That's why I specified long limbed, it actually had nothing to do with height. Lamar Gant is a great example of a very short and very gifted DLer; it's just about the ratio of limb length to torso. Somebody can be tall with relatively short limbs like Donny Shankle.

But to your point, in pling you can kind of "out work" or focus on weaknesses in a way that you just can't as a long limbed lifter with the jerk. If you have long arms, jerking correctly without pressout may be physiologically nearly impossible for you and mobility work will only go so far. Look at elite lifters like Jon North... still soft elbowed in the jerk and there's just nothing you can do it about it. In pling, even if you're not built for a lift at least you can a.) do it correctly and b.) overcome limb length ratio limitations. In oly, that might simply never happen unless you start at a very young age.

And despite all this, you'll still find long limbed lifters overrepresented in the DL records; though to a lesser extent than you'll find short limbed oly lifters overrepresented in jerk records.

ok, I misunderstood your comment. I agree with all that^.

APRE 10RMs / Bench / Week 2

10/11

Some light weight hang cleans

Bench
12x35
10x50
AMRAPx65=10
AMRAPx65=10



APRE 10RMs / Deadlift / Week 2

10/12

Overhead Squat
5x20
5x30
5x40
5x40
5x45
3x5x50

^ Note to self: a bit more narrow grip helps shoulder and wrist comfort

Push Press
12x30
10x40
AMRAPx50=5
AMRAPx45=8

Deadlift
12x40
10x60
AMRAPx85=12
AMRAPx90=16

^ I don't know what happened with that last set but I suddenly felt great

APRE 10RMs / Squat / Week 3

10/16

Some light snatch stuff with empty bar and 40kg snatch balance triples

Squat
12x45
10x65
AMRAPx90=15
AMRAPx95=14

Progress going exponential!

APRE 10RMs / Bench / Week 3

10/17

Clean triples with 60kg, jerk balances with 30kg

Bench
12x30
10x50
AMRAPx65=13
AMRAPx70=10

Press
12x20
10x25
AMRAPx35=10
AMRAPx35=8

Press moving the slowest, has barely moved since week 1. But I've never been good at it. Bench also moving slowish.

Squat/Deadlift lots of fun every week.

APRE 10RMs / Deadlift / Week 3

10/19

Some overhead squats

Push Press
12x20
10x35
AMRAPx45=9
AMRAPx45=8

Deadlift
12x45
10x50
10x70
AMRAPx95=15
AMRAPx100=15

APRE 10RMs / Squat / Week 4

10/22

Dead hang snatches with 30kg, 5x5 or something

Squat
12x50
10x70
AMRAPx100=10
AMRAPx100=10

Mentally not there today, everything felt sluggish. Could've easily had more if I really wanted to.

Press
12x20
6x30
AMRAPx35=10
AMRAPx35=11

Lol how bad can you be at pressing

Grunching, but your after pic in the red undies on your cover photo is super hot!

Is it the skinnyfat aspiring dadbod look, the bulge, or both?

I didn't really notice the bulge.
It's more of his shoulders look more proportional to his torso and his legs don't look as curvy. I guess more straight lines is more appealing.

For me it was the bulge.

So this is how women think? Interesting.

Thanks for the support.

PRE 10RMs / Bench / Week 4

10/24

Cleans
3x3x40
2x3x60
3x1x80
3x1x90
3x1x100

This was surprisingly easy! Three weeks in and cleaning 2 plates still comes naturally.

Bench
12x35
10x50
10x50
AMRAPx70=12
AMRAPx70=10

Judging from pics i think you should forget about squats and deadlifts, chase pumps and do bb iso movements.

It hurts because it's true

APRE 10RMs / Deadlift / Week 4

10/26

Overhead squat
3x5x40
3x5x50
2x5x55

Deadlift
12x50
10x75
AMRAPx105=13
AMRAPx110=13

After this 2nd set of deadlifts I kind of fell asleep somewhere in a corner for like 30 minutes, then went home and crashed for another 45mins on the couch, lol. Haven't felt this drained in ages.

APRE 10RMs / Squat / Week 5

10/29

Snatch
4x3x40kg

Squat
12x50
10x75
AMRAPx105=13
AMRAPx110=10

Bicep curls
4x12xbar

Scapular pullups
4x8

APRE 10RMs / Bench / Week 5

Scapular pullups 4x8

Clean+PushPress 5x(1+3)x60

Bench
12x35
10x50
AMRAPx70=13
AMRAPx75=8

Scapular pullups 4x8

A good lesson on the importance of sample size.

NOOOO!

Well syndrom looks nothing like I thought.

What did you think I looked like?

I thought you would be older and very very heavily muscled and possibly Asian. You do look good though! Just nothing like what I had imagined.

Every day I am working towards getting older, more muscled and more Asian. Please give it some time!