Same page, except I’ve embraced it. Well, I embrace all the easy parts of the training; I reject the dieting, cardio and discipline.
Seriously, though, reverse band is extremely joint-friendly.
You’ve got me wondering, isn’t doing a reverse banded exercise essentially the same as the normally banded counterpart?
If you do, say, a bench press with bands, the bottom will be less loaded overall because the bands aren’t as lengthened.
If you do a reverse banded bench press, the tension at the bottom will still be lower because now the band is working with you.
In both instances, the movement gets harder as you push. What am I missing here?
When it’s banded, the eccentric accelerates. When it’s reverse-banded, the eccentric is slowed - the bands are helping vs hurting
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Exactly what @TrainForPain said, and to add that starting the movement with full band tension helping simply feels more steady than starting it with no/minimal band tension against. Feels smoother.
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FlipFlops is peak athletic foot wear. Wear them to the gym 105% of the time
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No I had not noticed when I did it. Next time I’ll put them in a triangle shape so that they are tighter.
My weakest is actually not the bottom but just over parallel. Well it used to be, now it’s probably more the bottom, as I’ve reinforced my quads.
@jshaving I have nothing against flip flops if you wear them at the beach or something. Sure they are comfortable I guess. But to me they are like the ultimate lazy apparel. If you’re invited somewhere and you wear those it’s like spitting in the face of your guest. Like crocs or jogging pants. Or man “satchels” (don’t know the name in english), nothing irks me more
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Really I don’t mike deadlifts anymore. I always fear my soreness is actually pain and that I did it wrong
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Any substitute you could do that’d be suitable?
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Everything not from the floor or blocks ahah. I think next time I’ll just film all my sets and see if this is just in my head (probably)
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Trap bar?
Sumo!
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I have to try these again. I stopped because it hurt my left knee but I’ll try a closer stance
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Don’t sumo!
Probably worth a try with a narrower stance, but yea sumo can bea bit hard on knees and hips, kind of suits my natural positioning but even then I get occasionally aches.
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Yeah I never managed to find a comfortable position, always felt like a giant frog. My legs are quite long, my feet and knees are f’d up ahahah conventional feels ok though but you can muscle too easily through the lift
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Do you feel as if you manage to load your hamstrings and glutes before the bar leaves the floor? I find that absent that sensation my back will be doing the bulk of the work. And your back is quite developed so it wouldn’t surprise me if you (unconsciously) use your strength.
What’s your stance now? Shoulder width? Or slightly narrower? I find that narrower hits my quads a little more, while shoulder width shifts the stress onto the posterior better. Given your knee problems, if you are slightly narrower, it’s conceivable that you compensate with your back to make it easier on your quads/knee joint???
High speculation mode
What!! Don’t bother coming to Australia they won’t let you in 
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I don’t think I’ve been to two more opposite western countries, fashion-wise, than France and Australia.
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I’ll write the prime minister and tell him
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For conjugate percentages - do you take the percentage with straight weight and then add some set amount of accommodating resistance? Or do you have some kind of combined percentage going on?
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