#BadWeightliftingCoaching Part 2:
I'm always surprised by how many (experienced) coaches think that the bar is supposed to bang against the thigh/hips during the pull.
I'm always surprised by how many (experienced) coaches think that the bar is supposed to bang against the thigh/hips during the pull.
Do they really believe it is possible to "knee" the bar upwards? Not to mention that this seems like a pretty painful strategy.
It is another example of people only being able to coach what they can see. In weightlifting, the knees come forwards underneath the bar, and then it pops upwards (due to the athlete jumping). To the untrained eye this can look like the bar being "banged" upwards.
If the thighs or torso are banged against the bar it will go forwards. This is a bad thing.
As a related aside, I find the cue to “shag” the bar (or similar) to be a poor one.
Yes your hips extend when weightlifting. But your focus should be on pulling the bar upwards (jumping), not moving your hips in a direction that is perpendicular to the movement of the bar.
At best this represents an over focus on triple extending - as I outlined in my other bad weightlifting post.
At worst it is a misguided attempt to bang the bar upwards.
