Analysis Clean Bar Path 140 kilo

[Whitney]

Video I did yesterday. I trained very heavily this week 95% and up 4 days this week and this was the 4th. I am trying to incorporate advice I am getting to help take the hitch out of the transition phase and also to catch the bar a bit lower (I caught this at 65% of my height which is decent, but I want to catch consistently at 60%).

I didn't use to have this hitch in the middle, so I am working on undoing it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9y04GkhkZM

[Gareth Rees]

Is it just me Whitney, or an illusion that the stripes are creating on your legs, or do you have a pretty significant imbalance in flexibility of one calf to the other during the full squat? Because one knee looks further forward than the other, and the other's knee is higher.

Also, just another observation, but your right foot moves slightly backwards just before/as you initiate the dkb. And a third observation (though this probably ultimately ties in with the second point) is that your right foot leaves the floor slightly before your left, and during your unsupported squat under again your feet are not equally in line, and don't reconnect with the floor at the same time either. Maybe it's nothing, or maybe it's something, but I'm thinking maybe a strength imbalance, or non-equal force distribution.

I don't know if you're aware or bothered by these at all, but in my eyes it's a big flaw in your technique.

Maybe not what you originally posted for... but just trying to help out, if you weren't aware of the issues above. Good lift though

P.s. What analysis software are you using? It looks amazing!

[Whitney]

Originally Posted by Gareth Rees

Is it just me Whitney, or an illusion that the stripes are creating on your legs, or do you have a pretty significant imbalance in flexibility of one calf to the other during the full squat? Because one knee looks further forward than the other, and the other's knee is higher.

Also, just another observation, but your right foot moves slightly backwards just before/as you initiate the dkb. And a third observation (though this probably ultimately ties in with the second point) is that your right foot leaves the floor slightly before your left, and during your unsupported squat under again your feet are not equally in line, and don't reconnect with the floor at the same time either. Maybe it's nothing, or maybe it's something, but I'm thinking maybe a strength imbalance, or non-equal force distribution.

I don't know if you're aware or bothered by these at all, but in my eyes it's a big flaw in your technique.

Maybe not what you originally posted for... but just trying to help out, if you weren't aware of the issues above. Good lift though

P.s. What analysis software are you using? It looks amazing!

i'm using kinovea software. it's free!

as for the foot thing, etc. i have a minor strain i am dealing with right now, and this "foot thing" isn't present in my other lifts, so i think it's just my body "working around" an injury. i've never done 4 days at 95%+ intensity and it took its toll.

i appreciate the observations.

if you notice, i catch the bar kind of twisted from the beginning, and i think that's because my strain is affecting the ability of my two legs to equally apply force.

[COACHMCCAULEY]

Originally Posted by Gareth Rees

Is it just me Whitney, or an illusion that the stripes are creating on your legs, or do you have a pretty significant imbalance in flexibility of one calf to the other during the full squat? Because one knee looks further forward than the other, and the other's knee is higher.

Also, just another observation, but your right foot moves slightly backwards just before/as you initiate the dkb. And a third observation (though this probably ultimately ties in with the second point) is that your right foot leaves the floor slightly before your left, and during your unsupported squat under again your feet are not equally in line, and don't reconnect with the floor at the same time either. Maybe it's nothing, or maybe it's something, but I'm thinking maybe a strength imbalance, or non-equal force distribution.

I don't know if you're aware or bothered by these at all, but in my eyes it's a big flaw in your technique.

Maybe not what you originally posted for... but just trying to help out, if you weren't aware of the issues above. Good lift though

P.s. What analysis software are you using? It looks amazing!

Gareth,

Line is not bad at all but yoiu are trying to shrug upwards (trying to make the bar go up). That does not happen and will slow you down.

"If your traps contract,
and your arms bend,
you must descend." (actually you are already descending but it didn't fit)

CoachMc

[Whitney]

Originally Posted by COACHMCCAULEY

Gareth,

Line is not bad at all but yoiu are trying to shrug upwards (trying to make the bar go up). That does not happen and will slow you down.

"If your traps contract,
and your arms bend,
you must descend." (actually you are already descending but it didn't fit)

CoachMc

thanks coach. i think the hitch kind of sucks (and it's something that has developed since my shoulder surgery... didn't exist before) and I agree I am staying upright and trying to shrug up instead of IMMEDIATELY reversing.

need
more
efficiency

i'm going to keep working on improving this and post more videos (everybody rolls their eyes oh no) in the future

my goal is 150 at LEAST by next year when i can compete in the 45-49 group.

preferably sooner

thanks again

[Spenco]

Originally Posted by Whitney

my goal is 150 at LEAST by next year when i can compete in the 45-49 group.

No problem at all.

[robo]

Fix any major mistakes first.
Whats the most important information in this video? Bar pathway(hopefully the software has given a reasonably accurate interpretation) . We have a picture.
Is this bar pathway correct? I think Not quite.

If you are going to start the bar so far away from yourself (bar seems to be lined up over the tip of your toes)

If you start from this position you better be more aggressive in starting it back right from the start position as well as keeping your shoulders a little more over the bar
Note the incline rearwards from start in diagram from Russian textbook

I don't believe you can be trying to move the bar horizontally back once it has passed your knees(at this stage the body moves to bar,unlike the first pull), this would be the hitch in the pathway (big red arrow)
From Robert Roman

Heavy line is ideal, line 4 is a MISS or success by chance
Some real world examples(sorry V Bulletin only allows 4 inline images)
http://members.shaw.ca/weights5/ilin_knees.jpg
http://members.shaw.ca/weights5/china_clean.jpg

A good confidence builder is how high you've pulled the bar compared to your bottom position.....we should all be so lucky.

Whitney you've a hellava lifter with great strength, I am sure you’ll make your 150kg. I thought you trained with Thrush? I'd listen to the old man, oops I meant to say Obi-Wan.
cheers Rob