Questions and Answers About Lifting. Question Will I lose my strength if I take time offQuestion A high school thrower wanted to improve. How often should I benchQuestion For years, benching had become a religion. Now, in some places, squatting is the answer to all questions. So, how much should you squatQuestion How do you incorporate Overhead Squats into your training Question What do you mean the body is one piece Question How do I prevent overtraining Question How do you develop rotational strength Question What are the lessons you Dan have learned Question How did you get your start and what would you recommend for others Question You work with Brian Oldfield and John Powell. 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Question Im afraid to ask what have you learned lately Question Do you have any ideas for in season football lifting Question Will I lose my strength if I take time off I have never been convinced that improvement in lifting or throwing or life is linear. So, I like the idea of planning off weeks. But, what most people misunderstand is that I think you really need to load those weeks before the off week. I guess I straddle two theories here 1. You are going to end up taking time off sooner or later, or submit yourself to endless crappy workouts that you will soon convince you that you are genetically inferior. When you train, you really have to train hard. I like Brooks idea of picking twelve exercises and trying to attain Hoffmans Gold standards. Attempting a bunch of bodyweight snatches, cleans, and presses as well as a host of one arm lifts is hard work. In the Body as One Piece program that I have my throwers use the fourth week is off, the squat workout is PR squats for 7 sets of 5 followed by jumps. Jim Schmitz Olympic Style Weightlifting Program For Strength' title='Jim Schmitz Olympic Style Weightlifting Program For Strength' />We overload these lifts whereas the athlete stands and goes down under their own power then we help them come up. Dont try this without talking to me more. They can never grind these lifts nor slow down coming up. But, that is 3. 5 reps on paper with their max, once a month. In reality, the first two sets are done with PRs, but the last ones are just pathetic attempts. Paul Northway once had to do 1. He could snatch 2. This is hard work in my world. Supersetting triceps x and arm curls is not. So, what does time off mean For me, it might be a week of arm work and circuit training. Or, more rollerblading. It is active, but not killer. Joe Mills used to recommend the York courses when guys got stale in the weightroom. Whatever you choose to do, keep your eyes on four or ten year progress rather than week to week or even month to month. When I use my Body as One Piece program with all the triple pyramids and overload lifts, you find that you come back stronger. Of course, you only squat twice a month on this program, so you are really fresh. Note this program works for someone off the learning curve. It is fairly advanced. Olympic Weightlifting on the Web is a list of all of the web sites dealing with the sport of Olympic Weightlifting. Find an elite Precision Nutrition Certified personal trainer or health coach in your area. Destiny N. Crum Destiny N. Crum, 19, of Seaford, passed away on Wednesday, Oct. Nanticoke Memorial Hospital. Questions and Answers About Lifting. Question Will I lose my strength if I take time off Question A high school thrower wanted to improve. How often should I. But, I would still recommend for someone who has a year or so under their belt to unload regularly. Joe Mills recommended going back to the York Courses when he noted a lack of progress. At the PBBC, we bodybuilded for a couple of weeks, usually just lots of arm work, inclines, hypers and assorted crap, along with bodyweight for reps contests in the squat and bench press. I can almost predict when a person is going to crash in a program by just looking at the structure of the month after month after month of expected training. Life is not linear. Question A high school thrower wanted to improve. How often should I benchI wanted to scream at first, but at least he is going to the right place. In high school I weighed 1. I wont put the number in because no one would believe me. Four years later, at Utah State, I threw the REAL discus 1. BUTI benched less than I could in high school Throwers dont need to bench. Throwers dont need to bench. Throwers dont need to bench. Throwers dont need to bench. Throwers dont need to bench. Throwers dont need to bench. Throwers dont need to bench. Throwers dont need to bench. Throwers dont need to bench. Throwers dont need to bench. Throwers dont need to bench. Throwers dont need to bench. Snatch and squat. Clean and press. Run hills. Work your abs. Overhead Squat. Now, I did have an athlete follow my advice and he threw the high school disc 2. At a bodyweight of 2. He snatched and cleaned and ran hills and threw overweight stuff. Strong is such a relative word. When you say you bench 3. Now, THAT is strong Question For years, benching had become a religion. Now, in some places, squatting is the answer to all questions. So, how much should yousquat I know that to be a modern era O lifter at the international level, you have to squat, squat and squat. But, some of the points you make are worth thinking about. John Powell threw his lifetime best throws when he decided to keep the squat movement, but never go heavy again. Sets of 8 1. 0 with 2. Note John has two O bronzes in the disc, as well as a silver at the Worlds His comment on this was that the heavy squats made him hurt, made him slow and he didnt like them. Gta San Andreas Batman Dark Knight Begins Moda. I think there is a gem in there somewhere. If your long term goals dont necessarily include a huge squat, maybe you dont need to do it. All of my lifts are better than Johns except for the deadlift and maybe the bench, he is vague about that one but he completely humbles me in the discus. I would still argue that everyone should squat, but perhaps we need to keep the proportions in check. At the USOC training center, we were told that all you needed to have the strength levels for a world record throw in the discus was a 2. I thought that was high in comparison to the snatch, but others guys thought it was low and a 4. John Powell got a silver at the worlds with a yearly best of a 2. Looking at Grimek, especially his success at the world and Olympic level in weightlifting, it would seem that squatting had a place in his training, but it was the be all and end all. So, do you need to squat Sure. It is, when done correctly, a lift that does it all. It makes you more flexible, builds your cardio, strengthens all the connections, and carries over to all athletic movements. Should you wrap your knees, wear Levis, a supersuit, and eat chalk before you squatI would argue no. Although all training is a question of balance and proportion, I would think that the squat, as well as the bench, seem to be the hardest lifts for most lifters to keep in balance. I know people who NEVER squat and wonder why they get no sports improvement from lifting. I know lifters who have four bench workouts a week. Ask them to throw a football hard a few times So, overall, I would say 1. Yes, you need to squat. Squatting is not the only thing you need to do. Question How do you incorporate Overhead Squats into your training Im a big fan of overheads, but you need to be sure you know why you are going to add them. Seriously, they will help with any goal I can think of, but if you are going to start doing them, there is going to be a learning curve. Six months from now, they will pay off with better flexibility, better support structure I know some people dont believe in support muscles, but I do, and great thigh, hip and lower back strength. If you are doing them for sports, I think you will find an immediate carryover. So, how toadd One idea is based on what Pavel T recommends do them EVERY day for twosets of five for two weeks. First set heavy, second set is a back off. Another is to simply make one day a week overhead squat day. Or, take a couple of weeks out and just do overheads three days a week. The few weeks of specialization will not retard your overall progress. 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