RE: Re: Olympic lifting?

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Hi all,

This is one key point I have changed after hearing Stuart Magill's session,

where he discussed the speed of relaxation and how it separates the elite

performers from sub-elite. Essentially they have quicker

contraction-relaxation times than us plebs. I now try and encourage the

athletes to " quickly relax " and use the hamstrings to reverse squat. How I

coach this is different, but I will use the term " shrug and drop " of " shrug

and pull down " and then use different drills to emphasize the point.

One of these is a drop clean, where I use a wooden pole held about 30cm over

the top of the bar, the athlete can use a shrug to suspend the gravity on

the bar and then drop into a catch with the bar touching the pole. Using the

wooden pole was vital to prevent them trying to hang clean it.

I also include drop squats into my warm-up routines as this a motor program

often missing in most athletes I come into contact with.

Mark Helme

Wakefield, UK.

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Sent: 23 March 2012 19:22

Supertraining

Subject: Re: Olympic lifting?

Im in total agreement with what you wrote. I used the cue " drop " into

the catch and some colleagues got on me for it. I know that dropping under

the bar may not be the best cue but I think it helps some athletes. I use

multiple cues drop/pull/drive under, whatever gets the athlete to get under

the bar efficiently.

Steve Krzyminski

Indianapolis, IN

> > > > A coaching cue to teach the catch after the second pull is to " pull

> > > the body under the bar. " My question is, is this an accurate cue? Are

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> > > other coaching cues you use when teaching the catch?

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