obvvvvv ilya has an extremely strong core lol. And I'm not saying that he is strong because he has good flexibility/mobility. I'm saying that he allows himself to be stronger because he is able to get into the proper positions (due to good flexibility/mobility). That's all brah.

hahaha mine is prob like yours but I'll make a vid tonight and test it out. Syns is def better than mine I think.

She's very solid but those bad/uneven fake boobs tilt me a bit. And interestingly enough that vid did nothing for me. I think I was annoyed by her struggle w/ the weight. bad form etc.

I don't see how my shoulder flexibilty is anything other than WOAT in that vidya. I can barely Nazi salute.

Kinda okay with torso/hips. Those improved a lot since CF.

Make us one btm!

Yours is really not bad at all. Look at how stable you are compared to qb. I think yours is gonna be way better than mine as well. I have trouble keeping my right arm straight/locked out overhead. It'll be interesting.

Will make one tonight when I get home from work! Maybe i'll make one in my office at work actually...

Hahah mine was outside of the office as well. "Gotta pee!"

Pretty noticeable difference!

No warmup:




~5mins of shoulder warmups:

Wow we have a winner! That's impressive. Can you post your whole shoulder warmup routine? I'mma try that

I was pretty impressed with the progress I made. It's one of those things where I didn't really feel like I made much progress but the video told a different story.

I just did a bunch of shoulder pass-throughs w/ a pvc and then standing in a doorway with my arms overhead so that I could stretch them out. Pretty simply

Please give us a full video tour of your abode. TYIA.

So you can stalk me? no ty

Dat 5 min shoulder warmup gonna be the difference when BTM trying to push for many extra lbs on OHS. Yea right.

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6/20:

Worked on snatches for the first time in 7 months! I'm still terrible at getting under the bar! Who knew?

I did a lot of reps at low weights trying to get myself to drop below but I suck and need help. I did power 145 pretty easily a few times though. So there's that. Zero progress in 7 months of doing nothing, but didn't get worse!

After that I did a bunch of snatch balances at 95. 3-4 sets of 5-6 reps idk.

Somehow that took like an hour or more. I guess I did a lot of mobility stuff at the beginning.

I finished w/ my 45 thruster wod in 3:43. Bad time. I had my best first set of 21 at least. Thrusters/front rack position is getting better.

I've decided that I'm going to join some kind of weightlifting gym or cf barbell club. I just love weightlifting too much and want to get a lot better at it while I'm still relatively young. No more screwing around with hybrid PL/WL crap with no program. I want to improve a LOT and the only way is going to be with a good coach. Heavily considering that place I went to that's 40mins away because that coach seems amazing. There is a place really close to my office that supposedly has a good bbc that I will check out early next week as well, since if that place is awesome I'll just go there, but I need to check it out first.

Really though, the place 40mins away in DC is far, but it's not soooo bad. 20mins of that is walking. Plus, if I were to drive it would only be about 20 mins away, but then parking and stuff will be a hassle.

Anyway, pretty pumped about it

BBC = big black coach?

Congratulations on your revelation. I think it's a great idea. Still not convinced on the far away place though, considering you would be going there 3-4-5 times a week. If it's just because of the coach, maybe it's not worth it. If the club near your work has other people that are even half-decent at oly, it'll already be insanely more motivating to work on that kinda stuff, compared to what you are doing right now. Being amongst people with similar goals is awesome.

Every oly coach I've ever seen has utterly ******ed and dogmatic and usually contradictory ideas about programming and listening to them invariably set me back.

You might get good technique advice though.

I think coaching is really overrated dead srs.

Close...BarBellClub is what I was going for but maybe I should have just said BC, lol. The coach is actually a 77kg lifter and has some nice ig vids cleaning 140 and 150 easily, squatting 182x1 and 175x5. Looks like a less beefy Lu, but Lu-like nonetheless. if you're interested I'll pm you his ig

So at most I'd be going 3 times a week. I shouldn't call it a "class" because the club is always the same group every time, but it's offered at 830pm T/Th and on Saturday ~11am I think. I'd probably lift 1-2 other days per week on my own at my golds gym -- prob just squat and press on those days or something.

But yeah, I need to check out this place that's closer to me first but if it's not great then I'm just going to do the DC barbell club. Worst case scenario is that it's annoyingly far away and I do it for 1-2 months. No biggie.

You always talk about oly lifters being the smartest, but yet oly coaches are ******ed? You have a stat background -- maybe small sample?

Regardless, my form is PURE AIDS and I need help, lol. It's seriously so bad.

Sounds hot. Is he married? Hit me up!

Lol nice catch

He is, and his wife is cute af. She runs the gym and he coaches it.

6/21:

Worked on sets of 4 rep HBBS today.
275, 295, 315, 325 all were easy. 335 only got 3 reps. My belt was digging into my ribs which was aggravating. I bet it's because my upperbody was collapsing. Tried again a few mins later and got 3 reps again. Called it quits on HBBS.

On to front squats! did some reps at 185, 205 and 225 and then did:

225x3x10 EMOM. Pretty drenched after these. jfc.

Afterwards I worked on handstand pushups and even did a few handstands from a headstand. Getting better!

on joining a BBC. I think it'll be the best way for you to improve.

Thanks man! The bbc meets T/Th/Sat, and I'll definitely try and go twice per week, hopefully thrice. First time is tomorrow!

cool. destroyed my thumb tonight. def losing the nail. Hopefully not worse. can barely type. not going to bbc anytime soon

I thought I'd take home my squat shoes after a workout and redo the OHP thing being all warm and loose, thinking I'd come in here and raise you all-in on top of your video. Sadly it turns out I have all the reason to keep complaining about my shoulder flexibility, and you have none of it. Seriously, your arms are as straight as they get and you look like it's not even a big deal. Mine look terrible while my face is cringing because of the effort I'm doing trying to get them further back.

Sorry to hear about your thumb though. That sucks. I guess now you get to practice double unders for a couple of weeks.

I don't think your flexibility looks so bad! Not far off from mine but we both need to get a lot better, that's for sure.

Thumb is feeling better after a coworker told me about this one weird trick

Here was me an hour ago. about 1 day after injury:



The trick was to take a flame to a needle, make holes in the black part of the nail and when it opens, blood will flow out and relieve pressure. Well...I had never heard of it so I looked it up on youtube and sure enough it seems to be real thing so I went with it.



cha-ching. Instant pain relief. No more throbbing and feels about 100x better. Still sore and hurts of course but not agony like before.

Lol that's awesome. Never heard of that before either. I'm fine with sticking needles in my body but making a hole through your nail sounds scary and painful cause don't u have to use a lot of pressure?

ban BTM