Guest guest Posted November 8, 2000 Report Share Posted November 8, 2000 Recently, one of our members posted that he was teaching the snatch or CJ to a ten year old athlete. My remembrance of NSCA literature in the mid 90's was that this was inappropriate, even dangerous, training methodology. I have three questions. One, if one is to teach these lifts, what devices, weights, bars or dumbbells are used (starting with 7 foot, 45 lb Olympic bar may be to great and to wide of a load). Two, what age, generally, is too skeletally immature and/or too young (from a performance standpoint) to use the OLs. (How much does it really matter if one eleven year old is superior in a sport or sports to another?) Three, if not Ols, then what about shock training, power cleans, push-presses and similar dynamic and ballistic lifting for the pre-teens? Joe Alden Atlanta USA _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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