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For me, the clean and jerks were fairly easy to pick up, I can't snatch worth a damn, though. I feel like as long as you don't bite off more than you can chew, they're fairly safe. Just start with the 5-10lb trainer plates and go up from there.

For me, I'm less scared of deadlifting than squats. First off, a deadlift is way easier to ditch, you just drop it. Second off, squats kinda often turn into sloppy goodmorningish squats. I think a way to help that, though, would be doing more front squats to strengthen the abs. Plus, I'm beginning to think full OL depth squats and me won't agree until I get Olympic lifting shoes, as much as I love the strength gains I get from doing them. But yeah, squats have always hurt my back more than any deadlifts have, I've gotten lower back "pump" kinda pain from deadlifts, but squats, once you start throwing weight on, the compressive forces get to be a lot. But yeah, I feel squats, though they're awesome, are a good deal more dangerous than deadlifts.

Then again for deadlifts, unless I'm trying to do clean or snatch pulls, I always lift sumo, and Louie Simmons recommended people to lift sumo in training even if they lift conventional at meets, to minimize back issues. But sumo, I can almost say I've never even felt back discomfort doing deadlifts. Part of the thing for squats, too, I have this weird thing going on where I push off the ball of my feet/toes too much, and it feels "natural" for me to do that, and I know it's not right, but I tend to think too much during the lift and mess things up. One time I was thinking too much about toe position and ditched like 110 pounds just from lack of concentration. It's only once like, I get past BW on the bar that I can actually concentrate and just lift the damned weight and not care. It's weird.

I'm thinking for the OL lifts, there's a lot of technique problems I got, plus lack of shoes. I'm thinking I should maybe just concentrate on the pulls, and then build a decent amount of power, then when I get decent technique coaching, I can use the power I've built from squatting and pulling. Because yeah, real technique gaps I have... Snatch pull 225x5 for reps barehanded (I'm guessing I can probably do about 250 for one barehanded, and I've never used straps ever), then I can barely get 105 over my head. That and my right arm one arm snatch (with a barbell) is 70, which is 70% of my 2 arm snatch, that's not really a good ratio. So I figure if I just do pulling and squatting, when I can afford shoes, and a couple hours with a coach, I'll at least have power on hand.

A lot of people think that squats only work your quads (this may even be the primary reason why they don't do it themselves), but that's wrong. Squats work pretty much any muscle below your chest and allthough it's mainly for the legs, nobody can squat much (even if the can leg press 3000 lbs) with a weak core.

I also read an article or two, that mentioned that the sheer amount of growth hormone that a squat and deadlift session cause, can jumpstart your progress. I think it was the Stronglifts 5 x 5 squat program or something that mentioned it.

I'm quite certain each person is different in what they're drawn to - and I find it curious that there's no mention here of what women might be drawn to. But I have known men personally who time and again were attracted toward women who were distinctly round. So I'm quite sure this varies.

But I'm amazed at how this thread moved from a discussion of whether a nutritionist could or should be overweight to what men are attracted to, and to exercise.

Exercise is relatively easy for the young, healthy and psychologically motivated. It's another matter for a lot of people, and not the easy answer it appears. Each person has to find the eating and movement combinations that work for them. There are certainly norms, but as Aspies I think most people on this forum should already be aware that normal doesn't apply to everyone.

I disagree. That's all the more reason to do them. Well maybe not for bodybuilding purposes, but they help me quite a lot, as it builds more motor control that carries over into other things. My motor controls are/were quite clumsy, I'm NVLD, and I still try at them, so yeah.

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Oh, you meant isolation exercises. Derp derp. Yeah probably.

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