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Flexibility for Power Cleans

Vegeta · 2009-01-05 16:51:18

Hey Folks, I would like to do more power cleaning but find I don't have the wrist and probably tricep flexibility for it. I cant hold the bar in the following position: Can anyone recommend any stretches to improve wrist and tricep flexibility or any other tips to enable me to hold the bar in this position. (I have same…

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#32 11-01-2009 10:05PM

Mikel

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Hanley wrote: »

I'm not soo sure how the Bulgarians are training currently, but in recent decades they've become infamous for the ungodly high volume they use. 6-10 sessions a day, 4-6x a week.

As I already said, they train more in a day than most people do in a month. To be capable of that you HAVE to sleep, breathe, eat, drink, live and dream about weightlifting. You just have to.

And that's not enough, as soon as you take your foot off the gas there's 10 other guys in your weight class who can take your place off you. It's 100% effort 100% of the time.

I don't mean to give out, but I genuinely don't think you understood the effort and work that went into getting where he is today. Notice how I didn't mention steroids once above? He used em, most of the Bulgarian team always has, but goddamnit they'd still be stronger and in better shape off the juice than 99.9% of the population takin anything they wanted.

I think that's why those of a powerlifting/BB persuasion sometimes get indignant when a particular athlete is dismissed in that 'Sure he's on drugs' kind of way.
The steroids are not a way of cutting corners but of allowing someone to train longer and harder than would be otherwise possible.
I suppose that's why some are more ambivalent towards their use than others

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