Deep Squats, Shallow Thoughts
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Strength Coach, former Little League MVP.
Joined September 2017
I haven't worked out exactly what it is yet, but there's some common connection between what we see here and the type of person who becomes an evidence based fitness adherent/influencer.
Watch this entire clip. Gordon Guyatt (@GuyattGH) said he would "jump off a bridge" if he ever discovered he had signed a statement calling pediatric gender medicine "medically necessary." @_CryMiaRiver then showed him that he had, in fact, signed a statement saying exactly
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I give my dog a marrow bone to gnaw on 1-2x a week. He can only gnaw on his dog bed, which I cover with a towel that covers 98% of the bed. Every single time, he finds a way to eat the bone somewhere on the 2% the towel doesn't cover, even though it's a different place every time
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If you are at all interested in training for size/physique/bodybuilding/hypertrophy you need to devote a weekend to going down the IntenseMuscle(dot)com rabbit hole. For those under 30……Before social media we had Forums. It is actually quite unfortunate that forums have
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You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose but you can’t pick the bar off the rack to press it without your elbows down and back behind the barbell like an absolute retard?
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This is essentially what Wendler was saying. He was trying to copy what the big guys at Westside were doing without having built the base they had as a pre requisite. Whether they had that base because of great genetics or prior training is irrelevant. HE DIDNT HAVE IT SO HE HAD
@wolfstrength This is true about so many things. Is asymmetrical loading useful for barbell training? Yes. Is it useful for you, or him, or me? Probably not, unless we can articulate a specific reason to do it. Does the Westside program work? Yes. Is it a good way for a novice to train? No.
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Back in college I was especially focused on increasing my bench press, as almost everyone who trained back then was, before Very Smart People came along and informed everyone that the bench sucks actually (funny case of the evidence based bois and the bros shaking hands here).
"At this point, I realized that Weak Point training is for people who were strong. A weak point meant that I had a strong point, but because I had no strong points, I had 0 weak points. EVERYTHING was weak. I made the ultimate mistake: I thought I was too good for basic
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"At this point, I realized that Weak Point training is for people who were strong. A weak point meant that I had a strong point, but because I had no strong points, I had 0 weak points. EVERYTHING was weak. I made the ultimate mistake: I thought I was too good for basic
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One tangential upside of doing a novice linear progression is that the Sunday scaries seem absurd after you face down squatting, pressing and deadlifting a heavier weight for sets of five than you ever have before in your life, three days a week every week, for months on end
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I’m not saying that it would work exactly the same for lifters were already competing at the international level, but I am saying that there’s something about their own discipline that the 100% lockstep consensus of subject matter experts were wrong about.
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I had always heard from almost everyone I read or interacted with in CrossFit and Olympic lifting that not only would heavy deadlifts and low bar squats not help the olympic lifts, but might even hurt them. At first I believed them. Then I was skeptical. Then I thought they were
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Sometimes quasi shitpoasting doesn't age well, so, this isn't: 1. Actually the only EP you need to know 2. Literally absolutely true, though in a simplified manner it's close enough 3. Meant to apply to every lift - no one's doing lateral raises for heavy doubles
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Game by the numbers Kalshi volume: $26.6m Spit ejections: 1 Rizzler commercials: 1 Weather delays: 1 AJ Brown catches: 1
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The only Exercise Physiology you need to know, in reps: 1-3: STRENGTH, size 4-6: STRENGTH, SIZE 7: No one does 7s you psycho 8-12: SIZE, strength 12-20: PUMP, size 20-25: Silliness 25-30: Madness 30+: Death
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This isn’t the cable crossover, but works perfectly well as an example
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How I look at the 124 lb 19 year-old setting up a bench, two interconnected slings, and a cuff attached to the Cable crossover, while holding an empty handle, as he records his “lift” for TikTok
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Take any key lift you want: squat, bench, leg press, incline dumbell bench, RDL, whatever. Lift only 20% of your normal weight but for 5x the reps. So let's say you leg press 6 plates per side for good deep sets of 10. Now do 1 and a quarter for sets of 50 for the next year. Or
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0% evidence, 100% based I like it
@wolfstrength You shouldn’t wipe down equipment. The sweat from a man who can bench 500lbs turns others into goddamn sexual tyrannosauri!
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You don’t need to wipe down equipment in the gym after using it unless you leave enough visible sweat on it such that it doesn’t evaporate after a few seconds
@SarAllyce It’s such an annoying trend that afaict only started the absurd lengths it is now post covid. Yes if you sweat a lot on something, wipe it down. Otherwise wtf. It’s a gym, not a surgical ward. Meanwhile many of the same ppl don’t put their weights away.
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1124 lbs and it doesn’t even look that hard. @ThorBjornsson_ isn’t just next level, he’s next galaxy.
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