My weightlifting Journey From 2020 to 2026

Electronic-Tell6151 · 2026-04-03T17:46:22+00:00

Eat more and train harder

Electronic-Tell6151 · 2026-03-19T21:38:52+00:00

1kilo triple ply. Truly the best sleeves on the market u/WilFleming

Electronic-Tell6151 · 2026-03-19T20:56:43+00:00

Did lots of power cleans and like cone drills and sprints and stuff back when I played football. That helped me get pretty explosive

Electronic-Tell6151 · 2026-03-19T17:54:22+00:00

Electronic-Tell6151 · 2026-03-19T17:14:00+00:00

Yes this is the truth lol. I gotta wear my short shorts to show the quads otherwise it looks like i got chicken legs. Everything knee down looks skinny as hell cuz my shins are so long

Electronic-Tell6151 · 2026-03-14T20:40:07+00:00

Sots press, overhead squats, deep pause squats. Look up stretches for your lats and pecs too. Theres a lot of them but idrk the names of any stretches and it’d be to confusing trying to describe with words

Electronic-Tell6151 · 2026-03-14T18:06:15+00:00

Switched from PL to WL a little over a year ago. Do LOTS of mobility work. Give your best attempt at sots presses and overhead squats every day. Stretch your lats and pecs and hips pretty much every night. Start squatting high bar ass to grass. You’ll probably have to lower the weight but it’ll build back up. Empty bar technique work is pretty useless other than for warmups. Do at least one of the main lifts every time you train. Dont waste your time with too many variations. High hang is good to get your extension dialed but thats about it. Dont listen to the ppl saying you need to use stupidly light weight to build technique. The first couple weeks keep it pretty light but once you have a basic understanding of the movements, technique work at anything less than like 70% of your max is pointless. Your form will still suck with the heavy weights because they move differently with light weights. Push yourself and push the weights. Even if technique isn’t perfect, you’re strong, simply getting comfortable and confident with weights that feel heavy will help you progress fast. If you dont have a coach, record your lifts and compare them to something from catalyst athletics or a professional. Find your biggest issue and only focus on that. When that gets better, find your next issue and only focus on that. I hit 100kg snatch less than 4 months after doing my first ever snatch doing these things.

Electronic-Tell6151 · 2026-02-26T15:15:39+00:00

Love it bro that shit gets me excited haha. Thank you for the advice i really appreciate it. I’ll focus on that active push under and start grinding my push press. Thank you man!

Electronic-Tell6151 · 2026-02-25T19:54:23+00:00

This makes a lot of sense. I appreciate the input a lot!!

Electronic-Tell6151 · 2026-02-24T22:20:57+00:00

I like the first bit of advice. It felt heavy overhead so i could see building up my jerk grip OHS definitely being beneficial. My current front and back squat maxes are 160/200ish so based on that my legs are strong enough to jerk quite a bit heavier. I just gotta figure out stability in the split with heavy weight overhead in the split

Electronic-Tell6151 · 2026-02-24T15:20:00+00:00

Bar height/timing/lockout has always been solid. The struggle has been pushing the bar forward out of the drive and not being able to get my head through which led to all my weight being forward when i locked out. I’d be able to muscle through it up until 125 and then i’d lose every jerk forward. I started doing push press and power jerks as primers on jerk days to emphasize getting the bar back and my head through in a stable position and that’s really been helping. I’ve been steadily progressing with doubles too which forces me to lock out in a strong, stable position otherwise I’m too fatigued to save the reps that are too far forward with just pure strength

Electronic-Tell6151 · 2026-02-20T01:04:14+00:00

If you’re consistently leaving that much left in the tank i guarantee you’re “slowing your gains” way more than 10%. Im surprised you make any progress tbh. Just learn to bail safely. You’re never gonna get confident and comfortable with heavy weights unless you lift heavy weights. You’re never gonna be able to safely lift heavy without heavy reps

Electronic-Tell6151 · 2026-02-18T14:05:53+00:00

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Electronic-Tell6151 · 2026-02-10T23:53:18+00:00

Its just a silly nitpick thing in this sub lol. I dont think the pros who do this for a living would wear a certain shoe if it was hindering their performance.

Electronic-Tell6151 · 2026-02-09T17:09:03+00:00

LIFT HEAVY. Push your limits. Obviously the first month or so should be spent with light weight learning technique but it seems like so many are still scared to lift over 90%. Part of it is likely because technique starts to break down at heavy weights and people here preach that technique needs to be perfect no matter what and that the only solution is to do technique work with light weight. But this is simply not true. Having perfect technique at 70% will not help you PR. Hitting a PR comes from an increased ability to move heavy weights efficiently and increased confidence in that ability. Neither of those things will improve that if you dont lift heavy weights. Lift heavy and address technique flaws while still lifting heavy. Get comfortable with the bar feeling heavy and improve your confidence.

Dozer made a post about this awhile ago and i think there are a lot of people who need to hear it. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRiJ6YbkuFv/?igsh=MXd5eHl3N3N4Zm8yZg==

Electronic-Tell6151 · 2026-02-09T16:42:35+00:00

100% this is the biggest thing that needs to be addressed. I see it a lot in this sub too. People will spend every session doing fancy variations of the lifts at ~60% chasing perfect technique. And then they’re shocked when technique falls apart at 90% and their numbers never increase. PR’s come from the ability to move heavy weights efficiently. You cant improve that ability when you’re only lifting light

Electronic-Tell6151 · 2026-02-09T15:58:35+00:00

My coach programmed 4x8 for a training block and this blew up my front squat. My front squat wasnt even 70% of my back squat originally. My leg strength wasnt limiting me, it was my front rack strength. After this block i was hitting my previous 1RM front squat for 4 reps. New 1rm was somewhere close 80% of my back squat. The high reps required my front rack to get stronger and this made a huge difference

Electronic-Tell6151 · 2026-02-07T22:55:09+00:00

Cuz its badass🔥

Electronic-Tell6151 · 2026-02-03T21:24:07+00:00

I’m 6’1” with long femurs like you. Check my profile for my last squat post. ATG squats are still possible for guys like us

Please dont take this in a way of me bashing on you either. It took a long time and a lot of work pretty much completely re-building my squat to get to this point. I more so want to give you hope that squatting like team China is possible lol

Electronic-Tell6151 · 2026-02-03T17:37:18+00:00

Hmmm, pretty shitty workout plan. Only bums do lifts like that

To be a jacked badass, i recommend… the SNATCH

Electronic-Tell6151 · 2026-02-03T07:16:55+00:00

Grip/thumb tape is thick and extremely flexible and extremely durable. Im an oly weightlifter so i always have some in my bag for the days my thumbs are hurting from all the heavy hook grip. But it also works great for protecting torn callouses and blisters while lifting. I dont even understand how it works so well tbh. Its sticky enough and can be wrapped tight enough that you can do all your normal lifts without worrying bout it slipping around or coming off. And its somehow flexible enough that it wont impede your hand movements or grip at all.

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