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  • ACT CrusaderA Offline
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    ACT Crusader
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    Last few weeks have been working on these and must say I have never tried a weight lifting exercise that has been so difficult to execute<br />
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    Been doing alot of Turkish getups to build shoulder and back strength<br />
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    I do regular squats, front squats, barbell thrusters, regularly do bear workouts, but man these overheads are giving me grief <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /><br />
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    Any of the faithful do these regularly or had experience with them

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    Mojoman
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    Yep. I've been doing them all as part of Crossfit over the last couple of years. Overhead squats was the hardest to nail technically. I started with a broom stick for a while, then just the bar and finally loading weights. It helped strengthen my back too, I used to have occasional back pain from a weak core.<br />
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    The thing I find with overhead squats is pushing my shoulders back far enough to balance when I'm in the squat phase.

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    sounds mad, I love it.

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    Red Beard
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    Ive just started doing them (Doing 3/12 with Olympic bar supersetting with DB swings 3/15 ) to warm up before front squats. A technical movement but I like it.

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    ACT Crusader
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    A couple of half decent instructional vids. The 2nd one it appears he has the bar a little too far back, but still siome good tips<br />
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    Red Beard
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    [quote name='ACT Crusader']A couple of half decent instructional vids. The 2nd one it appears he has the bar a little too far back, but still siome good tips<br />
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    Cheers mate, found some of that was helpful.

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