Matt James
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If anything your upper back extension gets less decisive as the set progresses.

At about 2:45, a great example of the bar floating up as he sets his whole back in extension. Something I've been thinking about lately when it...

Put your back into extension before you initiate the rep-- you're doing it immediately after you start your descent.

Maybe consider a 4-day split.

Something doesn't add up here. You say you did NLP as written for six months. But even if you started with the empty bar for your first session, you...

70% is a lot of weight to strip off. 90% might be more reasonable, and even that's a lot--without knowing what the form issues are. Bigger...

Yes. Ariel, assuming you don't make any other changes-- and you should--the first thing is you will need to eat more food, especially carbs,...

Well, you can... for about a week. OP, how tall are you?

If you watch Lasha lift, it's pretty obvious that the clean is not the limiting factor in his C/J. There's video of him doing clean pulls at 300 for...

Being a novice simply means that you can add weight to the bar each session. Do the novice linear progression as written, ditch the assistance work...

Can you clarify, are the numbers you listed maxes, or what you're doing for 5x5?

Yes, the upper body lifts alternate. I think you should bench because it sounds like you are a rank novice and there is far more absolute upper...

What you should do is run the 3 day program as written for 3 or 4 months, cut biking out completely or at most 1 day a week and then go to two day a...