Helps a lot of people to focus on it, my strongest valsalva is silent though.
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Haven’t really thought of sounds of breathing as a diagnostic tool lol. I think breath sounds are a product of force/rate of sucky and how narrowed/which airway is being used predominantly. So yes u can be breathing and bracing right while being a ninja but many lifters make noise. Exhaling mid set should probably be noisy though because just letting out a little air thru a small opening while maintaining pressure overall.
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10/11
One hour of balance, proprioception and abs work.
One hour of snatch work. Working on speed. Actually feels better than doing it slowly because I was focusing on the descent! Still have to work on full hips extension which isn’t always the case. But I was so tired and sore from yesterday’s session and lack of sleep. At the end I was completely fried, stopped and stretched.
11/11
10 min cycling (warm-up) + 40 min jog
That was 8 kms run and 750 cal, nice! It’ll make up for my goat cheese and bacon pizza breakfast lol. Running in the streets (because of the 1km restriction from home) really sucks! Knees didn’t like much. And Hell if that’s even possible, I was even more sore than yesterday in my whole legs! Lower back was burning a lot during the jog as well. Not pleasing lol. Had way more cardio capacities in me, but it was just too painful ahahah
Going to do some foot and knee proprio. I took my shoes off and just standing on one foot, they are wobbling like fuck. I have no stability lol, really need to adress that.
Tried a new recipe of protein pancakes. So freaking delicious! And so good looking than even the Doc Greg Doucette shared it in his story ahah (for the whole batch: prots 65 carbs 45 fat 20 mostly because of all the oil I used ahahah)
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13/11
1 hour of Clean and jerk light practice
1 hour of mobility, balance and core work
2 hours of fighting: boxing and wrestling
So much energy spent… Especially the last part. The freaking fighting warm-up was one hour of running, jumping, crawling, various fighting mobility work and all. Some quit and rested for a while ahah. Then the fighting itself! First time for me, it was so tough!
So I have zero technique and didn’t know what to do. Just tried to do some stuff that my teacher showed me in person ahah (5x time world champion of one kind of karate) but it’s not in the vid. Some arm grab and all. So tiresome! Then some boxing, one of my mates was Guadeloupe’s english box champion for many years in four different weight classes. A monster! Despite weighing at least 10 kgs less, I just could move him when we were practicing some pushing exercicses, and he was relaxed all the time. Such core power, stability, I had never seen.
13/11
A. Lateral raises 5 x 20 with 1’ rest
B. Front raises 5 x 20 with 1’ rest
C. Rear-delt flyes 5 x 20 with 1’ rest
D. Seated DB press 5 x 20 with 1’ rest
E. Behind the neck push-press 5 x 20 with 1’ rest
Alright so another endurance-strength session. Oh my God. Teacher made me and my mate do raises in such a way as to perfectly isolate each deltoid part. It was horrible! I finished with the 4 and 2 kgs DBs loooooool!
On the press we managed to use 14 and 16 DBs but at the end, on the push-press even the empty bar was an impossible struggle ahahah
Crazy pump though.
Still a bit of pain/tightness in my whoule left shoulder area. Probably my elbow tendonitis spread to my shoulder, or it was caused by it…
The pussboi of instagram
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16/11
A. Squat 3 x 1 with 14, 145, 150 kgs
B. Bench 3 x 1 with 105, 110, 115 kgs
Some powerlifting today, learnt the rules and all. We trained like a mock meet, with the commands, theu pause, the judging and all. It was fun. This weekend was my brother’s birthday so I drank (but I really don’t hold alcohol anymore and already wanted to sleep at 8 PM lol). Very little sleep, as well as yesterday (excuses, excuses).
Warm-up was chaotic and way too fast, especially for bench (I only did a sert at 80 kgs that the teacher came up: “you’re up in 2 mins pick your weight” lol so I did a triple at 90 and started with 105 instead of 110kgs.
On squats I started high bar, but honestly I felt super cranky. My right glute and abductors felt stretched, almost cramped (right glute still bugging me right now). I wasn’t warmed-up properly, 140 felt like a mountain when I did 5 reps (ugly, but still) 3 weeks ago. I decided to switch to low bar and it felt better in my rear. For now, it doesn’t seem like it has aggravated my elbow.
Bracing was better, but it felt weird, with all the commands and all, it’s a bit stressful. Felt like we slowed down our lift because we had several more things to think about, and no room for error. Still a bit of valgus, especially the left knee. Gonna have to work on that coordination and proprioception.
Bench felt solid though, but the warm-up was legit horrible. I felt really tight, and I could push through my body with ease. A bit disappointed with the poundage, but I guess it’s tiredness. Very happy with form though.
Friday deadlift, I’m going to grip it and rip it like a pig
https://www.instagram.com/p/CHprN5WF2Wk/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
I really don’t want to upload the 6 videos to YouTube, @simo74 would you please be so kind to explain me how you do to share the IG links 
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bien la lutte, tu es français non ?
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Effectivement! Non un ami qui en fait m’a dit que j’étais trop nerveux et tout mais honnêtement je ne savais pas du tout quoi faire ahah
ahah jamais fait vraiment non plus mais je trouve que ça reste un très bon sport, je crois je te l’avais déjà dit ta un bon physique gros, mais je pense que t’aura beaucoup à gagner au niveau esthétique de travailler ton cou, ta un gros physique, mais le cou suis pas ou moins, l’impression que j’ai sur ta photo, et je pense que si je deviens massif un jours j’aurais la même chose
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You just copy link and past it here. The link above works fine. Not sure how you get the vid to sow rather than the link @Chris_Colucci may know
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Pribably yeah if you compare my neck to a wrestler, but it used to be actually quite muscular from US football. I simply don’t see any point i working it either for performance or aesthetics. I’m actually thin and narrow, it took me many years to develop my shoul
Thank you! But honestly to me my neck is (was?) muscular enough from US Football. I simply see no interest in working it either for performance (I’m not a wrestler, fighter etc) nor aesthetics.
You have to understand. My initial structure is of someone tall, think and narrow. It took me many years to grow my shoulders and back to give an illusion of width. If anything. I believe having too big of a neck and traps would be detrimental to this illusion. I’m not interested in mass monsters (not that I could ever be one) but I prefer the slimmer, 60s and 70s physiques
17/11 - Snatch
4 hours of
• Lots of mobility
• Snatch Balance
• Drop Snatch
• Snatch
• Load contrast Snatch
Long session, I am spent. Still hard to find the balance in what power/speed to give to the bar. But it’s getting better each for everyone I guess. Still haven’t recuperated from the lack of sleep this weekend, mock meet was also quite tiring. I’m focused on friday, will try to do a 200 kgs DL!
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I understand dude, just work a bit, not necessarily your traps, just some neck curl/bridge peaceful a bit, iam sure that ur body will have a nice better Harmony like that, neck, always can give the effect that u are weak or strong, even if u have a good fucking body, that is just my view, not a judgement or some shit like that, i u are ok with that i understand also, more i gain weight more i feel that i need to also work my neck personally i will train soon my neck, because i have "long neck’
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Yeah I train my traps though sometimes. I’m not going for the bear mode guy look with a huge yoke, massive traps, necks and shoulders though. Because I can’t grow a beard, and there’s a limit to how much muscle I can gain ahahah
So I’m going towards the lean athletic beach boy
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The only thing on my body that remotely looks like I lift is my traps, and I don’t even train them at all. Sick joke by genetics I guess 
As to the quote, I know there’s a limit to how much muscle we can add naturally, I wonder if that’s C amount of muscle mass per body part, or as a whole? Like am I good for 20lbs of lean body mass before I’m “maxed out”, and I should be careful where I “chose” to add it lol
Yeah we all have strong points. Never a bad thing to have nice traps though, and they are useful for strength!
Thibs says one average people should gain 40 lbs of muscle around the course of its life. He theorises that it’s as a whole. Because, as the varied guy he is, he had different focuses in his lifes, and at some points he had bigger upper body, or lower etc changing he would train, but his weight would stay the same. Most likely the human physiology is naturally programmed to function optimally with a muscle threshold I guess.
I believe I still have a few kilos to gain (after all I’m 6’1), but really not much.
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This has been the validation I needed for small legs 
gotta save the gains for the beach muscles!
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@wanna_be @aldebaran Genetic Limits and Muscle Migration
I think this article by Coach Thib is the one Aldebaran alluded to.
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That article is awesome! And scary at the same time. I’m hoping I’m no where near my genetic limit though. If I am close, I’ll never forgive my parents
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Do you even cheat meal, bro?
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If it’s anything like youtube, you just wait. The website will do its thing in time, it’s just slower than american vote counters.