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About 323 Agree on the kg too!

Wasn't my Wilks score calculation good enough? "The Wilks Coefficient or Wilks Formula is a coefficient that can be used to measure the strength of a powerlifter against other powerlifters despite the different weights of the lifters. Robert Wilks is the author of the formula."

Yes, except I rounded as I didn't think the forum needed it to 3 decimal places, I can't remember what the actual was, but worse case is 317.5 and best case is 318.4.

So this is what is really needed to give any meaningful information. A quick and dirty guess - It's likely to be ankle or hip mobility. I'd go with ankle mobility as first choice, if putting something under your heel like a weight plate stops or educes the problem, it's ankle mobility. The cure is to work on ankle mobility…

Pretty close though 326 v 318 Wilks. Also not to take anything away from Sara, as her lifts are awesome, but competition lifts are a different beast, so not really a true comparison.

DOMS or soreness isn't really correlated with workout effectiveness. Some people get it more than others, but it doesn't necessarily mean your workout was not effective. I pretty much only get soreness from doing something I've not done before - different muscle, more range of movement, or from going near maximal, like a…

I was hoping you knew something that hadn't even been publicly announced yet, and we'd got a scoop here!

When did that happen? I thought they only just moved to Leeds Met about 3/4 years ago, excluding a couple of lifters who train individually.

I'm glad my gym has 6 platforms with racks, and is there is talk of plans to add another 6. It will be awesome, 2 people doing c&J, snatches and maybe even squats, and 10 people benching or doing curls all in peaceful harmony!

lol, broscience much? I've met giants that started weightlifting in their early teens, maybe weighlifting makes people grow taller? Which bit of anecdotal evidence do we go with? Of course there are short people who lift weights, in fact in competitive weightlifting being short is an advantage, hence you get lots of short…

Weight lifting is fine at that age, there are a lot of scaremonger myths about it, but no scientific studies backing them up. As long as he learns the correct movement patterns and progresses steadily, rather than goes straight in at max attempts, he should be fine. It should also give him a good head start against other…

I agree with the above too, although in a class setting I think it's far less likely, whereas in a sports\performance setting it's far more common to have coaches who are experts in the subject, but may not (or no longer) be able to apply it themselves.

I'm assuming you mean the psoas or the iliacus. Very common, they're hard to get with a foam roller, because of their position, and the hip bones, but try with a tennis ball or a lacrosse ball if you're feeling brave, and you should be able to get them pretty good.

If you want to be more muscular, you're going to have to start doing more weight training, and less cardio work. I've never been to a bodypump class, but I've seen them in the studio of the gym I train at. Whilst they are using weights, it seems to be far more cardio based than training for muscles or strength. If you…

So everyone has already hit on the stabiliser muscles, and the difficulty difference, but there is another thing to consider - mobility and balance. In a squat you must keep the combined centre of gravity of yourself and the bar over your feet, too far forward and backward and you will fall over. To do this well, you need…

Maybe it's a guy thing, but really hard work without results is at best just being inefficient, and at worst a waste of time. I'm not saying that to be mean, but as a guy, maybe I view it differently, which may be what your boyfriend is seeing. If I train hard in the gym and don't get stronger and\or better at my sport, to…

In the gym, working hard!

Purely from your description, it sounds like one of your hip flexor muscles (Iliopsoas). As to what you need to do to improve, without seeing what your squat looks like, it's impossible to say. It could be weakness, mobility, movement pattern, or just overdoing it, it could even be a combination of these.

Depends what you're doing in the gym and why. For strength sports, I think it's very worthwhile, as in a competition, it's this fraction that may be important, for general training, as long as the jumps you have currently available aren't too coarse (say 1.25kg plates) I wouldn't necessarily bother. Off topic, I remember…

Glad to have helped, and nice ideas to change things up. My only comment would be to maybe drop the power cleans, and do something else, and then add them in later, once you have a more solid base of lower body strength.

So as someone who first joined here when recovering from a car accident, I know how it feels. That said, unless you have been told that medically you cannot do these movements, I would look to incorporate them. It might be the case that you're going to have to do assistance work to build up to a level where you can squat…

Agree on the legs, but also way to many variables to consider, as we know nothing about you. What are you trying to achieve? What's your lifting ability\experience?

Also, if you use linked in, you can always contact them through that.

I'm assuming people mean strict, as push pressing should allow a decent weight to be lifted overhead, somewhere around 80% of front squat IMHO. I think my weakest lift is bench, mainly because I last did it a year ago, and that was just for fun at someone's house, it has no part in my training!

Sure, you won't have to worry about failure, as if that happens, I'll just lift if over my head! :laugh:

LOL! Jay Cutler the QB! I'm sure it was irony, but for the unaware, there is another Jay Cutler! Back on topic, be aware that about 1/3 of the population have no response to creatine, and only about 1/3 have a significant response.

I'm just here to make up the numbers for ironanimals side. It must be bromance!

Does your gym have a safety squat bar? Sounds like this would be perfect to allow you to continue squatting, until your shoulder is healed.

Well there might be a few (not many) instances where machines make sense, but you can't tell just by looking someone up and down. He's either lazy, and just wants to use a cookie cutter approach, or he's not as qualified as you or he thinks. Maybe, he is unable to teach barbell exercises, so he is doing it for his own…

He's working for you, not the other way around, you don't have to do what he says! I would either approach the gym management, and request another free session to make a plan, outlining the issues above, or just ignore the guy, and do the NROLFW workouts.