Nice yea it looks like a great bar. Only thing for me is cost now that I have a kid and my wife is no longer working haha
Is “squat position” on the transformer bar really more like a squat and less like an SSB squat?
I don’t think it had anything to do with shoulder tightness, more like muscle tension. Here’s the story, I was having some pain now and then in my left AC joint (or so it seemed) during and after benching on and off about 1.5-2 years ago. It wasn’t anything crazy, just a bit of discomfort that seemed to come and go, it seemed to be aggravated by lots of heavy bench volume. I remember one of the first times I was feeling it I was doing 1 board presses after a bunch of heavy benching.
Anyway, Amit Sapir was giving advice on here and I was having arm pain from the high frequency squatting I was doing at the time, he suggested a bunch of things which helped quite a bit (but never totally fixed it either), one thing was myofascial release on the serratus anterior. The AC joint pain was minor compared to the arm pain I was having, but when I worked on my serratus anterior the AC joint pain totally went away. I looked at some trigger point charts and apparently serratus anterior trigger points can cause referred pain around the AC joint. Anytime I felt something in my AC joint I would release the serratus anterior and the problem was solved immediately.
As for pushups, they work the serratus anterior because you don’t have to keep your scapulas retracted, I suppose my serratus anteriors were weak and tight and now they are working more like they should, my shoulders just feel better. I’m going to drop pushups in my peaking block but I think they are worth doing at times.
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If you just want a basic safety squat bar then check Rogue or EliteFTS. I bought this one specifically because I wanted to be able to train my competition squat movement pattern without the external shoulder rotation.
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Look at the picture in this:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Be8iesOnpKf/?taken-by=kabukistrengthlab
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I forgot to answer this. Your hips don’t have anything like a scapula so there isn’t really, basically just squats of various sorts.
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I understand that you are trying to improve the technique of the sumo deadlift, but you have too high your ass. You must have the ass when starting the myometric phase much below.
Correct execution:
Looking thicc toilet lord
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Deadlift Leverages / 10. What does your conventional look like lel
Speaking generally, not about chris’ deadlift in particular, I’ve noticed that you’ve popped up here and there advising peeps, without exception (correct me if I’m wrong), to start with a low/er hip position in the deadlift.
What’s the thinking behind these recommendations and are you truly as dogmatic on this topic as it appears at first glance?
It’s most clear and logical that if you have the right technique of the deadlift (if your ass is low, your lower back is straight and the like), you will greatly reduce potential injuries. Proper or adequate technique of all exercises is the foundation. Or do you have any other opinion?
I do…and its not exactly different from yours but I’m always curious and looking to learn more. Mostly I just enjoy discussion tho.
If I had to offer up an opinion on hip height in the deadlift it’d probably be something like “having hips as low as possible when the bar breaks the ground makes for the most efficient pull. What this position ends up looking like in terms of hip height will vary depending on lifters’ anthropometry i.e. the lengths of your arms, femurs, and torso and hip mobility in sumo DLs.”
An efficient position for a certain lifters’ leverages may well be a relatively high position to most people. If a coach was to cue this lifter to have a lower their hips in the starting position it would be an overly low hip position increasing the difficulty of breaking the floor.
There is a “right” tehcnique for each individual lifter and I agree about it’s importance. Ass low/er is a good cue for many lifters but to use it as a sweeping recommendation for all lifters is bad practice.
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I agree. However, that the risk of injury will be reduced only by generally valid advices for the correctly technique. I also agree that for high people the correct execution of the deadlift is difficult; can it positively affect with sufficient flexibility and with strength of individual muscle groups… I like that Kirill Sarychev is a very tall person, and yet he has a very nice technique of the conventional deadlift.
I thought with the deadlift that the most important think(Sumo or conventional) was having your hips as close to the bar as your body allows? this could mean a higher or lower hip position depending on the persons leverages, right?
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I’m thinking like barbell havk squats and Jefferson deadlifts where you start with your nuts on the bar lol
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That would put you in the position where your hips are closest to the bar, so I think you are on the right track there. Should be called “nuts on bar lift” tho or “Clam on bar lift” for all the lady lifters.
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I have bad leverages, I was trying to use a lower hip position for a while but it made the lift harder, that is why my deadlift hasn’t made a lot of progress (if any) since last summer. Based on what I learned from Chris Duffin and the other Kabuki guys, you have to strike a balance between hip height and distance from the bar. I can put my hips lower but then they are too far from the bar and it’s like a squat, with 500+ I won’t be able to move the bar unless I let my hips rise (way more than here) and turn it into a stiff legged sumo pull which is no good at all. The only other option is to move my feet out further but I’m weaker like that, maybe in the long term it is a solution but I’m not doing that less than 2 months from a meet.
Check this guy’s bad technique. I was never going for this, I just happened to see some of his videos and realized I had the same technique as him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er4A_ZS9dmQ
Worse. Three options: round back, SLDL, or knees way over the bar and the bar hits them. I’m not even going to try that again.
Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2lAm_QLRWU
You mean people on amphetamines? -insert smiley face-
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