This is John Brownell. John has been working with me for about 3 weeks now. His major complaint has been, sore legs. Doesnt look that sore here. I watched Norik Vardanians videos for a few hours before coaching John because of the way they were built, plus some old videos while we were in Denmark. I thought of using Noriks style of lifting for John, but John actually locked out his arms instead of kept them loose. The bar would accelerate towards him and then slow down in the thigh. I then slowly taught him the sweep of the lats and somehow it actually became more natural for him. Look at how his arm bends. This is the arm bend I always talk about. Its not necessarily tense, but it does look somewhat bent. I used to think that lifters that had long torsos and short femurs only could do this. John completely annihilated my belief as I watched him lift. Later, I then found out, that hes got a 182KG behind neck jerk and over 200KGs in his bench presses. His squats, are about.....170-180KG on a good day. My girlfriend sweeps the bar like a god as well and shes got amazing upper body strength. Girl does 8 strict pull-ups without puffing her chest. So Im beginning to think that my own struggles with keeping my arms loose, has something to do with the lack of upper body strength more than just technique. On days when I do high repetition back extensions, I get extremely good pulls. Will be sharing more as I get more work in. PS: Johns nickname is White Asian. Follow him on Instagram @jbusaw
Posted on: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 13:52:01 +0000
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