it honestly doesnt really matter, as long as u can feel ur core bracing against the belt its working lol

Tight tight. Exactly. Can't get any tighter.

Vanfulco I would hold off using belt until your in the 75-80% range of 1RM. That's just my personal opinion.
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Today's smoothies.

- handful of kale
- handful of spinach
-fistful of carrots
- big hunk of tofu
- scoop of ground flax
- scoop of "all greens" powder
- one banana
- one apple
- one orange
- two stalks of celery
- water for consistency
- frozen mixed berries for taste
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One quick observation, a lot of people use a belt for the wrong reasons. I understand its for safety and all that gay jazz but too many times ill see guys belt up even before getting in the warm up sets. Lol must be safe when doing warm ups to prevent injury. But what berz said, try and belt up when doing 70-80% of 1rm.
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yep
95 percent of my gym wears is like it's a fashion statement lol like doing arms and like they just wear it loose wtf man
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More Reasons For Wearing A Belt | 70's Big

Good read about belts. The author actually argues that training with a belt will strengthen your trunk more than training beltless. I am inclined to agree with him from personal experience

after seeing sid and redsirs vids i felt like posting one, nothing huge nor is it squatting due to a ham/glue injury

290 @ 175 bench, pause take my word lol
always sucked at bench and in these past 3 weeks *due to injury* my bench went from ~275 touch n go to 290 pause

Nice louie! That is sick progress for bench in 3 weeks!

thanks, been benching 3 times a week followed with close grip work and military press has done wonders. but my elbows are destroyed.

can't wait to squat again

I definitely see his point..

what I can't stand, are guys that wear a belt without having even established proper squat form... huge butt wink, knees past toes, collapsed chest, loose back, etc... which make up the majority of folks i see at the gym unfortunately. i know, because i used to be one of those guys lol...

alot of these guys learn along the way as they squat with thick belts

for me, one of the best ways to learn the squat properly has been doing super light weight and just getting the form down w/o a belt. At this point, my goal isn't even to get stronger, it's to establish that proper form..

that said, i think my form has improved a bit over the last month or so, so I'm considering the switch over to squatting with a belt soon.

it's definitely a technique/specificity thing. if you train with a belt, your body will adapt to traininng with a belt. if you train without a belt, your body will adapt to training without a belt. on that note, that a trained belted squatter has the potential to squat more than a trained beltless squatter...

^^ never sacrifice form for more weight. That' should always be the motto
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yea 100%

i also feel that there is often a third variable that people forget when performing exercises is speed + quality of reps. whereas most people focus on weight and reps, they dont really focus on the speed the bar is moving. grinding out prs is fine every so often but i personally like to train all my lifts with a bit of speed

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Fuckkkkkkkkkk. I had a piece of chicken left in the fridge and i didn't want to waste it. It must have been past its prime, i called in sick today and am laying on the couch like a sad SOB.

God damn soupass
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New pr dead lift 495. Decided to give it a go on the 5th set. Felt good.

^^ beast man, probably got 10-20 lbs if you were fresh

hey instant just curious on how those shoes have made your bench go up ?
u said like 2 reps ect. is it cause the way they make your feet feel on the floor
thanks

^
Esl?
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better leg drive, the more stable i am to the ground, the more connected i am to the ground, the more stable my bench is, and the reps go up faster and easier

the disadvantage though, is that i get too caught up with touching lower down in my torso that i start to use more of my back as opposed to my chest, when my chest is the more dominant bodypart.

i just gotta find a medium between the two i guess

973 pounds deadlift, 396 pounds ohp, and that ending. The guy who won (Brian Shaw) is so humble

^^

theres a great article on him in the new yorker and strongman athletes in general
Brian Shaw, the Strongest Man in the World : The New Yorker

dude is a mutant

benched 6 plates
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Squatted 1 plate today. Feels good
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I just have to repost this from the funny shit thread https://m.facebook.com/story.php?sto...2202.html&_rdr
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Damn... I wish I could bench with some of you guys. I need to learn a thing or 2 lol.
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