I’m respected? This is news to me!
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I’m going to be the one to say this, then I’m stepping back because I know it will get rejected.
You need to eat. You were in Way better shape in your first thread. This whole bodyweight to lift ratio thing is being taken way too far into the wrong direction.
Sammiches. Lots of them.
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I don’t know if it was Louie Simmons who came up with this strategy, but he definitely made it popular.
In powerlifting, keep gaining weight until your deadlift starts regressing, then drop down 1 weight class and compete there.
I followed that advice in my early 20s and it was probably the best thing I ever did.
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Mr. Simmons knew what was good. 
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The first person to pop in my head when reading this was Gene Simmons, then Richard Simmons, then I scrolled up for Louie lol.
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It’s amazing how “controversial” he was, when it turns out, for the most part, what he was saying was right: we just couldn’t understand it.
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What? Who is Louie?
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Clearly gross hyperbole to drive home a larger point.
Just kidding - I’m a fan!
@flipcollar that was an excellent post amidst all the noise.
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I blame the mustache.
I was never crazy about cutting weight in wrestling. Great way to get overpowered and gassed out.
I’d just load up on conditioning and find homeostasis, then go with what ever weight class was closest. Never suffered for lack of strength.
Paid big for lack of technique a few times though.
Edit: did not know big words like homeostasis either.
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LOL!
Hell ya man, you get all the loves from me. I don’t think I’ve ever seen you give bodybuilding/weightlifting advice that I didn’t mostly agree with. You’re a person who actually trains hard, cares about the iron game, and thinks critically about how to approach it. When you do those things, it’s hard to get too far off the rails (usually… lol).
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Oh! And back on topic…
@pecsmex have you ever used a weightlifting belt, or considered using one? Mostly just curious, but also wondering if a belt could help you learn to brace better. When I teach people to brace for squats and deadlifts, I find that a belt can be a useful tool to learn what proper bracing should feel like.
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No I want to deadlift beltless all the time never belt never straps
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I fast for religious reasons
I am a professional Orthodoxal iconography artist besides a competitive powerlifter
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Fasting keeps me spiritually healthy and content
Religion is even more important than lifting to me
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Is there a particular reason why?
That being said, bracing can be taught with a belt without actually deadlifting with the belt on, if that makes sense. It’s a biofeedback tool that can help you understand how abdominal expansion is supposed to feel in a deadlift. You can learn to brace by using a belt, and then apply the knowledge to beltless deadlifts.
The basic idea is this: you put on a belt, and you make sure it’s not CRAZY tight. like, you should be able to put your hand between your abs and the belt, but not much looser than that. Once you’ve gotten the belt appropriately tight, you try bracing. You expand your abdomen to fill the gap that your hand could fit in. You need to be able to maintain this bracing throughout an entire deadlift. It also shouldn’t be dependent on your breath, meaning you shouldn’t have to hold your breath to maintain the abdominal expansions. You’ve braced correctly if you can no longer fit your hand between your body and the belt.
This is what you should be doing to deadlift, whether you’re wearing a belt or not. I believe, based on every video I’ve seen, that you are losing your abdominal/lower back tightness before completing your deadlift reps, and that this has a lot to do with why your deadlift looks fine until the last 2-3 inches, and then it completely falls apart.
So, in summary: put on a weightlifting belt, learn to brace with it Use the feedback you’re getting from having the belt on, remember how the bracing feels. Do it over and over and over, for weeks, every day if you can. You can do this at home, doesn’t have to involve weights or anything. Then, when you go to actually deadlift, apply what you learned, even though you’re not wearing a belt.
Hope this helps!
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Genius idea actually
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You want to write a resume for me? 
Appreciate all the kind words, sincerely.
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Yeah, like I said I knew it would be rejected, but its like the elephant in the room.
Thats a nice piece of work. I used to make frames for the glass in churches, mosques and synagogues.
Nothing brings out your best like devotion.
So, hope you do well in your meet. Take care.
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I’m sorry to everyone for my behaviour the other night, I’m not offended with anyone here because I admit the jokes about me was harmless and witty
I honestly wasn’t myself the other night, i normally don’t speak like that, i don’t know what was wrong with me, I hope I didn’t hurt anyone
I realise You was making harmless jokes and I was making insults and I didn’t mean what I said
I was at my friends house that night and I smoked a lot of weed and my friends was drunk so maybe I was effected by hanging around with drunk people, I don’t know, I didn’t use to hang around with drunk people but I’ve grown attached to them
I admit I actually don’t know much about powerlifting, so I think I’m not seeing the improvements that can be made, and if I understand correctly you guys are saying improvements can always been made.
I know about more about bodybuilding and I have read bigger, leaner, stronger.
I truly hope we can all start again and be friends
It doesn’t matter what you did, it matters what you do
It doesn’t matter who you was, it matters who you will become
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This is big of you. I hope you’re ok.
You’re not asking for my advice, but if you feel the crowd you’re around is contributing to you being a worse version of yourself, that’s something to change quickly.
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