Don't try this at home

I like the t-shirts regarding real life. Old friend used to have one saying reality is an illuion caused by lack of alcohol. Mythbusters Adam Savage version I reject your reality and substitute my own.
I couldn't find the t-shirt caption I wanted most so have used watered down acrylic paint to set one up, really effective.
If you still look cute
at the end of your
workout you didn't
TRAIN HARD
ENOUGH!

Subtle and inoffensive, just like me.
 
So true! I love it
 
The more observant will note there has been no weight training. Those used to me will already have guessed I overdid the weekend. Hope to do some deadlifts tomorrow morning.
 
Seems like overdoing things and paying the price for it is the story of your life lately :( I expect you to defeat the deadlift tomorrow.
 
In fairness, lack of allowing suitable recovery time is the story of my life in general. So much as it's annoying I have no right to complain.
I will get back to it and this years targets may move to next year with this years changing to full recovery, hope not.
 
The deadlifts and high pulls are coming along. I was just thinking, do you set up for high pulls the same way you do for deadlifts? Or do you use a different set up and pulling movement prior to the second pull?
 
Deadlift is alternate grip, right hand over left under, controlled pull with hips driving forward and back pulling hard.
High pulls starts with overhand grip and the body is going forward that bit more ready to cover the balance when coming onto toes. There are many who do them as deadlift with upright row to follow, I work to make it one movement where everthing works together.
 
If I'm interpreting that correctly, it sounds good. I was just wondering, because I realised I have a pretty good idea about your proficiency with the power lifts, but not so much about Olympic lifts and their variants. While I've never been able to claim anything above brilliant mediocrity at the Olympic lifts, some of the biggest leaps I made in progress (after the leaps that came with learning how to rack the bar on my shoulders with elbows high rather than curl it up with tight wrists and elbows low) came when I learned that (other than grip variances) cleans/snatches/high pulls are not just deadlifts with a pop at the top. The real lightbulb moment for me was when I watched some lifts from the Olympic games and noticed that the lifters were starting their snatches in just about the same position they were catching them in.
 
I do high pull as snatch part 1, getting the bar up high ready to throw myself underneath it. I learned the squat style first and shifting to split style made me wonder why anyone would still do squat style, then do it a few times to be sure I could.
My clean is generally only lifiting marginally higher than halfway up thighs before handing over to momentum and getting under the bar and front squat it up.

I have qualified to teach this stuff many years ago, but would say my technique is better than my weight performance on olympic stuff.
 
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