Maybach
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On SS Radio #271, Rip, you have a guy call in about training his dad and recommend the Nu-Hope ostomy/hernia support belts. These look pretty good,...

The purpose of squatting the empty bar is to get blood flowing to the muscles. 10 reps accomplishes this pretty well. You're not practicing 5s with...

A hard stick like that indicates you have failed to produce the next increase. Try 96 pounds. Triples are occasionally warranted for the...

Is there a reason you want to keep your knees so far back? They can move forward a *little*.

You appear to be describing your quads "making contact" with the bar: the bar should be in contact with your quads to begin with, and leave them once...

If you use open loop straps (the kind recommended for the deadlift) then releasing the grip releases the straps. The force on the wrist won't be any...

The best exercise to restore that range of motion is the press. If your lockout is correct and can be achieved with weight and without pain, I cannot...

What do you require your fingers to do during the clean that they don't do during the deadlift? Are you saying you can't flex your fingers back far...

These have extremely bad arm pull which you need to fix. But it doesn't look like the lack of sleeves really presents a problem.

Yeah this is what I was thinking. The Olympic lifters in my gym regularly squat 400+ pounds off of floating rogue stands that aren't more than a...

You can clearly get your back into extension: you do so sharply at the beginning of each rep. Just do whatever you do at the beginning on the unrack...

Your hips are a bit low, with the attendant knock on effects (knees too far forward, bar forward of mid foot). I'll bet Rip'll have something to...

Put him in charge of counting your reps. This will keep him in one spot.

I mean it seems strange that you can't bench the weight you can pull up. 280x5 isn't really a high standard for someone repping +80 BW chin ups.

The bar may not be in the correct position at the top: his grip is loose. His elbows and arms should have the relationship to his torso that they...

Your back oscillates back and forth between extension and flexion like three times throughout the set. Watch your hips and your upper back and note...

Oh Jesus it doesn't even have a sleeve. Have you tried cleaning with it? How bad is it?

None of the programs in the Grey book are intended to be used out of the book. Reading the entire book cover to cover will impart the principles...

I admit I'm not familiar with the EU situation, which appears to be more dire than I imagined. But the damn thing is not really an engineering feat....

Honestly, man, a squat rack is not that expensive. You can get yourself a relatively small footprint squat stand for a couple hundred bucks that will...

No. No man. Why would it? That's like three checks against it. This is not a Texas method of any description. Power cleans are not optional.

He might. Your touch point is a bit high and your elbows are a bit far out. You could touch the bar perhaps an inch lower and keep your elbows closer...

The shirt needs to be cotton because the bar needs to not slip around on it during the squat. They even make shirts with little rubber grippy things...

That's just it. This ISN'T adequately explained by stupidity. This guy may have been trying to kill you

Why would he think he needed help going down? Doesn't the 120kg of metal help with that?

Oh, really?

The bar drifts well forward of midfoot as the set progresses. This is probably related to the fact that you are not in control of the weight at all...

Grip is way too wide: you want your forearms to be in line with your humeri, which should also be more or less vertical at the bottom, not adducted...