Dude, what were you doing at my gym?
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No disrespect to the great Reg Park or Bill Starr… Over the years I have come to feel 5x5 is overrated .
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My favorite post workout carb is Cap’n Crunch.
With Crunch Berries.
And skim milk.
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Little dude decided to play it safe!
I’m counting that as a PR.
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I confess that I’m enjoying the hell out of lifting with no real plan, and I’m getting stronger doing it.
I should probably just run 5/3/1 though…
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To help get myself get pumped up for that “big lift”, I tell myself that some punk college bros are gonna try to swipe my plates that I’m about to put on the bar, without even asking…or maybe just try to squeeze me out of my rack all together. Fuck. Then I just push that bar through the damn roof, blood pressure be damned. I think that’s why girls don’t talk to me. I’ve got perpetual ‘mean face’.
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I like my Valeo belt - it cost twelve bucks.
But, I don’t want people to make fun of me, so I ordered an Inzer.
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Although I live on the first floor of the apartment complex,I use the elevator just to flex in front of the mirror
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The first, not tapered. Is one less loserish?
I expect a hundred pound bump in my squat when I get the Inzer, lol.
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To be honest it’s the ugliest most disgusting thing I’ve seen,but I own one like the second one,which is 25+ years old and the colour was wore off so what room do I have to speak?
Seriously though,does it offer any support?I felt like it will break open every time I wore one
Well, when you’re a weak fuck like me, anything helps. I really don’t know how it relates to a good belt, but it’s better than no belt. When I get the Inzer, I’ll let you know.
I typically only use it on my top sets, and I think it helps me THINK about bracing, if it doesn’t actually help me brace, so there’s that. I can reef it pretty tight with the velcro, but when I went to a pull camp a dude had an Inzer and let another guy borrow it, and he couldn’t take it off, it took like five minutes to get it off. I reckon that’s worth a few pounds.
You know the drill, a dude decides to start strength training seriously (I was just bro lifting), gets hooked, wants to go all in but doesn’t want to drop a bone on a good belt if he’s just going to give it up in two months. Ten months later, still lifting, decides it’s time to get a real belt.
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I am.O god yeah of course I am
Well that was weird
I can see what you say.I could even argue that a not so supportive belt or one worn loose could be a great teaching tools for beginners
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If it makes you feel better, I’d wear it for the dynamic strongman type stuff.
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I don’t use a belt on deads or squats.
And I ate donuts today.
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I’m afraid the majority of recent literature on powerlifting is 5% quality substance, and 95% huffing and puffing about how hardcore you need to be to be a real powerlifter. Save it for the kids in the crossfit shoes and just tell me how to get stronger goddammit
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Talk about training being hardcore and how you’re better than everyone else on the face of the earth for training. So damn ridiculous.
On a side note, just watched the “Squat Every Day” video by Cory Gregory and its so… Dude, you’re just lifting weights.
Even Olympic level athletes aren’t going around boasting about how “hardcore” they are.
From my albeit very limited personal experience, the more someone boasts about how hardcore they are, the less they have to show for it.
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True Stronmen wear the soft belt under the stiff belt!
Over the compression shorts. Which are under the the blue Rehab shorts.
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The moment someone talks about all the sacrifices he makes,especially if he’s not a highly competitive athlete,I consider him an idiot
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I would totally do that too.
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