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Old 12-17-2008, 02:32 PM   #22 (permalink)
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you don't need all this isolation stuff.

Just focus on variations of push presses/jerks, olympic lifts, squats, deadlifts, and pullups/chins and some unilateral stuff and you'll have a good base for the lifts.

3 or so lifts a day, a few days a week. Then events on a separate day if you have access to the equipment. If you don't, you can still get plenty strong on overhead lifts, and things like olympic lifts and squats have huge carryover to events by building explosive strength needed on events and leg strength and endurance (depending on the rep range) for events and timed events.

i'd rather see someone try and get stronger on the core lifts than to try and mimic events in a gym setting. Doing farmers walks w/ dumbbells is nothing like regular farmers walks. The whole thing is getting your traps and forearms used to the weight.
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