The PR Thread! - Page 674

BlondeWarrior · 02-04-2008, 10:31 PM

Ziggity, you pull off to your left side a *lot*, and when the weight gets heavier it's gonna really hurt your back. If you're pulling sumo you need to get your ass down and fire with your glutes 1st, not stand up and then pull with your back. You can see that you do this by how your body rises up in the beginning, but the bar goes nowhere.

Getting your ass and hammies in this pull will make 445 a lot prettier. Focus on keeping that same upper body position until it's time to lock out at the top.

ziggity · 02-04-2008, 10:48 PM

thanks, I saw that after I looked at the vid. definitely gonna work on it.. but that's pretty much as heavy as it gets for me.

how did the 405s look to you? I want to be confident with that weight so I can start really using it for my work sets.

BlondeWarrior · 02-04-2008, 11:21 PM

I think that the asymmetry was definitely emphasized at 455, but I did notice it at 405.

If you work on getting your butt down, I can see 405 for a set of heavy doubles/triples.

If I were you, I'd start on doing sets of 5 with something easy, say 315. Only focus on form and keep the bar in your hands in between each rep (up-down-up-down...) so that you can touch and go and just think about where your body is in space. Then take what you learned to 365, 385, 405.

Warm-up, and follow it with:
x sets of 5 x 315 where x is some number where you're not getting too tired (I don't know you)
2 x 3 x 365
(1 or 2) x 3 x 385 <- focus on form!
and work up to
1 x 3 x 405

Can't wait to see updated vids!