Deep Squats, Shallow Thoughts
@wolfstrength
Strength Coach, former Little League MVP.
It’s not enough to not be weak. We must be actively anti-weakness.
Extremely well said and articulated. Maybe some of you will listen when a guy with shredded abs says it, instead of your local fat pink stupid powerlifter with zero hyper trophies.
A lot of guys are out here trying hard in the gym, and I genuinely respect that. Hats off to you. This is not a dig at the bros putting in the work. However.. One unfortunate side effect of the “science-based optimal hypertrophy renaissance” is that a growing number of guys who…
Conventional deadlifts have absolutely nothing to do with building muscle according to Very Smart People On The Internet, which is why the only man in human history strong enough to deadlift 505KG just happens to be one of the largest, most muscular men in history as well.
When I see a huge guy at the gym I can usually tell with about 95% accuracy, before seeing him do a single rep, just by how he carries himself and dresses etc, whether I’m gonna see some seriously impressive shit, or a bunch of nonsense carried by an absurd amount of gear and/or…
The Standards 1.5 that I just made up, aka 185/275/365/455, is respectable enough for a recreational lifter not to be embarrassed about.
Question is what comes after the plates for guys on the lower end. I’m 5’10” so not sure I want to push like 190+ pounds just to be able to lift more. That would legit feel massive for me.
This is some of the best damn coffee I’ve ever had @TallTexanCoffee
In the ancient times before microplates were easily and widely available anywhere from Amazon to Rogue, my first micros were some Fastenal washers weighing .57 lbs each. I got six so I could make ~1.15/2.3/3.5 lb jumps and then I’d jump the 1.5 to the next 5 lb increment
I remember in SS he mentions using washers to make your own fractionals if you were plateauing
Wow I didn’t know that You can add 2.5 lbs? You’re telling me now for the first time
What about adding different amounts of weight? It doesn't always have to be FAHVE.
Hulk Hogan was 34 for almost 40 years, then he was 70 for a few years, and now he’s wrestling in the big ring in the sky. RIP to a legend.
Hulk Hogan was only 34 here
Autoregulation via RPE was invented to solve a real problem: sufficiently advanced lifters noticed their performance, daily readiness, whatever you want to call it, wasn't perfectly predictable but fluctuated depending on recent training, life stress, recovery factors etc. It was…
It takes a certain kind of brutally honest masochist to accurately gauge RPE and that is probably not you. Just program your lifts ahead of time and don’t give up on it.
Something interesting I've noticed is that even relatively experienced trainees often don't understand the magnitude of difference between something like mistakenly misloading 5 lbs too light on a single submax set of 3 front squats (225 instead of 230 for a guy with a 275x3 RM),…
This is going to sound stupid but over the past couple months I have added a single set of 10-12 bodyweight squats to my warmup instead of starting with the empty bar, and it's helped quite a bit. For background, I have always done something like 2 sets of 5-10 reps with the…
I know it’s so 2020 to be Covid-Poasting, but guys like @boriquagato and @Hold2LLC were pointing out as far back as 5 years ago that Covid seemed to roughly follow the Hope – Simpson geographic incidence curve which predicts that it would have a summer surge in the southern US.…
Rates of positive Covid tests have been increasing in recent weeks, the CDC says, specifically in the southern region of the country. nbcnews.com/health/health-…
I sense something. A presence I’ve not felt since… (Boyle, Cressey, Gentilcore and Starrett ruled the internet)
A pro baseball player would come to our clinic and do 30’ of banded mobility work so he could do trap bar deadlift and split squats.
Some of you whippersnappers won’t believe this but in 2009 it was considered the height of training sophistication to foam roll for 10 minutes and then do 10 minutes of dynamic stretching before touching a single weight, even - no, especially! - if you only had an hour to workout
