Just ask. I’m guessing it’s going to depend on what level of competition you’re looking at. Maybe just look at meet results at the level you compete at. See what weights they use, see who won and who came last. That’ll give you an idea.
Anyone notice that a lot of people in USAPL/IPF and related fed meets bench with a really wide grip compared to other meets? What’s with that? Not a dig at the lifters, just curious and my confession is I don’t get it because it seems like a good way to fuck your shoulders.
Sumo bench.
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Oh, and huge spine arch, looks like a decline bench and the bar moves like a foot.
Looks hot though.
And shit, I get that ten times, lol.
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I can’t help but still feel, after one year of having my driver’s license, that sometimes I can be a terrible driver.
So today I was trying to get into a parking spot between a wall and another car (a right-turn-like parking, not even parallel parking), and at some point I realized that I was running short on room and needed to back off and initiate better with a wider turn. And, in backing off, I don’t know how the fuck I did it, but I hit the wall with my right mirror and broke it. It’s still usable but it’s cracked.
I never made mistakes in traffic, but this isn’t the first time that I fuck something up while doing those slow, precise, at-a-crawl maneuvers. Still, 99% of the time I have no problems, but this should never happen, not even .1% of the time. Idk how much it costs to replace the mirror, but that’s not the issue. It’s me feeling incompetent and like an idiot. I’m literally insulting myself so bad in my head right now.
I have dreams of buying a new car when I’ll have my first job and can afford it but honestly, if I’m going to destroy it little by little, like I’ve been doing to this car (my first one) for the past year, should I even want to buy a good car? How tf can I get better at this kind of things?
Sounds like your nerves and lack of confidence are interfering with your driving skills.
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I have ripped my garage door off the hinges, ripped off my passenger side mirror and caused $2k in damages to my neighbor’s truck on 3 non-consecutive occasions backing up.
Driving backwards sucks.
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This made me smile lol
But still, I feel I haven’t fully grabbed the trajectory thing completely in this kind of situations, apparently
What do you mean by the latter?
I think he meant… confidence. You start over thinking it!
Sorry about that . Typing on a old flip phone.
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You would think I would proof read better
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In your defense, sometimes my phone posts what IT wants to! Despite turning all that crap off, it still does it.
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You’re probably a great driver by Italian standards lol
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You’re most likely right… I always get upset by the atrocities that I witness every day on the road. People not giving way, misusing the signaling, entering or waiting at the roundabouts according to rules that are unbeknownst to the universe… In that sense, I consider myself to be a pretty good driver.
But yeah, then there’s the stuff that I talked about in my previous post.
(Btw, Italian people think the same of you guys, because “manual is better”)
I think some people have better spatial awareness in a car than others.
I am much more comfortable doing a left turn parking than a right turn parking. I feel that I am much more aware of my surroundings doing a left turn parking than a right turn parking.
Everyone makes mistakes. I’ve made a right turn and scraped a parking pillar because I was too busy paying attention to the pedestrians on the other side.
I agree though- expensive cars seem pointless. It’s far too easy to ding it up. It won’t even be your fault too. My car has a ton of dings on the sides because people open their car door and apparently don’t care about the car parked next to them. I’m pretty sure my car has scratches from people hitting it with shopping carts too.
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Just stick with something dependable that you can buy. And by buy, I mean in its entirety. Don’t borrow money to do it. That’ll also probably keep you from buying something fancy and tearing it up.
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This happened to me a few months ago 
The way I view it if someone is not knowledgeable enough to see results in their own training . They have no business being paid as a personal trainer or coach.