[quote]Professor X wrote:
Hey, I know what worked for me…and it damn sure wasn’t trying to make each rep perfect.
Most of the guys I see like that limit their own progress because they stay in that comfort zone.
The entire reason I can curl what I do now with great form…is because of all of those years pushing for more than that with “not so great form”.
You have to build that strength up and doing perfect reps and hardly the way to go about that unless you are trying to go slow on purpose.
I see people discussing form a lot here and you can see the thickness of the guys who DON’T think like that.
Much of my training now would look great in form…but that took time…and I didn’t get there using that much weight by always using perfect form.[/quote]
Well that’s an interesting topic in and of itself.
There are certain exercises where I think using bad form is acutally superior to using crazy strict form. This is for like barbell curls and rows. Crank the weight up and use some body english.
Squats are not like that though. You can build up to like a 500lb half squat and not even be able to squat 315 to depth. You do not build what is necessary to squat out of the hole unless you go there. Same with bench. You can get up to like 350 with a big bounce off your chest and your butt a mile high, but you couldn’t bench even 300 with proper form.
Anyone who trains hard understands form breakdown and accepts it. You will have wobbly arms on bench and your knees will come in on the squat and your back will round on the deadlift. This happens when you push the limit. Those form breakdowns are very different though than not squatting to depth or simply performing the lift improperly. I think there is very, very little merit to the latter.
The strongest people in the world train using the most perfect form they can and would not advocate otherwise at any level. That doesn’t apply strictly to bodybuilding, but for strength purposes I think that stance is pretty established. Dan Green, Ed Coan, and Andrey Malanichev are all in step on that.