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looking good donny!

Don Carlos wrote:
I don't really have much confidence in getting under the bar to be honest and I have no idea why. Cheers for the tips, I'll record my effort tomorrow whilst trying to incorporate your tips.

Before all that you NEED to learn how to catch the bar properly. The pull you're doing will work for now, but the catch needs help. Get that bar up against your throat and on your delts with the elbows as high as possible. Right now you're catching it on your breastbone and wedging underneath which you can get away with at that weight but you saw what happens with 10kg more. Also don't make 10kg jumps when you're at or near your limit... go for 2.5 and 5kg increases.
were you looking in the mirror while lifting? (don't do that)

other than that good lift

edit: damn you almost have me motivated to make a quick vid on how to catch it...

LawL wrote: Look at all of these pics. I mad.

Calm down and take solace in knowing that what you can never gain in stature, you may gain in knowledge.

In other words. Keep trying tiny.

Lol he is tiny...but not like that dwarf dude opwhatever...

Twice the size and half the bodyfat of both of you Laurel and Hardy losers.

reminds me... been meaning to get a bodyfat percentage done again.

LawL wrote:Twice as gay and half the size of most homo losers.

You're way out of the closet there. Good for you.

Ok fatso.

Sure thing, tiny.

Good boy, blocky.

Weak...

You need another DNA injection from a superior being.

Weak... just like your obese body.

Weak, like your abused sphincter.

I do the abusing, you could ask your dad if he wasn't dead.

Casedog is that you?

No that's the ghost of your dad moaning.

The tiny gay guy likes to bang old dudes and corpses.

The triple chinned fatso's dad got murdered by my cock.

My dad must have sucked the funny out of this homo.

He sucked a whole lot more than that.

andyman wrote:

Don Carlos wrote:
I don't really have much confidence in getting under the bar to be honest and I have no idea why. Cheers for the tips, I'll record my effort tomorrow whilst trying to incorporate your tips.

Before all that you NEED to learn how to catch the bar properly. The pull you're doing will work for now, but the catch needs help. Get that bar up against your throat and on your delts with the elbows as high as possible. Right now you're catching it on your breastbone and wedging underneath which you can get away with at that weight but you saw what happens with 10kg more. Also don't make 10kg jumps when you're at or near your limit... go for 2.5 and 5kg increases.
were you looking in the mirror while lifting? (don't do that)

other than that good lift

edit: damn you almost have me motivated to make a quick vid on how to catch it...

I have terrible flexibility when it comes to catching the bar, it is something I am working on. Luckily I have a few friends who do gymnastics and pole who are extremely flixble so they are helping with this side of things. Cheers for the critique dude

PS I am in a CrossFit box; we have no mirrors :P
Also I am capable of doing 75kg but didn't record it

Donny, judging by your form mate, I'd be dropping down to 55kg and working on my technique. At the moment, you're going to max out at 80kg, because you're relying solely on brute force to get it to your chest.

Portions of the clean should be done in relative relaxation, especially the transition between the pull and the catch.

Once the bar crosses your centre of gravity, you should right then be trying to get underneath it by literally dropping your entire body into a wide-knee squat. Needs to be done in a split second while the bar is hanging in mid air as it's transitioning between rising and falling. If done right, it'll require very little strength to hold it.

You should then be drawing your whole body underneath the bar and meeting the bar with the very middle of your clavicles, and rotating your elbows all the way forward until you're in a deep squat, with your elbow points almost up on the air. Then you rise out of it with a slight *pop* at the top.

You have to go so deep with a clean, because once you start hitting 100kg+, it's almost impossible to pull it as high as you are. You have to get right under it.

The clean is the ultimate cheat lift. Imagine how much you could bench if you were supposed to bounce the bar off your chest, or how much you could curl if the idea was to put your entire back into it. That's what a clean is. It's about using momentum to remove the difficult parts of the lift.

Edit: Aaaaand ignore every word of this, as I just realised you aren't even trying to do a squat clean.

^^^^^dipshitted midget moron...

^^^^^wrinkly old trout...