This is part of the reason why I call BS on many of the lifts claimed on this site:
-J
apparently you havent seen DEEZ WEEZ’s videos.
So when did he do the good mornings?
What a weird looking guy! Someone needs to tell barney fife that his moustache has been stolen.
Sad but I have seen worse form.
Wow, that’s some poor form! I can’t believe I sat here and (almost) watched the whole thing. This video is just wrong for so many reasons!
I love that gym though. I bet his parents yell at him a lot for dripping sweat on the carpet.
Those box squats were an abortion of what a box squat should be.
I’m considering joining that site just to comment on that video, I’m so appalled.
[quote]rrjc5488 wrote:
apparently you havent seen DEEZ WEEZ’s videos.[/quote]
Sadly, I’m well aware of his dubious accomplishments.
I wish my ego was big enough to post my workouts on the internet for everyone to see.
WESTSIDE!!!
you can make fun of him all ya want, but what he really needs is for someone he respects to slap him upside the head and then teach him proper form.
But hey, he’s trying, gotto give’m some credit.
What was so bad about it? This is the form I see most people using in vids posted on the internet. They get the weight up, but they’re shaky. When I pointed this out in a thread about professional lifters frequently breaking form on their maxes, I got flamed for it and essentially labeled a form perfectionist.
This guy is somewhat lanky. He’s got long limbs and not a lot of mass. His center of gravity is not as low to the ground as it would be on some thick, bearded dude (the beard adds 3% to the RM, so I’ve heard). That explains the shakyness and tilting to one side. You’ve gotta understand, it’s harder for skinny guys.
[quote]conorh wrote:
Those box squats were an abortion of what a box squat should be.[/quote]
In what way? Can you explain this comment, since I do box squatting in more-or-less the same fashion, and I didn’t see anything particularly wrong with his form? He sat down smoothly, didn’t bounce, and didn’t take stress off his legs.
[quote]conorh wrote:
I’m considering joining that site just to comment on that video, I’m so appalled.[/quote]
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[quote]Nominal Prospect wrote:
What was so bad about it? This is the form I see most people using in vids posted on the internet. They get the weight up, but they’re shaky. When I pointed this out in a thread about professional lifters frequently breaking form on their maxes, I got flamed for it and essentially labeled a form perfectionist.
This guy is somewhat lanky. He’s got long limbs and not a lot of mass. His center of gravity is not as low to the ground as it would be on some thick, bearded dude (the beard adds 3% to the RM, so I’ve heard). That explains the shakyness and tilting to one side. You’ve gotta understand, it’s harder for skinny guys.
conorh wrote:
Those box squats were an abortion of what a box squat should be.
In what way? Can you explain this comment, since I do box squatting in more-or-less the same fashion, and I didn’t see anything particularly wrong with his form? He sat down smoothly, didn’t bounce, and didn’t take stress off his legs.[/quote]
For one he lowered himself more or less straight down onto the box, “Accordion-ing” himself if you will, instead of slinging himself in between his hips. You should sit back onto the box and initiate the movement by breaking the hips first. He does the opposite, breaks with his knees and more or less drops directly down, projecting his knees unnecessarily forward. He also allowed his knees to buckle inwards which is poor form for any squat variety. It looked like he bounced onto the milk crate too, which defeats the whole purpose of the box squat in breaking the stretch-shorten cycle and separating the eccentric and concentric phases of the lift.
I find it difficult to box squat in a rack, incidentally, because it limits how far I can sit back, there just physically isn’t enough room for me. I think stands work better.
And if you, like video guy, use a milk crate I suggest getting or making an actual box.
There’s alot of difference between a genuinely strong person breaking form slightly to make a max lift and just having shitty form. He just has shitty form.
Am I the only one amused by the 1 pound of chains haning off the bar?
[quote]Lonnie123 wrote:
Am I the only one amused by the 1 pound of chains haning off the bar?[/quote]
no.
What I find odd is that a kid that small can have a mustache that fine.
[quote]Nominal Prospect wrote:
What was so bad about it? This is the form I see most people using in vids posted on the internet. They get the weight up, but they’re shaky. When I pointed this out in a thread about professional lifters frequently breaking form on their maxes, I got flamed for it and essentially labeled a form perfectionist.
This guy is somewhat lanky. He’s got long limbs and not a lot of mass. His center of gravity is not as low to the ground as it would be on some thick, bearded dude (the beard adds 3% to the RM, so I’ve heard). That explains the shakyness and tilting to one side. You’ve gotta understand, it’s harder for skinny guys.
conorh wrote:
Those box squats were an abortion of what a box squat should be.
In what way? Can you explain this comment, since I do box squatting in more-or-less the same fashion, and I didn’t see anything particularly wrong with his form? He sat down smoothly, didn’t bounce, and didn’t take stress off his legs.[/quote]
I agree it actually wasn’t that bad… I’ve seen much worse. It was the good mornings at the end that were the most worrying.
Oh great, I just found out he has more than one video posted: You get a better view of the tash on this one:
WTF is that thing? A god damned deadlift machine??! What is the world coming to?!?!
Now this is a video