Starting to think we need to get someone counting your plates.
Nah I’m good. Thor better watch out because by my math 502kg is coming soon
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All you really need to do is add 5 kilo a week every week for about a year and you will beat him for sure.
Sumo has a place in training for Strongman, depending on the individual. For me, conventional is significantly stronger and I think that’s a hamstring problem. I always thought my hammies were strong because I come out the hole so easy on raw suats. I have discovered that I’m all adductor though, and it compensate for other things. So for me, it at least seems to make my knees feel better to mix in Sumos now, and hamstring curls. Ohtherwise I get achey knees the next day after squats and it lingers for a few days.
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Awesome speedy squats both moved like butter. Well done Hamster.
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Just like french cooking. Always butter
Hmm. Is it worth training adductors directly or do the comp lifts of variations of train it adequately?
For hamstrings I’m under the impression that deadlifts need to be complemented with a curl variation but don’t have a hamstring curl machine around but I’m hoping slides do something. I’ve never really trained ham curls so maybe there’s gains there
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I have never done anything special to work adductors. Probably comes from genetics and lift form combining. I would see hamstring work being a lot more important for squats than deads, but that is going to be individual.
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Do you have any bands? Sit on the edge of a bench with a band wrapped around a post/rack/etc. and do 3-4 sets of 25 before hitting deads.
Check out Matt Wennings warmup stuff. All about finding weaknesses and attacking using warmups. I thought it was pretty interesting.
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25 wat?
Super light weight
Of hammies or of adductors lol
So glad you asked that, I was lost too 
Totally did not write leg curls. My bad
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Hamstring leg curls or adductor leg curls???
Got me flu vaccine. Hopefully doesn’t give me Coronavirus
Only if an infected person licked the needle first.
Takes a fucked up mind to think up shit like that. Nice
I will take that as the compliment it was surely intended to be.
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Having some cravings for strongman / “functional” training. Maybe after I do my first meet I’ll do some strongman stuff after my main lifts for a while for kicks. Getting bigger and stronger never really gets stale but lots of ways to go about it. Always fun to do log press and the like. Maybe do some cardio for once