Next week we’ll be doing video analysis of both the snatch and the clean and jerk and provide feedback. In both cases, we’ll try to evaluate your lifts at near maximal capcity. Somewhere around 85 to 95% depending on your success rate. For the most part, a good lifter can make light lifts look good but technique usually falls apart when we get close to our maxes. The idea here is to identify points of performance and weaknesses in our lifts. Everybody has different body shapes and nobody lifts the same. As long as we maintain some key components. My snatch and clean and jerk can look completely different than somebody else and yet both techniques are sound. The other thing we will bring up is our lifts according to our bodyweight. A 225lbs athlete snatching 205lbs is completely different than a 165lbs snatching 185lbs for example. The former is snatching 20lbs under is body while later is 20lbs over is bodyweight, so strength to weight ratio is better for later athlete is this case. Also, we’ll be looking at our snatch to clean and jerk ratio. Good lifter will usually have a snatch at around 80% (roughly) of their clean and jerk. This is going to be our last week in that 4 weeks cycle. The next cycle is going to be 6 weeks and will be focus on basic strength, lots of presses, squats of all kinds and pulls/deadlifts. It’s time to get those numbers up. Really looking forward to it
