You quote me saying this: then you ask me a question that does not relate to what I've said. I still stand by my comment that speed can not be maintained when the weight exceeds a certain percentage (which is usually about 10% or so over one's 1RM loverhead lift).
Now coming directly to your question re the transference of strength to speed, I ave the following to say Oni:
Gaining strength would have to be one of the easiest if not the easiest element in the sport of weightlifting. However being stronger as a weightlifter does not transform or automatically equates with being a more powerful lifter (where strength is but one of several elements that go to make up an Olympic lift).
I’d just like to point out that the strongest squatters are not necessarily/usually the most powerful lifters in Olympic weightlifting. Perhaps having the strongest squat can be most beneficial in a sport that calls for a squat as part of the competition. Two sports that come to mind are the power lifting and the strong men competitions.
Antonio Krastev had a best front squat of 310kg, but could not get up with 255 and 257.5kg clean & jerks back at the 1987 Ostrava’s World Weightlifting Championships. Vasily Alexeev (the legend) on the other hand, a lifter who never squatted with more than 270kgs, had a best clean & jerk of 256kg.
At 17 years of age, I was Australian youth Champion back in the early 80s, I could squat as much if not more than the then senior Australian weightlifter in my category. But I sure as hell did not match his lifts in either the snatch or the clean and jerk. How can that be when I could very well match him with the pure strength exercise that is the squat?
Oni, I ask you according to your signature, which shows you dead lifting 182.5kg... how much can you clean and jerk based on the strength that you have lifting that 182.5kg?
Shane Hamman, whom I’m sure you’ve heard of, failed with 242.5kg clean & jerk at the Olympic Games in Athens. How can that be when this former powerlifter could squat with way over 400kg (458kg) and deadlift around the 335kg mark?
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I don't doubt that for a second, but what are you infering from that observation, I hope you're not infering that Klokov lifts what he lifts because he can deadlift 800 odd pounds. Because let me tell you, there are many lifters who are just as good as Klokov without performing any deadlifts whatsoever!
The thing here is one can do plenty of work with noting to show for it, or at least nothing to show for it where it really counts... on the Olympic weightlifting platform.
Look Oni, I'm really not here to convince you one way or the other mate. If you feel that getting as strong as can be is the way to go for lifting weights above your head like Olympic weightlifters do, then by all means carry on with that beleif. I won't interfere in the least.
All power (or strength as the case may be) to you mate.
Fadi.