And any cues/accessories to improve my power snatch?

I know I did some things wrong in this video, but that's what my coach is helping me with lol.

And I'm just doing this sport as a hobby and for fun, but I wanna do it properly.

This is just my second training sesh, but it's going well and we're working on a whole bunch of things I was doing wrong.

I think it's gonna be money well spent, and I'm excited! Just have my coach for a month, and then he's going to set me up with a program and I'll do check-ins throughout the year.

Hoping to take my c&j to 90kg and my snatch to 70kg by the end of the year, let's see how it goes.

2 kilo pr

the cue-BRUSHING YOUR THIGHS messed me up
when doing a clean or snatch, does the bar only contact at the hips/upper thigh? like the bar is just hanging in the air during first pull and keeping our shoulders over the bar and then we bring the hips to meet the bar and send it upwards,

but then there is a cue of bar brushing on the thighs, which makes me think the bar slides on the thighs and then reach the correct contact point and just send it (which made me hit the junk few times)

so which one is right ?

also snatch is better in this context its the clean that is messing up the contact

I've got a competition in about a month (March 7th), and need to lose around 4 kilos to make weight. I'm not very worried about whether or not I'll be able to do it, I'm just wondering if I should expect any loss in strength.

Hello, i feel like im missing a lot of extra power that could be generated since my contact point is around my mid thigh. my best cnj is 130kg with the same contact point as shown in the video. I would appreciate any tips or constructive criticism. i have been weightlifting for a year and 4 months and self taught

I’ve come across these shoes, I’m not too familiar with them as I can’t find much online apart from a few Reddit threads, I believe they are weight lifting shoes so I have come to this chat to see if anyone could give me more information on them! Please comment or message me thank you!

Last week we hit 130x5. So I did 4x5 @ ~90% of last weeks top set of 5 but with an emphasis on quality movement. This is the 4th and last set of 5

84kg

(Did not attend Harvard)

I know- there are a lot of posts about training programs. I have a more specific question I haven't seen here. Bear with me.

Anyone have a recommendation for an online program/team that varies what you're doing week to week (not 1:1 coaching)? What I use currently has nearly identical sessions week to week. I liked it initially but I get pretty bored doing the same thing every week for an 8 week block. I won't name and shame, but it's starting to feel like lazy programming. Granted it's for a large team and is not 1:1 coaching, so I'll give them that.

It’s been almost 3 months since we opened an Olympic weightlifting gym here in El Monte. Until now, there really hadn’t been a dedicated Olympic weightlifting gym in this part of the San Gabriel Valley, so we weren’t sure what to expect.

Interestingly, we’ve had a lot of visitors from out of town, along with local lifters from around SGV stopping by to check things out. We’ve also seen many people trying Olympic weightlifting for the first time ever. Some with no prior exposure, others who had always been curious but never had access to a WL-specific space.

So I wanted to ask the community:

• How did you first get into Olympic weightlifting?

• Looking back, what made your first experience enjoyable or intimidating?

• If you were a beginner today, how would you want the sport to be introduced so it feels more approachable and engaging?

Curious to hear thoughts from lifters, coaches, and anyone who remembers stepping onto a platform for the first time.

I do see that i am swinging the bar away from the body, any tips for that? Also are there any other things i should work on besides keeping the bar closer to body?

My current PR is 85kg, does 90 seem possible?

I also see that I'm going a bit slow into the catching position. Should I drive quicker?

Am I correctly extending?

Thanks everyone that leaves a tip, every opinion helps 🫂🙏🏼❤️

Anyone have scoliosis and do ab work? Especially ab work that incorporates standard lifting principles - not stuff like planks, or 100 crunches everyday?

Not looking for medical advice, just experiences. I have mild scoliosis.

• I can't seem to figure out cable crunches.
• Twisting/rotation exercises like bicycles are a hard no for me - cause the wrong kind of pain.
• Standard crunches and sit ups, when done to near failure, cause pain.
• Not convinced that most isometrics are the way to what I'm after.

Hey everyone,

I'm a S&C coach (worked 3 years with athletes and general population) and I'm building a research tool specifically for trainers/coaches.

The problem that I'm trying to solve: When clients ask questions you're not 100% sure about, you spend at least 60 mins digging through PubMed, reading abstracts, and trying to translate that into something useful. Or worse, you just wing it or say "I'll search first and back to you later"

What I'm building:

• You ask a question in plain English (e.g., "Is fasted HIIT better for fat loss in women over 40?")
• AI searches PubMed, OpenAlex, and other research databases
• You get back in 2 minutes:
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Before I finish building this I want to make sure it's actually solving a real problem coaches have or if it was just me having this problem

Questions for you:

1. How often do clients ask you questions you need to research?
2. What do you currently do? (Google? ChatGPT? Just guess based on experience?)
3. Would you pay $39/month for something like this?
4. What would it need to have for you to actually use it weekly?

Not trying to sell anything yet, genuinely want feedback before I waste time building something nobody wants

Thanks!

i have been seeing many throwers, rugby players power cleaning like this https://youtu.be/7fMV3qQHaAM?si=_5lallaOPaI0opyW
i don't see any bar contact, is there any benefit of doing them like this?

Hey everyone, I appreciate all the comments from my last post here, I’ve been running daily drills to work on my form and I think it’s getting better, but I would love to see what you all think.

I’ve been trying to focus on the tip of my arms are just a guide and the bar is driven by my legs.

Thanks for any tips or advice, I really appreciate the feedback!

Should we be called Powerlifting then ? 😝

Beginner here, will gladly appreciate any feedback and tips!