Some answers to your questions.......
First - this is not spam.
Second - I did not know it was not allowed to join / post on other sites. I must have missed that information when I registered. Hmm..
Third - Regarding my posting:
I asked a question about the exericse I was doing - the actual movement itself. Most people address the weight I was using. It is the exericse that "I" do, it was "me" demonstrating it and it was "my" video. Non of my clients or athlete do this. I can't do jerks, or pulls from the ground even with light weight - those hurt my back and shoulders. If I do a full squat my legs get massive, my back gets tight as do my adductors. The exericse I show is really a mixture of a jerk behind the neck, a pull and squat all modified. Through experimentation this is the exericse I now do. I do also do bounding double and single leg.
My thinking is I have taken out the dangerous parts and kept the benificial part of a jerk, clean and squat. To me, dropping under a bar and catching a weight over head with locked arms is risky. With the clean (or snatch ) the pull from the floor is risky because you go from zero to max in a weak position - most people(athletes) lack the ankle flexibility or the knowledge of how to stay back on the heels and use the lower body - they straighten their legs too quickly and then use their back. The bar is also too far infront of the body. At the top of the movenent when you catch the weight most people don't catch it high enough their elbow are way to low so they are straining to hold the weight using their upperbody - putting pressure on their wrists and upper and lower back.
To be clear my comments above are targeted at non weight lifters as in people that are not power lifters and/ Olympic lifters - those guys for the most part know what they are doing and the proper mechanics.
FYI: In my teenage years I was both a competitive power lifter and a competitive Olympic Lifter.
cheers
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