Maybach
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I hesitated recommending moving the bar down your back just because it looks right from here. But moving it down a shade might be warranted. A...

Triples are useful with certain lifters at certain weights. The halting deadlift is the one of the two variations that does NOT give the lower...

You're doing what you were initially doing on the descent backwards: you are fully extending your hips before your knees finish extending. This is in...

Your knees and hips are too far forward. To keep the bar in balance while you lean over, your hips need to go back. A TUBOW or similar object in...

It looks like...you are breaking with your knees and THEN your hips, causing you to have to shove your hips "back" after the descent has already...

Eliminate the light work from this and you have a 4 day program. The light day is only necessary when bridging the gap between Monday and Friday. ...

I think at the heart of this is the "active recovery" thing. "Active recovery" is a myth. There is nothing you can do in the gym that makes you...

Sorry to get you two mixed up: this happened somewhere transferring drafts between my phone and computer. Seriously man, you are thinking about...

It's suboptimal, but also almost certainly doesn't matter. If you get to the point where you're missing squat reps because of your deadlift, let me...

Try hook grip, mixed grip, or straps. You get the back into extension, it just relaxes very quickly off the floor. Often that's a grip issue.

You are thinking about some of these concepts with sufficient granularity that they are ceasing to become helpful. I am going to try to be exact here...

Back is coming out of extension a little bit on these. Try harder. Don't raise your neck: keep your gaze directed towards a point on the floor labour...

There is nothing magical about the number five

Unless there's something really wrong with your anthropometry, or you're squatting 700 pounds, your deadlift should be ahead of your squat. Of...

It is worth mentioning: no amount of an increase in grip strength will make another person's strong grip somehow feel less strong.

I jumped on my first NLP using weights from when I thought I was "intermediate" and got four weeks before I even needed to add a light day, and...

This is less volume than a 3x a week program, so that's the issue, not recovery time. A lot of people find this dose works, more or less.

From what I can see this looks fine, other than being perhaps a bit too deep. What is the connection between your initial problem and this squat? Can...

I would be very surprised if you could make twice weekly increases on your squat for all that much longer while your deadlift slows down. If you like...

I will say those numbers are fine but not necessarily obviously end of NLP for a 6'3" 250 pound guy. You can reasonably expect to be repping those...

If leaning over more moves the bar forward of midfoot, it is because your knees and hips are too far forward. These are high bar and are well...

Missed that that was you in the squat videos. Yeah man just put pounds in these. They look hard but that doesn't really mean anything.

There's nothing wrong with your back on these at all. Don't even contemplate a reset at this point. These did look pretty hard. Hard enough that I...

Your knees and hips need to be shifted back about six inches. You are "high barring" these, even though the bar is in the correct position. Stay in...

I am guessing what he means is what is the actual, trainable parameter (which is less straightforward then strength). The anaerobic and aerobic...

Last rep is a shade high, but this is the wrong call. The last rep is worth "mental difficulties." The place to avoid these mental difficulties is...

The Blue Book is first, and more important, since it treats the way the lifts are actually done. Doing the lifts with correct technique and bad...

Regarding the question about creatine: This is worth noting for the edification of any coach who might have to field questions about creatine. A...

If you have never done an NLP, you are still a novice for most purposes. Depending on how intelligently you have been training, you might only get...

"Hitting plateaus" is not a well defined phenomenon. What happens when you put 335 on tomorrow? If your squats are high, then nothing, including...