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Resistance training with barbells, dumbbells, kettlebells and other weights. Questions involving how to lift and maximizing lifting performance. Includes powerlifting, bodybuilding and Olympic lifting.
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Avoid hitting forehead in snatch
I started doing snatches recently and I need to learn many things.
First of all, I'm a bit afraid of when we get under the bar. Precisely, I'm afraid of hitting my forehead.
For instance, let's consid …
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How to be balanced and stable in Good Morning + Squat
This exercise (Good Morning + Squat) is taken from this video of Olesiy Torokhtiy:
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I wanted to explore the best technique to do that.
My first doubt is about the balance. The barbell is not above …
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How can we evaluate properly the work (energy) performed by the muscles?
I've seen many time people evaluating the work performed by muscles to move a certain weigth m over a distance d through a force F, for simplicity along the force direction, by using the physics defin …
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Snatch: Mind Cues to Improve Hip Contact and Prevent Bar Swinging Forwards
my goal is to gradually learn to do the Snatch. I joined a specific course of Snatch and Clean but it turned out to be extremely bad: the coaches are good but they are two and we are 60 people. Each o …
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Why not pushing the knees out of the toes in Squat?
**In weightlifting Squat, the back is slightly extended. Precisely, the lower back is very slightly extended and the upper back is extended as much as possible. …
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Mind-muscle cues for hips flexion without tilting the pelvis
I need some cues about how to flex the hips (for instance in deadlift, squat or to get into the starting position of barbell row) without causing anterior or posterior pelvic tilt.
Of course bracing t …
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Which is the proper shoulder-blades setup for front squat?
In high-bar back squat it is good to have retracted and elevated shoulder-blades in order to create a pad in the upper traps that allows us to keep the barbell in a stable position.
Now, what about f …
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Unable to catch the Clean
I've started to perform the Clean from a month, and I often have an issue: when I try to catch the bar, it lands on my upper chest instead on my collarbone.
The following picture shows the point where …
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How can we be balanced during a snatch?
I'll take this video of Lü Xiaojun as a reference.
Let's consider the power phase, that is the moment I'm curious to understand better.
At this point, his hips and the bar are very close to each othe …
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Activation Cues for the Serratus Anterior
I suffer from a mild winged scapula and I wanted to train my serratus anterior to try to fix it.
There are lots exercises I've found for it. For instance:
Serratus Jabs
Wall Slides
These two exe …
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Should I upwards rotate my shoulder-blade in bench press?
everyone knows the great advantages that scapular retraction provides in bench press (discussed for example there).
Now I want to make a point. As explained there (but also there),
The scapulohumeral …
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Muscle Snatch: elementary analysis
I'll take this video of Oleksiy Torokhtiy as reference.
I have some simple questions about this movement.
As far as I'm concerned, the legs do not flex after the pull is complete like in a Snatch, bu …
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Why do many people start the Snatch with a very upright torso?
As explained there in an excellent way, performing deadlifts with a too upright trunk (or, equivalently, with hips too low) is not optimal as it puts the shoulders behind the bar, instead of above the …
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Third pull of power clean: powerful jump vs arms pull vs thighs pull
In this video, Mark Rippetoe expains the technique of the power clean. It is (at least in theory) all clear for me and the explanation is very good, but there is a point I can't understand.
To prevent …
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How is the force transmission through the leg/thigh affected by the feet stance in Deadlift?
let's consider two extreme stances for deadlift (very narrow, which I see it is used by many powerlifters, and very large, i.e. a Sumo Deadlift).
How does the stance change the force transmission an …
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