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Fail a deadlift, you drop the bar. Fail a squat, well that can go a lot more wrong, even at 20 rep weight. Not to mention the chuck-up risk from 20 rep squats.
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This is such a dumb idea.
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On top of that, I’m certain that higher-rep loading at a lower intensity is significantly more risky than lower-rep loading at a higher intensity.
1 x 2 @ 90% would be a total volume equal to 180% 1RM
1 x 20 @ 50% would be a total volume equal to 1000% 1RM. Considering the true “20 rep” protocols call for 60-70%, you’d be looking at up to ~1400% volume.
Plus, inert soft tissues (discs etc) become progressively more lax under repeated loading and long-duration loading. Combine that with the fact that even with an appearance of neutral spine, people move through ~60° of lumbar flexion when squatting to depth as opposed to ~40° for deadlift, high rep squatting is definitely riskier than low rep deadlifting
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Chuck Norris isn’t afraid of the deadlift; the deadlift is afraid of Chuck Norris
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Chuck Norris has to use bands because when he lifts weight gravity changes its mind.
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Relative to what? Pull-ups messed up my left shoulder when I did them at high frequency(too high. long story.). This lasted for YEARS.
I did Romanian Deadlifts with like 30% of my 1RM once and somehow get a nerve impingement or something in my lower back. I still don’t know what dumb thing I did since I do stiff legged deadlifts without any problems.
Went to a movie. Came home, sat down at the computer for half an hr when I got back, then suddenly realized I couldn’t sit upright without screaming. Had to leopard crawl like an idiot to the sofa to lie down lol. Then I had to crawl to the phone to call my girlfriend at the time to come over in the morning cos I wasn’t even sure I would be able to sit up by then. This was around 15 years ago.
Till now, I still have lower back pain sometimes when I don’t brace my core for a simple exercise like curls.
EDIT:
Also did some kind of weird exercise for side delts some dude showed me in the gym where you start with your hands extended overhead with the dumbbells facing each other, then twist them towards the direction of the floor while lowering them to shoulder level and back up again with light weights . Couldn’t raise one arm above 90 degrees for 1 month.
Yeah I’ve done lots of dumb shit.
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“Perhaps the heaviest things we lift are our feels”
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