| Lightheadedness and some numbness in legs; when doing the Yoke over 645 | |
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| jimmy mcw | Jul 27 2008, 09:29 PM Post #1 |
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Not sure if anyone can help me with this but I'd appreciate any ideas. Last September I switched my style in the yoke from hands on the crossbar to hands on the uprights. I have done over 700 w/hands on the CB but the week I got to 645 using the hands on uprights style I noticed a feeling of lightheadedness and a slight numbness in my legs similar to if my legs had gone to sleep but not as bad. After failing to make my distance, I dropped the yoke and nearly fell over. It took me a few seconds to get get my wits about me . I didn't do yoke again until a few weeks ago. Last week I worked up to 625 for 80' in the hands on uprights style and it was easy. This week I jumped up to 645. I picked the yoke and I got light headed and felt a numbness in my legs just like last year. I had to drop the yoke after 20'. Any ideas? The reason I switched grip styles is that, while my yoke is stable enough to grip the uprights, the one I see most in competition has a smaller crossbar that allows for a little more vibration when you carry it and I couldn't carry it that way. Has anyone encountered this problem when yoke walking and if so how did you solve is? It seems strange to me that I could do so much more with my hands on the bar and having these issues with my hands on the uprights. Any thoughts? |
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| Al Lister | Jul 28 2008, 09:18 AM Post #2 |
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Sounds to me like your trapping a nerve or a blood vessel with the change of postion, does it do it if you shange back to your original style????? If not this could be your answer???? |
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| MaxPower | Jul 28 2008, 12:26 PM Post #3 |
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Follower of Branigann's Law
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Yeah, trapped nerve would be my guess as well. As for the lightheadedness, you're just not breathing enough. |
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| Kye | Jul 28 2008, 04:53 PM Post #4 |
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my legs always go numb after yoke or conans but it usually goes away after a few minutes |
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| ballsofstone | Jul 29 2008, 08:51 PM Post #5 |
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hands on crossbar bunches up traps, hands on uprights relaxes traps and allows crossbar to sit on spine instead of nice springy traps. |
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| jimmy mcw | Jul 29 2008, 10:45 PM Post #6 |
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To be honest, I haven't tried my old style since last year. I'll try it again this week. Thanks much for the input guys. |
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| Stew | Jul 30 2008, 03:49 PM Post #7 |
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I am by no means a superstar with the yoke myself but it does sound as mentioned before as if the bar isn't in the right position, if you put your shoulders right back to make a shelf the bar should sit accross on your shoulders just behind your spine,flexibilty and good rear delts make this a bit easier. if its right on your spine its probably going to cause the numbness you describe and posibly do a fair bit of damage through compression as you move up to bigger weights |
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| jimmy mcw | Jul 31 2008, 11:34 PM Post #8 |
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I kind of wondered if I was doing something wrong with the position of the bar. The bar on my yoke is rather fat so I have been carrying it "on top" of my trap area instead of the "man's brow" where I carry the bar for heavy squatting. When I carried it lower on my back it had a tendancy to slide off when the weights got heavier. Thanks for your input. Edited by jimmy mcw, Jul 31 2008, 11:35 PM.
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