In this post you´re going to know how, why, and when to use a thumb wrap for pulls. There’s a million different ways to tape your thumb. I’m going to show you the way that Rusty, coach at the Wichita Falls Athletic Club, likes to do it and when he likes to do it. This is pretty simple stuff. It’s not rocket science, but there’s a few things that you might want to consider whenever you decide to tape your thumbs.
Today we’re going to be talking about the Olympic lifts. We’re going to be talking about the snatch and one of the best accessory lifts to do for the snatch.
The snatch and the clean have a similarity: it is a rapid extension, then a drop to get under the bar and then a hard lock out with the elbow. A press out doesn’t count. A press out is when you get it about halfway or 3/4 of the way, and then you actually push on the bar. The rapid extension throwing the bar and then dropping under the bar is what makes the lift a lift. That’s what the snatch and the clean and jerk have in common.
Josh Wells is a Starting Strength coach and he´s been doing Olympic weightlifting for over 26 years. Today I’m going to explain to you based on the experience and knowledge of coach Josh Wells about how to improve foot position in the split jerk as you move under the bar and then recover to the finished position.
In the Starting Strength programming we use versions of the Olympic lifts and they’re very important to the program. But a lot of people figure out a way to get out of having to do them. The reason they don’t want to do them is because they don’t know how. They haven’t figured out how to do them or their coach has not figured out how to coach them. So they just avoid them and do light deadlifts.
In this post I’m going to explain how to build a weightlifting platform. But first I’m going to tell you all the advantages that this structure will bring to your home gym:
Protects your garage floor.
Protects your equipment.
Makes lifting safer.
Makes lifting quieter.