The Bridge

[Ericsquats]

I've asked Rip to explain beyond the claims in the book. In person. On several occasions. And I remain skeptical.

Fair enough. What was the question(s)?

[Cody]

Straight from the book. Try reading it.

You do realize John Hanley had his SSC, right?

[John Hanley]

My impression of the role of cleans is that it's intended for the youthful athlete on a sports team. Seems American football teams praise cleans, Bill Starr praised cleans. Ex-football players like Wendler talked about cleans, jumps, medicine throws and plyometric shit like that.

Of course. We (young US athletes) all trained this way.

Fair enough. What was the question(s)?

"Rip, why should I program cleans for anyone? What are the adaptations I'm looking induce?"

The things that are trainable in ballistic movements (total recruitment in limited time, inter-muscular coordination of recruitment, twitch rates, doublet twitches, Marenghi what else? )...are very movement specific adaptations.

[manveer]

Read the fucking book, Hanley. No wonder you lost your SSC. Probably another troll like Dwayne Wint.

[Meshuggah]

Power Cleans are a waste of time.

[Daverin]

And I remain skeptical.

I've noticed that from you quite often lately.

[Cody]

Read the fucking book, Hanley. No wonder you lost your SSC. Probably another troll like Dwayne Wint.

This makes me happy.



While we're talking about trolls, did you know this ericsquats guy currently has 54 posts since joining 4 months ago, 16 of which are the OP to a form check. This dude has literally posted the equivalent of 1 form check per week of joining the forum, and is lecturing a distinguished coach about things which little Eric has no first hand experience with.

WTF.

[HomeBrew]

Recruitment rate doing what? Any rate-limited movement that involves hip and knee extension?

Cleans are the best way? How do we know? Lots of people have studied this. Bondarshuk has lots of data on recruitment-rate transfer (probably the best I can think of). He wasn't a huge proponent of oly lifts.

How did you evaluate the truth value of these claims?

Yes rate limited hip and knee extension.

I don't know absolutely that cleans (or snatches) are the best way, but the argument- that it is loadable and you explode harder when you must rack, makes sense to me. The highest power output in sport is in the snatch.

I would like to have a look at Bondarshuk.

[Cody]

STFU butthurt baby bitch!

Eric has read the book. He knows the book. He is of the book. He goes to the book.

You are merely a blank page that I shall wipe my asshole with.

Are you even published? Lololol.

I bet you don't even have Asics 727s or 747s or 711s, or even 9/11s (look into it. Inside job).

I am actually published, yeah. And Asics doesn't make jumbo jets, retard.

[John Hanley]

Read the fucking book, Hanley. No wonder you lost your SSC. Probably another troll like Dwayne Wint.

Jokes on you. "Dwayne Wint" is an alt account of mine in itself.