Andy Dick:
Whats your thoughts on intensity of auxillary lifts? Right now for example I do 1.25% of my max c&j on squats (I know it is not an auxillary lift). But what I was wondering is are there certain percentages of incline and shoulder press (2 of the auxillary lifts I do?) that should correspond to the lifts to keep them on the back burner and conserve energy for the lifts. This is increaingly important now that I work so many hours.
TheRedReaper:
I don't do auxillary lifts and doubt I ever will. I'm probably less experienced than you by sounds of it, but I like to save all my power for front squat, clean and jerk and snatch. I've been finding thus far I am progressing well. If that's of use to you, I don't know, but you can take my word that my lifts are going up fast, and I'm building muscle faster than a baby bull.
Why do power snatch when you can do a proper snatch instead? I still have not figured it out. Save energy for the main ones, I think.
movmasty:
--- Quote from: Andy Dick on Aug 31, 2012, 07:57 PM ---Whats your thoughts on intensity of auxillary lifts? Right now for example I do 1.25% of my max c&j on squats (I know it is not an auxillary lift). But what I was wondering is are there certain percentages of incline and shoulder press (2 of the auxillary lifts I do?) that should correspond to the lifts to keep them on the back burner and conserve energy for the lifts. This is increaingly important now that I work so many hours.
--- End quote --- If you mean back squat, depends from your front squat, normally the front is to do at 100/105% and the back is 10% more, so 125% is exagerate. But i agree with TheRedReaper to not do the back, muscles involved are different and there is more stress on the spine. If you are very strong in the squat, save your energy for weak lifts. About presses, the reps to do are 2 or 3, getting failure only in the last rep of the last series. Actually there is not a real correspondence with the lifts, but getting to work with 55-60% of the jerk for the military press is more than adeguate
movmasty:
--- Quote from: TheRedReaper on Sep 03, 2012, 08:27 PM ---Why do power snatch when you can do a proper snatch instead? I still have not figured it out. Save energy for the main ones, I think.
--- End quote --- Ivan Abadzhiev said that auxillary lifts are not to do except power snatch and power clean, not only because build irreplaceable strenght for the pull phase, but are very much less stressing than the complete squat, save your knees and back. Try this routine: 3 series of power snatch then 2 series of snatch with same weight 2-3 series of power clean then 2 series of clean and jerk then 2 series of jerk from the racks. Drop the auxillary only 3-4 weeks before the contest, but do mainly afar.
Andy Dick:
Actually I was looking to find out more on what an acceptable relationship to upper body auxillary lifts to say the jerk. For example as movmasty said like 55-60% of jerk for the shoulder press. One day a week I will do a few sets of incline, pull-ups, and shoulder press just to keep my upper body healthy as I do leg work basically 3 of the other days in the week. Right now I am only able to get 4 days of training in a week.