• POST WITH YOUR REAL NAME (FIRST & LAST!)
• POST WITH YOUR REAL EMAIL ADDRESS
• NO FLAMES
• NO ADS
• NO TROLLING
• PLEASE KEEP BAD LANGUAGE TO A MINIMUM

GOHEAVY.COM Olympic Weightlifting Forum

My experience + ECU player testing

Posted By: TIM SWORDS (host250.bayer.com)
Date: Friday, January 12, 2007, @ 7:47 a.m.

In Response To: Re: does olympic weightlifting really increase ver (Rich berkheimer)

When I was a fershman in college my vertical jump was 26 inches at 248 lbs. When I learned the pulling movements and started deep squatting 4 years later in the off season i weighed 283 and my vertical was 32 inches. I could dunk a basketball with 2 hands no problem and won many bets, including $50 from my brother on Christmas morning out on a snowy basketball court.

When we atarted Olympic lifting with the athletes at East Carolina in 1981 we had 18 knee injuries at different extremes. The following season we had 7 and the third season we had ZERO KNEE INJURIES!! WHAT DID WE DO DIFFERENT AT ECU??? WE OLYMPIC LIFTED!

The teams average vertical jump went up 5+ inches, body weights went up and injuries went away!!!!!!!!! Within the next 3 years ECU had 14 get NFL tryouts!!!

DAMN WHY DO ANYTHING ELSE!!!!!!!!! LIKE I SAID IN A POST DOWN BELOW "I'M NOT THAT SMART, BUT I HAVE HORSE SENSE".

There are always those coaches out there that will try these bullshit gimmics! Sport is ground based, so train on your feet!!

Messages In This Thread

• does olympic weightlifting really increase vertica
  justin wood (71.117.223.110) -- Monday, January 8, 2007, @ 2:16 p.m.
  • Re: does olympic weightlifting really increase ver
    Jim Cauley (70.158.121.66) -- Monday, January 8, 2007, @ 2:52 p.m.
    • Re: does olympic weightlifting really increase ver
      Donnie Warner (pool-72-70-165-138.hrbgpa.east.verizon.net) -- Monday, January 8, 2007, @ 8:41 p.m.
      • Re: does olympic weightlifting really increase ver
        Travis Sears (smokyvalley.org) -- Tuesday, January 9, 2007, @ 9:56 a.m.
        • Re: does olympic weightlifting really increase ver
          Mark Haz (c-24-4-108-125.hsd1.ca.comcast.net) -- Wednesday, January 10, 2007, @ 2:58 p.m.
  • Re: does olympic weightlifting really increase ver
    DOC GREER (12-217-90-210.client.mchsi.com) -- Monday, January 8, 2007, @ 6:03 p.m.
  • Re: does olympic weightlifting really increase ver
    Rich berkheimer (h-66-167-42-214.phndaz91.dynamic.covad.net) -- Friday, January 12, 2007, @ 7:06 a.m.
    • My experience + ECU player testing
      TIM SWORDS (host250.bayer.com) -- Friday, January 12, 2007, @ 7:47 a.m.
      • Re: My experience + ECU player testing
        kevin doherty (star.sfusd.edu) -- Friday, January 12, 2007, @ 2:45 p.m.
        • this is all very validating stuff! *NM*
          mike rinaldi (pool-151-198-7-241.nwrk.east.verizon.net) -- Friday, January 12, 2007, @ 3:21 p.m.
      • Re: My experience + ECU player testing
        Rich berkheimer (h-66-167-46-237.phndaz91.dynamic.covad.net) -- Friday, January 12, 2007, @ 11:15 p.m.