Lord Suston, CoolColJ, ThaiBox...

[coolcolj]

well you really need a coach/trainer to teach you the moves, they're pretty hard to pick up, especially if your not the athletic type.

start practising with a wooden staff for a few weeks, get the grrove and feel and then move onto a light bar for anotehr month and then the olympic bar which is pretty heavy itself.

You can start practising the moves with an empty bar after that at the start of every workout as a warmup - they tops for that.

In the last 8 months that I have been doing oly lifts I must have put in thousand of hours in practise and its only now am I starting to get consistant in form - yes their that hard!

It takes at least a year to get good at em, its a long term thing.

 

[Lord_Suston]

It takes about 3 months to get really good form and move some decent weight with o-lifts. I do do them but usually only the clean and the clean and jerk. SOmetimes I go with a hang clean but all in all I like clean and jerk because of the long distance traveled by the bar and the cardio it builds up.... I suggest only 3 working sets, try for 6,6,4 reps at maximun velocity when you are proficient. When I started I used a 3x8 rep scheme to learn how to get the coordination down....

 

[scruples]

Legion, I think you should look into either full time spinning or possibly pilates.

lol!!

 

[crew9]

wtf is spinning. I've heard of it but never knew what it was.

 

[Thaibox]

Crew, spinning is what skinny people do. Its jazzercise on expensive excercycles.

LK2
I agree with whats been said about oly lifts. Like CCJ said, you should start learning the complex lifts with no weight. This basically means that you can begin doing them right now and not affect your 5x5 training. It will take a while for you to be ready to do oly lifts for real, so keep doing 5x5 and just practice the movements. I would get any possibly neglected muscles ready for it now though(rotators, etc)

 

[Legion Kreinak2]

How would I go about preparing the muscles for Olympic lifts?

 

[ThePolishHammer]

alright

Give LK2 a break, The guys obviously new to the game. And probably dosent know much (although he must by now). Hes still probably trying to figure out what sort of training he wants to persue, and what his goals are. Give him a chance to open some doors check out what the diffrent styles of training are like and how they work. and he'll probably stick with something eventually.

 

[louden_swain]

Everyone chill out.

Legion is asking reasonable questions about training. There is no need to flame him. He is currently trying to experiment and find something that works for him.