25 Common Mistakes in the Olympic Lifts

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        • Keymaster
          Mike Young on February 12, 2014 at 1:32 pm #207051

          I use the weight room extensively with my track and field athletes as well as athletes from other sports. I find it to be a controlled environment whe
          [See the full post at: 25 Common Mistakes in the Olympic Lifts]

          ELITETRACK Founder

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          Veronica Carpenter on February 13, 2014 at 11:34 am #207252

          Please clarify #23, “<span style=”background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);”>Athletes should be encouraged to press the arms out as they are racking.” Thx!</span>

          • Keymaster
            Mike Young on February 13, 2014 at 7:01 pm #207284

            On point 23, you should press through the point of lockout on all jerk / press variants and also on the snatch rather than wait for the bar to fall on you.

            ELITETRACK Founder

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          Robbie James on February 13, 2014 at 4:30 pm #207282

          You talk about using various grips, various types of the cleans (hang, pause, ect.) for different types of athletes. Could you clarify the types of lifts that you use for the mid distance and sistance runners, mile-10k or so and why you choose those specific versions? Thank you.

          • Keymaster
            Mike Young on February 13, 2014 at 7:00 pm #207283

            I tend to keep things very simple with the middle distance runners I’ve worked with and we’ll primarily do power clean, clean pulls, and hang cleans from mid thigh along with DB snatches and DB push jerks. In a future post, I’ll talk about how I choose to manipulate the movement variables to achieve specific stimuli.

            ELITETRACK Founder

        • Participant
          James McLachlan VII on February 16, 2014 at 10:00 pm #207902

          Dimas threw the head back and slammed the feet at lighter weights, hard to argue with god ;).

           

          • Keymaster
            Mike Young on February 17, 2014 at 9:22 am #207904

            James-

            Dimas is one of my all time favorite lifters! No doubt about the head position….showing that stylistic are possible even at the elite level. To be honest, I think if you look at the competitors at the world championship / Olympic level I think you’ll find a lot of them violate at least one of these ‘common errors.’

            Yusuf-

            I’m doubtful but I’d be glad to see whatever you have.

            ELITETRACK Founder

        • Member
          [email protected] on February 17, 2014 at 5:44 am #207903

          Good article about olympic lifting but I don’t think these lifts are good for sprinters. I’m going to put something that support my idea..

        • Participant
          James McLachlan VII on February 17, 2014 at 12:17 pm #207905

          Mike – me too. 93 training video cleaning that 170kg like it’s the bar is probably my favorite lift of all time. Just love the head throw, not sure why, he’s so quick. So much CNS stimulation he has to get rid of the energy somewhere!

          Why do you dislike feet slamming so much? I think of it more as a cue to reset the heels after the pull in order to receive the catch in a more efficient position. I catch the bar on my toes a lot and recently have been trying to emphasize catching on the heels.

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