What's a good snatch / C&J for someone who's in the 1000+ lb club (closer to 1100lb) in the powerlifting big three. I know its technically two different sports, but still

No real correlation.
So much technique and mobility.

Got friends who totals 1500lbs in powerlifting but only like 360 in OL.

Also depends on how big your squat is (dl a bit) in that total.

But since you asked for a good one, half of your PL total.

This post was edited by PlaaD on Mar 31 2015 05:27pm

Yeah the technique/mobility required for olympic lifts is pretty sick. Haven't even tried to Snatch yet.

When I moved to Oslo in January I signed up at a new gym (Sats/Elixia hehe) and got 2 free PT lessons. Used them to learn how to Clean & Jerk.


My technique is fucking shitty but at least I can sort of do them. the PT I was given happened to live in China for 5 years were he told me they took in chinese kids at a young age and made them spend x amount of hours per day, every day doing C&J with a stick for years before they let them even touch a bar.

No wonder them chinese people so good at olympic lifts (Tian Tao, Lu Xianjin etc)

In any case I C&J 90kg which is just over 110% of my body weight. Only done it for a couple of weeks tho

Those Chinese fuckers are a lil different.

i have said that for anyone..if you actually want to do the olympic lifts to a good extent, you should work the technical aspects for months before even considering the weight as a factor

but, as PlaaD said, there really isn't much of a correlation between powerlifting and olympic lifting..you can't complete an olympic lift without bar speed, you can grind the power lifts out though

I want to get into real OL but I'll be damned if it doesn't hurt my wrists quite a bit once the clean is complete and on my shoulders.

Apparently I suck at making a shelf with my Anterior delts too. I used to be able to fine, but I'm not as good as it as I used to be.

I need a lot of work before I ever try for weight on a clean and jerk... months of work on form to get it right sounds realistic

I don't have much interest in doing the snatch tbh.

hehehehehehehehe

A good start would be 100/125 kg imo.



Sad for you snatch is the funnest!

This post was edited by Aube on Apr 1 2015 06:29am

Ouch.. Long way to go