Peacedog wrote:Yeah, there is never a downside to being strong.
Yet lots of downsides to being weak.
Fa Xing wrote:Just for the sake of terminology, There's no such thing as olympic powerlifting.
Cool vids though, thanks for sharing. I miss lifting like this sometimes.
Olympic-style weightlifting, or Olympic weightlifting, is an athletic discipline in the modern Olympic programme in which the athlete attempts a maximum-weight single lift of a barbell loaded with weight plates.
The two competition lifts in order are the snatch and the clean and jerk. Each weightlifter receives three attempts in each, and the combined total of the highest two successful lifts determines the overall result within a bodyweight category. Bodyweight categories are different for male and female competitors. A lifter who fails to complete at least one successful snatch and one successful clean and jerk also fails to total, and therefore receives an "incomplete" entry for the competition. The clean and press was once a competition lift, but was discontinued due to difficulties in judging proper form.
In comparison with other strength sports, which test limit strength (with or without lifting aids), weightlifting tests aspects of human ballistic limits (explosive strength); the lifts are therefore executed faster—and with more mobility and a greater range of motion during their execution—than other strength movements. Properly executed, the snatch and the clean and jerk are both dynamic and explosive while appearing graceful, especially when viewed from a recording at a slowed speed.
While there are relatively few competitive Olympic weightlifters, the lifts performed in the sport of weightlifting, and in particular their component lifts (e.g. squats, deadlifts, cleans), are commonly used by elite athletes in other sports to train for both explosive and functional strength.
Peacedog wrote:
Even among my students, the only successful ones are powerlifters, mountaineers, outdoorsmen and professional dancers. All of these people are strong and even the dancer squats once a week.
Peacedog
willie wrote:Enjoyable video of Chinese power and it also Makes a great base for any martial art.
marvin8 wrote:
Olympic weightlifting The videos are not "a great base for any martial art," per modern strength and conditioning knowledge in combat sports (e.g., mma, boxing, etc.)
The OP statement and videos may be misleading .
willie wrote:Fa Xing wrote:Just for the sake of terminology, There's no such thing as olympic powerlifting.
Cool vids though, thanks for sharing. I miss lifting like this sometimes.
Quoted from WiKiOlympic-style weightlifting, or Olympic weightlifting, is an athletic discipline in the modern Olympic programme in which the athlete attempts a maximum-weight single lift of a barbell loaded with weight plates.
The two competition lifts in order are the snatch and the clean and jerk. Each weightlifter receives three attempts in each, and the combined total of the highest two successful lifts determines the overall result within a bodyweight category. Bodyweight categories are different for male and female competitors. A lifter who fails to complete at least one successful snatch and one successful clean and jerk also fails to total, and therefore receives an "incomplete" entry for the competition. The clean and press was once a competition lift, but was discontinued due to difficulties in judging proper form.
In comparison with other strength sports, which test limit strength (with or without lifting aids), weightlifting tests aspects of human ballistic limits (explosive strength); the lifts are therefore executed faster—and with more mobility and a greater range of motion during their execution—than other strength movements. Properly executed, the snatch and the clean and jerk are both dynamic and explosive while appearing graceful, especially when viewed from a recording at a slowed speed.
While there are relatively few competitive Olympic weightlifters, the lifts performed in the sport of weightlifting, and in particular their component lifts (e.g. squats, deadlifts, cleans), are commonly used by elite athletes in other sports to train for both explosive and functional strength.
Powerlifting is a strength sport that consists of three attempts at maximal weight on three lifts: squat, bench press, and deadlift.
Fa Xing wrote:
Exactly my point, weightlifting (as in that which they do in the Olympics) is not the same as in powerlifting which is not in the Olympics.
Powerlifting definition from wikipedia:Powerlifting is a strength sport that consists of three attempts at maximal weight on three lifts: squat, bench press, and deadlift.
willie wrote:Fa Xing wrote:
Exactly my point, weightlifting (as in that which they do in the Olympics) is not the same as in powerlifting which is not in the Olympics.
Powerlifting definition from wikipedia:Powerlifting is a strength sport that consists of three attempts at maximal weight on three lifts: squat, bench press, and deadlift.
O.k. You are correct.
Me and the people that I have trained with classify it a bit differently.
I consider the Bulgarian system powerlifting and it appears that a lot of the same methods used to gain strength are relatively the same as the methods
used by Olympic lifters.
When I think of powerlifting, It will usually be the big 3 (squat, dead-lift, bench) trained with sets of 3 or above as max strength is the main focus, usually with periodization.
Where as body building usually has higher reps used for maximal hypertrophy.
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