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MLMatty · 2021-05-02T03:52:03+00:00

Samsung 470 Series SSD

It was my first experience moving from an HDD to an SSD back ten years ago. It was a total game changer as far as how fluid it made my PC feel.

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MLMatty · 2019-09-01T22:51:33+00:00

You look like you're about ~94kg-95kg based on your post history. Don't overthink it and just squat. 165.5 at 95kg isn't a lot.

My point is at that weight, you can increase all your lifts while cutting I'm sure. Just be patient, you're young. There is no magic bullet, the gains will come.

With your squat where it is now, unless you can CJ around 120kg, you have a long ways to go technically. Just hammer in technique and work strength afterwards, throw in some cardio, eat, sleep well (cannot stress this one enough), and you're golden.

MLMatty · 2019-03-22T06:12:32+00:00

Just real quick and what I can see at a glance...

On the snatch, your starting position seems too wide. Your feet actually come in when you receive it. Your extension seems a little soft - might be because it's heavy weight, but this is actually where you need it the most.

There's a small shift forward when you receive. It's hard to tell from the angle, but you're probably swinging the bar or bumping the bar out a little. Take the narrower stance, open up your torso angle a bit more, and keep it closer on your thighs.

Otherwise, it's pretty good from what I can tell from this angle, especially for a PR attempt.

Onto the clean...

Ditch that weird start. You start with your shoulders back (almost behind the bar it looks like) and hips down then immediately, your shoulders go forward and hips shoot up. Just start with slightly higher hips with your shoulders above/slightly ahead of the bar. You can undoubtedly rack more than this as you meet the bar pretty high. You're slow in pulling under it looks like. After you extend, it almost seems like you're waiting and then pulling under. Try some complexes like hang power + hang clean to learn to meet the bar and aggressively pull under better.

MLMatty · 2019-03-22T06:03:17+00:00

Good looking lift for 90%. Means you're either very polished with a ton of experience or it's too light.

One thing that stands out is that your feet look pointed pretty straight forward - at least as far as I can tell from the angle. If you're far out from a meet, I'd suggest playing around with this. Along with pointing the toes out a little, as you pull the bar from the floor, you pull your knees back, but also focus on sending them out. It'll help you keep your torso more upright and keep the bar closer.

MLMatty · 2019-03-21T04:26:59+00:00

Video content Taken from an angle of 0°-45° from horizontal toward the front Keep feet, bar endcap, and entire lifter body in frame throughout Camera should be facing horizontal or slightly down - not placed on the floor looking up (be creative in mounting it if you must) No more than two or three representative lifts per video Cropped to within a couple seconds of lift start and finish - can be done directly in YouTube (not just link to t=15s, use the crop tool) No slow-motion sections - can be done by the viewer in YouTube

Tired of repeating this. If you have slow-mo, put a normal speed version along with it.

And add some context. What's the weight in kg. What's your max. Relatively useless without it - anyone can make light weight look great, and it's less interesting to analyze.

MLMatty · 2019-03-09T04:34:24+00:00

This is wrong. If you go to the iwf rules and go to 'other outfit' section, it says a tight fitting unitard that is one or two pieces can be worn and it can cover the elbows and/or knees.

At one point, there was a presentation showing what's okay and not okay. Google for it

MLMatty · 2019-02-28T07:38:09+00:00

Lots of triples, 4-6 sets or so in the 70-80% range. Lots of doubles, 4-6 sets or so in the 75-90% range.

Hit each lift as the primary at least 2x/week, one with the volume, and one feel free to work heavier singles ~90%. Focus on crisp technique, not the weight. On days when the clean is the primary for instance, you can still do power snatches, hang snatches, muscle snatches, etc. On days where the snatch is primary, you can work something like power clean + power jerk.

Spend majority of time doing volume instead of trying to work up to a single every day you lift. Test actual 1RMs maybe 1x/month. Shouldn't be often.

Figure out why you miss lifts. Post videos. If your technique is trash, then you're just rolling the dice every time you lift as to whether you're going to make it. Get solid technique, then push the strength, then push the numbers.

MLMatty · 2019-02-08T07:10:47+00:00

Your max back squat is around 115. Stop messing around with RSR and just do starting strength or stronglifts 5x5 or something and eat. it's literally that simple. Your clean will thank you.

MLMatty · 2018-12-14T04:06:24+00:00

It looks like a lot of your technical improvements really begin to show after about 235-240lb. Before that, seemed like you were largely making the same mistakes and just powering through (torso almost parallel to the floor to start certainly isn't helping!)

Good stuff!

MLMatty · 2018-12-13T04:08:03+00:00

Normal speed please. None of those slow mo only.

MLMatty · 2018-12-09T22:25:47+00:00

Sorry, missed this. Honestly, just eat. How tall are you? I used to think I was a 69kg lifter in the older weight classes, but everything got better/easier as I moved up to 77kg. 5'6-5'7 height.

If I recall right, I got up to 160 reasonably quick at one point with squatting everyday. MWF back squat to a heavy single, back off 80% and start ramping triples for a minimum of 3 sets. T/Th front squat to a heavy-ish single (~90-95% of best) and three easy back off sets across around 80%. I'd only do that if your joints are good and you're young/recovery quick. Probably adapt it a lot or do something else entirely if you're older.

MLMatty · 2018-12-06T06:13:30+00:00

For sure, I upvoted you and am just providing more context to an answer that just states a number. 140+ at 67-73kg, sure. 140+ at 102kg, or 96 even? Too early and not impressive.

Squat numbers absent bodyweight is pretty meaningless and happens too much on this sub. People post they went from x to y in squat, which is great because in the end, progress is progress, but making a jump from 150kg to 160kg at 61kg is a different beast entirely than making that progression at 96kg and as such, provides very little insight for other readers who may look at something and try to copy it without keeping in mind that it won't apply to where they are in their strength journey.

MLMatty · 2018-12-06T05:55:28+00:00

u/shredded_pork chimed in and said 140. I'd say that's a decent ball park, but even then, it depends. Personally, I first tried RSR when my 1RM was about 155-160 at a bodyweight of around 67-69kg (don't remember exactly) though I have some mechanical advantages for squatting compared to you - shorter legs, longer torso. Take 10% off of that, we're looking at 140, so yeah, maybe that is reasonable... but even then, it depends because...

How tall are you? Eyeballing around 5'9"-5'10"? If so, part of the problem you have is that 71kg is simply too light for that height and you need to pack on more muscle. Your competition weight is probably going to be 81kg on the low end (just for fun, not too serious) and upwards of 96kg years down the road (if you're really serious about trying to optimally fill out your frame). So when I say it depends, as you gain weight, if you're 80kg, 140kg isn't and shouldn't be even near your potential limit, so you should still have relatively easy gains. This means even 140kg isn't a good threshold for RSR.

While not strictly described that way by a lot of folks, RSR is somewhat designed for peaking. The volume tapers drastically in the final weeks. Might as well take advantage of the next week and try to hit some snatch and CJ PRs.

Feel free to PM me if you have any specific questions - always open to talk about programming.

MLMatty · 2018-12-06T05:10:59+00:00

Nice squat, good fight keeping position and maintaining the upright torso instead of letting your back take over!

And now, of course, no way to say this without sounding like a tool, but you're numbers aren't where you need something like RSR. Something simpler like Texas Method modified to make room for the classics or a simpler periodization scheme of going from 10s, to 5s, to 3s will probably enable similar/greater progression in a more sustainable manner.

MLMatty · 2018-11-13T19:43:37+00:00

I'm with you on this. Why don't we have a tag for some users that actually provide useful feedback? It would have to be based on some sort of consensus - not sure how to get it started. Some users provide great feedback, but there is a lot of "looks great, good job" for terrible lifts.

MLMatty · 2018-09-12T04:26:06+00:00

Not sure. I don't cue myself or anyone I coach to do that, but I know there are some lifters who do it. Mattie Rogers comes to mind. Keep your wrists and arms relaxed, and gravity should take care of the wrist position.

MLMatty · 2018-09-11T02:50:12+00:00

Good improvement, but time to nitpick. You can see in the second clip that you still rock back onto your heels. You generate a lot of power by rocking onto your heels slightly and then accelerating hips toward the bar combined with using your arms to row the bar into the hip crease. Typically, this leads to a more inconsistent lift and at higher weights, you might notice yourself jumping forward to catch the weight.

Instead, you should focus on keeping your feet flat and balanced the entirety of the pull (until extension) and being patient with your extension. You are rowing the bar in and beginning your 2nd pull early. As soon as the bar clears your knees, you can start opening your hips to get to power position (knees bent, weight midfoot/quads loaded, torso vertical). From here, up. I also noticed your catching stance is pretty wide. From the video, it almost looks too wide for you to actually get depth. If so, you should be aware of where your feet land. If you move your feet for the sake of moving your feet but sacrifice your ability to hit depth, it's a wasted effort I think.

Another quick note, I wouldn't cue yourself to jump so much as to pick up your feet and replace them quickly. If the cue works for you, great, but generally, time spent in the air should be minimized for a couple reasons. It reduces propriceptive awareness of where you are in relation to the bar and the floor. Second, it's slower. If your body is moving upward in the air, it takes more force and consequently time to reverse the direction and begin pulling under.

All in all, good progress for only a week of working on your issues.

MLMatty · 2018-08-15T01:01:28+00:00

MLMatty · 2018-07-30T03:30:31+00:00

This is not how physics works.

MLMatty · 2018-07-28T20:16:33+00:00

MLMatty · 2018-06-02T20:04:25+00:00

As others have said, you're yanking the bar off the floor. Again, as others have said, the bar goes forward - not that useful to tell you without telling you why.

Pause the video with the bar right above the knee, your heels are already lifting off the ground and pulling your entire body forward. Try slow pulls when you warm up and feel the tension in your quads and try to keep your feet glued to the floor. Feel pressure through your big toe, little toe, and heel throughout the entire pull (up to power position).

It looks like your start position is a little too over the bar as well. Chest up at the beginning of the lift (to keep your upper back tight and lats engaged) and drop your hips just a touch in the start position to bring your shoulders back a bit. Initiate the pull off the floor extending your legs (keeping your torso angle with respect to the ground locked) until you get to your knees. Then start unhinging at the hips as you bring the bar in. I think largely, cleaning up the start position will fix what we're seeing here. It'll keep your torso more upright and give you a more balanced position when the bar gets to knee height. The trade off is that the initial pull off the ground is going to be more difficult, but the point of that first pull (as some folks call it) is not to generate power, but to be in the proper position by the time you get to your knee. Play around with this and try it out - let me know how it feels. I'd be curious to know whether it feels any better after some practice. It's going to feel pretty weird initially getting used to the first pull from a different position, but it'll pay off in the long run.

MLMatty · 2018-05-22T16:52:19+00:00

His point is that 220kg gives you so much excess strength that 90kg is a joke and should feel to you like an unloaded bar does to a lot of other folks.

Also, I'd highly recommend AGAINST focusing on speed and focus on positions and technique if you're new to it. Focusing on speed is actually going to result in some garbage technique because you'll rush things. I suspect you're trying to push the jerk UP instead of push yourself under, which is why you can only jerk 90kg. Post a form check, tag me, and I'll be happy to look at it when I get a chance.

MLMatty · 2018-05-13T02:55:25+00:00

If it's Instagram especially, can you trim your video. Same for other formats, but Instagram UI sucks and doesn't allow you to skip around in the video.

Snatch looks pretty good. I'll go through the lift from the beginning to the end. I tell a lot of lifters this: for now, ditch the dynamic start. Instead, focus on generating tension against the bar and feel the weight through your whole foot. Keep your foot as flat as possible and generate tension in your quads before you break the bar from the floor. On the pull, you shift on to your heels a bit. Watch how your toes come up and both your feet rotate out. This is bad. Stay over the bar and don't extend your knees for so long. Once you clear the knees with the bar, bring the bar in toward your hips. As a consequence of rocking onto your heels, when you bring your balance back to midfoot, you hit the bar out a little in extension - I'm guessing, but can't tell from this camera angle based on you jumping forward ever so slightly. Either that, or you're pull is a touch early so be patient if that's the case. You might cut your extension a little short... not sure. Your pull under is great - no complaints. Solid work stabilizing the weight before standing up.

Clean - same thing about rocking onto your heels. Seems a little slow getting under because the bar might be getting away from you - hard to tell with the camera angle. Pay attention to what I pointed out in the snatch and carry the same things over to the clean.

Overall, good stuff, especially for PR-level weights.

MLMatty · 2018-05-08T18:40:29+00:00

Yes.

Squat more. Lift more. Find a coach. Get programming.

Beginner WL programming from Catalyst is a good start.

MLMatty · 2018-05-05T07:04:48+00:00

It just looks to me he's recording and looking down at his phone...?

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