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I hate front squats with a passion.Row 500m
3x
10 Front Squats
10 Push Press
10 Pull-Ups (with Band)
Metcon (No Measure)
Rowing Tabata
Jackie (Time)
For Time:
1000m Row
50 Thrusters, 45#
30 Pull-ups (scaled to recline ring rows)
13:45
I hate front squats with a passion.
As do I my friend. Tomorrow's wod calls for finding a 2rm in front squats. I hate thrusters more.I hate front squats with a passion.
As do I my friend. Tomorrow's wod calls for finding a 2rm in front squats. I hate thrusters more.
I find that most people I see do them do them wrong. Plus, at heavier weights they're pretty taxing on the lower back.
I prefer 2RM over 10; My wrist and forearms are on fire after like 4As do I my friend. Tomorrow's wod calls for finding a 2rm in front squats. I hate thrusters more.
A lot of dudes, myself included, just don't have a ton of range of motion to really thrust those elbows up and rest the bar on that platform on the shoulders. Takes a lot of wrist/ lat/ shoulder mobility work as well as practice. It's never bad on my back, and i believe it's supposed to relieve stress on the back that back squats give.
Honestly haven't noticed a ton of stress on my back before. Maybe thats because it feels like my wrist and forearms are being cooked in a grease fire.I try to do a lot of cleans, so getting my elbows up isn't too hard. The stress on the back is different. Back squats compress. Front squats push back. Supporting the chest up with a front loaded weight while lowering the hips down puts a ton of stress on the lower back.
Do you mean the opposite? If not i'd like to be educated on this. I FS in the 300 lb range (1RM) and only Power clean roughly 200.Hypothetically, you can clean almost anything you can front squat...hypothetically.
I love front squats, because my overall short stature plays into making vertical-spine squats a little easier. I've discovered in the past couple of weeks that I need to work on my jerk real bad. The individual muscles are as strong as they've ever been, but my technique is awful.
I also recently discovered that I do strict muscle-ups better than Klokov. So I've got that going for me.
Do you mean the opposite? If not i'd like to be educated on this. I FS in the 300 lb range (1RM) and only Power clean roughly 200.
Yeah, but the "as long as you can get it high enough off the ground" is the variable I don't really agree with. Pulling a lot of weight off of a rack versus getting it up in the air, catching it then squatting it. I guess it's possible but it seems like the exception more than the rule imho.Paladin is right. As long as you can get the bar off the ground high enough to catch the bar in a deep (proper) front squat position, you should just need to stand up.
Yeah, but the "as long as you can get it high enough off the ground" is the variable I don't really agree with. Pulling a lot of weight off of a rack versus getting it up in the air, catching it then squatting it. I guess it's possible but it seems like the exception more than the rule imho.
Do you mean the opposite? If not i'd like to be educated on this. I FS in the 300 lb range (1RM) and only Power clean roughly 200.
The idea is that you squat clean something you couldn't power-clean. The idea is that if you get a good hip bump you can get the bar moving upwards enough to get your elbows under and into a front rack position, you can catch the bar in the same position and stabilize at the bottom of your range of motion for your front squat. From there, it's a matter of front squatting the weight.
In training, regardless of weight, don't do power-cleans. Unless it's an exercise for time (like Grace), do full squat cleans. Get used to stabilizing at the bottom of a front squat with a moving weight, and your front squat and clean weights will start to get closer together.
The heavier weight actually helps my rack position by stretching my triceps.A lot of dudes, myself included, just don't have a ton of range of motion to really thrust those elbows up and rest the bar on that platform on the shoulders. Takes a lot of wrist/ lat/ shoulder mobility work as well as practice. It's never bad on my back, and i believe it's supposed to relieve stress on the back that back squats give.
I did say hypothetically. But the movements are closer together than people think. The toughest part of a full clean is the front squat. You can, presumably, deadlift more than you can front squat, and hip-bump more than you can front squat...so the real question is getting under the weight after a bump and into a good front rack at the bottom, which is a mix of training and practice.Yeah, but the "as long as you can get it high enough off the ground" is the variable I don't really agree with. Pulling a lot of weight off of a rack versus getting it up in the air, catching it then squatting it. I guess it's possible but it seems like the exception more than the rule imho.
No, more do a clean with the intent of dropping all the way to the bottom of a front-rack position, even if you could power-clean it.Do a clean and squat to full depth and up?
How old is the kid? I'm kind of a "Let them eat cake" sort of person where I mostly just lets kids eat what they want...Prepubescent kids are so naturally in tune with their metabolism that so long as you let them be active when they want, and eat when and however much they want, they tend to be able to sort out hunger and activity naturally. The headache becomes when you only feed them a certain thing, then force them to be still when they'd rather be active.Any thoughts for helping a kid gain weight? Are whey protein shakes effective?
Any thoughts for helping a kid gain weight? Are whey protein shakes effective?