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Can I Squat without a Squat Rack?
Why should you use a squat rack, or "power rack", or cage to perform squats? There are two main reasons: First, squat racks and cages comes with safety pins or cross bars that are adjustable to heights in order to catch the bar when you fail during a lift. With these safety catches, sometimes called "spotters", you can safely discard the bar and not without getting stuck underneath it because you cannot lift it off of your shoulders; an extremely dangerous situation.
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Olympic Snatch Technique Video Module from Lift Up
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Slow Verus Fast Pulls: Why is the Deadlift a Slow Pull and the Olympic Lifts Fast Pulls?
What makes a "pull" slow or fast. Is it a choice? After all we can do speed deadlifts. So does that make the deadlift a fast pull?
These questions come up because most strength trainees have been trained in the slow lifts but not the fast Olympic lifts. The information they have received about the fast lifts is from those who "dabble" in them. Alternatively they receive information from those who only dabble in strength in general…but that is another subject.
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Clean and Jerk with Travis Ortmayer
Travis Ortmayer, top international strongman and owner of Athletic Nation gives a tutorial on the clean and jerk in this video.
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The Snatch Lift with Travis Ortmayer
Travis Ortmayer, top international strongman and owner of Athletic Nation gives a tutorial on the snatch lift in this video.
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