I've never gotten into cleans, but I think you're supposed to rest it on the front of your shoulders when you bring it up? His weight seems all supported by wrists. A friend of mine suffered a substantial stress fracture in his wrist from poor form that impacted his ability to play tennis for years. But if the ST coach is there, then I guess it must be alright. Just looks painful to me.
Conspiracy?
Maybe they're doing it for the Millennials.....can't be comparing them to anyone else, or they may fall short. Gotta make 'em feel 'special'.
I doubt your doubts.
Yes, we do.
Im fine with power lifting etc. but I'm not ok with crossfit training, it's a lot of see how fast you can do this and how heavy. I know someone who personally makes the workouts for a crossfit gym and there are a ton of injuries in doing crossfit, its really not good on your body. Also form matter, if you have bad form the easier it is for injuries, so they need to make sure they are doing weight and good for. If the form isn't good then they really aren't getting the best workout anyways, they could get a better work out and stronger by lessening the weight and doing it correctly. Also there is a big difference in having 300 pounds of weight on your shoulders than blocking someone of 300 pounds or trying to get into the end zone against 300 pound guys. Plus your talking about a game, I'm pretty sure Guys would rather get injured in a game for a win compared to weight lifting, I think it's hard to compare the two.
What about football? Is that good for your body?
I agree but the toes of the cheering squad almost came into play on QW's clean!
You're hitting near my point. When you lift normally you're doing 90% of it in controlled form, but those last 10 reps are always shaky; if not, then you're probably not pushing yourself enough. In practice, you're focused on the fundamentals and correct form, but when you're scrimmaging and especially when the lights come on and it's just straight up competition with the other guy who practices "correct form" also, then somethings got to give. What gives is the guy who out-muscles the other. And, that is what lifting helps. In order to make a crucial play our guys will have to go beyond the correct form to beast mode sometimes, diving, stretching, twisting, pushing while turned awkwardly. How can you simulate that? Live, intense practice/scrimmage is the best way. Maxing out the lifts is a good way, when you can't practice/scrimmage.I can't speak for anybody else, and I know next to nothing about weightlifting, so you need to take that into account when reading my post. What I read on here were many people who appeared to know what they were talking about with regards to form. Its one thing to lift a lot, work hard, etc. I think we're all for that. What I was voicing is that lifting out of control is not healthy and sustainable. If they're doing it right in the videos, then my comment is off base. I wasn't referring to effort level or anything like that at all.
Doesn't that sound a lot like football? Faster and stronger = better at football (all else being equal).
Of course not, but its their choice to play. My main point though is, there's no need to do weight lifting if you have awful form. If your form is awful you are actually prohibiting yourself from getting stronger than if you went down in weight and did the proper form. Let's take bench press for an example, if you are trying to key in on your chest why would you do "normal" grip which involves your triceps more? You can do 350 with a "normal" grip but if you drop down to 315 and widen your grip you are actually building your chest more, because it's the proper form to build that muscle. If you are doing a clean what's the point in doing 350 and not even dropping low with awful form if you can get a better workout by dropping weight and doing it right to actually get a good workout and get stronger? That's all I'm trying to get at. Bad form= injuries and slower strength gain. Great form = less injuries and faster strength gain. Like you said they can get injuries in a game so what's the point in making injuries even a greater chance by weightlifting? That doubles your chance of injury, doesn't make much sense to me just so they can say I did this much weight when it didn't really help them get better at anything.
But bad form doesn't = stronger. Good form = stronger that's why I didn't use the word stronger in the part you are replying to.
