any all-time world records being done in recent years.
[quote]irishpowerhouse wrote:
supermick wrote:
irishpowerhouse wrote:
Just a question i have always wondered about these lifters. How the hell do they lift so much weight above their heads. I mean some guys are really small and not even really muscular yet they still lift some scary weights. forget about drugs i still cant understand how it is physically possible to do some of the lifts i have saw on videos. crazy!!
magic. shazam.
seriously mate, do some reading.
There is always someone with a smart answer, well done, good man!
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Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer.
how is it a stupid question? If the answer is so simple then how come you are not a great olympic lifter, go figure.
[quote]Hanley wrote:
Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer.[/quote]
It’s not that stupid of a question. I mean hard work, smart training, genetics etc is obviously the answer, but haven’t you ever looked at a picture of a guy sitting in a rock bottom squat position holding 400 lbs over his head and wondered “how on earth does he do that?”?
[quote]Alex630 wrote:
Hanley wrote:
Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer.
It’s not that stupid of a question. I mean hard work, smart training, genetics etc is obviously the answer, but haven’t you ever looked at a picture of a guy sitting in a rock bottom squat position holding 400 lbs over his head and wondered “how on earth does he do that?”?
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Finally someone who sees where i am coming from on this!!!
[quote]irishpowerhouse wrote:
how is it a stupid question? If the answer is so simple then how come you are not a great olympic lifter, go figure. [/quote]
Genetics. Circumstances. Only finding out about weightlifting at about 19. Having to actually live a real life instead of living in an eastern european training centre. Do you need a bigger list??
Bro face it, these guys do what they do because they live to do it. They train twice or three times a day, have access to constant coaching, get paid by the state to win olympic medals, they’ve been doing it their whole life, they have body types suited to it (jsut look at how Bulgaria used to select their lifters).
Yup like above said they live it its their passion their life, many times their job
Train there asses off. Eat rest recover what ever it takes
It’s no different then being the best or being elite in any other sport in the world.
How does this guy, only 5’10" have over a 50 inch vertical?
How did Xavier Carter win national titles in four events at the NCAA Track and Field Championships being the first person since Jesse Owens to do so? And first athlete ever to win both 100m and 400m?XAVIER CARTER 10.09 ncaa, 400m - YouTube
How could Nate Robinson, this year?s NBA Slam Dunk Championship be both a NFL and NBA Draft Prospect in high school being listed only as 5’9"? Most say he?s closer to 5’7".
When the right person finds the right sport, and reaches their potential, it seems unbelievable what they end up doing.
obviously these athletes have dedication like nothing we could imagine and train very hard, but when you think there are people who are able to throw a weight above their heads which i can just about pull off the floor for one rep, it scares me.
The bulk of the world’s top O-lifters come from countries with government sponsored programs. Kids with potential as young as 10 are hand picked and then groomed with 10-12 years of intense training twice a day, six days a week.
Add to this mix an incredible drive to succeed. For a talented young weightlifter in the US, being able to C&J 200kg means a medal, maybe a photo in the newspaper once every four years, and a little sponsorship pocketmoney. For a similar youngster in Bulgaria or China however, a 200 C&J is his ticket to rise above the poverty line, to eat meat every day, travel the world, be a national icon, and take care of his family - things the vast majority of his friends can only dream of.
Also, these athletes do nothing else but train, eat and sleep, with all their needs catered for. Compare this to amateur and many professional weightlifters in, say, the US or Australia, who generally hold at least a part time job to pay the bills.
That’s not taking anything away from the champion Russian, Cuban, Bulgarian and Chinese oly lifters - they really are amazing.
Of course some goose was gonna mention drugs. Well here’s a test: take double the dose of what the Bulgarian national team takes and let’s see how close you get to a triple bodyweight front squat.
Rob
Well here in eastern europe they start very young 7,9,10 years old they live at the training center and they train 2 times a day 7 days a week.
I used to train at the training center I did not train oly weightlifting,I trained bodybuilding.
In that gym there were europeean champs,national champs,everyone was somekind of champ.