How do people like this exist?

[Mark Rippetoe]

It's the mechanics. If it was muscle mass, the whole belly would be tight but proportionately outgunned.

[Ello]

It's the mechanics. If it was muscle mass, the whole belly would be tight but proportionately outgunned.

I'll be the first to admit that my knowledge on muscle mechanics is limited because of my lack of effort. However, I can attest to the use of biceps in both pushups and bench.

When my tendonitis flares up, I lose 5-15lbs on my bench. Rather frustrating too because I can never plan for it.

[Dastardly]

Ask him if he has to pull his heavy presses back down to his shoulders using his lats. Glassman actually told me that he thinks the hip flexors are required to pull the hips into flexion at the bottom of the squat, so this is pervasive.

From you interview with Dan John and some other audio stuff, it sounded like you had some respect for Pavel Tsatsouline. I know that he goes on quite a lot about the hip flexors pulling oneself down into the hole of a squat in his books.

[Mark Rippetoe]

And that may be a useful cue for kettlebell work. But it does not apply to a 405 squat.