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Try upping to 5 days a week of training for a couple months just to see if you can bust through that plateau. You can always drop back to 3 again once things start moving.
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Try upping to 5 days a week of training for a couple months just to see if you can bust through that plateau. You can always drop back to 3 again once things start moving.
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Its good actually. What you are trying to say is that he should keep a good cardiovascular system going, and i agree.
Running is to catabolic and to aerobic to bulk on.
I strongly recommand increasing the trainingdensity in a bulk. Keep the breaks between sets very short, keep your heartrate going. 5 sets of x reps should start good and the 5th set should be difficult (same weight). U'll also use more % of musclecells like this.
For warming up tendons and getting the bloodflow going, warm up on a bike, or cycle to the gym. Afterwards, do a good cooldown or cycle back home.
Running is to catabolic and to aerobic to bulk on.
I strongly recommand increasing the trainingdensity in a bulk. Keep the breaks between sets very short, keep your heartrate going. 5 sets of x reps should start good and the 5th set should be difficult (same weight). U'll also use more % of musclecells like this.
For warming up tendons and getting the bloodflow going, warm up on a bike, or cycle to the gym. Afterwards, do a good cooldown or cycle back home.
I think I'm going to try front squatting, since my form otherwise isn't the greatest (I end up leaning forward too much, straining my back. I feel like I will fall backwards otherwise). Is there a significant difference between them in terms of how much weight you can do? Holding the bar looks like it'll take some getting used to.
10% max, assuming you're already high bar squatting.
I front squat with the olympic grip, though it does require good wrist mobility. As I also Olympic lift, do handstands, planches, surf, etc. I think the wrist mobility is valuable to have. Others don't want or need it, and there is a different way to hold the bar in a front squat, with a cross-armed grip.
If you plan to go heavy, the olympic grip is much more ideal, and you are in far less danger of losing the bar due to elbows dropping. It's much better and much safer with big weights.
I front squat with the olympic grip, though it does require good wrist mobility. As I also Olympic lift, do handstands, planches, surf, etc. I think the wrist mobility is valuable to have. Others don't want or need it, and there is a different way to hold the bar in a front squat, with a cross-armed grip.
If you plan to go heavy, the olympic grip is much more ideal, and you are in far less danger of losing the bar due to elbows dropping. It's much better and much safer with big weights.
It just takes some wrist conditioning. Quite a bit for some people, less for others. The wrist extension really isn't any different than a handstand. Heavyweight lifters catch in a similar position, slightly less bend of the arms due to bigger biceps and forearms. That photo is a rather extreme version. The trick is to keep the elbows up. I don't require quite the degree of insane mobility in those joints that he has and I'm a pretty slim guy.
I'm doing my frontsquats the crossed style. I got the wrist mobility but its seriously taxing. As a weightlifter you have no choise cause of the Jerk. Everyone else shouldnt do it imo. Frontsquats are the single most underestimated and underused excecise, such a glorious quadbuilder
Id be fucking mad if i he came to my town and i couldnt be there
Ilya Ilyin is at my uni tomorrow for the British University Weightlifting Championships, I kept offering to come in but they wouldn't let me 
Ilyin is only 26. Has a very good chance to match Naim Suleymanoglu, Halil Mutlu, and Pyrros Dimas with a 3rd Olympic gold in 2016. Long ways off Suleymanoglu's 7 World Championship gold medals though. And Sulyemanoglu probably would have won 4 olympic golds if not for the Eastern bloc boycott in 1984.
Still, Ilyin with a chance for a 3rd straight gold, makes the 2016 olympics very exciting in weightlifting.
Still, Ilyin with a chance for a 3rd straight gold, makes the 2016 olympics very exciting in weightlifting.
I can't recall an O-lifter winning an olympic gold at 30+ in recent memory. I think he'd actually be 33 by the time 2020 olympics roll around, as he turns 27 in May. I think Mutlu may have won his last at 30, back in 04, but he would be the oldest, and down at the 56kg weight class. No 30+ year old has won an Olympic gold in weightlifting in the last 20+ years aside from him.
Loss of speed and explosiveness is too great, post-30.
Loss of speed and explosiveness is too great, post-30.