[quote]ajweins wrote:
Thanks for this thread by the way. You really don’t get enough credit around here. Its awesome to see your strength and progress while losing some weight.
I have a question for you now that you are at a lower bodyweight. Do you feel that the fastest way to gain strength and size is just to keep pushing the calories higher and higher in order to gain weight each week and letting your self get pretty sloppy? Or do you think that there is a limit to this and laying down more fat for the sake of weight gain doesn’t help strength?
Pretty vague questions I know, but I would like to hear your input.[/quote]
thanks hoss!!! i like to come in and post my progress and answers questions if folks have them. I’m no fan of all the bickering that goes on. it’s such a waste of time. that’s why i keep my posting to a minimum.
if your goal is strength- the rule of thumb is “weight moves weight” the quickest way to get stronger is to gain weight. Gaining weight improves leverages over the weight and decreases ROM… especially on the bench. Now, there is definitely a point were gaining too much weight can be a negative. for me, when i was in the 280’s i had a really hard time getting down to the bar to deadlift. conventional deads were pretty much out of the question.
I definitely got stronger faster by gaining weight but getting sloppy isn’t necessary. I’m down to 245-250 now and have maintained my strength and am slowly increasing.
so… the moral of the story is gain weight but not to the point where you need to go on the “Biggest Loser”.
skwattts- haven’t back squatted in awhile… been concentrating on getting the deadlift back up. tonight was week one of our squat cycle. tonight we worked up to 80% of our projected max. for me that was 540- 80% of 675. reps felt good. didn’t rush them and kept everything tight. in two weeks we move on to 85%.
[quote]Therizza wrote:
scott- do you do the paused squats to help out with getting depth? Sorry if the answer is something obvious.[/quote] i do pause squats to build strength out of the hole. i feel a lot of squatters rely on the stretch reflex to get them out of the hole. i like to decend slowly, pushing out on my knees to build tension in the hips. this tension when released gives me pop out of the hole. IMO,it’s much safer than dropping into the hole and rebounding. i like the long pauses to remove most if not all of the stretch reflex.
i have one of my training partners stand to the side to call depth for me. on the 540 set you can hear Dave calling my depth.
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
i have one of my training partners stand to the side to call depth for me. on the 540 set you can hear Dave calling my depth.
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[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
i have one of my training partners stand to the side to call depth for me. on the 540 set you can hear Dave calling my depth.
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Looked high to me. ;)[/quote]
your reality of a legal squat is outa whack since your last meet my friend.
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
i have one of my training partners stand to the side to call depth for me. on the 540 set you can hear Dave calling my depth.
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Looked high to me. ;)[/quote]
your reality of a legal squat is outa whack since your last meet my friend.
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[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
i have one of my training partners stand to the side to call depth for me. on the 540 set you can hear Dave calling my depth.
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Looked high to me. ;)[/quote]
your reality of a legal squat is outa whack since your last meet my friend.
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Hurts don’t it?[/quote]
not as much as if i had trained my ass off, paid out all that money to get to the meet, hit a perfecty legal depth squat and then told “it’s high”.
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
Chances are this will be jacked up and play at 2x speed like it tends to do, but whatever lol.[/quote]
awesome job!!! i really like how you force your knees out throughout the lift. most people that do front squats all their knees to roll in. technique is everything.
you can tell you have great body awareness with your lifts.
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
i have one of my training partners stand to the side to call depth for me. on the 540 set you can hear Dave calling my depth.
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Looked high to me. ;)[/quote]
your reality of a legal squat is outa whack since your last meet my friend.
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Hurts don’t it?[/quote]
not as much as if i had trained my ass off, paid out all that money to get to the meet, hit a perfecty legal depth squat and then told “it’s high”.
sooo… it didn’t hurt as much to me:)
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Modi is just mad because he thought parallel referred to the bottom of the hamstring.
