Starting Strength Elevator Speech

[lewabbit]

Will humping a barbell help increase my squat by 10-15%?

[Paul Horn]

I typically go with this approach:



The ones who stand in front of my gym for three days are admitted.

[trick_ster]

I typically go with this approach:


The ones who stand in front of my gym for three days are admitted.

I'm glad someone in the LA area is thinking of the homeless.

[Michael Wolf]

Will humping a barbell help increase my squat by 10-15%?

Only if you do a low-bar hump.

[BamFTW]

Only if you do a low-bar hump.

Like that?

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[Michael Wolf]

Like that?

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The influence of The Glute Guy is annoyingly pervasive. Can someone explain to me why anyone pays attention to what he says about squatting, when he is a healthy 220 pound male in his 30's, who has been writing T-Nation articles for at least 7 years, so presumably training AT LEAST that long (but probably longer) but failed to squat 400 lbs? I know we always advocate debating the argument on its own merits here, not based on how strong the arguer is, but does this not indicate a serious lack of basic understanding in either technique execution, programming, or both, regarding the squat? Yes, yes it does.

Have I officially derailed the thread? Guess so.

[iamgmo]

The influence of The Glute Guy is annoyingly pervasive. Can someone explain to me why anyone pays attention to what he says about squatting, when he is a healthy 220 pound male in his 30's, who has been writing T-Nation articles for at least 7 years, so presumably training AT LEAST that long (but probably longer) but failed to squat 400 lbs? I know we always advocate debating the argument on its own merits here, not based on how strong the arguer is, but does this not indicate a serious lack of basic understanding in either technique execution, programming, or both, regarding the squat? Yes, yes it does.

Have I officially derailed the thread? Guess so.

Well he mostly claims to have big glutes and so females follow his advice. now if most people that squat consistently posted what their glute measurement is and compared it to this clown, maybe people would start thinking differently.

[OCG]

Mine are currently ~47 inches. I have never preformed a glute bridge or indeed any glute isolation work.

Brett has apparently done some research and apparently an EMG shows that glute bridges "activate" the glutes more than squatting or deadlifting. This is important because reasons.

[Feng_Li]

Well he mostly claims to have big glutes and so females follow his advice. now if most people that squat consistently posted what their glute measurement is and compared it to this clown, maybe people would start thinking differently.

Plenty of people who don't squat also have bigger "glute" measurements than he does.