I’m REALLY happy that guys of such knowledge are starting to share their knowledge with us. Hopefully in the future more and more good coaches like that will come in and share their views on training.
I know that I personally learned a lot from them and I’m sure that you did too.
Chris, much respect. No ego and a great ability to convey your considerably knowledge.
Yeh its great to see coaches discussing principles in the forums where everyone can take something away from it
Thank you for the kind words, Mr Thibaudeau.
Really interesting to see how coaches from different parts of the world have developed and evolved such similar training methods, based on both science and practical results with their lifters. I’ve also picked up a few things I’ll definitely experiment with, and whenever I get some free time I will also share more of what the things I’m having great success with currently.
[quote]Christian Thibaudeau wrote:
I’m REALLY happy that guys of such knowledge are starting to share their knowledge with us. Hopefully in the future more and more good coaches like that will come in and share their views on training.
I know that I personally learned a lot from them and I’m sure that you did too.[/quote]
Thanks. Its always interesting for me to hear about what other people are doing if it seems to be working. Speaking of more good coaches, I am trying to get my friend Ruslan Khomenko to come on here to comment on the “negative ion” thing that I mentioned in the other thread. He is a Russian coach that works with many of their world and junior world team members… plus he snatched 135kg and clean and jerked 160kg as a 62kg lifter!!! He does have some thoughts about training outside, and particularly at altitude or on the coast that might be of some interest to you, and it would be more interesting to hear it from him personally than to hear it regurgitated from me.
[quote]glenn pendlay wrote:
[quote]Christian Thibaudeau wrote:
I’m REALLY happy that guys of such knowledge are starting to share their knowledge with us. Hopefully in the future more and more good coaches like that will come in and share their views on training.
I know that I personally learned a lot from them and I’m sure that you did too.[/quote]
Thanks. Its always interesting for me to hear about what other people are doing if it seems to be working. Speaking of more good coaches, I am trying to get my friend Ruslan Khomenko to come on here to comment on the “negative ion” thing that I mentioned in the other thread. He is a Russian coach that works with many of their world and junior world team members… plus he snatched 135kg and clean and jerked 160kg as a 62kg lifter!!! He does have some thoughts about training outside, and particularly at altitude or on the coast that might be of some interest to you, and it would be more interesting to hear it from him personally than to hear it regurgitated from me.
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I’d like to hear about it. I know that I personally see fast improvements when I go to Coloraro Springs for a week or two. I go there roughly 1 week every month and during that week I have drastic (for that period of time) improvements in body composition.
I reasoned that since there is less oxygen, the body must work harder to do the same job and as a result you burn more fuel and get leaner.
It’s funny because the first week I’m there I normally drop a good amount of fat… if I stay longer I’ll maintain up to day 10 or so and after that I start to regress.
[quote]Christian Thibaudeau wrote:
[quote]glenn pendlay wrote:
[quote]Christian Thibaudeau wrote:
I’m REALLY happy that guys of such knowledge are starting to share their knowledge with us. Hopefully in the future more and more good coaches like that will come in and share their views on training.
I know that I personally learned a lot from them and I’m sure that you did too.[/quote]
Thanks. Its always interesting for me to hear about what other people are doing if it seems to be working. Speaking of more good coaches, I am trying to get my friend Ruslan Khomenko to come on here to comment on the “negative ion” thing that I mentioned in the other thread. He is a Russian coach that works with many of their world and junior world team members… plus he snatched 135kg and clean and jerked 160kg as a 62kg lifter!!! He does have some thoughts about training outside, and particularly at altitude or on the coast that might be of some interest to you, and it would be more interesting to hear it from him personally than to hear it regurgitated from me.
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I’d like to hear about it. I know that I personally see fast improvements when I go to Coloraro Springs for a week or two. I go there roughly 1 week every month and during that week I have drastic (for that period of time) improvements in body composition.
I reasoned that since there is less oxygen, the body must work harder to do the same job and as a result you burn more fuel and get leaner.
It’s funny because the first week I’m there I normally drop a good amount of fat… if I stay longer I’ll maintain up to day 10 or so and after that I start to regress.[/quote]
Twice as funny to note that 10-14 days is the normal length of training camps in the mountains as given to me by those that I have talked to about it. The similarities might be something, or, hell, might be nothing.
And another tidbit of related info, when Abajiev was here coaching he was basically against any and all recovery methods. No massage, no contrast showers, nothing. He thought that the body must be forced to adapt and handle the workload with no assistance. But even given that, it was hard to make him understand that just picking up and moving training to the mountains for a couple of weeks here and there, and also picking up and going to train on the coast weren’t viable options.
Every so often I start thinking that science is wonderful, but often what it does is finally give us a reason to pay attention to what we should have known through common sense in the first place. Everyone recognizes that “clean mountain air” invigorates us, causes at least some sort of positive feeling or increase in energy. Anyone who has ever stood near a waterfall recognizes that there is some sort of special feeling that you get. Its hard to describe except to say that it is positive and I am sure that some of you recognize what I am talking about.
I am not sure it matters so much why this is true. I think it does matter that we take advantage of it.
I have been very lucky to have been able to interact with so many good or even great coaches from other countries and cultures. One thing that I have noticed is that almost all of them (except Abajiev, lol)do all the “little things” that in my experience American coaches dont do. I am not sure that any one thing helps, but I sure do think that all of them put together do.
And one funny (kind of) story. Several years ago when I first started running into the “training camp in the mountains” thing… I thought the particular scents might be a reason for the positive feelings. I read a bit about aroma therapy, and proceeded to buy scent oils of evergreen, eucalyptus, and I think peppermint. I heated the oil and filled the training hall with these various scents for several months as I remember. At first it was a novelty and people seemed to enjoy it… but in the end it became so annoying to the lifters that they stole my oil warmer and the oils and never gave them back.
I personally still enjoy burning a eucalyptus scented candle in my home from time to time though.
I love all the different training perspectives that multiple coaches in multiple disciplines brings; learning so much. Also A question for Glenn, I just watched your video on snatch 2nd pull technique and was wondering if you’ll be doing any more similar videos.
[quote]Mar73 wrote:
I love all the different training perspectives that multiple coaches in multiple disciplines brings; learning so much. Also A question for Glenn, I just watched your video on snatch 2nd pull technique and was wondering if you’ll be doing any more similar videos.[/quote]
Actually, I plan on a series of videos, one for each learning stage in the way I teach the snatch and clean and jerk… as well as some remedial drills. I finally realized that I have spent hundreds and hundreds of hours trying to describe positions and movements and drills through email, on forums, on the phone… and I could have just been linking videos!
[quote]glenn pendlay wrote:
Actually, I plan on a series of videos, one for each learning stage in the way I teach the snatch and clean and jerk… as well as some remedial drills. I finally realized that I have spent hundreds and hundreds of hours trying to describe positions and movements and drills through email, on forums, on the phone… and I could have just been linking videos! [/quote]
That’s fantastic news Glenn, I was hoping you’d do something like that after seeing those snatch vids. Looking forward to it.
Glenn, as a tip, to increase the quality of your upcoming videos; Do them in an area where there isn’t other people slamming weights in the background/or wear a mic on your shirt, in order to make sure that the people watching are hearing everything that is being said.
[quote]liffy wrote:
Glenn, as a tip, to increase the quality of your upcoming videos; Do them in an area where there isn’t other people slamming weights in the background/or wear a mic on your shirt, in order to make sure that the people watching are hearing everything that is being said.
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It is unlikely that I will get totally away from folks dropping weights, but we are gonna try to up the audio quality.
[quote]glenn pendlay wrote:
[quote]Mar73 wrote:
I love all the different training perspectives that multiple coaches in multiple disciplines brings; learning so much. Also A question for Glenn, I just watched your video on snatch 2nd pull technique and was wondering if you’ll be doing any more similar videos.[/quote]
Actually, I plan on a series of videos, one for each learning stage in the way I teach the snatch and clean and jerk… as well as some remedial drills. I finally realized that I have spent hundreds and hundreds of hours trying to describe positions and movements and drills through email, on forums, on the phone… and I could have just been linking videos! [/quote]
Wow that’s awesome can’t wait to watch and learn. I don’t have the resources for a coach so self teaching myself through videos seems to be the best option, and videos like yours and others a a huge help in getting technique down.
Much Thanks,
Mar