Originally Posted by
SouthernLifter
I do not come from the world of weightlifting, but what Rip says about the relationship between your deadlifts and your Olympic lifts is very obvious to me. I laughed out loud when a guy tried to "refute" Rip with a Youtube video by simply resorting to straw men and other fallacies. The Ripīs point is clear to me BUT, the question is inevitable: Do you think that high level WL coaches are just idiots who don't order their students to deadlift enough? OR does the WL athlete selection criteria make students with the most acceleration capacity take precedence regardless of their strenght production?
I generally tend to think the latter, especially considering the genetics seen in the lightweight categories. But the guy that makes me think is Talashkade; he's a fucking 170kg gorilla, rock-muscled and huge-boned, why doesn't this guy increase his deadlift and take his C&J up to 300 kg for the fucking time?
Because I don't think this guy has deadlifted enough; otherwise I would have shared a video demonstrating it, but his top "pure strength" lift is a 700lb squat. This guy has probably never developed his deadlift and therefore that's why his C&J is still stuck at the +-270 kg threshold, like all the heavyweights of the last 30 years (something unusual when compared to Another sports). I mean, I have reason to believe that guy never deadlifted 400kg, so he can't be considered "one of the strongest guys in the world" like weightlifting youtubers say all the time.
What do you think of all this? Is the guy not that good at developing pure strength (like powerlifters) or did his coach just not order him to do enough deadlifts?