Clean and Jerk

[jumpbackin]

How about doing Deadlift on Monday, C&J on Wed, and Snatches on Fri. You're all ready doing Cleans when you do the Clean & Jerks, right? So you'd be less redundant by switching Monday to DL.

It's basically a good plan either way.

[VaultMarq26]

there are so many ways to mix and match lifts.....a lot of it is just knowing what your body can take.....if you recover quickly from the olympic lifting, then you may be able to do it 3 days a week. Dead lifts are less explosive so you can take that into account when chosing an order.....just remember....ALWAYS do the Olympic lifting at the start of your workout.

[LHSpolevault]

im doin em 3 times a week becuz right now im just running n gettin in shape for outdoor cuz i can't vault until april.

thanks for all the suggestions!

[VaultMarq26]

good luck

[MightyMouse]

why would you do cleans with low weight....they are a lift that is for power and explosion......reps over 5 or 6 would be a bit much I believe.

All I mean is you dont want to be like the Strongest Man Competitions straining to get every rep up slowly

[VaultMarq26]

o totally...if you can't do the lift with one quick powerfull movement, it is too much weight

[PaulVaulter]

Its difficult to give recommendations on weight lifting without seeing it in the context of an overall training plan. Remeber, lifting is just a means to an end, and that end is vaulting, big.

Lifting can be considered a supplement to the technical work for which it is extremely important to be fresh and fully recovered, for this reason I dont like deadlifts, at all.

As a combination of the weight used, the range of motion and the total number of muscles involved I find this movement extremely fatiguing (in a neural sense). This means recovery takes a lot longer, and because of this I feel it is very difficult to fit into a properly balanced training programme.