@Voxel You got it. And yes, I’m pretty sure Dan John wrote that, which is great. I think you’ve tolerated my commentary more than anyone else here, thank you.
I do try to accept that I won’t have a picture perfect squat like a Chinese weightlifter with the right proportions. But yes, I do want 130 to look like 100 and so on. I’ve never had a coach.
@omats Thank you. Belt not on the way yet, but I look forward to receiving the shipment email for sure. You get me excited to try it out. I’ll try out the mixed grip since I have a deload week after tomorrow.
@dagill2 Ha, exactly! It’s something that’s bothered me for a long time, so I decided to just try it. I do tend to feel bad about things often, but I felt okay about this.
I don’t think you’ve behaved in a way that would encourage me to use the word “tolerate”. Either way, you are welcome. I don’t think my squats are pretty either but I’ve started to strive for “did it feel strong”. For me, that requires not being injured and squatting wider than what looks athletic. Recently this has encouraged me to de-emphasise the back squat for front squat.
Have you tried SSB or wrapping straps around the bar so that you can makeshift SSB?
BTW, I think your depth is a good training depth. Won’t bang up your joints. Also, with those femur you’ll have to have a wider stance if you want to be more upright. Or use a wedge.
You look more like the person/skeleton to the right.
You need to cross the line a little bit to know where it is. What’s wrong with doing some crazy stuff sometimes, or challenging yourself? Trying to push yourself to accomplish a feat, even if the form is not pristine?
Honestly the rep was not that ugly at all. I’ve done worse no problemo. And FFS a double overhand 100 kgs is NO JOKE. Girl bar or not you have to understand that. I’m pretty sure that if you were to have a belt and hook grip/mixed/straps it would have been easy and turned into a 90%. You really underestimate how much the grip have an impact on this lift
Welcome to my life and congrats on figuring it earlier than me.
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Not a bad idea. Honestly I think high frequency would benefit you more, for various reasons.
I read it just for the nagging
A pretty squat is the one that suits your body! I’ve measured my leg the other day, according to CT’s guidelines. A leg length of 50-51+% is considered long. Mine is 105 cm so almost 57% rofl. My squat will never be textbook and I have to accept it if I want to progress
Congrats! Good pull, don’t be too hard on you. A hard pull will look different than an easy one.
This is quite common in women. Less max strength, much more rep strength closer to a max compared with male lifters. At least that’s my impression from coaching and lifting with female athletes. In my personal opinion to change that one would need to spend a lot more time with heavy weights closer to a max.
The most interesting logs are those in which the OP shares his thoughts and motivation behind the workouts. I have seen enough list of exercises and numbers
I can’t really see that. Your knees shoot back and your hips want to get into a position in which they can actually do what they’re asked. You’re forcing your body in a position (too upright) that it doesn’t want to be in. I simply can’t imagine that switching to low bar would be detrimental. In my opinion it’s still the first step to improve your technique.
I just looked at my last snatch video and I’m so bend forward my chest touches my knees loool Jhonatas Rivas style! So much for squatting like a chinese weightlifter
@Voxel I used the SSB for a couple months last year when I went to a gym. I’ve debated buying one for myself. Was even thinking about it a few days ago. I don’t think I used it long enough to know if it made a difference. My main concern is that it might make me better at squat mornings and/or maybe only help the deadlift. And a decent SSB definitely costs a pretty penny…
@aldebaran Thanks for the words. I just measured the circumference of my hand and it’s less than 18 cm… I’ll do the leg measurement for fun later haha
@Koestrizer Thank you. Your rationale is definitely not wrong, but the thing is that I am using a lower bar position in the second video
Do you have 5/3/1 Forever? If you do, you should give Coffinworm a try. Lots of near-max work an you’re doing each lift twice a week. Just FFS don’t try it on a cut
Same question for femur length. Unless you surgically chop off a bit there’s nothing you can do about it. Find a way to squat that suits your bio mechanics instead of dwelling on the length of your bones.
But then again a lot people obsess over their body fat percentage, which is really confusing to me.
You mean like a precise percentage? Yeah this is stupid, people most likely won’t even know what this percentage will look on them, and there is no way to measure it with 100% accuracy anyway. Also the percentage will look and vary based on your muscle mass. That said, I’m aiming for 10% ahahah
Precise percentage, ballpark, approximate measurement… I’d argue it’s all nonsense. What would you change if you knew an exact number? You would still need to take the same action as if you didn’t know. You would still want to improve - look leaner/ bigger/ greater muscle circumferences etc.
In general I think people obsess too much about useless data. Neurotyping/ Neurotraining or whatever it’s called is a perfect example (there is no scientific data to support the concept whatsoever, which makes it the most complicated bro science ever, haha).
If some data helps you improve your potential and guide your training (weights, intensity, body weight, circumferences, progress photos, etc.) use it. If data just proves things you can’t change or is useless in general: Why obsess about it? Just cut it out and focus on the things you have control over.
Indeed… personally I’m aiming for a bodyfat percentage low enough that I look shredded/jacked and but now low enough that my hormones start plummeting and I can’t progress anymore. And this is most likely a different percentage for everyone. Could be 8 or 13.
Under 5 is an immediate threat of death. I would argue however that one will notice side effects that tell him he/ she is in immediate danger without knowing his/ her body fat percentage, haha.
That is a possibility but more likely in underfed people, not trained, lean individuals. However there still isn’t a reliable way of using body fat percentage measurements to detect or prevent this. That said one will possibly notice other side effects at this point. Voxel has more knowledge here.
