I would like to add olympic lifts to my regimen, but...

[farmboy]

...should I add certain lifts to the 3 days of lifting I already do, or would they be better on a completely separate day of lifting. And, if that were the case, wouldn't 4 lifting days a week be a little too much? I know for a while I was lifting 4 days a week, and with that on top of karate I felt like I was overtraining. I was never making progress as far a strength went.

My current lifting schedule is basically:
Monday-push
Wednesday-pull
Friday or Saturday-squats/lower body

 

[LPF4]

This doesn't completely answer your question, but its a start.

Here's another thread that just started before your's on the same subject.

http://www.sherdog.net/forums/showthread.php?t=357490

 

[Keith Wassung]

my opinion is that unless you are an olympic lifter, or have the time and coaching available to learn the classical olympic lifts, then you are probably better off doing a less technical version of the olympic lifts in your routine, ie, Hang Power Snatch instead of Snatch, or High pulls instead of cleans, or push press instead of jerk.

Having said that, I love the O-lifts

keith

 

[bacon]

...should I add certain lifts to the 3 days of lifting I already do, or would they be better on a completely separate day of lifting. And, if that were the case, wouldn't 4 lifting days a week be a little too much? I know for a while I was lifting 4 days a week, and with that on top of karate I felt like I was overtraining. I was never making progress as far a strength went.

My current lifting schedule is basically:
Monday-push
Wednesday-pull
Friday or Saturday-squats/lower body

Which lifts are you adding? I'm by no means an authority on Olys, but I do Cleans on my pull days, and OH squats on my squat days. To be honext, I'm not even sure what qualifies as an Oly lift....

 

[Steve Oly]

Clean and Jerk, Snatch.......... It used to include the Press but to much cheating eliminated it from the comp.