Goi's Fitness Forum

Allows Olympic lifting?

As long as you don't bang the weights, I think most are ok.

lol the barbell can spin or not in the first place...
TPY E1 bb spins fine, loads of space and the attendant is not overly anal.

was it REALLY that loud when i dropped the weights the other time at tp e1?

Weib wrote:lol the barbell can spin or not in the first place...
TPY E1 bb spins fine, loads of space and the attendant is not overly anal.

Once i went there, kena chased out.

Btw, could somebody teach me how to lower the jerk so that i don't have to drop the bar?

military press down then bend over barbell row lo..

hermanchauw wrote:Btw, could somebody teach me how to lower the jerk so that i don't have to drop the bar?

you lower the bar slowly as much as possible and then let it drop on your shoulders and dip to absorb the weight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS10D-mT2bQ

from shoulders to floor would be like this:

you flip your elbows from under the bar to over the bar and go onto your toes. you land the bar on your thighs. you then go back onto your heels and bend the knees to absorb the weight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGWoEA4bV8w

but it sucks alot of energy from you. =(

vicvic wrote:was it REALLY that loud when i dropped the weights the other time at tp e1?

It was loud. Very loud.

Looks tough on the knees. Ouch.

drop to rack position, then drop it down to your thighs, then lower it slowly. haha

Weib wrote:but it sucks alot of energy from you. =(

that's why Olifts are low reps.. but for beginners of course it is more draining since they are not used to it..

I lower snatches the same as I lower jerks, though the snatches are harder from overhead to rack position. I don't really bend the knees to catch it on the rack position. I just do an eccentric press as far as I can then let it drop with a slight knee bend. But of course this way is more tiring, but less chances of it banging down on some place around your head & shoulders.

another video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6Lq4Vrk ... re=related

it doesn't hurt the knee.. the worse is if not done properly, you end up hitting the thighs too hard and bruising them. the more you do, the more the thigh is adapted to cushioning the weight.

Mr Enigma wrote:

Weib wrote:but it sucks alot of energy from you. =(

that's why Olifts are low reps.. but for beginners of course it is more draining since they are not used to it..

some may not agree without evidence =P

But seriously the lowering of the weights sucks if you can't drop it.

different story once you know how to do it efficiently that's why need to practise more more.. beginning is always hard..

how the pro does it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyfFfp_K0VM

So fast under the bar...