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When the bar comes off your chest... don't stop [Weightlifting thread]
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Especially throwers. Throwers seem to love them quarter squats.
They have their purpose, just like everything else. Personally, I have no use for them. Although, those quarter squats I had to do for that gym comp where I entered as Ed Coan overloaded my posterior chain like nothing else. I've never been that sore from squatting in my life.
After taking a month off to recover, I dropped down to no weight on the ATG, started from ground zero, and have had no problems since. I'm going to take Tweaked_Bat's advice and incorporate parallel into my routine. Maybe do 5 sets of 5 with 3 being ATG and 2 being parallel and switch for the next time.
You should be aware that unless you're practiced in both, doing low bar and high bar squats can get you messed up. Low bar technique, especially since you can lift heavier weights, is pretty tricky. No knees sliding forward in the hole is a tough thing to learn. I would have a hard time learning to low bar while doing high bar.
It was a challenge but it felt okay today. I started low bar 10 lbs under my normal high bar weight, did 3 sets of 5, then threw the 10 lbs back on for the 2 high bar sets. I'm glad I dropped the weight because low bar felt like a completely different exercise.
He is a real good dude and I am really fucking hoping he is okay.
The moral of the story is - Use your fucking safeties, people. Or spotters. Just don't bench alone without an escape plan. This could have been a lot worse if we'd been one minute later in finding him.
Jesus, I hope he's not brain-damaged or anything else like that.
Anyways, I'm trying to think up a workout plan and here's what I got right now:
Last time I lifted I weighed about 190, squated 210 and benched 120. Now I'm 170 and haven't squated since December.
M/W/F workout days. Squats, Bench press, Upright Rows, DB Curls, Overhead Press, push ups, crunches, ERG rows if the place has it.
Any other workouts I can throw into that?
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Ugh, imagine if you'd not arrived when you did. Hope he's OK.
I can't say I train around "athletes" every day, but I guess I'm not surprised. Like mentioned, they have their place in training...
Got 3x3 chin-ups with 16.25kg on a belt, and got through sets of ten dumbbell rows with 30kg with no issues.
It made me think I should've moved up to 30kg dumbbells earlier, but 27.5kg always seemed so hard in previous weeks.
I have a deload week coming up and I'm not sure if I want it. But I haven't taken one for a while so I guess I should just stick to the program and let the recovery do its good work.
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Here's hoping my shoulder doesn't give me any problems.
Sorry I didn't actually mean to imply that someone is not an athlete if they quarter squat. I was just quoting your use of the word athlete. I train around some folks who are serious about their lifting and do it for the purpose of getting better at it, but I wouldn't call them athletes is what I meant, I suppose. In hindsight that was kind of ambiguous.
I couldn't, no. Especially since you haven't mentioned a particular sport.
Found out he recovered fine. A bit of bruising on the throat and was in shock for a while.
I've seen plenty of people get pinned but never seen someone fully pass out under the bar. I am lucky in that I have some perfectly positioned safeties which the bar rests on as soon as I drop the arch out of my back. It's a pretty freakish occurrence but definitely worth thinking through an escape plan.
The folk I talk to who squat high usually do it because it mimics more closely their sport-specific movement and the angles they need to produce power from. I've also spoken to a couple of bodybuilders who said that for purely hypertrophy purposes, below parallel wasn't necessary.
I don't personally subscribe to those views, but that's the idea I think.
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I've heard the bodybuilding thing too. I've noticed that Ronnie Coleman stops his squats high in a bunch of his vids but he's also a fucking monster so I guess he's figured out what works for him.
Be more specific, what kind of fatigue are we talking about?
Otherwise, my suggestion is sleep.
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When I try to work out my chest, usually any sort of bench, sometimes flies, etc., or if I would try shoulder stuff (lateral raises, etc, which I completely gave up on years ago) I get pain roughly in my AC joint area. If I work out consistently, it starts to happen when I do pretty much anything, and also lingers randomly in the back of my shoulder (feels like its probably in that top bone in your upper back, maybe my scapula?) It started in my right shoulder about 5 or 6 years ago, and has begun to happen in my left shoulder too. I have had limited range in my right shoulder for years, for example I can't even really do an upright row motion, let alone with any weight, while my left is still pretty normal. They crack constantly, and feel like they're popping a little bit during some workout motions. I think 4 years ago or so I got an MRI on it, the guy said there was nothing enough wrong that I needed surgery but that something was a little bit wacky with my AC joint, and I underwent physical therapy. I've done at least 2 or 3 separate sequences of PT on it, including once after getting a cortisone shot in the right shoulder. When it first started, I took at least a year off from lifting, and in the years since then I've taken breaks of between 1 to 6 months several other times. No amount of rest or PT seems to help it, it'll subside (mostly) but acts back up again as soon as I start working out again. I'm making another appointment with a shoulder specialist tomorrow, but has anyone had ANY similar experience with shoulder issues. This shit is really starting to bother me, since working out is something I really, really enjoy and get depressed when I can't for a long period of time, watch my gains disappear for the hundredth time, and end up eating like shit and falling out of shape.
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