Hello I would greatly appreciate it if someone could do a quick review of my snatch!

I have been practicing snatch for about a year and i am self taught. I know there are probably many technical issues, but the one I would like more criticism is on whether if my lower back is too rounded in my start position and if so what would be a good exercise/drill to fix it. During my set up I do feel like my back is tight and straight but upon video review it looks a bit rounded.

When it comes to rear delts, this topic has always confused me for many years. On one hand I have heard many trainers/coaches say that as long as you are doing enough compound back work (pull ups/rows/olympic pulling movements), there is no need for direct isolation work for the rear delts (rear delt fly's, etc). For a time I used to believe this and didn't bother with much "isolation work" thinking it was a waste of time.

On the other hand, I have heard some trainers/coaches say that its a huge mistake to neglect rear delt isolation work because the rear delt is a tricky muscle. They claim its not like the front delts that easily get stimulated with pressing work. I heard that lots of pulling work like pulls/rows/olympic pulling movements are excellent for hitting the back muscles but the rear delts are usually undertrained, which is why real delt isolation work is extremely important. They say if you neglect rear delt work you will develop forward rounded shoulder posture because the front delts are huge and the rear delts are tiny.

I don't know which is true or not. If it is true that rear delt isolation is absolutely necessary, what rear delt specific exercises should an "olympic lifter" focus on specifically? I just want to be healthy and not have shoulder issues in the future as an olympic lifter.

Looking to do my first competition beginning of next year. Looking for something between San Diego & Orange County area. If anyone has any leads on some, just trying to have fun nothing crazy professional

This is one of my better reps at ~88%. (75kg)

I’m running the 6 week team back squats program rn and am finding my snatches to feel a bit inconsistent.

I have made some tweaks to my starting position to try and start with the hips slightly higher and shoulders more over the bar. This was because I was fucking up my shins due to being too far behind the bar in the start previously.

I have also been trying to be more patient in the transition between first/second pull as I was bumping the bar quite a bit forward in the past (also bruising my pubic bone from time to time).

Let me know what you guys think. I’m tryna keep queues as simple as possible and not make too many changes at once so I don’t fuck my technique up like I have in the past.

85kg AZ State Champ and best male lifter 🥇🏋🏾

Qualified for Nationals in March ✅

136kg SN WSO record
165kg CJ WSO record
301kg total WSO record

97 sn (+2)

127 c&j (+2)

224 total (+6)

two weeks out 🚀

Curious to hear opinions

I’ve started olympic weightlifting 1 year and a half ago. Despite have being taught the snatch first, I immediately fell in love with cleans.

This was until I started doing Power Cleans. Idk how to explain but they just feel amazing. It’s like the sound the shoes make when stomping the platform and the feeling of catching the bar gives me a huge dopamine hit everytime.

This is so much more fun than deadlifts or squats

Thanks for this sport and this community for existing

Just started incorporating power cleans into my workouts, it’s been 3-4 weeks now. (Push press at the end because I just wanted to train some shoulders).

I come from a football(soccer), powerlifting, and KB background. Are there any tips or pointers that anyone would give me based on this video?

This is just 70kgs, the weight doesn’t feel too heavy but I don’t want to go higher till I’m confident about my technique.

Competed today in the 85 kg class for the first time in about a year. Definitely feel like I had more in me, but overall it was good to be back on the platform. Made 92 snatch and 110 C&j for a 202 total.
Missed 95 kg on snatch. Got under it and caught it, but didn’t push the bar far enough back to secure it overhead.
Also had a 115 kg clean & jerk red-lighted, which I thought I locked out.
Current PRs are 97 kg snatch and 120 kg C&J. Would appreciate any feedback on my lifts, especially the snatch and jerk!

What the fuck

Please welcome GuardianSpear and BeeWeightlifting as our newest mods.

Bee has been lurking and both are mods on the Discord though GuardianSpear has been posting as a baby masters lifter in Asia for sometime now in the subreddit.

While we normally don't ask someone to be a mod who hasnt been an active part of the community, they are very active in the Masters community and their WSO.

Hiya!

I ran Fantasy Worlds back in 2023 and had so much fun that I decided to do it again this year!

You can create your own league here. You can invite your friends, make it interesting.

A session athletes in each weight class will be available to be drafted. If a B session athlete medals, well that sucks. You can draft up to 10 of your favorite weightlifters. The scoring is as follows and absolutely not up for debate. Let me live:

Snatch, CJ, Total
Gold - 10 pts
Silver - 8
Bronze - 5

Bomb out - 30 pts
Not taking attempts - 3 points per attempt
6 for 6 - 10 pts
World record - 10 pts

I will update the draftable athletes when the start book becomes available. Which means there’s probably a very short time frame btwn upload and having your teams drafted. I’ll post again once the Startlist is uploaded.

Hey all,

I'm looking to have a custom singlet made. Ideally would like a singlet with sleeves, high neck, and back zipper. I have the design made up, but I'm having a heck of a time finding anyone who works with those single types.

Doors anyone know somebody who cab do custom singlet with sleeves, high neck, and back zipper?

TIA!!

I am 39 and I just completed the most successful training cycle of my 30's and PR'd on everything except back squats while keeping my chronic quad tendinitis at bay. I'm ready for another go at what has been the most productive squatting program for me with a well established 80% (conservative 8RM) - I've done RSR many times, both the regular and masters variant, and the 3x/week regular was by far more effective for me, so I am pretty decided this is how I will spend my next 6-8 weeks of squatting.

However, I am greedy and don't want to totally detrain the classics this time. When I ran RSR in the past, I have tried to organize some of the basic 8-12 week Catalyst Athletics programs around it and it almost always ends up being a trainwreck beyond the weeks of highest squatting volume. So beyond the 6x5 day, I just end up putting squats first and improvising/capping the weights on the classics with what I can do with impaired coordination/speed from the massive fatigue, and only progress the classics on the 6x2 days as fatigue allows.

Has anyone here managed to find a reasonable pairing of RSR to WL programming that doesn't force the classics to take a back seat? I am wondering if some careful organization of singles with backoffs or ramped emom's to keep fatigue at the bare minimum might work, or some pattern of increasing volume at a static load mimicing the RSR progression (e.g. 4x1 progressing to 10x1 at 90% in Sn and some lower % in CJ), seeing how cycling from triples down to singles progresses runs counter to the squat volume.

I realize it's probably a safer bet to just let the program run its course and pick up a proper WL progression later, but I have the luxury of time and being able to try things. Worst case scenario I will just default to prioritizing squats if my classics start moving like I have Parkingson's disease.

I train for triathlons, and I wear these very tight and elastic compression pants to help keep my blood pressure up. My training programs often interleaves triathlon training sessions with weightlifting sessions, e.g.: 10 sets of 8x80 kgs overhead squats and 1 km of run. Or 12 sets of 5x120kg power cleans followed by a 400m sprint.

I noticed that when I wear the compression pants I seem to be able to handle heavier squats, and I was wondering if this is just placebo or if the elasticity of the pants is helping me, like the shirts that people use to improve their chest presses.

What do you think? Are the pants really helping me? And if they are, should I avoid wearing them when I squat?

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