I just like his but not yours.
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I think you are mixing up perfect form with better technique. Learning how to use your leverages to lift more weight is not the same as trying to keep everything perfect.
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Kaz quote after “losing” to Magnusson in the Giants Live exhibition Hercules Hold recently: “I’m 65 years old, I don’t want to be strong, I just want to look strong.”
I’m going to choose to believe he was totally serious, because I’m 57 and counting…
Martins Licis won WSM (and 2nd in the Arnold) over other “stronger” (supposedly) guys because he has the best technique. Is “technique” the same as “form”? Imo, they are at the very least closely related.
Just wanted to throw that out there.
I think this really depends.
My squat form sucks because of various imbalances I have. I am reasonably sure that the bar sits lower on my left shoulder compared to my right shoulder and I have a hip shift when the weight gets heavy enough.
I still squatted heavy because these things didn’t cause pain.
I’m also pretty sure squatting for a long time with these kind of imbalances are what ultimately caused my right knee to get pissed off enough to start giving me pain and get injured.
So…
My squat form features a very bad hip shift. If I don’t pay attention, it shows up in air squats so I’m pretty sure I’m not ego lifting at this poing.
Confession: I keep procrastinating being consistent actually working on it
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I disagree, I see form as a specific way of performing a movement, to avoid injury, prevent cheating and increase strength, I think of this as a ‘text book way’ to do something. But I see technique as the individual way a person completes a move. I don’t think if you watch strongman you are going to see too many guys using the text book form to lift a weight, but each strongman will have a different technique.
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Technique is a form of cheating, just like mobility work and warming up.
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Just saw on Jujimufu’s Instagram that he heading your way. I’m pretty sure he has met Kaz, close enough? 
I didnt see Juji was coming down here. I wonder if that is for the Arnold next year ?
Form is something that is visual. “Textbook form”
is simply a guideline. The idea that there is going to be a standard form for everyone is rubbish for the most part due to individual variances in limb proportions for compound movements, and the way people optimally fire their muscles through a range of motion for less complex movements. Someone who has to deadlift with higher hips with the bar closer to his shins, for example, will have more injury potential if he follows the same form in his Starting Strength Bible.
I think this sums up what I’m trying to describe. “Form” should also only be judged by experienced people. When noobs look at someone’s form, they look at how closely it resembles their Starting Strength Bible or what they watched people on YouTube doing… When experienced people look at form, they look at how technique is being applied.
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Of course, but there are thing that you should never do in training, whereas it might be acceptable for a 1RM or competition or whatever like knees caving in on the squat or low back rounding
Yes, that goes without saying lol. Barring a 1RM or max reps to completely failure, if the correct technique is being utilized, there should be none of the problems you mentioned.
Problems with technique IS the reason why people get their form all screwed up when doing heavier(not maximal) weights.
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Well that’s why I always stressed about squats for instance. My knees always want to cave in and I really have to fight that. Sure I have a history about that (surgery on both knees, wide hips, long legs, I’m all posterior chain) but what level of knee movement is acceptable? Martins Licis posted an interesting videos about front squats two days ago. So he’s casually front squatting 5 plates with really good form but you see his knees slightly moving in. I’m sure that’s not a problem. But when I was younger I would stress over it and think that I was doing garbage.
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That’s the initiating the lift with the quads. Some Chinese weightlifters do that.
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If you want a laugh head across to CTs forum. There’s a new post that basically goes, hey, I’m worried about rounding may back during the eccentric on deadlifts and also I have these two friends who train 5x5 but one of them often skips because of how horny he gets after training while the other one can’t get a boner, also after training.
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Lol.
You want a another laugh? You wanna see what real stoopid is?
Same guy:
The following isn’t funny:
For people who want see what kind of gains over 2g of gear gives you and what happens when you abuse roids when you don’t know what you’re doing:
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Wow not sure what to make of that certain thread now.it all feels off even more now.
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I think I have these symptoms, too, probably owing to my female-caused low T. Often I think to myself that if I didn’t have excess of heart goodness things would be better. Easier. Weakness! Damnit.
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Today, someone asked me if I had sent them an email they had asked for yesterday.
I said I tried but I couldn’t work out how to buy a stamp so I never sent it.
I feel this is an old joke but I can’t remember ever hearing it. So, now I feel I uncovered a golden missed opportunity by the world.
I plan to spend the next 6 weeks making bad stamp jokes about emails and hopefully refining it to a point where people stop talking to me.
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