Strong

 

It isn’t all about your form.  Often people who ask me details on technique have trouble accepting they just aren’t strong enough.  This is especially true in the Olympic lifts.  Do you really think you will be able to clean 100kg if your front squat is 80kg?  Do you think you will be able to bench press 405lbs if you can only close grip bench 225?  To be a strong person you need strong hands and a strong back.  That is the foundation of everything.  You can’t pick up more than you can hold on to and you can’t squat more than you can support with your lower back.  Then internet has given us amazing resources to research strength but the most important message is lost.  Do the work.  Work your ass off in the gym.  Over and over.  Year after year.  I am not saying technique doesn’t matter.  It does, but people seem to be forgetting you have to be just plain strong to lift big weights.  Lift hard and rest hard.  Get stronger.  While you do that, enjoy this video of a real man doing a man thing with lots of weight.