A few thoughts:

1) Part of powerlifting involves speed, and quickness. I'm much quicker now, then I ever was in high school. And that can help.
2) Being strong doesn't help you as much as...

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Well... I've been recently complemented on my tenor, but interestingly enough, at the expense of my baritone. However, i attribute that more to age then to lifting. My baritone and bass has...

Ironically... I'm from Canada too. And I hear they are booking into December as well. I just had my wife perform the Lachman test. Now, granted... she's not a doctor. But my left leg, comes to...

Thanks coach. That is very reassuring. They are pussy footing around the issue right now. The doctor I saw was kinda terrible. Not only does he believe that i haven't torn anything, he h
Gave me...

Hi Ripp,

I just tore/ruptured my ACL playing a pickup game of basketball. I've got all the classic symptoms. I was accelerating sideways, went to jump, felt and heard a pop. Now i've got huge...

Instead of lifting your butt, you can do more of a powerlifters arch. And if you are having trouble pulling it off the pins, bringing the pins closer will definitely help...

You don't lose much by going up slow. My biggest setbacks have been from being too greedy. Give your body time to get you over that wall in my honest opinion.

Knowing is half the battle. I actually verbally go over my cue list before I ever put the weight on my back. You may want to try that?

Perhaps it's just the camera angle, but you look like you are lifting your butt off the bench for your last two reps, and while racking / unracking. That's generally frowned upon.

Also,...

Do you normally wait that long before you begin squatting? The longer you're standing there with hundreds of lbs on you, the more your upper back is going to loosen, or at least, that is my...

Looks pretty good to me. Back is straight, head is down, your are going to parallel, perhaps a bit below. We can't see your stance, or where your knees end up from this angle. We also can't...

I'm damned near your height at 6'2". I was damned near your weight (215 lbs), and I got stuck at exactly that damned spot!

Press at 95 lbs. Bench at 145 lbs. Talk about frustrated! I know...

So, consensus is safe, but not effective at relieving DOMS. Good to know! Thanks all!

So, I know you aren't supposed to stretch immediately before a lift, But what about the days between lifts? I often get bad DOMS in the muscles on the inside of my thighs. Is it safe to stretch...

I'm not sure if anyone is still following this thread. I backed off on my volume a pile, and I managed to pull out a 5RM of 305 today(Friday). So, that's fairly awesome. My previous max was 275. ...

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I own SS,and I'm going to order Practical Programming. I've already said as much..

So... because I had bad information, i'm still physically a novice lifter?

Sorry. There's no correlation between the two. I've seen people with terrible form bench press more than I can. ...

Roger. I'll give that a go. I think i'm going to regress, and start doing hang cleans with 135. Then, start the motion from just below the knees, pull it up, and do a hang clean, then go to the...