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Comment on Skill Guidelines for Building Strong, Useful, Adaptable Athletes by Ryan Danks

Ryan Danks — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:35:52 +0000

Thanks Chris.

I read that article (Beginner’s Program) a few weeks ago and am currently following the practical programming starting strength program. What I am confused on is how to move on from there. My goal is level 2, for now, in those strength skills. After that, I am still vague on how to construct a program, or find one to follow, that will allow me to maintain those skills while building new ones.

I guess the ideal would be to have a program with different slots, like a bodyweight, weight, and endurance slot that you can plug different exercises into. That would be good for improving new skills, but not for maintaining old ones. -confused- :)

Comment on Eating Right: How to Get Started by Jose Ceda

Jose Ceda — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:42:38 +0000

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Comment on Cracking and Popping and Clicking – Oh My! by Chris Salvato

Chris Salvato — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:22:20 +0000

Steve generally has good recommendations :P

Chris

Comment on Skill Guidelines for Building Strong, Useful, Adaptable Athletes by Chris Salvato

Chris Salvato — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:21:31 +0000

Ryan,

As you can imagine, the project that you are mentioning is an extremely daunting task. We are building up to this incrementally. Right now, for beginners like you that have no idea where to start, we have written up a brief synopsis on beginning training programs that you would likely find as a great starting point. Basic barbell strength is a great place to start towards any strength goal – even the gymnastics movements!

http://www.eatmoveimprove.com/2010/02/beginning-training-programs/

Let me know if this is still unclear and I will try to make it as lucid as possible.

Cheers,

Chris

Comment on Cracking and Popping and Clicking – Oh My! by Albert

Albert — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:49:39 +0000

Wow,

What a great resource at:
the Neanderthal No More series by Cressey and Robertson at tnation. This article had the detailed explanations and analysis I was looking for in regard to my shoulder pain. It also had a case study looking at slightly scoliotic individual. Thanks Steven!

Comment on Skill Guidelines for Building Strong, Useful, Adaptable Athletes by Ryan Danks

Ryan Danks — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:50:01 +0000

It was mentioned that there would be a future article on creating a training routine, or expanding on what has already been given. Would it be possible for this concept of training to hit, and then maintain, these benchmarks in that article, or something new?

This is such a great idea but my current level if competency is lacking where needed to run with this.

Thanks,
Ryan

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CrossFit Ireland » Mon, Mar 8th — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:02:39 +0000

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Comment on Cracking and Popping and Clicking – Oh My! by Steven Low

Steven Low — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:58:24 +0000

Much more quad soft tissue work and stretching. Unfortunately, knees extremely forward is needed for Oly however it can be mitigated a bit by proper lifting shoes (which I assume you do have some).

Do some specific work for the hammies though. Glute-ham raises and RDLs are good ones. Maybe some barbell hip thrusts as well. Don’t necessarily need to do LBBS.

Comment on Cracking and Popping and Clicking – Oh My! by Peter Keenan

Peter Keenan — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:16:57 +0000

Hi Steven,
great article,my knees click loudly on nearly every squat,whether,air squats,or heavy 1 rep max,even if i’ve been squatting for over an hour,with no pain,though lately they are starting to ache,have recently been changing from low bar b/s to h/b and obviously with the olympic style the knees travel forward as the hips drop straight down to accomadate the upright position needed for the snatch and cln and jrk,which is then causing the anterior gliding of the femur that you mention earlier in the article,how then would you suggest that an oly lifter correct this ?as it is necessary to squat this way for oly lifting .I have been doing a mixture of both low bar ,hips back style and now high bar,hips dropping down to improve my positions for oly lifting.Personally i prefer the low bar style as it’s much easier and i can feel so much more power in the hips,but i need to do the high bar style for oly lifting. Thanks for any suggestions ,
Peter.

Comment on Skill Guidelines for Building Strong, Useful, Adaptable Athletes by Steven Low

Steven Low — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:37:20 +0000

“Is there a more streamlined way of working towards this?”

Yes.

Train the more complex technique skills with proficiency and you will be able to do the less skilled ones much easier once you have built strength with the more complex ones. Oly, for example, is complex compared to deadlifts, squats, etc. so the bulk of training should be spent on Oly lifts over pure squats and deadlifts.

Once you have a strong C&J and snatch you will likely have very good numbers with DLs, squats, OHS, etc. as well.

This is the same with the gymnastics work as well — work your way from the simple progressions up to the most difficult. Handstands, muscle ups, etc. are a must, and moving on the right progressions for strength such as front lever, back lever, planche, etc. will help enormously with strength in other aspects.