I appreciate someone bringing attention to this obvious anabolic abuser. She looks bigger this year as well?
She's gone from 53.18 - 49.81 since 2019, I expect she might be low 49s this year. The progression of European athletes is always more dramatic than there American counterparts.
(Let's not use Felix as a comparison here, not when she was coached by one of the most implicated and notorious men ever...)
Klaver looks bigger on screen and in video than in real life. Have any of you actually met her in person? I have, and she is nowhere near as muscular as she looks. In fact, she is quite slender, just very conditioned with broad shoulders & lats. On screen she looks smaller (in height) and bigger (in muscle) than in reality, where she is taller and slimmer.
In fact, it used to amaze me when you would meet athletes in person and realise they aint that muscular. Noah Lyles and Ashton Eaton immediately sprint to mind as two examples; I was surprised at how relatively 'skinny' they were, especially Eaton.
Klaver has been weight training since a young age. Prior to Laurent Meuwly, under her previous coach she was doing a serious weights programme compared to Bol, who wasn't. On top of that, she has said in interviews that weight training are her favourite sessions.
You can also go onto YouTube and see old videos of her from when she was a junior and see that she was 'big' then.
I'm looking at her instagram right now and wondering how she's able to build that type of muscle. Her power clean right now is more than mine pretty much. I think I saw a video of her doing over 220? I have a PR in that of 220 for 1 right now...I really need some PRs right now at the track and gym and feel kind of stuck at the same speed and weight in everything. Yet again I have an actual job and I don't have millions of dollars to just sleep in everyday and train twice a day or 4 times per week. I'm usually tired from working by the time I get to the gym.
This is a hard question to answer not knowing what you do, but typically, progress doesn't work linearly and people plateau all the time. Periodize if you aren't. If you're looking to get stronger, do lower rep counts, strength waves (3/2/1, for example) or going 10x1, 5x2, 3x3 @ 90% max. OTOH, if you already are working pure strength, then do a few weeks of more hypertrophy focused routines. Or maybe work in the cultivation of explosive power for a few weeks. And take recovery weeks when appropriate. Finally, mix up exercises periodically if you aren't, so you're not doing the same thing over and over, which can lead to some burnout.
Matt, with everything going on, you conclude peanut butter?! There are two simple issues.
1) get fully functional. The top priority of any trainer would be to get full range of motion and strength in all your joints. PT or even surgery. You don't exaggerate the imbalance via one arm Smith machine.
2) men your size easily clean over 300 lbs with good technique. Your static strength, deadlift, is more than enough already. Get an OL coach to guide you for 4-6 sessions just on clean variants.
Also, in what world does she look "big" in that video?
She looks like any female who lifts weights sometimes.
Alan
No she doesn't. She looks like a female lifter who is taking Anavar.
Maybe you're a skinny long distance runner, or a fat coach potatoe....either way, you obviously have some chip on your shoulder, because you have absolutely NO IDEA what a tall, natural woman sprinter should look like vs a woman who is a 'lifter' that takes anavar.
And I repeat, how many of you have met her in person, rather than see her on your TV screen? I've been up close - I interviewed her for European Athletics - and she simply is not a woman with huge muscles, period. I repeat, she is conditioned and slim.
Really, some of you haters have no idea and have either never lifted a dumbell in your life, or never met real athletes in person.
No she doesn't. She looks like a female lifter who is taking Anavar.
Maybe you're a skinny long distance runner, or a fat coach potatoe....either way, you obviously have some chip on your shoulder, because you have absolutely NO IDEA what a tall, natural woman sprinter should look like vs a woman who is a 'lifter' that takes anavar.
And I repeat, how many of you have met her in person, rather than see her on your TV screen? I've been up close - I interviewed her for European Athletics - and she simply is not a woman with huge muscles, period. I repeat, she is conditioned and slim.
Really, some of you haters have no idea and have either never lifted a dumbell in your life, or never met real athletes in person.
If you've met "real athletes" in person you will have met a doper at some point. Can you tell or do they simply all just look like "conditioned" athletes to you?
No she doesn't. She looks like a female lifter who is taking Anavar.
Maybe you're a skinny long distance runner, or a fat coach potatoe....either way, you obviously have some chip on your shoulder, because you have absolutely NO IDEA what a tall, natural woman sprinter should look like vs a woman who is a 'lifter' that takes anavar.
And I repeat, how many of you have met her in person, rather than see her on your TV screen? I've been up close - I interviewed her for European Athletics - and she simply is not a woman with huge muscles, period. I repeat, she is conditioned and slim.
Really, some of you haters have no idea and have either never lifted a dumbell in your life, or never met real athletes in person.
No she doesn't. She looks like a female lifter who is taking Anavar.
Maybe you're a skinny long distance runner, or a fat coach potatoe....either way, you obviously have some chip on your shoulder, because you have absolutely NO IDEA what a tall, natural woman sprinter should look like vs a woman who is a 'lifter' that takes anavar.
And I repeat, how many of you have met her in person, rather than see her on your TV screen? I've been up close - I interviewed her for European Athletics - and she simply is not a woman with huge muscles, period. I repeat, she is conditioned and slim.
Really, some of you haters have no idea and have either never lifted a dumbell in your life, or never met real athletes in person.
I see, so what we can clearly see on TV is just an illusion, like a generative AI Klaver, and only by interviewing her up close will we know how feminine and slim and simply conditioned, hardly muscular, she is. We will also lift some dumbbells so we know not to hate by seeing muscles where none exist.
Maybe you're a skinny long distance runner, or a fat coach potatoe....either way, you obviously have some chip on your shoulder, because you have absolutely NO IDEA what a tall, natural woman sprinter should look like vs a woman who is a 'lifter' that takes anavar.
And I repeat, how many of you have met her in person, rather than see her on your TV screen? I've been up close - I interviewed her for European Athletics - and she simply is not a woman with huge muscles, period. I repeat, she is conditioned and slim.
Really, some of you haters have no idea and have either never lifted a dumbell in your life, or never met real athletes in person.
I see, so what we can clearly see on TV is just an illusion, like a generative AI Klaver, and only by interviewing her up close will we know how feminine and slim and simply conditioned, hardly muscular, she is. We will also lift some dumbbells so we know not to hate by seeing muscles where none exist.
Flojo looked damn big on the telly. But it was all an illusion. She was really no different from Wilma Rudolph.
She is 6' and closer to 160. So this lift definitely possible naturally as a high end athlete. The only concern is using straps, which a miss on this lift could lead to painful injury since you can't easily bail on the weight
If you've met "real athletes" in person you will have met a doper at some point. Can you tell or do they simply all just look like "conditioned" athletes to you?
That's a silly question, and you know it.
What does a 'doped athlete' look like? Unless an athlete is doing hardcore, lifter levels of gear, it is extremely difficult to tell by just looking at them.
And in multiple, real-case scenarios, many doped women just do not have big muscles. The best examples would be East German women & the more recent Russian women. Looking at the physiques of their 400m women, you would have no idea they were on steroids. Did Sabine Busch looked 'roided up? Dagmar Neubaeur? What about Tatyana Firova, or Natalya Antyukh?
There seems to be this assumption that a doped athlete = 'big' muscles. Or 'big' muscles = a doped athlete. On top of that, we have this skinny-boy view that any woman with some level of musculature is doped, because said skinny-boy has no muscles himself.
Well guess what skinny-boys, there are clean women out there that work hard and have muscles, that are conditioned and fit. And some of these women are 6ft tall and athletic, they intimidate and tower over skinny-boys. Skinny-boy armchair critics seem to forget that these women are the cream of the crop, elite athletes following an advanced training programme and diet. They aren't popping to the gym after a 9-5 doing 45mins of weights, 3 times a week.
How do we tell if an athlete is doped? We look at their progression, we look at their coaching set-up, we look at where they compete, and if they compete outside their own country, we look at their management set-up....and yes, we look at their appearance. But unless a woman has facial hair, or is hugely muscled, or has acne and bacne, or has a very low voice, you simply cannot tell by looks alone! And Lieke Klaver has no facial hair, she is NOT hugely muscled (I repeat, she is conditioned) she has no acne or bacne and is not low voiced. She's just a tall, elite, female athlete.