Working on olympic lifts
Olympic lifts are great exercises. Are they magic that will make u a super jumping and running monster? no they are not. But they do work on your coordination as to how your muscles fire. Because it requires that you extend all your joints (ankle, knee, hip) in a coordianted fashion to maximise the explosion of the bar upwards. Its been called "jumping with weights" and thats exactly what it feels like. Like throwing the weight to the ceiling! there are 2 main lifts in olympic weightlifting.
1. the Clean (from floor to shoulders) + Jerk (to over head)
2. the Snatch (floor to overhead in 1 motion)
Here are pics of me working on my "power clean" catching the bar in a half squat.
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comments: My arms bend too early ( look at picture 2, my arms have started to bend THATS BAD they should be straight still, there is a saying "when the arms bend, the power ends"... power is ending at picture 2 when it should be at its maximum). My feet spread to far apart when i catch the bar on the shoulders... im working on these things:) will update!
posted by Coach Jonathan Wong @ 4/06/2006 08:39:00 PM
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