question about core strength

[Greg Everett]

Anytime you would normally do snatch or clean pulls, you can just add halting deadlifts first, or do a complex with halting DL or pause pull + pull.

so for example:

mon
snatches
halting snatch DL - 4x3
snatch pull - 3x3
squat

tue
power cln, pwr jerk
sn tech

wed
clean/jerk
halting cln DL
clean pull
squat

thur
like tue

sat
sn, cj, squat, pause pull for worse lift, eg sn

[gerasimos kourtis]

hello greg again and i want to thank you for your advices.i want to ask you if you want to strengthen the clean bottom position and perform squat 3 -4 days the week is too much to perform pause front squat 2 times the week(70-80% for 4-5 sets of 2-3 reps) and the other two times to perform back squat normally?do you suggest anything else?

[Greg Everett]

No, you can squat 5-6 days/week no problem as long as you're conditioned for it. I'm reluctant to recommend you do pause front squats, though - the front squat should mainly be used to prepare directly for the clean, so you want to practice the speed in the bottom and the bounce that would occur in a clean. If you practice pause front squats a lot, you can end up finding your cleans suffer. What you can try is doing a set with both pause and regular front squats - that is, any set of front squats you're doing with pauses, make sure that at least the last rep is a regular front squat.

[gerasimos kourtis]

thank you fotr the answer.which is your opinion about front squat from bottom position?it helps to strengthen the legs for raise from clean bottom position?

[Greg Everett]

yes, but it's hard to set up. you can just do pause FS with a 3+ second pause

[gerasimos kourtis]

hello greg!if i send you a photo of my somtotype you can give me advices for the starting position in snatch and c&j?

[Greg Everett]

I'd rather see a video of you lifting.

[gerasimos kourtis]

please can you send me your e-mail to send you the videos because i cant upload in the forum?

[Greg Everett]

send it to ask@cathletics.com

[Greg Everett]

Starting positions are fine. Squat positions are causing trouble though. Try moving your feet out a little wider and turning your toes out a little more so you can sit down rather than backward.