Good point. The smooth section of my Rogue shorty bar is 17.4", and I place my hands about an inch to either side of that for the OH Press and Deadlift, so 19 inches. If there's space, I'll drill three or four holes spaced apart the distance of the bolt holes of the neutral grip handle's plates, so I can adjust the width between something like 16 inches and something like 19 and maybe 23 inches? it will be good to know know what your measurements are.Yeah I'd go with 16 or close to the width of the smooth section of the barbell. I'll measure mine tonight because I think the width on that rack is perfect.
Yah, I was thinking 280-320-400, give or take 5-10 pounds on a given lift. Both of us have better benches than deadlifts or squats, so the 3:4:5 ratio will be a little distorted.Let me focus on the squat for a little while, I think I would need at least a 315lb squat and a 400lb deadlift to make it work. Idk it should be doable, maybe if I drop some cash for the diaphragmatic breathing class from Sandler it will help?
Thanks for the suggestion, but unfortunately, not anymore. I used to hang the whole chinup bar assembly on an overhang by the door sliders/guides, but now that's my jacket and gear area.Not enough wall space to mount the chinup bar?
Now I'm wondering exactly what the deflection rate for one of my 41" bands is.
This shoe claim sounds important and seems worth investigating.Rippetoe said:Shoes are the only piece of personal equipment that you really need to own.
Rippetoe acknowledges that a heel lift is a matter of personal preference.Wearing WL shoes seems to be beneficial in reducing the overall trunk lean, because this position is believed to reduce the amount of shear stress in the lower back area. Back squat with WL shoes also increased foot segment angle and possibly contributes to greater muscle excitation in knee extensors. Weightlifting shoes did not help reach thigh segment closer to horizontal as compared with the running shoe condition. It is recommended that WL shoes be used by those who are prone to displaying a forward trunk lean and who aim to increase knee extensor activation.
Rippetoe said:Powerlifting squat shoes have relatively flat soles, and Olympic weightlifting shoes have a little lift in the heel that makes it easier to get the knees forward just in front of the toes. Your choice will depend on your squatting style and your flexibility.
This is reminiscent of typical shoe police admonitions, “glass is everywhere!”, “it’s the health code!”, “bacteria!”Rippetoe said:Training barefoot is not allowed in my gym. I don't need your DNA all over the room if you stub your toe or drop a plate. ... The problem with this is that I have already talked about this, and you guys need to read up before you ask me about things I've already dealt with at length before.
Participants were also asked to subjectively rate which footwear they preferred when performing their squat lifts; this was examined a chi-squared test. ... The chi-squared test was significant and showed that participants preferred to squat barefoot. This study supports anecdotal evidence of athletes who prefer to train barefoot or in barefoot-inspired footwear although no biomechanical evidence was found to support this notion.
Ha, yep, funny how that works. But it was productive, so I can write off the time as a business expense. Oh, I think you asked about the door pullup bar--it's at my office. This last summer I was going to try a greasing the groove experiment like you are now, but then I started getting into higher intensity lifting, and decided to give my body proper time to recover in between attacks.i guess one flippant comment has sent us on a day-long obsession with pullups. it sounds like once the children are asleep, you need to slowly pile weights onto your stretchy bands and plot the force-vs-distance relationship.
Right, I go with the pros/elite simply because the stakes are high for them, and they're the best we got. Most of those studies are basically garbage--unconfirmed, unreplicated, little or no consensus, mainly dealing with a small sample size of relatively untrained individuals over a short period of time, conducted by 'sports' scientists and ex-jock PT-types using dubious methodologies. If you have the patience to sift through that stuff, more power to you. I'd rather read through the opinions of 4-5 top trainers and then figure out which version of their truth works best for me. Did you know that studies have proven that running is bad for you?: http://www.runnersworld.com/health/will-running-too-much-kill-you?page=singleINDIVIDUALS
From a scientific standpoint, common practice is little better than no data. Athletes can be a superstitious bunch. http://www.factmonster.com/spot/superstitions1.html
Expert opinion (without the support of data) is only slightly better.
Even data only provides a starting point. What is most important is what works for the individual.
Interestingly, even in a small study, individuals preferred “barefoot”!
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25331484
Thanks. I rigged up the neutral grip pullup handles yesterday, and the width ended up being pretty much exactly 17.5" and that felt good when I tried a few assisted pullups. Unfortunately, the ends of the handles are about 1/4" too low, and the garage door hits them when retracting. So today I'll drill holes on the other side of the power rack up towards the top of the post. I don't want to drill new holes above the existing, centered ones, because there'd only be a quarter to three eighths of an inch of space between them. No biggie, but somehow it felt better to have my head bop up on the left side of the pulley beam.It's 14.5" from center on my squat rack. A little narrower than my the distance on my bar.
Yah, if feels good to be doing triples again, just doing quintuples gets a little stale and I think the neural-muscular stimulation is a little different. But I don't really have any inclination to do singles, outside of periodically testing my 1RM, and even then, I don't feel any real urge for the time being. More than the physical effort, I think I dislike the mental effort required. It's really great just to daydream in between sets, without having to psych myself up for the next one. Still, after Friday's intense workout, I got a really great, post-workout buzz the next day.Yeah I think our methods are a bit different but the concept is similar in keeping things at a lower intensity overall.
My lifts today felt very easy compared to last week so I am going to keep following this plan for a bit. That must be what the easy is. Trying to find a gym where I will be staying at in the states, I really don't want to go to LA fitness...
Hopefully we will get some snow and I can get a pull harness and take the boys sledding and get some weighted hill repeats in. I did buy a landmine to take back home with me. I think initially I might just do Russian twists with it as part of my warmup.
We're in for a couple of weeks of milder weather, after an unusually harsh November, so hopefully I'll be able to get a half dozen more barefoot runs. Can't let Broad Arrow get too far ahead in the Winter Challenge. But I'm realizing people a little to the south of us in Illinois and Ohio are perfectly placed for optimal qualifying temps. Oh well, at least I don't live in Winterpeg!
Problem with guys like you is that you can eat up a whole week of my mileage on one balmy day.you should be ok for a little while. i have this thing i'm calling a "dead spot" on the bottom of my feet. it's not really dead, but the skin seems to be qualitatively different [weird fungal infection? skin layers separating? ]. it is kinda below the #2 toe and a little toward the big toe; i think it is where the flesh gets smashed together when you step (i start on the outside) so it gets stressed more. plus it may have some vague association with the "morton's toe" kind of thing that i haven't figured out at all. anyways, during the summer, it is no problem, but at the start of winter, the skin starts to soften up and that spot in particular ends up getting worn through. then, it starts getting healed up and sealed up and i get excited and go running. yeah, not so wise: then i'm leaving little drops of blood on the floor and have to walk all funny. then a day or two later, i repeat my stupidity. thus, i am trying to force myself to be a good little boy and let it completely heal up. at least this year only the right foot seems heavily affected while the left foot has a hint of softness but has maintained its integrity.
for the moment, i am left issuing empty threats: oh yeah, once my skin heals up, it's on!
Hey, stop making fun. I think my PR for the hundo is under three weeks.if you are allowed to employ bare lee's "run, walk, eat, go to the symphony, sleep, shower, eat, go to work, run, eat, go to menard's, sleep, run" strategy, you can cover almost any distance, just the cutoff time had better be about 4 months.
Could be a gateway to real free weight workouts, or just an excuse to do partial squats at low weight. In any case, I agree, I think my wife would look cute doing that stuff as well.so anyways, i think i'll still end up making a little bit of fun of her, but will still try to lure her back home and into a more weighted emphasis since my primary paranoia for her is osteoporosis (and moving those 5lb weights just ain't gonna send the memo to the bones). anyways, whatever floats her boat because if momma ain't happy, nobody ain't happy.
It must be frustrating to be a real strength and conditioning trainer and constantly have to disabuse potential clients about the stuff they've seen on TV infomercials. I guess the rule is never trust a trainer with a headset.Looks like a cardio class with weights, so one can pretend to do a strength workout.