HI I'M BACK! Was suspected to have dengue fever, but blood tests came out as negative. Just a severe fever that floored me for a whole week.
*There is a TLDR version at the bottom*
Here's my mentee who has extreme quad dominance, and hyperactive forearm extensors. I call them hyperactive because they constantly want to extend (she complains of forearm pumps after training every session).
I made a few changes in her training and technique.
1. Stopped heavy squats completely. Just loads of box jumps and broad jumps.
2. Buckets of pulls (slow, fast, pauses, from deficit, from hang, every position of pulls)
3. Beat her tiny paws every time I see them extending (pushes the bar away from her)
4. Applied athletic tape to keep her traps from shrugging (it again pushes the bar from her)
I was discussing with Terry Hughes of NZ (2002 Manchester Bronze Medallist @ 38 y/o), who has a very Eastern German background in lifting. He promotes a heavy "stomp" and an aggressive lean back in pulling.
Syai (my mentee) loves to "hit" the bar forward and no matter how many drills and cues I've given, when it gets heavier, she knocks it out. I've videos of her doing snatches perfectly wonderful with an empty bar from blocks, but the moment a big plate comes in, all hell breaks loose.
1 thing Coach Wu taught me many years ago, if you find yourself doing something "technically" correct in your head, but it comes out the exact opposite, just do what's "technically" wrong in your head, but comes out right. As time goes by, adjust it a tiny bit at a time. Don't force the correction overnight.
The corrections I gave her were;
1. Pull straight first. No pull back.
2. When no more straight, pull back fast.
3. Hole, floor, with heels
In the end, it looked nothing like I told her to do, except for hole in the floor with heels, but at she managed to position her bar properly.
Which brings me to a point, I'll write about tomorrow.
Do most novice lifters miss, because of position? Or height of bar?
TLDR:
1. Pull straight first. No pull back.
2. When no more straight, pull back fast.
3. Hole, floor, with heels
4. Bar definitely went forward.
5. But she made it
6. Is that because she got position? Or height?
7. Is one more important than the other?
8. Or is that like asking is meat more important than fire in a BBQ?
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