FatButWeak
Brooke Shields almost dies (whatever) after falling off a silly bullshit balance board and shattering her spindly, aged, osteoporotic legs. Probably a vegetarian. She also got real old and ugly. Enjoy: Media Story
Lesson: "Squatting is bad for the knees"
Mark Rippetoe
As usual, the media's treatment of the situation is factually incorrect, pompous, and embarrassing to all thinking people. Brooke Shields is irrelevant, but propaganda like this is a serious situation that affects what we do here.
MarinePMI
And that...was some epic...silly bullshit. Smdh…
It's why the hill we roll the ball up keeps getting steeper and higher.
Satch12879
They are having my mother-in-law doing something like this in PT. There's no use in trying to explain to them why it's stupid bullshit as there is nothing too stupid that someone in a position of authority with several groups of letters after his name can say that they won't believe. This applies to many aspects of life and current events. And my wife's best friend is a PT, so they can always defer to her to agree with the silly bullshit.
I just wait until the moment I can say, "I told you so" on a lot of things.
TomRoHer
I recently came across a video in which Louie Simmons was teaching isometric deadlift holds, i.e., placing the pins at the sticking point of your deadlift with the bar beneath and applying maximal force against them for several seconds per rep.
It isn't a topic I can find covered by you anywhere and was curious as to what your take on them is.
For clarity this isn't something I am considering. I just thought it an interesting practise and would like to hear your two cents.
The Ultimate Strength Exercise
Note the date of the article.
Soule
And what is your opinion on isometrics, coach? I don’t believe there is anything on this in the gray book.
I haven't found them to be useful outside the context of a lot of drugs. They are almost impossible to train correctly, and completely unnecessary for novice/intermediate lifters.
Thank you, that is exactly what I was looking for.
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