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Okie doke. You and the apparently dozens of researchers that love the 2D:4D theory might be right about all of this. I'm just saying, it's is all a bit too much like eugenicists or craniometrists trying to determine who's more or less likely to be a criminal, or more or less "intelligent," based on cranial cavity size or facial features. That was all exposed as a farce many decades ago.

So I'm inclined to be skeptical.

Yeah. It's not exactly solid science. I wonder for how many of these studies the results occurred purely by chance.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20733526
The Association between Athleticism, Prenatal Testosterone, and Finger Length.

Moffit, DM and Swank, CB (PE) The association between athleticism, prenatal testosterone, and finger length. J Strength Cond Res 24(x): 000-000, 2010-Research suggests that prenatal levels of testosterone are related to finger length development and traits beneficial to athletic skill, such as power, endurance, visual-spatial skills, or sensation seeking and dominance behavior. In men, the second digit to fourth digit ratio (2D:4D) has been shown to correlate with success in competitive levels of football (soccer), which suggests that the 2D:4D ratio is a possible marker for level of attainment in sport. The purpose of this study was to explore the 2D:4D relationships between sports and make comparisons with nonathletes. A multiple group posttest-only design was used. Participants included 138 male volunteers with 92 intercollegiate National Collegiate Athletic Association division I athletes and 46 nonathletes who were not varsity athletes. The independent variable was group (crew, football, gymnastics, soccer, nonathlete). The dependent variable was the 2D:4D ratio. No significant differences were noted between the athletes and nonathletes (p = 0.182). Significant differences were found among the different groups (p = 0.000), with significantly lower ratios between football and crew (p = 0.000), football and nonathletes (p = 0.030), and gymnastics and crew (p = 0.001). This research provides a stronger level of evidence that the 2D:4D ratio may help indicate potential athleticism or competition-level achievement, but the external validity may be limited to only specific sports.

To me that suggests that digit ratio is dependent on something else, possibly height, which correlates with success in football rather than general athleticism.

I stopped paying attention after they stopped showing those girls playing volleyball in the gym...

p.s. If you didn't notice them...you're gay.

I noticed them too, it's just that my raging hard-on was for the 310kg back squat.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr86StIqyHM" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr86StIqyHM</a>

Reverse press is nuts.

If you check out the training video of Eduardo Guadamud I posted he fairly easily does a 170kg clean and press and he's a 94kg class lifter. Beastly guy. Also 310kgx2 squat that should be in here if it's not already.

Straps or chalk and learn to hold the bar properly. If you're grip is an issue on relatively light deadlifts (ie under 2xBW) you're likely gripping the bar too close to the palms.

theres a nice video of him snatching and then jumping in super slow motion. there you can see how athletical a full snatch is!

This one?

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYDUKPSd6hY" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYDUKPSd6hY</a>

I prefer this even though it's a miss. 218 is the current 85kg clean and jerk world record:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6wOHTeRI-k" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6wOHTeRI-k</a>

Couple of new videos from Kendrick. He was unfortunately injured before WWC last year and bomobed out on 160 snatch

His PR back squat is 250kg for 5 from memory. Check his other youtube channel if interested.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlY-WOkzsn0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlY-WOkzsn0</a>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0lpvlOkUs4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0lpvlOkUs4</a>

I need a honey badger tshirt.