Form check
Warm-up:
good mornings
1 & 1/4 front squat (to 3x135#)
5x5 back squat (low-bar; 185,225,235,245,255)
8x1 clean (135,145,2x160,170,180,185,195)
Messed around with rull-ROM handstand pushups.
Finally broke out the video recorder again. It's been a long time since I checked my form, so I recorded some squats and cleans today. The squats look OK to me, although the depth is just barely acceptable for a Rippetoe-style low-bar squat. I think the cleans are improving a tiny bit; I'm staying on my heels a bit better and it looks like my back angle is staying more constant during the first pull, and I'm bumping the bar a bit higher up on my thighs.
5x255:
Last four cleans:
My first full-ROM hspu:
4 comments:
dude, I can't believe your wearing a sweatshirt. Is there a reason for that?
Also, the cleans looked good on the initial lift. When you come up from the bottom your knees tend to wobble left and right. This is probably going to happen at higher weights and there's nothing you can do about it, but it's also something that I'd noticed in myself when I do high weights. When I was going to PT, the physical therapist had said to throw in some lighter weight exercises and to focus specifically on maintaining a smooth up and down motion of the leg about the knee joint. Basically it's the whole "If you train your knees to wobble then that's what they'll do" argument. You don't seem to have the same knee problems I do though, so all this may not even be relevant :)
The sweatshirt protects my clavicles. Plus the sweatshirt is awesome.
I'm not training my knees to wobble, but they definitely do so when the weights get heavier. However, the weights at which this happens go up as I get stronger, which means frequent squatting is doing its job.
nice HSPU, B
one week and change til vegas!
"I'm not training my knees to wobble"
lol, sorry not what I was trying to imply. That's good that it's happening at higher and higher weights. I think that was my real question anyway.
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