Squats the story - the Off Topic Thread...

the drifter

B-Builder wrote: »

I'm a matrix engineer myself and it good to know that I will be leaving things in such safe hands as I head off into the cloud :D:D

M

did you notice the masssive glitch at 20:10 last night? please say you didnt :P

TommyKnocker

the drifter wrote: »

did you notice the masssive glitch at 20:10 last night? please say you didnt :P

At 20:10 last night I was in the shower in the gym after my 5x5 workout. The matrix could have melted and I would not have noticed :D

M

the drifter

B-Builder wrote: »

At 20:10 last night I was in the shower in the gym after my 5x5 workout. The matrix could have melted and I would not have noticed :D

M

and you call yourself and engineer!

TommyKnocker

the drifter wrote: »

and you call yourself and engineer!

Yep :D:D

I look after the matrix for a company though not a country and there were no glitches in my little corner of the matrix :D


M

the drifter

B-Builder wrote: »

Yep :D:D

I look after the matrix for a company though not a country and there were no glitches in my little corner of the matrix :D


M

ah a sub matrix.....

g'em

Nerds, the two of ye. Go lift something heavy for penance.

Actually, drifter you can jog on the spot for ten minutes. Don't want you hurting yourself.

the drifter

g'em wrote: »

Nerds, the two of ye. Go lift something heavy for penance.

Actually, drifter you can jog on the spot for ten minutes. Don't want you hurting yourself.

oh look justification that you are actually a meanie :P

g'em

No, I'm evil, you're the meanie. We've had lengthy discussions about this.

Is it time to go home yet?

the drifter

no not yet...

your the 5th person today who has told me im mean/angry....

g'em

It's all that cardio. It's bad for you.

the drifter

g'em wrote: »

It's all that cardio. It's bad for you.

must be....doesnt explain why your evil though

the drifter

ragg

d'Oracle wrote: »

I finded this.

http://www.robertsontrainingsystems.com/downloads/SMR-manual.pdf

Dude, this should get a thread of its own.. Fantastic resource to be giving away for free. Let the people know d'Oracle, let the people know!!

Molly

Burpee power cleans are a strange exercise.

d'Oracle

Molly wrote: »

Burpee power cleans are a strange exercise.

WTF?

Now obviously Burpee+ exercises are cool, but cleans?
Thats a frickin recipe for disaster.

Hanley

d'Oracle wrote: »

WTF?

Now obviously Burpee+ exercises are cool, but cleans?
Thats a frickin recipe for disaster.

Complication for the sake of complication. From a MetCon standpoint I imagine they're a total suck fest. Don't know why you'd bother tho.

Anyone ever done power cleans starting on your knees? There's a strange exercise, but a good un.

d'Oracle

Hanley wrote: »

Anyone ever done power cleans starting on your knees? There's a strange exercise, but a good un.

Nope.
I have done the jumping squats from knees or whatever they are called.
Cleans would be the next thing on the progression I'd imagine.

I tried cleans with light dumbells once and hit myself in the face.
True story.

ragg

Hanley wrote: »

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Anyone ever done power cleans starting on your knees? There's a strange exercise, but a good un.

Bit confused, isn't a powerclean starting from the deadlift position..
Can you use MS Paint to explain WTF you are on about :pac:

d'Oracle

ragg wrote: »

Bit confused, isn't a powerclean starting from the deadlift position..
Can you use MS Paint to explain WTF you are on about :pac:

Technically yes.
But a kneeling clean you start in a kneeling position and jump from it rack the bar and land on your feets.

I'm working on finding a vid, but if you look at yesterdays entry on crossfit.com there is a video called 56 inches of fame.
There are some in that.

Also Hanley, POWER clean?

gymfreak

I have done the jumping squats from knees or whatever they are called.

Jeez...those mess with my head! Took me ages to get the courage to go for it

ragg

d'Oracle wrote: »

Technically yes.
But a kneeling clean you start in a kneeling position and jump from it rack the bar and land on your feets.

I'm working on finding a vid, but if you look at yesterdays entry on crossfit.com there is a video called 56 inches of fame.
There are some in that.

Also Hanley, POWER clean?

Ms paint please

G86

Hanley wrote: »

Complication for the sake of complication. From a MetCon standpoint I imagine they're a total suck fest. Don't know why you'd bother tho.

Anyone ever done power cleans starting on your knees? There's a strange exercise, but a good un.

Yup, that's how I started them. I couldn't get the full movement right so I started from the knees to get used it; only started doing them from the ground recently, and they're still not great - but it definitely helped!

d'Oracle

Ragg:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p7CJu0p45g

G86

Ahhhh ye mean kneeling down? I thought you just meant starting with the bar at your knees as opposed to on the ground.

ragg

Just tried that with my foam roller - messy

Hanley

d'Oracle wrote: »

Technically yes.
But a kneeling clean you start in a kneeling position and jump from it rack the bar and land on your feets.

I'm working on finding a vid, but if you look at yesterdays entry on crossfit.com there is a video called 56 inches of fame.
There are some in that.

Also Hanley, POWER clean?

Yeah, power. Jez the effort of having to be so precise about everything around here!!

That video yesterday's fcuking bullsh!t btw. Fair play to the guy for jumping that high, but there's lots of people going higher. I absolutely DESPISE the way Crossfit'ites use the whole "well if you think you can do it, you set the record" excuse. I'm pretty sure there's a tonne of vids on youtube of guys going higher.

d'Oracle wrote: »

Ragg:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p7CJu0p45g

Sin é!

d'Oracle

G86 wrote: »

Ahhhh ye mean kneeling down? I thought you just meant starting with the bar at your knees as opposed to on the ground.

Yeah, hang power cleans is what you were doing.

Good resource for all the finickey names of Oly lifting Exercises:
http://www.cathletics.com/exercises/index.php

With the dude who is doing the workshop in CFI.

ragg

Hanley wrote: »

Yeah, power. Jez the effort of having to be so precise about everything around here!!

Eh, im lost - i was trying to get you draw MS paint depictions of exercises. A trend, if it kicks off, the forum will all the better for having

d'Oracle

Hanley wrote: »

Yeah, power. Jez the effort of having to be so precise about everything around here!!

That video yesterday's fcuking bullsh!t btw. Fair play to the guy for jumping that high, but there's lots of people going higher. I absolutely DESPISE the way Crossfit'ites use the whole "well if you think you can do it, you set the record" excuse. I'm pretty sure there's a tonne of vids on youtube of guys going higher.

I'm a pedantic dick, its my thing that I do.:D
Imagine having the hips to make a kneeling power clean.

I hear Chuck Norris can do a kneeling split clean.

Whatever about that video, I don't give a **** about CrossFit inc nonsense, I just like seeing dudes with huge hops.

d'Oracle

ragg wrote: »

Eh, im lost - i was trying to get you draw MS paint depictions of exercises. A trend, if it kicks off, the forum will all the better for having

I deleted paint off my laptop years ago.

Hanley

ragg wrote: »

Eh, im lost - i was trying to get you draw MS paint depictions of exercises. A trend, if it kicks off, the forum will all the better for having

Power/Full = where your hips are in relation to your knees at the lowest part of the movement

A "power" clean (of any sort) is where your hips are higher than your knees at the lowest part of the movement (ie you never break parallel)

Anything else is "full". But in weightlifting circles, unless you qualify by saying "power" it's assumed to be a full clean. So a "clean" is a clean where you catch the bar with your hips elow the level of your knees.

d'Oracle

ragg wrote: »

Dude, this should get a thread of its own.. Fantastic resource to be giving away for free. Let the people know d'Oracle, let the people know!!

Maybe a mod could stick it in the basics thread.

Inspector Coptoor

Clean: - bringing the bar from the floor to shoulder height in one continuous motion with a full squat.

Power clean: - bringing the bar from the floor to shoulder height in one continuous motion with a quarter squat.

Source:
IAWLA Level 1 coaching course

Molly

I didn't find them bad to be honest just weird. Just do a burpee but obviously stop when your chest touches the bar. Then clean it up and jerk it above your head without taking the hands off the bar.

Hanley

Liam Henners257 wrote: »

Clean: - bringing the bar from the floor to shoulder height in one continuous motion with a full squat.

Power clean: - bringing the bar from the floor to shoulder height in one continuous motion with a quarter squat.

Source:
IAWLA Level 1 coaching course

I don't care about the source, that's wrong.

"Power" is any time that parallel isn't broken after receiving the bar.

Inspector Coptoor

Hanley wrote: »

I don't care about the source, that's wrong.

"Power" is any time that parallel isn't broken after receiving the bar.

thats what i take those definitions to mean though.

Clean - break parallel

Power Clean - dont break parallel (1/4 squat)

Hanley

Liam Henners257 wrote: »

thats what i take those definitions to mean though.

Clean - break parallel

Power Clean - dont break parallel (1/4 squat)

Yeah, but you can go further than a 1/4 squat and still not break parallel.

Inspector Coptoor

Hanley wrote: »

Yeah, but you can go further than a 1/4 squat and still not break parallel.

100% agree.

Molly

Gonna be a fun morning tomorrow

“Babies Lullaby” (30-minute cap of work):

Part 1: 0 – 100 Burpees
5 power snatches (95/65-lbs) at the top of every minute,
followed by AMRAP burpees for the remainder of the minute.
Continue this progression until you reach 100 burpees.

Part 2: 0 – 200 Double Unders
Upon reaching 100 burpees…
5 Overhead Squats (95/65-lbs) at the top of every minute,
followed by AMRAP double unders for the remainder of the minute.
Continue this progression until you reach 200 double unders.

G86

Molly wrote: »

Gonna be a fun morning tomorrow

“Babies Lullaby” (30-minute cap of work):

Part 1: 0 – 100 Burpees
5 power snatches (95/65-lbs) at the top of every minute,
followed by AMRAP burpees for the remainder of the minute.
Continue this progression until you reach 100 burpees.

Part 2: 0 – 200 Double Unders
Upon reaching 100 burpees…
5 Overhead Squats (95/65-lbs) at the top of every minute,
followed by AMRAP double unders for the remainder of the minute.
Continue this progression until you reach 200 double unders.

...you crazy!:pac:

d'Oracle

I have read a lot of stuff on Olympic lifting these last couple of days.

That is all.

Carl Sagan

My bird just flew away

optimistic_

Did my first 10k yesterday, 52 minutes.

fairly happy with that

fit miss

This year will see a great show with guest poser Mr World Jason Corrick also confirmed multi Mr Olympia winner Dorian Yeates and Nabba 2006 World Nabba Champion Billy Bourne will be in attendance. Tickets available from Vitamin shops or Nutrition Connection shops in Dublin

itsallaboutheL

oh to be an ammonia cap for a day...

squod

If you ever find a magic lanter L, please think long and hard.

itsallaboutheL

squod wrote: »

If you ever find a magic lanter L, please think long and hard.

if i find her i won't have to think it....

squod

Ruffalo confirmed as the Hulk Mark Ruffalo (Hulk), Samuel L Jackson (Nick Fury), Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow), Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Chris Evans (Captain America), Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye) and Robert Downey Jr (Iron Man).

'The Avengers' is due for release in 2012.

Ruining many childhood memories.

Mellor

I'm sick of a cardio focus so back to weights I guess.

Looking at a two day split.

Day 1:Chest and Legs
BB Bench press
Squats
DB Bench Drop set
Deadlifts
Chest flys
Lunge/Switch Press-up super set

Day 2:Shoulders and Back
Military Press
Bent over Rows
Shrugs (Barbell)
Lat Pull down/DB Shoulder press super set
Weighted reverse crunch (Roman chair)

My main concerns are having the big 3 on the same day, I just find I lift better with chest and shoulders on separate days. Would I be better with chest/back & leg/shoulder

d'Oracle

squod wrote: »

Ruining many childhood memories.

Ruffalo looks a bit like Eric Bana in certain pictures.......**** you Hollywood.