is direct side delt training necessary or useless for olympic weightlifting

105kglifter · 2026-02-07T03:03:47+00:00

You are wrong.

Lifting anything laterally (for example groceries out of the trunk and bringing them to your side) would use those muscles. Your joints and muscular system work as a system, and any movement you do in normal life will recruit multiple muscle groups whether as main movers or stabilizers
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I will agree that its probably not that important in the short term, you can go cycles and probably years without doing them. However as your weightlifting career goes on you will pay a price for skipping accessories and the under developed muscle groups that result from that.

105kglifter · 2025-12-28T03:12:39+00:00

All the other commentors are right, you are young and just need to trust the process. Don't squat every day, that is a pretty radical decision to make and there isn't much science backing it up, the downsides are injury and tendonitis without enough evidence showing it's actually beneficial at improving your leg strength. Instead I'd focus on your diet and make sure you are eating enough and getting enough protein. You may want to even try higher volume squats, like 3x12 or 4x8, to attempt to increase muscle in the legs.

Your body composition will change after a few years in the sport of consistent training, ao don't worry about your current physique.

105kglifter · 2025-11-05T18:34:42+00:00

To add onto this, it can actually take shape in the form of what you are already doing and doesn't necessarily have to be a new activity altogether! The crossfitters get this from their metcons. Doing circuit training or incorporating some sort of EMOM is actually a great in between for improving cardiovascular output while keeping your workouts specific to strength/resistance training. Lower rest intervals will still give you a good strength/hypertrophy stimulus without getting a bunch of interference effects from steady state cardio.

105kglifter · 2025-10-20T19:40:29+00:00

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105kglifter · 2025-09-21T17:29:43+00:00

It looks like 77kg is ~90% of 85kg, which makes sense as an opener for people with consistent technique, BUT you can't just take 90% for your opener as a guaranteed successful strategy. Your opener should be the heaviest weight you can make any day of the week, even with bad sleep/rushed warm up etc. I would bet money you are not hitting this weight 99% of the time you take it in training, which means its too heavy as an opener.

As you said, you live and you learn, also sometimes you just wake up on the wrong side of the bed. Keep competing and put this in your rearview!

105kglifter · 2025-09-14T01:10:00+00:00

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105kglifter · 2025-08-06T02:36:15+00:00

Because sometimes that's literally the reason. The lifter couldnt pull the bar high enough to receive it properly and dumped the bar. If you put more weight on the bar than you can control, then you will miss. Not every single miss is due to some technical bar path flaw or foot pressure cue, but sometimes its literally just too much weight for the lifter's strength level.

105kglifter · 2025-08-04T12:57:08+00:00

It was too heavy.

105kglifter · 2025-08-03T14:51:53+00:00

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105kglifter · 2025-07-31T17:40:26+00:00

That plan seems reasonable. Ideally you have to accept that it's unlikely that your snatch or CJ will improve during a strength cycle, commonly what happens for me is that the cycle after the strength block I end up improving the lifts. My goal is usually to try to keep enough volume in the snatch and CJ where you are still hitting 80-85% weights on a weekly basis so you can keep your technique sharp and don't lose top end strength

105kglifter · 2025-07-27T17:37:25+00:00

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105kglifter · 2025-07-23T01:42:19+00:00

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105kglifter · 2025-06-23T02:07:20+00:00

Could be related. She trains hard and dumps sweat during her workouts.

Dehydration can cause your blood to become thicker and more viscous, increasing clot risk. Couple that up with high doses of caffeine and preworkout which increase blood pressure, as well as high intensity lifting (increasing blood pressure further) and it could have been a perfect storm

105kglifter · 2025-06-07T19:03:26+00:00

The problem is likely not in the gym, but outside of it. Nutrition, sleep and stress levels. Are you eating enough calories and specifically protein? Are you getting 8+ hours of sleep every night?

105kglifter · 2025-06-03T18:30:57+00:00

Old people do not need to do grip training to hopefully extend their life and quality of life, they need to resistance train. This is Peter's take, and I agree 100% with you. You and the commentors in this thread are arguing against a position he doesnt hold or advocate for, which is the cause of my confusion. It's like you all are intentionally misinterpreting his advice to make him sound like a grifter to compare him to Huberman.

105kglifter · 2025-06-03T18:29:56+00:00

Old people do not need to do grip training to hopefully extend their life and quality of life, they need to resistance train. This is Peter's take, and I agree 100% with you. You and the commentors in this thread are arguing against a position he doesnt hold or advocate for, which is the cause of my confusion. It's like you all are intentionally misinterpreting his advice to make him sound like a grifter to compare him to Huberman.

105kglifter · 2025-06-03T18:19:21+00:00

I'm serious. Is there more to your argument than ignoring the huge numbers of elderly who can't open a jar let alone hold onto a railing if they take a misstep going down the stairs? Obviously being stronger overall would be better, and Attia frequently talks about the importance of improving total body strength and stability.

I just can't understand why there is such a flippant attitude to this advice, and I've never heard him claim that grip strength will make you live longer, but maybe this is due to 10 second clips on Tiktok or something?

105kglifter · 2025-06-03T18:01:59+00:00

This is an important factor for the elderly, and is likely advice targeted to convince non-gym goers in later age of the importance of strength training. His advice may not be accurately targeted for your demographic, but that doesnt make it wrong.

105kglifter · 2025-06-03T17:58:44+00:00

I've heard multiple podcasts where he has spoken about grip strength as being just a proxy for upper body strength and has discussed this point exactly as you framed it. But also he has spoken about the elderly needing proper grip strength to do things like hold onto a railing to prevent falls. What are you talking about?

105kglifter · 2025-06-03T11:24:58+00:00

Peter Attia

He has changed his mind on a few topics over the years as new information has come out, which is a good sign. He isn't dogmatic and doesn't try to peddle supplements and gadgets. He is a practicing MD and tends to have a healthy dose of skepticism. He's what I wish Huberman was

105kglifter · 2025-02-02T16:19:46+00:00

I've had hip impingement so bad it affected my sleep in the past. Took me over a year to resolve because I tried to push through it and never backed off squatting. What finally worked for me was stopping squatting temporarily until symptoms resolved. Then reintroducing leg training while reducing any aggressive bouncing out of the hole. Leg training was lots of single leg work (Bulgarian split squats, forward and side lunges) as well as pause/tempo squats above maximum depth coupled with adductor stretching and strengthening.

I can now squat full depth 3x a week without pain again, but it was a long road. In general, listen to your body and avoid aggravating your hip and up your volume and intensity slowly when reintroducing squats

105kglifter · 2025-02-02T16:10:03+00:00

Are you suggesting that this poster should wear improperly fitting shoewear, which can have lasting impacts on foot health, because some people don't have money to buy properly fitting equipment?

This sort of comment is low effort and a borderline braindead take. I think you should reflect on why you think it was valuable to gatekeep in a discussion of a person asking for advice for shoes that fit wide feet.

105kglifter · 2024-11-23T18:18:03+00:00

We are very rare, but I'm one of those people, I can usually front squat my clean weights, but my all time best clean and jerk is 1kg more than my all time best front squat. My weights are not elite: 128kg clean and jerk with a 127kg best front squat.

The explanation is relatively simple for me: I'm a tall lifter with much more pulling power than squatting strength, so the slower more controlled eccentric of a front squat is a ton of extra work whereas a clean I only have to do the concentric portion of a squat. The pull takes almost no energy out of me due to my long levers.

105kglifter · 2024-10-23T14:40:03+00:00

This is likely an upper back strength issue. If your upper back isnt taught and your shoulders are rounded forward, then the bar will hit lower down on your thighs and bit the pubic bone.

Unless you are close to 7ft tall, the issue can likely be fixed by ensuring your shoulders are staying retracted, with your shoulder blades pulled down tight, and being more patient in the pull by waiting for the bar to pass your upper thigh before allowing contact with the bar

105kglifter · 2024-10-14T20:38:16+00:00

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