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Since your back is already fine, you could take another 4-5 days to be fully sure you're okay. Meanwhile, some stretching exercises and back extensions with no weights should be good to ensure it's perfectly fine. If it hurts a little, back off. If it's sore, then go on.

Now I know why you BB, you fuken nerd. You're one of them!

Btw the shakes taste almost 100% like ON. The caffeine ones, still closed. The fact that it has caffeine just gives me a bad feeling running along the lines of constipated tummies and zombie nights.

StringQ, you could try these two cues when squatting. Chest up, or chest down. Some work better chest up, some down. Myself, my head has to be slightly forward and chest slightly up, but not totally up. Too far down, and I sink too low. Too high up and I lose my hip drive. 1/3 up, and I get to sit right in and drive up.

Either your torso is way too straight thus killing your quad strength, or you don't use enough weights.

There's still a way to better it. It involves rotating your hips and knees in and out. Got that right and a nicer number. Easy....So I'm inclined to believe that squatting is actually more technique than just pure strength.

It's something like, rotating your knees slightly in, so your hips come closer to your feet and then driving hips out from the hole and pushing knees sideways. No, it's not in to the extent of an ACL injury.

This post has been edited by pizzaboy: Nov 26 2009, 01:33 AM

You did 160KG for 3 right?
The same day, I tried 160KG for 3 as well. Three sets. REPETITION PR!

Wanna freak of a nature?
Turn on your television now, Eurosports. Watch 85kg LU yong. That's a freak of a nature.
OR my coach, squats 220KG for 5 triples.

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Added on November 26, 2009, 8:41 pmWhich brings me to the topic.....Malaysian and bodybuilders that read American websites, are probably pussies.

This post has been edited by pizzaboy: Nov 26 2009, 08:41 PM

WHAT THE FCUK!?!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_World_We...Men's_85_kg

I can't believe it! Lu Yong lost in the clean and jerks! He routinely does 210 for jerks, and this time he only managed 208KG? And Tigran of Armenia didn't even start the CNJ? What is going on? This is a disaster.....disaster....

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Added on November 27, 2009, 10:26 amLotsa overload squats and pulls makes a lifter strong. And also lotsa partials and good programming.

This post has been edited by pizzaboy: Nov 27 2009, 10:26 AM

Have you tried to front squat? Try doing 1/3 front squats with 140% overload of your max front squat. Give sprinting for max speed a try. Pull a lorry or even push it. Try wall climbing, and you'll get sorer forearms than deadlifts can give. Try stone loading and tractor tire flips and pulls. All these exercises, are "kings of exercise" in their own right.

There is no such thing as a king of all exercises.

It's just, what exercise suits your goals and how you use it in your program. Keep deadlifting alone and you'll start seeing muscular imbalances and injuries. Believe me pal, deadlifts use every part of your body, but then injuries can still happen as there's going to be overcompensation and underutilization. Why do you think Bulgarians used to get injuries so often? All they do is the same old lift over and over and over again at incredibly high intensity and for crazy durations.

Use an exercise cleverly. Learn to prehab your body and ensure a seamless flow in your movement. There's a bit of "taichi" in lifting too. I've seen how muscular imbalances give back aches, constant stiff necks, joint injuries and dislocations. IF you're lifting weights to look good, don't forget about feeling good. IF you don't feel good (thanks to bad programming), you don't look good.

IT .....werks!
Land on the heels? Bitch hell no......i landed on my heels and it was sending shockwaves to my head. Even after bending my knees on landing.

dude you pull 180 man. taht's not weak

Aiyo. Then you better work back to it. Don't let your strength just diminish away like that. I'm sure your back's gotten stronger now. Last time when I rested for a while, because I felt I tweaked my back, I came back and pulled a PR. I think that time was only 140KG-160KG. 20KG PR just by resting.

Personal record lah.
British or English people call it "PB"
Chinese call it "Jie xien jue" (I can't write Chinese forget it)

That's because you don't mix and match your rep ranges and weights. Or either that you don't mix around your rest period. Or you've got bad form. My cousin who's 6'3 and weighs 82KG only, could deadlift 100KG for 5x3 after tweaking his form. Initially he was struggling with merely 50KG. Form is of utmost importance for safety and pulling max weights.

You know what worked insanely well?
Rock climbing. That's like the only way you really hang on tighter. The fear of falling helps

It's ....never mind.

I'm FCUKING terrified of heights. So I grip like I'm falling down all the time. I can't even stand on a balcony and look down

Well when you have good myofibrillar hypertrophy, you are able to do that. Myofibrils increase in number, thus causing the muscular strength to be much stronger. Slightly sarcoplasmic hypertrophy, but more of strength than looks. It's the weightlifter/gymnast/strength athlete muscle that is strong. The sarcoplasmic muscular growth, is the bodybuilder muscle which looks big but usually not as strong per mm.


Hehe....it's VERY realistic. There are, on my hands right now about 5 lifters I can think of that can SQUAT 200kg at 55KG. Not the crazily equipped powerlifter half squat. A real ATG 200KG. Halil Mutlu, Naim Suley, Long Qiquan, Wu Meijin, Yu Huanming, our current national weightlifting coach could do it too. Now don't think can d lah. Imagine if they can squat 200, how much can they deadlift? Now all you need to be, is a part of a very elite team of national weightlifters for countries like China, Russia, Iran, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand and soon, Singapore.

Yeah, that guy trains about 5x a week only. Now, retired pretty much. Serious discipline problem. Suruh masok national team, kena tendang keluar.
Come on man.....dude, david89**** on this forum, already has a 150KG deadlift with about 4-5 weeks of training. Albeit he's heavier lah, but can do wan!

Not really. There's a guy, Tom Goegebuer from Belgium that's a weightlifter/part-time medical physicist/physics and radiation physics student. He also managed to compete in the Olympics at the age of 33 yrs old. He's got a 200KG clean pull/deadlift. It's just the amount of dedication and how much you've SET the limit to youself. Shanecross is a student and works as well. He deadlifts 195KG for 5 and squats 190KG for 2 at about 71KG. Ken86 studies for his masters and works as well and deadlifts 220KG. There should not be a limit to what you are capable of.

Complexes are amazing. In weightlifting, we make complexes like a clean (1) + hang clean (1) + front squat (2) + jerk (2) or something like Snatch (1) + OH Squats (3) + Drop snatches (2). It only takes about 70% of the 1RM for 7-8 sets and that's it! Crazy workout. Then we'll move to squats or pulls. Excellent way to get a lot in a short time.

But you do know how to use complexes right? As in how their rep schemes and percentages work?

She looks like a cross between Rosie O'Donnell and a gigantic crab.

Nolah.....it starts off at about 55% and move up to 70%. Eh no joke ah, this method was developed by the Russians. I know of a particular Russian junior that can do this with 200KG. He does something like a single clean, double front squat, double jerk. And his max jerk is roughly 225KG.

You're trying to burn fat.
You use 70% for a low rep complex

You try and tell me