crab, would you mind posting a pic of yourself? would like to see the curved clavicle structure that you have.

and imo, a human body shouldnt be so different that its impossible to bring up delts. my delts only started growing when i caught my mistake in form when doing lateral raises. since then, i doubled my lat raise sets to catch up and my delts dramatically improved. now i have to double my rear delt work, lol.

how was shisha?

imo you're thinking too much, your traps and delts are fine, just work on your form and you'll grow in no time.

eh crap. the shoulder comment was for thecrab, lol. YOUR shoulders however, are fine.

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This post has been edited by mikehuan: Oct 25 2011, 12:49 AM

yeah man, that i did! agree on the seated presses. shoulders for me i always start with either smith or db presses.

that article looks a bit commercialized for muscletech, i dunno..

hmm, after a moment to reflect, i would agree to this. the new guys in the gym have this mentality where they have to fit in. hell, when i first started i was doing random things on machines, not even daring to step on the freeweights area.

to actually enter a free weights area where everyone else is doing more weights than you and still be confident enough to hold up on your own is pretty courageous imo. especially if you are a female.

i got lucky. i was literally dragged into the free weights by my gym buddies when they saw me fooling around with the machines. if it werent for them, progress for me would be much slower than it is atm.

and to those trying to be macho by doing heavy ass weights without proper form, dont. there are people who will lift heavier than you, with better form, and with more reps. always. its how you look that matters, not the weight you lift.

of course this doesnt apply to powerlifters, lol.

i was doing the newbie thing with the machines. and wtf sick poundages

hey DL, where do you do tricep dips? my gym is the elevated type dip bars (the ones you had shenay doing pull ups on at mont kiara) so i could never do tricep dips to failure or even near failure because its gonna a hell lot of hurt if i fall, lol. planning to get the weight belt soon and wanna make the most of it.

alright, great thanks! best place to buy weight belts would be at egos i suppose? checking it out next weekend ngeks.

thanks for the tip
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there is one vid of a 20 repper squat with 3 plates. try looking for it in the thread. i was like "wtf" all the way through

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IMHO, looks dangerous walking out the weight like that. not a fan of partial DL's but thats some heavy shit!

i suppose. well cant comment on form, looks alright to me lol but then again im a newb. it did look like you had at least one more in the tank though

my turn, criticisms are most welcome! its far from perfect, long way to go. on another note, the 5 reps seemed easier than last time, probably from the GVT squats or form change, i dont know. either way im happy my strength level hasnt gone down ever since i started gvt.

100kg x 5 squat. did 105kg x 2, and 105kg x 3 after this set. lost balance on the third rep, weight got too in front on the way up.


60kg x 8 squat, last 2 reps stayed in the hole for a bit. this was the burnout set after the 105kg x 3


previous video of 80kg x 8 for comparison, i think the angle here quite similar so easier to compare

thanks man! try going down a notch if you plateau, i was doing 90kgs for quite a bit and it helped.


thanks! will do, was going for explosiveness but i guess its a bit too much


thanks man!

not yet, i try to keep my learning curves pretty low lol. aiming for 2xBW back squats before doing anything else

Coming from the squats king himself. I'm pretty friggin honored haha. Thanks man!

I didn't get it at first either. But that hip drive helps involve the hamstrings into the movement, which in turn means more power to shoot you out of the hole. It fixed my weakest spot of the exercise, which was getting out of the hole. Your lower back would give out first before anything else, from my experience.. so squats isn't a primarily leg exercise, more to lower body.

One of the key things to look at during squat is your knees should not go past your toes, so imo I got better there.

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I'll review once I get back home from work. Phone has friggin small screen can't see shit.

Read the article, very nice read, and funny to boot haha. To my understanding, sissy squats is an exercise to isolate your quads, something like leg presses. I think crabs goal and mine are different.

I'm doing squats to increase mass and strength, whereas crab is doing it to get bigger quads. For the moment I'm actually am just happy my legs are proportionate to my upper body. I suppose the cuts and definition would come in time. I'm just gonna focus on increasing my weights as fast as I can.