You're doing The Lord's Work, Tommy.
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Arnold Championships (update on weightlifting)
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v...78&pnref=story
One of the girls I coach competed last weekend at the Arnold Championships. She had a nice day with a couple of PR lifts (90/112). She is a 63kg lifter and is sitting in 3rd place right now in the Pan-American Games rankings (3rd best female lifter in the country right now). This puts her just outside the cutoff for Pan-Ams, but there is one more qualifying meet at the end of April. Fingers crossed!
I still need to get around to posting a training log for her, but in this last training cycle we really pushed her strength numbers. Her low bar back squat increased dramatically (doing 5kg over her old 1RM) along with her press, and bench press. Her deadlift is lagging behind for some reason, so I'm going to have to rethink some of her program.
Besides the deadlift progress, I'd just like to comment that I'm really happy with how the training is going. I can directly attribute Mary's success to the Starting Strength principles that I learned from this community and the teachings of Rip and his staff. Low Bar, PPST3, forum posts, and support from the community have all proved to be invaluable assets for training.
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You're doing The Lord's Work, Tommy.
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wait she deadlifts? HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE??? WHAT ABOUT DEADLIFT SHOULDERS?!!?!
(I don't even know what that is)
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Since deadlift shoulders are not a "thing," why are you asking about them?
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I notice that the snatch recovery seemed fine, despite the antics of the anti-low-bar crowd.
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I may be mistaken, but I think it's the clean recovery that they (primarily) think will be fucked up by low bar instead of high bar squatting. During the seminar, we show via video playback that the recovery from a snatch, however caught (even with a vertical torso, as Mary does here), almost always looks an awful lot like a low bar squat. I pointed out last year that the logical extension of this is that if snatching doesn't mess up the movement pattern of the lifters' cleans, neither should the low bar squat.Originally Posted by The_GOAT
I don't expect that we'll see a broad change in receptivity within the olympic lifting community to our ideas anytime soon, but often things start one person at a time. Sometimes they expand beyond that, sometimes they don't. I recently put the head coach at the (Crossfit) gym where I coach through an 8 week strength cycle - basic SS Novice progression with low bar squatting, press 2.0, vertical bar path DL and power clean - with no crossfit or other lifting done during this time. He not only made some significant PRs in the strength lifts, but he PRd his snatch, clean, and clean and jerk when he tested them after the cycle. Hopefully as more and more small one-person stories like this add up, people notice and think about things in a new light.
Last edited by Michael Wolf; 03-15-2015 at 08:24 PM.
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It's common among olympic coaches to not allow dead lifting for this reason. Have you honestly never heard of it?
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You said, regarding deadlift shoulders, "I don't even know what that is." Now you're saying this thing of which you know not is the reason some WL coaches don't program heavy deadlifts. Does not compute. Explain.
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I've heard several reasons for Olympic lifting coaches not programming deadlifts. None of them had anything to do with shoulders. I thought it was something you pulled out of thin air and the parenthetical portion of your post beneath also confused me.
To return to the topic, Ms. Peck is a badass lifter. Congratulations to her and DiStasio.
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Mary is amazing. I'm always in awe of her lifting.
Congrats to you both!
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