[quote]phlegms wrote:
Good stuff man. I feel you on the behind the neck presses, I wouldn’t reccommend them at all really except for if you want to strengthen the end position of the snatch. There are much less awkward ways to get shoulder strength up!
The RDLS look like you could do with lightening the weight by a bit though and bending the knees a little bit less. RDLS only ever started to feel effective for me when I went for reps and focused on feeling that stretch. Once the weight gets too heavy you start to use other muscle groups to get the weight up. Drag the bars right up your shins and stick the glutes out (without too much knee flexion/bend) to get the movement right.
Thanks man, im backing off the RDL’s for the minute as I seem to jack all out of them. I never felt it in my hammes but rather my calves and no amount of foam rolling seemed to help.
Guess its back to normal DL’S!
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Nah, I’d stick it out with the RDL’s. They are a good motion to learn and perfect and to have in your repertoire. Straighten your legs more…a little less knee bend, and as much as your knees are bent at the start, do not bend them anymore throughout the motion. Seriously, just cut your weight in half for a while and feel the stretch. Extend those hips back. Just to overemphasize this I’ll find myself balancing on my heels at the bottom of the motion with my toes off the ground, cuz I’m so far back with my hips. That loading your hammies will get under tension like that is pretty much unparalleled with other lifts.
And yea, like phlegms says…drop the behind the neck act.
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Right, behind the neck is out.
What I might do is DL maximal once every two weeks and on the sceond weak RDL to take a break from it, what do you think?
[quote]phlegms wrote:
Good stuff man. I feel you on the behind the neck presses, I wouldn’t reccommend them at all really except for if you want to strengthen the end position of the snatch. There are much less awkward ways to get shoulder strength up!
The RDLS look like you could do with lightening the weight by a bit though and bending the knees a little bit less. RDLS only ever started to feel effective for me when I went for reps and focused on feeling that stretch. Once the weight gets too heavy you start to use other muscle groups to get the weight up. Drag the bars right up your shins and stick the glutes out (without too much knee flexion/bend) to get the movement right.
Thanks man, im backing off the RDL’s for the minute as I seem to jack all out of them. I never felt it in my hammes but rather my calves and no amount of foam rolling seemed to help.
Guess its back to normal DL’S!
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Nah, I’d stick it out with the RDL’s. They are a good motion to learn and perfect and to have in your repertoire. Straighten your legs more…a little less knee bend, and as much as your knees are bent at the start, do not bend them anymore throughout the motion. Seriously, just cut your weight in half for a while and feel the stretch. Extend those hips back. Just to overemphasize this I’ll find myself balancing on my heels at the bottom of the motion with my toes off the ground, cuz I’m so far back with my hips. That loading your hammies will get under tension like that is pretty much unparalleled with other lifts.
And yea, like phlegms says…drop the behind the neck act.
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Right, behind the neck is out.
What I might do is DL maximal once every two weeks and on the sceond weak RDL to take a break from it, what do you think?[/quote]
Wait, I just realized I never put RDL’s in that program I wrote up. Why are you doing RDL’s…lol? Yes, you should be deadlifting 1x/week with the 5/3/2 set up.
Bam! that deadlift came out of nowhere man - awesome when that happens.
OHP - still need to work on that upper back/shoulder flexibility man, and push you head through when the bar gets above it - it’ll really help on the lockout
[quote]caveman101 wrote:
Bam! that deadlift came out of nowhere man - awesome when that happens.
OHP - still need to work on that upper back/shoulder flexibility man, and push you head through when the bar gets above it - it’ll really help on the lockout[/quote]
Yeah I was so happy when I got all 4 plates on, some milestone.
My OHP O’s definatly my weakest movement, lots of shoulder rehab for me and thanks for the tip. Used it today and felt my lockout being much stronger.
