Jason Donaldson
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For your setup, I'd say try to squeeze yourself into place slowly on step five, instead of the aggressive jerk you're doing on most of your reps. ...

You're making good progress on these, Kyle. Try keeping your mouth open on your Valsalva, to ensure you're holding it at your glottis and not...

Good call - start here: The Belt and the Deadlift | Mark Rippetoe then proceed to here: The Belt and Your Training | Mark Rippetoe .

We call the deadlift a "pull", but that's a misnomer. It's a push - you need to start with the knees straightening and the hips driving up, not...

Random One: Please make sure to let us know once you've read what Rip told you to read, so we can go from there. You're legally forbidden from...

Not to mention the fact that your forebears overwhelmingly voted to secede from a union that responded with "Yeah, no", and they stayed. What was...

I'm sorry, I wish I could tell you, Dave - in my case, it was basically just dumb luck. About ten years ago, I was looking to find a primary care...

The bulk of my growing up years, we had a B&W TV, so I was in that boat, too. Seeing things like the Wizard of Oz, Star Trek, even Sesame Street in...

I'm not trying to add to Nick's response, just commenting on how facile the "no weights for 6 months" advice is. DBA, you told the doctor that your...

For what it's worth, I have very, very similar experiences training under the bar, as do many other folks. I do understand that people are...

My apologies if I'm missing it, but skimming the thread, I think this may have gotten missed - have you shared your age, height, weight, and what...

Please unpack this. Are you continuing to add weight with what you're currently doing, or are you missing reps? More details, including both what...

Depending on the doctor, you might not even need to decide between the two....

When you're talking about competing resources (time, energy, recovery, whatever), you can at best hope to do one thing great, two things well, or...

East and West, or North and South?

I've generally been the opposite - I prefer facing the wall, and for the same reason. No worries, though - whatever works for you. A thought: A...

Yngvi, you are truly a master of suspense. Your link is a no-go: Video unavailable This video is private

The Jen Psaki clip at the beginning is of a tiresome, standard argument format: No one's doing X. And even if they are doing X, there's not a...

It sounds like lifting with the belt on and backed out a hole or two from what you were doing is the logical thing to try next. It is quite possible...

From that poster's listed source: Inside The Life Of An Apple Picker : The Salt : NPR An NPR article with an illustration of both the Novice...

Great - thank you, sir.

Ah, yes - I was solely thinking of a single rep, not of what happens when you set it down. Still, it's been an interesting thought experiment. ...

Well done, WC - both at doing and at learning. When you say "rope ones", you mean the strap safeties that are so in vogue, for some reason?