Topic: How did you improve your technique?

[ViKtoricus]

Straightforward question deserving a straightforward answer...

I mean, some people love to add things like pulls and stuff, while others tend to just stick with the classical lifts. What has worked well for you?



Thanks in advance.

[Andy Dick]

3 things immediately come to mind, being predominantly self coached.

1. Most valuable by far was live coaching, when I was single and had money I would fly out to Washington and stay with John Thrush for 3 weeks at a time and just lift and get coached.  I was also video coached by Chris quite a bit which was also very helpful.
2. Got USAW Certified (not a must, just knowing what to look for and what it is need for proper techinque) so I can analyze my videos.
3. Learned some stuff by reading up on weightlifting (Arthur Dreschler's Weightlifting Encyclopedia, was a big one), The Tommy Kono clinic on YouTube also helped me a great deal in my pull technique.

It is my honest opinion you can throw in 8,000 different exercises to fix techinque but they will pale in comparision to a coach telling you exactly what you are doing wrong and helping you fix it.  It also will get your tech. better a lot faster.

[Arturo Gómez]

How I improve my technique:
1) load the bar with 5 kgs more than the maximum weight I lifted. It stays there, only for me.
2) Wear the shoes and the clothes for lifting
3) I don´t left the plattform until I lift that weight. Until I solve the problem.
So, I improved my technique.
That is the straightforward (and true) answer. I don´t say that everybody must do it. Many people do of other ways. One of my pupils, for example, learned in a week a perfect snatch only with partial exercises. But that is good for him, not for me.

[ViKtoricus]

How I improve my technique:
1) load the bar with 5 kgs more than the maximum weight I lifted. It stays there, only for me.
2) Wear the shoes and the clothes for lifting
3) I don´t left the plattform until I lift that weight. Until I solve the problem.
So, I improved my technique.
That is the straightforward (and true) answer. I don´t say that everybody must do it. Many people do of other ways. One of my pupils, for example, learned in a week a perfect snatch only with partial exercises. But that is good for him, not for me.

I've been unconsciously doing this!

[John Way]

get your technique right and then you can kick it as hard as your want, without technique, you are going to miss weights unsafely, 1) therefore get injured , 2) stagnant on results or both

with good technique , you will miss weights only because they are heavy or you are fatigued (in this case you shouldnt even try) , there will be no other excuses

a good lifters knows when to max, ego should not play a part, esp for the beginner, but when ego plays a part the injuries and or time lost will be to your personal loss and embarassment

 

[Arturo Gómez]

I think that we are already talking not about the original question: how you improves your technique? We are talking about what is, in general, the best way of take care of improvement of techniques.
I think in  application of an industrial estrategy: what is the major mistake?. Where is the difficult what cause the most important troubles? Work over it. The cause of a mechanical mistake may be option (wrong  grip), but may be a weakness in a muscular region, an anatomical singularity,  or coordination problems. All  of them have different  approach.

[Chris Ⓐ LeRoux]

My jerk improved the most when I started coaching myself, since no coach I ever had was able or willing to deal with my problem (hyperlordosis). Of course, by that time I was in a sense past my prime, had other things in life to deal with.

[Simon Klimesh]

what's wrong with most people's technique is they need to do 10,000 more reps. Any master of anything has 10+ years of practicing their craft. In our case the professional weightlifter has 10 years of practicing maximum snatches and jerks and usually an abundance of reserve leg strength.