I wasn’t referring to Dr John Rusin actually. I have not read any of his articles. He may have some good stuff on other topics. Just don’t take everything you read as gospel and try things out first and then evaluate results to see what you should take in and what you should discard.
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So some good things are happening, strength is going up nicely and pullups are starting tonfeel alot easier
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Dr Rusin (chicken little) has some decent/helpful stuff on mobility but aside from that he writes stuff to desperately try to appeal to the functional people. I doubt Brian Shaw could do 8 pullups but he’s still massive. Don’t forget his intense calf workouts that lead to massive calves too.
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I reckon he’d be good for over 10.
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I don’t know about Brian Shaw but I remember seeing a video of Kirill Sarychev and a couple of other heavyweight powerlifters having a pull up competition and they made it look extremely easy.
EDIT: Here it is, I thought it was too cool not to share.
Found this one too, you can tell I’m bored but they’re cool to watch.
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Epic!
And speaking of pullups today my back is extremely sore ( the good kind)
Because i actually engaged my back properly
Why?
I think the idea behind it is sensible.
I think the ability to do the goblet squat is more or less analogous to being able to do a good squat. If you can do a good goblet squat, then I’m pretty sure you have the mobility to do a good back and front squat.
Not sure where he got 25 reps, but the idea behind it seems similar to what Dan John wrote regarding the goblet squat.
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Good point i didn’t think of it that way
No more heavy shoulder presses or dumbell bench. My shoulders dont like it So lighter sets and no reps below 6
Whenever I read articles like this, I just take it with a grain of salt. For the most part this sort articles aren’t for us(at least me).
I’ve squatted 2x bodyweight and 1.5x bodyweight for a set of 10+ In the back squat. Bodyweight front squats for several sets of 10+ as my back off sets after my working sets. And I’m by no means even remotely strong.
If you’re aware of your capabilities and know where you stand, none of this stuff should bother you. It doesn’t bother me at least.
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Ray Williams genuinely scares me just watching him lift. Point taken.
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trap flexed photo. Happy how traps are coming along. Not that big but i dont even train them. Whats the point when they are stimulated by compound lifts? Sometimes i even get sore traps. 
Anyway so i thought muscle damage only got repaired whilenyou sleep but does it occur while awake. It’s 11:16pm and when i woke up today i had doms but now i have none as the day progressed i got less and less sore until now im feeling strong and i could do full body again easy.
You recover asleep and awake as far as I understand. Sleep is still very important though.
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I find that if say i have 5 hours sleep but i sleep like a baby its better then 8 hours if I was just tossing and turning all night.
I’m the same, but a good eight hours beats a good five.
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Whenever I read articles like this, I just take it with a grain of salt. For the most part this sort articles aren’t for us(at least me). [/quote]
Oh absolutely, certainly if you’ve experienced with the Olympic lifts. Besides, I’m pretty sure you can pass that test.
But I think it’s very useful for people who either squat really high (but don’t know it) or are starting out.
The curious thing about the articles on T-Nation these days is that I’m not sure who the target audience is supposed to be. Could be that they’re trying to reach a broader audience, which would make sense since I would fall into that “broader audience” category. But given that that the site traditionally catered to rather hardcore folks, I can see why people think some of the articles don’t make sense.
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So iv kicked the can and now im just goingbto do single arm standing shoulder presses and bench presses because im sick of doing bench and it feels easy with my right arm but hard with my left. Its setting back progress so no more. a few of you guys have recommended i do unilateral work anyway.
Smith machine front squat
60kg×10
80kg×10
90kg×5
×5
100× 4 (matched pr) easy peasy
100×6 PR couldve grinded to 8 but best not to.
Id say in 1-2 weeks il get 100×10 then thats that goal achieved and all the weight i can put on the smith:cry:
so il have to do bulgarian split squats which iv avoided in the past due to my crappy balance.
Db row 27.5kg
×6
×6
×6
Forgot tp write pullups in my book so i justdid lots.
Flat dumbell bench
25kg
×6
×6
×6
Standing db shoulder press was playing with form a bit so didnt do any actual heavy pressing.
Pretty much. Because im sure we can all easily do 10 pushups so the “dont bench if you cant do ten pushups” article doesnt apply to us anyway. To be honest even if i sucked at pushups id still bench press.