5.5.08 push press, front squats, and dead stop front squats

[zkyggen]

Amazing strength. Youre an inspiration bro, What would you recommend to someone that wanna get into olympic lifting like clean and jerk, snatch etc?

[lilsuperman87]

Nice lifting! Great vid

[WVAxeman]

Thanks for the kind words. Total work in progress. Lots of years of heavy weights, but now i'm finally learning how to strength train. Amazing what you figure out when you get old.

[beantime44]

thanks for the responce . buy the way the weight I listed for each exercise are all for 6-10 rreps

[jmaths117]

those dead stop front squats are nice, I have to try those sometime. do they help a lot?

[WVAxeman]

Yes. They build stability at the deepest position in the movement. For olympic lifters one of the key elements of receiving a weight is being stable with it - so you can get out of the hole. Beyond that, they work the muscles a lot differently. Anything different, in my book, is good given how fast most folk adapt to certain types of training.

All the best, Arden

[beantime44]

I have a question, I'm 43 and have justed started doing the front deep squat going into standing press, I switched to this because I broke my pelvic bone doing 450 lb back squats, I'm 180 lbs, and can't do them any more because it affects the nerve in my left leg. but my question is it safe to go deep then press so I get the full squat. I workout three days a weak. bench290 , curls160,deadlifts350, full front squat &press180 right now, due to my 10 hour work day. thanks, please respond

[WVAxeman]

bean, What you're describing is a "thruster." Hold the bar in the rack, front squat it, come up, push press it, then go back into a front squat.

I would defer to your orthpodetic surgeon on whether you should squat or not. Given that you're doing 180, you're obviously one strong dude.

Keep up the good work.

All the best, Arden

[kirksman]

The catch bar's a bit high right? IT seems like it's giving you a mental worry about hitting it while squatting down.

Btw, you training crossfit or something? You look too big to do crossfit....but I don't know

[WVAxeman]

I could probably set the safety stands a bit lower for the regular frontsquats. On the Dead stops, my hams are already on my calves...:-D

I train a crossfit hybrid. More Catalyst Athletics. My met-con is my sport. But I ocassionally break out the traditional "girls" for a good case of swirlys/pukies.

One of my goals is to do Linda, with the proper weights (395/255/205) before I turn 40.

All the best, Arden

[WVAxeman]

Thanks HaShor. Very good points. I'm going to narrow that stance and my recieving stance to see if I can go down with the weight.

Thanks again.

All the best, Arden

[HaShor]

You're clearly strong enough for the lift; you might consider bringing in your feet a touch (it's hard to front squat with a powerlifting-width stance) and lead out of the hole with your elbows so that they stay up. You'll make that lift easy next time.