1000 pound club

Squats - 153
Deads - 253
Bench - 123

I'm trying to cut some weight/body fat and I'm coming back post lower body injury so I haven't done a true squat in a long time for a ORM. I'd like to compete strongman at some point once i get my glutes/hams working better.

1000 lb club? I'm more like in the 100lb club cuz my arms are weak as hell.

Thats what I said!

Except my whole body is weak

No. A belt doesn't prevent butt wink. I think you need to go off and do some research. Just wanted to remind you that this whole thing started over you stating "it only counts if it's ATG" and "toes can't go over knees". Now adding in the belt comment, I think you need to learn a lot more before trying to make absolute statements or giving advice.

Also, it's one thing to go ATG with 135. It's something entirely different with an actual working weight (like I asked for video of). At least now you realize that due to structure and mechanics it is impossible to reach ATG with knees behind toes. I highly suggest for your own benefit you have someone record your squat sessions for a while.

squat is apparently one lift where my highschool gym really lead me astray lol.

i'm confused by "toes can't go over knees". I"m thinking your talking about the statement often heard 'your knees should not extend past your toes'.

Are you just saying that you couldn't get super low, like and inch off the ground, without extending your knees beyond your toes?

or are you also saying that its not a safety concern at all?

Yopeeps was indicating that your toes must remain behind the knees and cannot extend past that. It's false, you should not restrict your knees to stay behind your toes (there were several links posted earlier that talk about why).

It is impossible to get super low (ATG) without your knees extending past your toes. It is mechanically impossible, you will end up on your butt or face.

i found this, not sure if it was posted earlier, seemed like a good explination to me:

http://www.acefitness.org/acefit/healthy-living-article/60/562/is-it-ever-okay-for-your-knees-to-extend/

basically said that its a general rule, good for preventing a large audience from injuring themselves with bad form. They went on to say that it is a myth, but that allowing the knee to travel excessively beyond the knee should still be avoided. Apparently it can place about 28% greater stress on the joint, but NOT allowing the knee to travel beyond the toes would increase stress on the hips by 1000%. So IF it causes undue stress on your knees, its still reducing undue stress on your body as a whole.

there is an interesting exercise that has you hold a broom stick straight down your spine in order to keep a straight back and hinge more at the hips then the knees.




When it comes to knees, you can probably tell a lot just by feel. In other words, if your experiencing pain then its probably due to bad from rather then lack of ROM.

that being said, at 36 years old, after sitting out for almost a year due to exercise related injury, i'm simply done swinging for the fences every time. parrallel or just a hair below is effective enough for me, and i don't feel like pushing my luck for something that probably wont make much differnce when i look in the mirror.

Not that anyone asked for my 02 cents but thats pretty much what was going through my head when i was looking at Yopeeps pics, tho hats off to him for taking a lot of time to improve his form.

don't mind me, some of you might remember that it took a lot to convince me that breaking parrallel on squats was ok lol.

At 56 years old, my most recent lifts were 350 squat, 275 bench, 450 deadlift for a 1075 total.

I AM the thread killer!

The thread was almost dead when you joined it. haha

It's nice to have a 'safe' place to do a little bragging and be proud of our accomplishments.