Workout Vids + Minor PR

[guldukat]

Hiya all,

CoolColJ, I hate to do this (and potentially hijack the thread), but I simply have to ask: who is that stunning girl in your avatar? I seem to remember reading she's your squeeze?

What's her ethnicity? She is easily the loveliest woman I've seen in some time! Around here, in North Carolina (tobacco country), the only women even approaching her cuteness quotient (tm) tend to be chain-smokers. But your gal is athletic

You're a lucky man!

And congrats on the PR. A record is a record. You'll get under the 225s soon enough...gives you something to look forward to

 

[t3c]

nice job ccj...as usual

lmafao in the first video. WATCH the guy in the backround squatting....it is the worst squatting i have ever seen. Worse than the one clint posted. lololololol

 

[coolcolj]

I was thinking about this while watching the vids....laugh @ me if you like....Is the woman giving cardio class in the background hot? She sounds it!

Actually she's old and average !

But there was a nice looker in her class, all the guys try to chat her up - and she knows it, she seeks it - I can tell

who is that stunning girl in your avatar? I seem to remember reading she's your squeeze?

What's her ethnicity?

Yeap, and she's mixed - half Asian, and half Causcasian - gives her a certain exotic cute look I guess
Sometimes she looks "white", other times she looks more Asian, and most of the time somewhere in between, interesting that.

nice job ccj...as usual

lmafao in the first video. WATCH the guy in the backround squatting....it is the worst squatting i have ever seen. Worse than the one clint posted. lololololol

thanks!

It's not a guy, it is in fact a woman, under the tutelage of a Personal Trainer, the tanned chick spotting her

 

[t3c]

lol. elite is my free personal trainer.

damn thats awesome to watch you clean 210 though...crazy stuff

 

[coolcolj]

lol. elite is my free personal trainer.

damn thats awesome to watch you clean 210 though...crazy stuff

2 plates baby - I want 2 plates!

I think I will just have 205 on the bar with an extra 2x5lb plates one each side next time I attempt it - that will ease the stress

sometimes you have to use mind games to get to the prize

 

[b fold the truth]

First of all...congrats on the PR!!!! I watch your videos all the time (saved them all in a library file folder) and I try to think about how I could add them to my routine.

I was watching your power clean videos and I am wondering something...are you really pulling with all intensity? I know that technique is most often the limiting factor in the OL lifts...but I am wondering if you could be pulling a lot harder...pulling like Hell. Maybe I am all wrong...it is just an observation... Tell me what you think?

On the squats...watch the clips over and over again and look at your heels/knees/hips. They are all moving through the entire movement. Not just up and down...but side to side. Seriously...watch it. I watched it about 20 times so far to try and pick up what the problem is...can't figure it out completely.

Don't get me wrong...SWEET clips and lifts...as always.

B True

 

[coolcolj]

I was watching your power clean videos and I am wondering something...are you really pulling with all intensity? I know that technique is most often the limiting factor in the OL lifts...but I am wondering if you could be pulling a lot harder...pulling like Hell. Maybe I am all wrong...it is just an observation... Tell me what you think?

On the squats...watch the clips over and over again and look at your heels/knees/hips. They are all moving through the entire movement. Not just up and down...but side to side. Seriously...watch it. I watched it about 20 times so far to try and pick up what the problem is...can't figure it out completely.

Don't get me wrong...SWEET clips and lifts...as always.

I probably don't due to being slightly scared, if I had bumpers and platform to do it on, with no consequence of dropping the weight I think that would. I would than explode and throw myself under the thing
I think it's just a matter of learning, that's the problem with cleans you can't overpull or else the bar hits your chins etc, so it sorta tempers your technique when you work with lighter weights all the time, and when you come to heavy weights you find that you don't really explode as hard as you'd like. Now hang cleans and snatches are a different thing, I always explode maximally or try to, because you can't get lazy on these.

But then again I feel I did go hard, especially on the 210 one, it just sometimes it doesn't look it
You can tell I did pull hard by the fact my body was like a bow just before the bar flew up. The first pull from floor to knee is always slower on purpose.


About the squats I have noticed it, but its not something I think about when doing them and it doesn't bother me. I watched the IronMind tapes of Polish/Bulgarian Oly lifters doing olympic squats as well, and their knees do the same thing. Its just the nature of the exercise.
Think about it you feet are angled outwards, and then you lower yourself the knees go out and follow the direction of the feet, and when you rise they narrow up again. Makes sense?
It's just more noticeable in oly squats because the knees travel forward over the toes or close to it, than in hip back squats where the knee stays relatively motionless.

If I kept them tracking straight ahead, from top to bottom with my feet angled out my knees are actually knocking inwards in bad way.

 

[b fold the truth]

I fully understand about the bumper plates and intensity...FULLY. I feel your pain for sure...makes sense.

On the high bar squats...still...your feet appear to be moving when you squat and your hips are shifting at odd times...your knees also. I still see something strange about your squat...maybe I need to watch it a few more times...or maybe it is just that the bands can sometimes MOVE the body themselves.

B True

 

[coolcolj]

I'm coming up onto my toes as well at the top

Well the human body isn't a machine and need to stablise fast moving loads, so you expect to have motion - beauty of freeweights, and yeah the bands do feel like a bucking horse

there is a squat video I posted on Jan 30 - look for it, I used no bands, and went relatively slower

 

[b fold the truth]

I'm coming up onto my toes as well at the top

Well the human body isn't a machine and need to stablise fast moving loads, so you expect to have motion - beauty of freeweights, and yeah the bands do feel like a bucking horse

there is a squat video I posted on Jan 30 - look for it, I used no bands, and went relatively slower

I have all of your videos on file...and the one without the bands looks much better. I quickly forgot how the bands can control you when you move...lol. Seriously though...the bands also have a tendancy to find your weaknesses. I found mine while adding them on the board presses the other day...

B True