I'm turning 50 this year and been doing this for 12 years. I would advise anyone to do Olympic Weightlifting. It has changed me physically and mentally.
Totally rad! In my mid 40s and just starting to learn about Olympic lifting and incorporate them into my physical training. Never bothered with it before because I was highly intimidated by these lifts. But the benefits of learning these lifts and doing these lifts far outweigh any intimidations I may have had with them before. Keep on rockin'! 🤘
Deadlifts alone changed my life and boosted my motivation. I prefer trap bar squats, since they are less harmful and almost fool-proof -- just get in and pull up. I do additional bodybuilding exercises as a plus (chest, back, etc.) but the central part of my routine is the trap bar. Simple, effective, quick and cheap. 💪💪💪💪❤❤❤
This videos oozes quality. I am thoroughly impressed by the production quality of this video. It was also very informative. Exceptionally well done. Don’t be discouraged by the RUclips algorithm, it’s partly a lottery.
Great vid! I wish I could deep squat on flat ground tho. Been working on my ankle mobility for months now with heel elevated resting squats and other stretches but there has been minimal or no improvement in my ankles. Any tips?
Hard to say without seeing exactly what your doing but as general advice I would say to be sure and stretch your ankles with knees straight and with knees bent so you can target the gastrocs and the soleus muscles. Also some self massage on the calves using a foam roller and self massage on the bottom of the feet by stepping on a tennis ball and rolling the foot back and forth on it. This should really loosen things up. And finally you could strengthen your tibialis anterior. Here's a video of a simple exercise ruclips.net/video/OPEuhclsTUQ/видео.html Hope this helps, best of luck!
Excellent video. However, there are MANY who simply should not Olympic lift as the risk for injury is great. In my case, I started Oly lifting at 13, finished at 33 cuz in addition to skill and strength, you really need SPEED to do a successful lift, and the first thing that happens to you as you age is you just get slow (unless you’re on drugs). Just my thoughts from experience.
That's a silly idea. Anyone can benefit from these exercises, just because you get old doesn't mean you stop, all you have to do is adjust the intensity levels. That's like saying people older than 50 shouldn't run at all because they'll never sprint like Usain Bolt.
"Should not" correlate pretty strongly with the inferred "stop", in your argument. You are not wrong, but the premises are false, slowing down does not preclude you from Olympic lifting. It might preclude you from maximal, medal winning , competition lifting against younger athletes but nothing about slowing down necessarily correlates to higher injury risk or deleterious consequences, with proper load management. Tell Dan John he can't Olympic lift because he's older and slower, and see how that goes.
@@cesarandrade1987 I’m not telling anyone what they chose to do, it’s not my business nor yours, it’s just my opinion. As you age, you slow down, and you need speed to Olympic lift at an elite level (as I did). It only invites a greater risk of injury otherwise. Oh-oh, would not want to upset Dan John! He doesn’t impress me at all (according to his numbers, he’s certainly not elite level).
you really shoudnt learn these without supervision. Once I got too railed up and did few reps when my trainer wasn't looking. I didnt break enough going back into position and base of my spine hurt for months. I got lucky the weight was small, its really easy to damage yourself for life.
It's great that crossfit gyms are common and these days the instructors have learned from weightlifting coaches. Because I don't like being a gatekeeper, but I don't think most people should do olympic lifts. Just because they're such complex skill moves that require mobility and a lot of skill practice, that you need a coach and to devote a lot of time to them to reap benefits from them. It's far far more efficient for regular people to do the powerlifting big 3 + overhead press and focus on doing the lifts with speed and power. Unless you're one of the nerds like us who will deep dive into watching weightlifting coaches' instructionals and analysis and reviews for years and are willing to practice just for the sake of being enthusiastic about the sport. I honestly don't think poor weightlifting patterns bring that much benefit to regular people compared to your easier strength lifts. They also greatly improve your mobility if you do them with that in mind, which can help get into olympic lifting demands. To further add detail, the weightlifting positions don't feel good and natural when you're doing them right, you really need to drill a lot of repetitions without loading or very low loading to force your body to accept them. And people have said two weeks away from the bar in weightlifting is detrimental to the technique and progress, which is a little bit of a telltale for the dedication it demands. S&C coaches say similar things even about athletes, that if you didn't have a coach teach you at early enough age or the coach can't teach a good lift, it's not worth the time investment for even an athlete, despite the benefits. All the negative aside, the moves are super fun and extremely beneficial to all physical athletes, which is why you see power cleans done from judokas to american football players. To be clear judokas usually have a coach teaching them the lifting technique at high school age, so they can benefit from snatch and full cleans as well (due to the sport demanding great mobility, compared to many athletes getting away with power cleans, which is actually pretty teachable). And judo being quite demanding sport in many ways, the athletes are also better prepared for the demands of the olympic lifts due to the sport as well, tend to see great technique from them. At least if your example is someone like Shohei Ono. Football and track athlete power cleans are often rough to watch, but do the physical training successfully for them anyway. And I can't deny that starting to learn them made me move better. In particular the ability to extend and drop down quickly is really effective to fight daily modern life. And you can do that just with a stick, which is also what you should be doing for a good while before loading the bar. Load on the bar comes only as a reward of great technique, without the technique leading the weight progress it's just gonna be a backwards effect of making the technique more poor. To be fair, a lot of professional olympic weightlifting training also is box jumps or other kind of jumps so they definitely had an advantage in the test. It's perhaps a bit misleading to say the bar becomes weightless in the turnover. Not wrong in a general information video, but the lifter exerts control over the bar all the way. First shrugging, then in the turnover by pushing the lifter under the bar, removing the feet from the ground to remove any resistance slowing them down. I'd also fine tune the drawings slightly so that the bar is in the middle line from the feet when standing straight and holding the barbell up, the head and maybe even torso pushes forward to allow that room for the bar to be in the mass center. If the body is straight and the bar is behind, it will be a guaranteed miss behind, just no way to support the bar in that disadvantageous moment arm. Also there's luckily so many online sources now, like Juggernaut Training Systems, Catalyst Athletics and Sika Strength where you can find both content to help you on your way, but also sign up for online coaching. Great informative video and always enjoy your drawings. I also greatly enjoyed the attention to detail in the starting positions, shoulders over the bar and hips above knees. This seems to be the most common reason people miss their lifts and have a technique breakdown midlift/in the catch, often causing them to smash with the hips and chasing the barbell to forward jump catch. Or overpulling and jumping backwards to catch the barbell.
Hey Sirus, thanks for asking. Been busy, I'm blessed to have more clients than I can handle but it leaves me with precious little time to work on the channel. I can't wait to get back to it at some point though. Hope your doing well too my friend!
I keep hearing that Olympic weightlifters don’t bench press because creates tightness in shoulders. How can build strength to do the snatch/ clean and jerk, without worrying to mess up my shoulders while also having a well developed chest?
You can spend a lot of time working on shoulder mobility during warm ups, and use a massage gun routinely on the chest and anterior shoulders to offset the tension created during chest exercises. You could also do all your chest work in stretched position to help maintain range of motion. Exercises like deficit push ups and pull overs would work well for this. Or you can do snatch with kettlebells which gives you many of the same benefits but doesn't require as much shoulder mobility. Just depends on what your goals are though.
lol, just went back and looked at it. Yea its not supposed to be like that, I have to make so many illustrations for these videos, sometimes I space out a bit and mess something up. Good eye being able to catch that, looks like hes doing some kind of sumo clean.
@@moversodyssey You mean with bushings and or pins right?, not the little ridges some have in them. I am buying my first decent barbell and maybe last ,Im 54.
@@moversodyssey No where like that in rural Indiana',I just got a valor 3x3 BD-58 pro half rack to set up etc anyway,.So I'll look at several more bars including rogues, after I put that together. Stoked!..🤗😊
Yea, it can be a great supplementary exercise. Though if your competitive in olympic lifting you would likely not want to overdue it with the sprinting and keep it to a short addition to your main workout once or twice a week. But in general they complement each other well, both are highly explosive, fast twitch dominant, full body exercises.
I just want to be really strong and be able to run a long time. For me, that’s like deadlifting 3 times my weight and being able to run a decent half marathon. Weightlifting isn’t worth the risk considering my goals But I’d still like to know a lot about it. O it helps you jump higher???! Might have changed my mind lmao. I’ve been able to touch the rim with my fingertips since high school but I never liked playing basketball so I never trained that
You can get a lot of the same benefits from kettlebell snatches, cleans and swings with lighter weight and less danger. Might be worth it for your particular goals.
@@moversodyssey I appreciate the advice I’ll definitely try kettlebells soon. Maybe when I finally test my maxes in a few weeks I’ll try to learn the clean and snatch form. I’m second look you meant all kettle bell stuff 😭 my bad but that’s even better haha
The style of content is great but there are some significant technical faux-pas here. It's very misleading to cue a 'deadlift phase', in a DL the bar fully decelerates and has 0 velocity by the time you reach the hips. In a clean/snatch the bar reaches max velocity at the hip/ wherever you make contact. The movement philosophy is completely different from a static lift like the deadlift. A somewhat better visualization would be to bring the bar off the ground and into a jumping stance (hinged like a quarter squat) with your shoulders over the bar to keep balance on your midfoot. Then extend vertically and drive the bar up at your contact point. Few other things as well but as you correctly identified, it's a very technical sport and this can be deconstructed for ages. Tbh maybe you can revisit the topic in future with an updates guide.
This was an attempt at an intro, I decided to use some less than ideal terms that I thought might be better understood by a general audience. I had hoped to do another, more advanced video, but unfortunately it ended up being one of the less popular topics. Seems my audience doesn't have a big interest in barbell lifting in general, which is a shame because these lifts have some serious benifits. If the video finds it's audience and picks up though, I will definitely do a more advanced video. Eventually I may do one anyway when I have some spare time.
@@moversodyssey I hear you, anyone can tell that a lot of thought was put into this video in how to address some of the nuances of a deceptively technical sport. Was just a bit concerned that some viewers might view this as a technical model instead of a primer. Would love to see the update so hoping you do get some more views on your resistance training videos. Appreciate the reply.
@@moversodyssey OWL also has a doping problem similar to bicycling. Too many competitors do not meet the World Doping Angencies required number of tests annually.
Don’t let the lack of views discourage you from sharing your knowledge bro, these videos have been super helpful to myself and a lot of people
Agreed! His videos are blowing up! Love his illustrations
100% I have learned so much just watching maybe 30 minutes of these videos
I’ve watched 3 minutes and I couldn’t believe this didn’t have 1M views! Keep sharing bro!
This is really good content keep going
Agreed 👍🏾
I'm turning 50 this year and been doing this for 12 years. I would advise anyone to do Olympic Weightlifting. It has changed me physically and mentally.
Totally rad! In my mid 40s and just starting to learn about Olympic lifting and incorporate them into my physical training. Never bothered with it before because I was highly intimidated by these lifts. But the benefits of learning these lifts and doing these lifts far outweigh any intimidations I may have had with them before.
Keep on rockin'! 🤘
I am 25 ..can I able to go in weight lifting in olimpics ... I am very hungry to archive
@@deepsvarrier-nz9ev you're too late for competing in the olympics, however you may be able to compete at a national lavel in a few years
@@deepsvarrier-nz9ev technically it's not impossible but highly unlikely.
Deadlifts alone changed my life and boosted my motivation.
I prefer trap bar squats, since they are less harmful and almost fool-proof -- just get in and pull up.
I do additional bodybuilding exercises as a plus (chest, back, etc.) but the central part of my routine is the trap bar.
Simple, effective, quick and cheap. 💪💪💪💪❤❤❤
Finally. By far the best video on this topic
How have I not seen your channel until now? Man this is really well done and informative, keep it up!
just discovered this channel today and I think I need more
Keep Uploading Regularly Man, Love your Videos ❤️
diamonds like this channel are rarely found
This videos oozes quality. I am thoroughly impressed by the production quality of this video. It was also very informative. Exceptionally well done. Don’t be discouraged by the RUclips algorithm, it’s partly a lottery.
Just when i got into the olympic lifts. Thank you for your timing :)
These videos are amazing, concisely explained with equal imagery. Keep working dawg this was helpful.
Thank you, glad your enjoying the content!
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Excellent - sent for the chart. Can’t wait! Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it, and thank you for supporting the channel!
This is a great video for beginner oly lifters 👍
Nice anatomy drawing skills. I like that style!
Immensely useful, thank you for the drawings
Love the lasha drawing at the end! Should really be a t-shirt
Good stuff! Only 20k views is a shame
Just found this channel, but I miss you already. Please start uploading again!
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Very good stuff mate
Incredibly useful thank you!
Great vid! I wish I could deep squat on flat ground tho. Been working on my ankle mobility for months now with heel elevated resting squats and other stretches but there has been minimal or no improvement in my ankles. Any tips?
Hard to say without seeing exactly what your doing but as general advice I would say to be sure and stretch your ankles with knees straight and with knees bent so you can target the gastrocs and the soleus muscles.
Also some self massage on the calves using a foam roller and self massage on the bottom of the feet by stepping on a tennis ball and rolling the foot back and forth on it. This should really loosen things up.
And finally you could strengthen your tibialis anterior. Here's a video of a simple exercise ruclips.net/video/OPEuhclsTUQ/видео.html
Hope this helps, best of luck!
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Excellent video. However, there are MANY who simply should not Olympic lift as the risk for injury is great. In my case, I started Oly lifting at 13, finished at 33 cuz in addition to skill and strength, you really need SPEED to do a successful lift, and the first thing that happens to you as you age is you just get slow (unless you’re on drugs). Just my thoughts from experience.
That's a silly idea. Anyone can benefit from these exercises, just because you get old doesn't mean you stop, all you have to do is adjust the intensity levels. That's like saying people older than 50 shouldn't run at all because they'll never sprint like Usain Bolt.
9@@theaccordian9377 It’s not silly, you DO slow down as you age, it’s physiology and medical fact. Where do I state “stop?”
"Should not" correlate pretty strongly with the inferred "stop", in your argument. You are not wrong, but the premises are false, slowing down does not preclude you from Olympic lifting. It might preclude you from maximal, medal winning , competition lifting against younger athletes but nothing about slowing down necessarily correlates to higher injury risk or deleterious consequences, with proper load management. Tell Dan John he can't Olympic lift because he's older and slower, and see how that goes.
@@cesarandrade1987 I’m not telling anyone what they chose to do, it’s not my business nor yours, it’s just my opinion. As you age, you slow down, and you need speed to Olympic lift at an elite level (as I did). It only invites a greater risk of injury otherwise. Oh-oh, would not want to upset Dan John! He doesn’t impress me at all (according to his numbers, he’s certainly not elite level).
As always great stuff 💪
I love the videos. Very informative
You are a great artist.
Your videos are so good! Btw are you coming back? You havent uploaded in 8 months.
you really shoudnt learn these without supervision. Once I got too railed up and did few reps when my trainer wasn't looking. I didnt break enough going back into position and base of my spine hurt for months. I got lucky the weight was small, its really easy to damage yourself for life.
Skill issue
@shapeshifters den how are you doing , hope you are doing ok in life ,when are you going back to the channel?
He's back! Just changed the name
The Shane Hammon vid doesn't work, says it's not private vid. Just FYI. Cool vids man.
Miss you man
It's great that crossfit gyms are common and these days the instructors have learned from weightlifting coaches. Because I don't like being a gatekeeper, but I don't think most people should do olympic lifts. Just because they're such complex skill moves that require mobility and a lot of skill practice, that you need a coach and to devote a lot of time to them to reap benefits from them. It's far far more efficient for regular people to do the powerlifting big 3 + overhead press and focus on doing the lifts with speed and power. Unless you're one of the nerds like us who will deep dive into watching weightlifting coaches' instructionals and analysis and reviews for years and are willing to practice just for the sake of being enthusiastic about the sport. I honestly don't think poor weightlifting patterns bring that much benefit to regular people compared to your easier strength lifts. They also greatly improve your mobility if you do them with that in mind, which can help get into olympic lifting demands. To further add detail, the weightlifting positions don't feel good and natural when you're doing them right, you really need to drill a lot of repetitions without loading or very low loading to force your body to accept them. And people have said two weeks away from the bar in weightlifting is detrimental to the technique and progress, which is a little bit of a telltale for the dedication it demands. S&C coaches say similar things even about athletes, that if you didn't have a coach teach you at early enough age or the coach can't teach a good lift, it's not worth the time investment for even an athlete, despite the benefits.
All the negative aside, the moves are super fun and extremely beneficial to all physical athletes, which is why you see power cleans done from judokas to american football players. To be clear judokas usually have a coach teaching them the lifting technique at high school age, so they can benefit from snatch and full cleans as well (due to the sport demanding great mobility, compared to many athletes getting away with power cleans, which is actually pretty teachable). And judo being quite demanding sport in many ways, the athletes are also better prepared for the demands of the olympic lifts due to the sport as well, tend to see great technique from them. At least if your example is someone like Shohei Ono. Football and track athlete power cleans are often rough to watch, but do the physical training successfully for them anyway. And I can't deny that starting to learn them made me move better. In particular the ability to extend and drop down quickly is really effective to fight daily modern life. And you can do that just with a stick, which is also what you should be doing for a good while before loading the bar. Load on the bar comes only as a reward of great technique, without the technique leading the weight progress it's just gonna be a backwards effect of making the technique more poor.
To be fair, a lot of professional olympic weightlifting training also is box jumps or other kind of jumps so they definitely had an advantage in the test.
It's perhaps a bit misleading to say the bar becomes weightless in the turnover. Not wrong in a general information video, but the lifter exerts control over the bar all the way. First shrugging, then in the turnover by pushing the lifter under the bar, removing the feet from the ground to remove any resistance slowing them down. I'd also fine tune the drawings slightly so that the bar is in the middle line from the feet when standing straight and holding the barbell up, the head and maybe even torso pushes forward to allow that room for the bar to be in the mass center. If the body is straight and the bar is behind, it will be a guaranteed miss behind, just no way to support the bar in that disadvantageous moment arm.
Also there's luckily so many online sources now, like Juggernaut Training Systems, Catalyst Athletics and Sika Strength where you can find both content to help you on your way, but also sign up for online coaching.
Great informative video and always enjoy your drawings. I also greatly enjoyed the attention to detail in the starting positions, shoulders over the bar and hips above knees. This seems to be the most common reason people miss their lifts and have a technique breakdown midlift/in the catch, often causing them to smash with the hips and chasing the barbell to forward jump catch. Or overpulling and jumping backwards to catch the barbell.
@ShapeShifters Den , i can see your on a break. how is life man?
Hey Sirus, thanks for asking. Been busy, I'm blessed to have more clients than I can handle but it leaves me with precious little time to work on the channel. I can't wait to get back to it at some point though. Hope your doing well too my friend!
can you make a video on speed powerlifting vs olympic lifting
Impressive video thank yoU!
The Chinese seem to have a way with their form that allows them to keep on crushing Olympic records every year and I want to know what it is.
Beautiful video
Hey bro, you're being boosted by the algorithm. Better get back to pumping out content.
Finally back
Great video! I think I may try to go buy one of those posters :) how else will my roommates at college know I am an athlete?
❤ as a weight lifters i think snatch is the fastest movement in the world of sports in the shortest time
I keep hearing that Olympic weightlifters don’t bench press because creates tightness in shoulders. How can build strength to do the snatch/ clean and jerk, without worrying to mess up my shoulders while also having a well developed chest?
You can spend a lot of time working on shoulder mobility during warm ups, and use a massage gun routinely on the chest and anterior shoulders to offset the tension created during chest exercises. You could also do all your chest work in stretched position to help maintain range of motion. Exercises like deficit push ups and pull overs would work well for this.
Or you can do snatch with kettlebells which gives you many of the same benefits but doesn't require as much shoulder mobility. Just depends on what your goals are though.
@ thanks for replying. Keep up your awesome videos
Maybe you should consider starting your own manga, you never know, you might become the next eiichiro oda 😅.
You're vids are pretty good 👍🏼
Bro, How to attack a big guy,
Great Video
At 6:17 the image depicts the elbows on the inside of the knees. Whats up with that?
lol, just went back and looked at it. Yea its not supposed to be like that, I have to make so many illustrations for these videos, sometimes I space out a bit and mess something up. Good eye being able to catch that, looks like hes doing some kind of sumo clean.
Hey. I miss you on here brother.
He's back!
Some of the best shit I’ve ever seen, thank you
Nice Video!
Continue posting content please
I don’t understand how they hold the weight above and behind their head on the snatch
I loved your videos, what happened to you?
Keep uploading, we love your videos!!!
He's back! Just changed the name
Does center knurling affect Olympic lifting, i dont see anyone grabbing the bar in the center?.
No it shouldn't. Though it's safer and easier if the sleeves of the bar rotate freely.
@@moversodyssey You mean with bushings and or pins right?, not the little ridges some have in them. I am buying my first decent barbell and maybe last ,Im 54.
@@steven3517 Yes, rogue makes a lot of good bars. Though it's nice when you can go somewhere in person and feel them for yourself.
@@moversodyssey No where like that in rural Indiana',I just got a valor 3x3 BD-58 pro half rack to set up etc anyway,.So I'll look at several more bars including rogues, after I put that together. Stoked!..🤗😊
Can I work in 100m sprint training without it conflicting with size and strength of Olympic lifting and vice versa?
Yea, it can be a great supplementary exercise. Though if your competitive in olympic lifting you would likely not want to overdue it with the sprinting and keep it to a short addition to your main workout once or twice a week. But in general they complement each other well, both are highly explosive, fast twitch dominant, full body exercises.
❤ may I demand for diving video sir?
I just want to be really strong and be able to run a long time. For me, that’s like deadlifting 3 times my weight and being able to run a decent half marathon. Weightlifting isn’t worth the risk considering my goals But I’d still like to know a lot about it.
O it helps you jump higher???! Might have changed my mind lmao. I’ve been able to touch the rim with my fingertips since high school but I never liked playing basketball so I never trained that
You can get a lot of the same benefits from kettlebell snatches, cleans and swings with lighter weight and less danger. Might be worth it for your particular goals.
@@moversodyssey I appreciate the advice I’ll definitely try kettlebells soon. Maybe when I finally test my maxes in a few weeks I’ll try to learn the clean and snatch form.
I’m second look you meant all kettle bell stuff 😭 my bad but that’s even better haha
The style of content is great but there are some significant technical faux-pas here. It's very misleading to cue a 'deadlift phase', in a DL the bar fully decelerates and has 0 velocity by the time you reach the hips. In a clean/snatch the bar reaches max velocity at the hip/ wherever you make contact. The movement philosophy is completely different from a static lift like the deadlift. A somewhat better visualization would be to bring the bar off the ground and into a jumping stance (hinged like a quarter squat) with your shoulders over the bar to keep balance on your midfoot. Then extend vertically and drive the bar up at your contact point.
Few other things as well but as you correctly identified, it's a very technical sport and this can be deconstructed for ages.
Tbh maybe you can revisit the topic in future with an updates guide.
This was an attempt at an intro, I decided to use some less than ideal terms that I thought might be better understood by a general audience. I had hoped to do another, more advanced video, but unfortunately it ended up being one of the less popular topics. Seems my audience doesn't have a big interest in barbell lifting in general, which is a shame because these lifts have some serious benifits. If the video finds it's audience and picks up though, I will definitely do a more advanced video. Eventually I may do one anyway when I have some spare time.
@@moversodyssey I hear you, anyone can tell that a lot of thought was put into this video in how to address some of the nuances of a deceptively technical sport. Was just a bit concerned that some viewers might view this as a technical model instead of a primer.
Would love to see the update so hoping you do get some more views on your resistance training videos. Appreciate the reply.
Damn talented 👏man 👨
Elbows should be outside of the knees
Yea, I noticed that after rewatching it. They were supposed to be, but I got a little carried away and spaced out while illustrating that video.
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4:45
It is considered a provisional sport for the 2024 Olympics.. If more contestants fail to participate in the 2024 it will be dropped from Olympics.
I sure hope not, that would really be sad. Lets hope more people find their way to the sport.
@@moversodyssey OWL also has a doping problem similar to bicycling.
Too many competitors do not meet the World Doping Angencies required number of tests annually.
Weightlifting is still in style thank god. Stay strong.
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Great video