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Ha ha! Right enough, Joe. But on a forum with how many members? I thought at least one other person might be interested/experienced/curious/etc. Inglorious return to the forums, this is!
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Well aren't you a delight...
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Yes, I heard that in the US high school wrestlers did a bunch of neck bridging. Here in the UK it's more likely people would be exposed through a martial art (or maybe rugby). Ironically, I had to go to Asia as a young man before I was exposed to it. I was surprised that it was something you could train directly. I think…
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Wow, guess it's not very popular... I get the feeling it's like dedicated grip training, or nail bending, or odd lifts, etc. more on the fringes of the strength game. This forum's a touch vanilla for this sort of thing.
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@nakedraygun Matt, things I would be worried about: 1) "where to go from here". Once you've built to that kind of frequency and your squat volume goes up accordingly, what do you do when you've finished? Reduce your frequency/vol back down? What will happen to your squat once you do? 2) What happens to your other lifts…
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To crush my enemies. See them driven before me. Hear the lamentations of their women. The usual stuff...
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I'd be willing to bet that you aren't engaging your lats properly, setting your ribcage, inflating your obliques/lower back and creating the necessary hip torque to support the load. One of those things will be lacking (or you will have variation rep to rep). Again, as per my previous post, learn how Duffin or CWS do it,…
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To add, are you creating the necessary degree of bracing for the load? You may want to look up people like Chris Duffin, Chad Wesley Smith and Quinn Henoch - they are a gold mine of squat bracing techniques.
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As you squat more you'll develop the stabilizer muscles more and they'll help here. If you knock back the weight a bit are they still "wobbly"? If not, then you are hefting a weight that you can't stabilise yet.
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Enjoy the delicious wine and cheese? Have fun with the family for 4 days? Holidays - they can be fun!
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Yeah, you're adding 10% to your 10 rep sets then doing 2 sets of 12 with it. It trigs the reps slowly upwards over the cycle to build volume whilst keeping the intensity the same. It's not as straight forward as adding X kg's per session. Then you up the intensity 10% for the next cycle again and repeat. You would probably…
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It's soviet dual factor programming. The routine's designed to make you "overreach" by week 5. The medium and light days help you with fatigue management as the volume builds. It's an excellent routine. And very cleverly programmed. You can go a long time adding weight and reps to the bar. You are clearly still under the…
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I currently lift 4x week. Upper lower. It's enough, you could milk such routines phul, 531, etc for years getting stronger, building muscle, losing fat (whatever your current focus is). Could I migrate to 6x a week? Yes, I'm sure I could. But I'd have to mitigate intensity in order to recover. Would I really be any better…
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Well it's more about building work capacity, soft tissue adaptation and recovery. You sound like you might have out raced building these qualities. That's not to say you couldn't build up to the amount of work you're currently attempting and recover just fine - you just need to get there piece by piece over an extended…
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Just keep increasing the weights within the horizon of what you can tolerate. Make progress and enjoy. The best full body 3x/week routine in the world won't do you any good if you're bored shitless by it and quit in a fortnight. If you're enjoying the routine and are tolerating the volume, then keep doing it and keep…
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At the end of the day, progress towards a goal is what's important if you're training. Or else you're just working out and it doesn't matter what you do session to session if you enjoy a single session. So if you are not progressing (joint pain, injuries, stalling, etc) then you need to change the schedule. Because you can…
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Try upper/lower/off/upper/lower/off/off for a few weeks and see how you respond. You may also need a light week to recover and adapt. But going to 4 sessions as outlined above may also do the trick, so start there. As to less volume. Do the above and then once you acclimatise either add volume (more reps/sets) to the 4…
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I was being sarcastic towards the other posters. If you're enjoying the routine and moving towards your goals while staying injury free, then there's nothing wrong with what you're doing. There's an orthodoxy that says if you don't train a certain way you'll either hurt yourself or get nowhere. In reality, progressive…
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But would lowbar squatting to parallel with limit strength type loads produce the same problem in these individuals?
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Well of course no one should ever do anything other than the officially sanctioned beginner's programmes... And, God forbid anyone other than a competitive O-lifter dares to learn an Oly variation... OP: hope you're enjoying the routine, having fun and making some progress. Rock on!
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try this: http://www.shapesense.com/fitness-exercise/calculators/activity-based-calorie-burn-calculator.aspx
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Just checked it out - she basically says sub in overhead press if you're not comfortable jerking. So yeah, do that and work on getting the technique down (either as a light warm up or in your off-time). It's basically getting the timing right on the double dip. And you're working on getting under the bar with locked out…
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Can you share a link to the program, please? On the subject of the jerk, perhaps you can work on getting comfortable OHP the barbell first. When you have the ability to stabilise a loaded bar overhead, then maybe look to working in a slightly more explosive overhead variation - the push press. Finally, when you're…
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Did you read the Schoenfeld review paper I linked and posted extracts from upthread? Makes for interesting reading... Also, "as you age": what age range do you have specifically in mind? 30's? 40's? 50's?
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Perhaps if you tell us a bit more about your training schedule, lift performance, goals, etc currently, we could be a bit more helpful. Or else it's a bunch of random people shouting random advice which you'll ignore because it's "not suitable for me for reason X".
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Micoach by Adidas Best running app, great programs. Tell it what you want to achieve (i.e. better conditioning/conditioning for sports, run a 10k, run a half, run faster, etc), do the test run so it sets up the pace zones for you, tell it how many times a week you can train and it'll lay out a schedule to take you where…
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From a Schoenfeld review: http://vbschools.net/moodle/pluginfile.php/7251/mod_resource/content/0/Squatting%20article.pdf page 3,500 first highlighted section: second highlighted section: - my italics Finally: - my italics So. 1) Increasing knee angles increase shear, but these decrease at high flexion. 2) The squatter's…
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Reading is hard and it's past my bedtime!
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Sure there's all kinds of horrible form out there, whatever type of squatting you do. But calling someone a D-bag for squatting parallel seems a bit uncalled for, IMHO - that was my point.
