*** The 2017 Gym Rats Thread ***

Yea he's trying to kind of shrug/row once the weight passes his knee with the aim of stopping the bar getting in front of him and assisting the lockout by providing a second pull if you like. Saw the entire french squad do this exact thing in Texas last year. Had no clue about it before then :)
 
Guess it's not a technique for us mere mortals, almost looks like he's doing a snatch up to his thighs.

mrthingyx said:
Do you do rotator cuff exercises properly?
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I am but in all honesty the problem is that my gym partner is on a pretty heavy cycle so weights went up by a third in 4 weeks. Also have a long road to fixing the rounded shoulders and shoulders feeling tight. My wall angels look pretty bad and painful but saying all that I'm not having any issues with the right shoulder.
 
neoboy said:
Guess it's not a technique for us mere mortals, almost looks like he's doing a snatch up to his thighs.
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If your form's reasonably good, try pulling with exactly the same amount of force with your warm up weights as you do with your heavier weights and see what happens. In truth, you should be doing this anyway but most, including me, don't so you'll never notice it :)
 
neoboy said:
Guess it's not a technique for us mere mortals, almost looks like he's doing a snatch up to his thighs.
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Deadlifts can be looked at as just a really slow first pull where all you need to do is stand up fully with the weight. Tom has a decent amount of experience with Oly lifting (pretty sure there's a video of him cleaning 160kg back when he was natty) and his warm ups just look like your classic clean pull, minus coming up onto the toes, until it gets into 'deadlift' territory weight - somewhere weightlifters don't tend to go very often - the explosive power generated by hip extension sends the bar flying upwards but as a PL'er he has no need to then try and get under it, so gravity brings it back down pretty quickly and obviously past a certain point his power output is 'only' (lawl) sufficient to pull the bar to a standing position rather than into orbit.
 
Kinda makes sense, I mostly drive through my legs. Struggling with my grip a lot so waiting for that to catch up as I'm not keen on straps after my wrist injury in the summer.
 
Well it's always easier to do the same weights without having to re-rack them but I'm scaling back now as I feel one of us is heading to snap city the way he's going.
 
neoboy said:
Well it's always easier to do the same weights without having to re-rack them but I'm scaling back now as I feel one of us is heading to snap city the way he's going.
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Sensible plan as it'll almost certainly be you as you're lacking the assistance and already harbouring an injury.
 
There's going to be a sticky, sweaty, hairy, sexy overload on Insta tomorrow and that's before we even get to the lifting :eek:
 
tom_e said:
Sensible plan as it'll almost certainly be you as you're lacking the assistance and already harbouring an injury.
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To be fair he's a lot more likely to injure himself soon the way he's upping the weights, happened in the past as joints simply aren't catching up with the rather serious stack he's on. Frankly he's being stupid but if he gets injured it works better for me as I prefer to work out alone with my headphones blaring anyway ;)

I'm probably switching gyms towards the summer anyway so can concentrate on my own thing, found a nice power lifting type of warehouse gym within driving distance that doesn't come with the Crossfit cult attached to it. Reasonably priced, power racks everywhere, prowlers, tyres with sledgehammers and all that kind of stuff and the chap running is a pretty solid fellow.

Goal for now is weight loss and making body used to lifting again so by the summer should be ready to start increasing and concentrating on the big lifts. Pure Gym does it for now and at £14.99 and 24 hour access really can't grumble.
 
I'm slightly envious of your grip strength on IG when deadlifting, I'm banning straps from now on so can work on that properly.
 
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