Has anyone ever tried shouldering the bar and squatting with it the way they did prior to racks? I’m referring to the Steinborn method, whereby one upends the bar, rocks it onto their back, squats it, and returns it to the ground in the same manner.
how would one go about up-ending a bar with at least 300 pounds on it ?
[quote]marlboroman wrote:
how would one go about up-ending a bar with at least 300 pounds on it ?[/quote]
It’s been done with 5-600…
You tip the bar up on it’s end, and from there try and squat down bit so it can be tipped onto your shoudlers. Hard to explain really.
Holy shit- those better be some solid, tight-fitting collars on the bar-sleeve. I thought the old strongmen were using the solid cast barbells.
Your wolvie avy is tight btw.
[quote]Hanley wrote:
marlboroman wrote:
how would one go about up-ending a bar with at least 300 pounds on it ?
It’s been done with 5-600…
You tip the bar up on it’s end, and from there try and squat down bit so it can be tipped onto your shoudlers. Hard to explain really.
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Dan Wagman with a 340 Lb. Steinborn lift.
That’s frickin’ manly.
Thanks on the props on my avatar.
I did these last night, after reading about Steinborn. I’d seen pics of Saxon doing them, but had never tried them. After seeing Steinborn doing it with 530, I had to try them. I managed to do them with 225, and was just held back by a really odd pain in my left wrist.
I’m going to wrap the hell out of it and give 315 a shot on Friday- and don’t worry, I’ll have my gf take pics so no one has to run around screaming “Where’s the vid? I don’t believe it! Blah blah blah”. Until then, here’s a pic of me as the Hulk from last weekend (You can’t see my legs, but rest assured, they’re disproportionately large in comparison with my upper body, before anyone starts blathering about “no legs”).
An article on Steinborn here: Eric Lander's Reviews | AmericanPowerLiftEvolution.net
[quote]shogunassassin wrote:
Has anyone ever tried shouldering the bar and squatting with it the way they did prior to racks? I’m referring to the Steinborn method, whereby one upends the bar, rocks it onto their back, squats it, and returns it to the ground in the same manner.[/quote]
I reckon its unnecessary and asking for injury. In modern gyms i cant see the point in trying
It looks like fun to me!
Flyes are dangerous and unnecessary, but I see people doing them all the time. At least you get a bonus 500 testosterone points for squatting, whereas you get a sexy pair of pink 5 lb dumbbells when you do a set of flyes.
Most people who don’t lift would say the same thing about lifting weights, or using free weights when there is a perfectly safe machine…just a thought.
all i would say is make sure here are even amounts of lifts done per side from left and right so not to getmuscle imbalances but apart formt hat look pretty cool to me
Having done them, I’d say that’s a bad idea. Unless you’re truly ambidextrous, this exercise could be really difficult, and dangerous, switching from side to side.
If you feel the need to pick the weight up off the floor and then squat it…
Clean it, front squat it.
I can front and back squat far more weight than I can clean.
Funny that the stories of the old-time lifters getting hurt are all but
non-existant.
There’s no reason to believe you’ll get hurt doing this stuff if you are truly strong.
I try stuff like this all the time. Hell, you ever see the round-back lifting used for stones?
How about the “continental”?
You cannot use “proper” form when lifting (push-pressing) a 200lb sandbag over head either.
[quote]elliotnewman1 wrote:
I reckon its unnecessary and asking for injury. In modern gyms i cant see the point in trying
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I agree. I COULD walk to work everyday and hop through every backyard with a big dog, but why?