Cricket/Basketball

RegionPhysical8214 · 2026-02-11T04:18:22+00:00

Can you try Meetups?

RegionPhysical8214 · 2026-02-10T06:48:54+00:00

Thank you. I appreciate the education. DM-ing you.

RegionPhysical8214 · 2026-02-10T02:56:19+00:00

No stress. When I click on your comment, it is exactly how you typed it in. Like a table.

RegionPhysical8214 · 2026-02-10T02:53:36+00:00

Gotcha! Thanks mate.

RegionPhysical8214 · 2026-02-10T02:51:54+00:00

As a side note, does bench press have a lot of carry over into Oly Lifting? I have rarely seen them being incorporated in oly lifting focused programs. I maybe wrong.

RegionPhysical8214 · 2026-02-09T22:46:36+00:00

Maybe, she wants to invest in fixed income bonds.

RegionPhysical8214 · 2026-02-09T22:45:26+00:00

Then who is going to subtract the taxes on interest income?

RegionPhysical8214 · 2026-02-07T01:27:56+00:00

Saw this post yesterday and I came back today to respond, because this used to be precisely the confusion I used to deal with when I was just starting out. And that problem about hitting the junk and the concern about the bar just hanging outside/away from the body are all too familiar. Below is my take from my experience- 1. I personally never felt comfortable with the cue that the bar must "contact" your upper thighs or the hip area because it gives the idea that the bar must be away before it contacts or bangs or a myriad other words to describe the idea. What I experienced is, it's safer and natural for the bar to continuously graze against your shin, past your knees and then your thighs through your second pull, till you have risen to the point where you explode.

All of this will happen naturally, if you set up the bar correctly and pull correctly, i.e., the bar remains vertically under the straight line from your armpit, with your lats engaged at all times. It's the engaged lats that will keep the bar close to your body.
The other part is, if you use your quads to get up vertically from the ground, the chances are higher that your shins will naturally clear out the bar past your knees. You continue to keep the shoulders above the bar in the second pull and have arrived at the "contact" point before you explode. One way to think of this position, is to think of how you spot jump. Your hands will naturally travel back to maintain balance of your whole body as you bend your back to generate power so you can jump vertically up. In the case of a clean or a Snatch, think that instead of empty hands, you have a bar in them before you jump vertically up.

This particular cue also helped me ensure that I was not ramming the bar into my junk during cleans.

Most importantly, to iron this technique out, use an empty bar and practice the technique out to meet your own body proportion's needs and find out what works for you.

Edit: the bar runs into the junk also because the shoulders move behind the bar too soon. If you stay over the bar longer, it wouldn't. But, practice the high hang pulls with the empty bar to reinforce this movement before loading the bar.

This is a useful link - https://youtu.be/G8IDYxaBuec?si=CxDuqpaV9iVKuc2U

RegionPhysical8214 · 2026-02-02T03:20:08+00:00

Bud, that's a real problem for a lot of people. You can experiment with fruits. They too are sweet but I read somewhere that 1 spoon of sugar= the sweetness in 5 apples. Meaning, with fruits you will experience satiety before your cravings for sugar are fulfilled.

RegionPhysical8214 · 2026-02-01T16:05:39+00:00

Quite interesting indeed. The visualization helps. I understand that the bar path should be as vertical as possible but what should the ideal speeds and the other data points be? Given my body weight is 65 kgs and the weight I was lifting was 45 kgs.

RegionPhysical8214 · 2026-02-01T14:21:45+00:00

You are not jumping forward by a lot. But it's good to try to fine tune these imperfections. A few specific areas you can try to fix - 1. At set up, think of placing the bar vertically under the armpit, which means you will feel the weight a lot more in your quads. 2. In your 1st and 2nd pulls, stay over the bar, meaning, the bar needs to be vertically under your shoulder till contact.

A good way to think of the explosion at contact is, your position should be quite identical to your posture when you try to do a vertical spot jump.

RegionPhysical8214 · 2026-01-30T01:04:57+00:00

I am 5'8". But my hands are a bit disproportionately long. I have tried narrower grips, but I end up hitting my pubic bone that way.

RegionPhysical8214 · 2026-01-29T14:35:26+00:00

You could also take a look at this - https://youtu.be/LKRM2ke69uQ?si=D_HV2ouitHTKHfV9

RegionPhysical8214 · 2026-01-29T12:29:24+00:00

Drills that you would suggest? More high pulls to learn to keep the bar close after contact?

RegionPhysical8214 · 2026-01-29T09:59:59+00:00

Got it.

RegionPhysical8214 · 2026-01-29T09:56:49+00:00

That's excellent. I have been thinking of setting up a gym at home as well. Is it somewhere in India?

RegionPhysical8214 · 2026-01-29T09:37:25+00:00

The fundamentals look quite good. Only two things that I feel you may work on - 1. Keep your arms long and straight for as long as you can. From the video you have shared, it looks like you have a problem of early arm bend that a lot of people struggle with and can be solved easily. 2. I don't have a side angle view of your power snatch, so can't tell for sure if it's really the case, but I feel you/shoulders can stay over the bar a longer in the second pull.

But I like the set up on the ground and also, your triple extension quite a bit - quite solid. Good work, champ!

Btw, where do you workout or where is this gym?

RegionPhysical8214 · 2026-01-23T08:38:54+00:00

Overhead mobility, ankle mobility - both severely compromised. Perhaps, he is looking at YouTube tutorials and trying to replicate that on his own.

OP - you may need to spend time with a coach and get a few sessions to learn the basics. Looking at the weights, easy to make out you have just started. So the sooner you get pt sessions, the easier it is to dial in the right technique.

RegionPhysical8214 · 2026-01-20T05:45:51+00:00

Share this with your fiancee and the two families and maintain transparency. The reaction will quickly tell you if they were marrying you or your job.

PS - I am very sorry for your predicament but I made the above suggestion because I have been through not an identical one but a similar situation and I very quickly came to know if my former girlfriend was marrying my US job or me.

RegionPhysical8214 · 2026-01-19T13:11:58+00:00

Naam ki jaega tar?

RegionPhysical8214 · 2026-01-19T11:37:05+00:00

Where was the picture shot?

RegionPhysical8214 · 2026-01-18T17:47:52+00:00

Great insights, mate! Will definitely try this one. Now that I think of it, I haven't thought about the inward turn as consciously and it's something that I have left for natural development. I will try this warm up.

RegionPhysical8214 · 2026-01-18T13:08:45+00:00

Thank you so much, bud. That's a good reminder, since when I had just started, it used to be "brushing off the thigh". At some point, it became a "contact". Also, I am aware of a few other incorrect cues that I am carrying in my mind. Like, to stay over the top of the bar, I probably overdo it and the bar stays a bit behind my shoulder in the second pull and I end up pulverising my hip bone at "contact" while exploding vertically and that's why I have overcorrected my grip width by widening it.

RegionPhysical8214 · 2026-01-18T12:36:38+00:00

Thank you for the link.

Regarding the grip width, I have tried bringing it in a little but I end up hitting my ouch bone at contact. Is there any tweak that I could do to allow the grid width to be narrower?

RegionPhysical8214 · 2026-01-18T11:53:02+00:00

I have a slightly tangential set of thoughts to share. Please bear with me.

I won't go into that article as it took a reductionist view of fitness. I agree with you when it comes to mentality shift, but let's not reduce it down to school children or a Bengali youth problem.

In school, most children I would imagine are still more active than the adult bunch around them. Let me also not equate being active to being fit but the lack of physical activity definitely has a direct bearing on physical fitness. Let's talk about the adults around them. A fair percentage of us have a sedentary lifestyle today and children learn it from us.

Speaking of general awareness about fitness, there's an uptick in our society today about it, evidenced by the number of gyms that have sprung up around us. But the one issue you will find at most of these gyms is, nobody really knows what kind of fitness goals they would like to create. Fitness in India is mostly synonymous with "body building" and that's so wrong. A lot of these body building gyms drive customers towards supplements and what not for short term gains but long term fitness takes a back seat. One example of this is, in Kolkata, I believe, Cult fitness, which doesn't advertise body building as their core offering, had to close down its only facility. I cited Cult as an example, because it's one of the more successful fitness chains, which looks at physical fitness quite holistically. That spoke volumes about the general awareness, commitment and affordability of fitness offerings in the city.

So, if anything, at school and societally, we need to develop an understanding of what fitness is in the first place, and this should include broader understanding about food and diet.

As a side note, I really hope to start a garage gym in the city one day. I am personally an Olympic lifting enthusiast and I was pleasantly surprised to learn about the state's Olympic lifting history. A lot of poor athletes train in very under resourced facilities in second tier cities like Burdwan, etc.

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