Jason Donaldson
This evening, my nine-year-old son was trying to encourage his younger brother to overcome his fear of the dark, which was keeping him from helping take out the trash. One of his arguments was that I was in the house, and so they were safe from anything in the dark. Then he said this:
"Daddy had to train really hard to get that strong...
"If you want to be strong, you have to be brave and work out."
Rip, seven and a half years ago, their daddy was not strong. I was fat, weak, and chronically jacked up. No longer. (Well, still a bit fat...)
Thank you. I am unspeakably grateful to you and to this community you've gathered.
DorPwnz
I am about 195cm with long arms, (duh) and my question is like this : should I grip like in the recommendation or grip wider like I do now? The recommendation is just before the ring inner ring. I put my pinky on the outer ring as the barbell in my gym has both an internal and outer ring for each side of the bar. This is where I don't have to "compress" myself (the scapular retraction is not influenced) I've been doing it with pinkies on the inner ring and even hit new PRs but now the pinkies on the outer ones feel much more comfortable. Alrighty then? Can I keep it that way?
Mark Rippetoe
Fine with me. Do you understand why we recommend the width we do? There's a very specific reason.
Vertical forearms at the bottom.
You can take it from there.
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