I do list to the right due to a weakness in my right lower back and hip. My left lumbar spinal erectors are much thicker than my right so I tend to lean to the right. I’m trying to train against that, but when the weight gets heavy, my body goes to my strengths. I still have a lot of weakness in my right hip due to the nerve impulses not getting through the spine as strongly as on the left. Basically, I’m still recovering from my herniation and it may never be 100%.
But I will squat 405 at depth before year’s end nonetheless.
Squat Assistance
High Box Squat (18" box)
225x8
315x5
335x3,4
Much harder than a 23" box.
I feel better now…
guess I’ll work up to 5’s @ 335 and start dropping the box height. I wasn’t willing to gut out 5’s today though I could have gotten them for at least two sets. These felt pretty good on my back and pretty terrible on my VMO. I need to fill the bottom of the power rack up so I can squat wider - I’m getting too much quad in the movement because I can’t go wide enough.
[quote]bunny7568 wrote:
I like the way you set up that video. Squatting towards the white light… “don’t go into the light dude!”… kinda like having a near death experience everytime you squat eh?
There’s some incentive… You should get a spotter dressed like the Grim Reaper next time you squat… that would be cool!
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My halo is in the mail, they say. Or my horns - the line cut out at the “H” part…
skid, i have found that you can still get the hammz and cheez involved in the squat without going wide, and I have the DOMS today to prove it.
Start your squat like a good morning, pushing your butt back hard, then bend your knees and go down. That’s why you always hear people cueing “back back back”. Lead with your hips, not your knees. If your hips are the first thing to bend, you’ll engage the hammz n cheez, if your knees bend first, it will be your quads.
Test it out on the box, sit way back before you sit down.
The only reason I mention this is that raw lifters all have a narrower stance than geared lifters.
I agree, MJ, it can be done, but I’m probably built like Skid (longer legs, shorter torso), and reading Robertson’s piece on squatting yesterday, it mentioned that “special” people like us may find it helpful to take a wider stance. I only recently started doing that, and, even though it’s still not PL kind of wide (a couple inches outside of shoulder width) it does help me out quite a bit.
I’ve read that Robertson article many times, but that was the first time that particular section jumped out at me.
I just need to shut the hell up and squat. Only weight gain and making a big ass will make my squat go up. Until I take care of that, anything I say about squatting is girly-girl talk.
[quote]skidmark wrote:
I just need to shut the hell up and squat. Only weight gain and making a big ass will make my squat go up. Until I take care of that, anything I say about squatting is girly-girl talk.[/quote]
I didn’t want to have to be the one to say it, so I’m glad you did.
[quote]skidmark wrote:
… shut the hell up and squat.
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That sounds like a great thread name
[quote]skidmark wrote:
Only weight gain and making a big ass will make my squat go up. Until I take care of that, anything I say about squatting is girly-girl talk.[/quote]
My metabolism has slowed somewhat as I’ve gotten older. It used to be all I could do to keep weight on at 165. I’m sitting at 185 with no effort these days,
This isn’t a metabolism thing, though, so much as one of discipline. Long time posters to this forum know about my constant whining about not having an appetite, not being able to gain weight, whine,whine,whine.
The fact is that I haven’t truly committed to doing so and organized my life to support it, else I would have been crowing about my new squat PR’s each week for the last 6 months.
It is hard to do, I never have an appetite,
and constantly forget to eat so I can see how it can be frustrating.
ADD+ college wrestling will give most peoples eating fits. Stepping on a scale 5 times a day as an adolescent has given me a very strange sense of weight.
I have to be as disciplined to eat, as I am to train I don’t do a food log, or weigh I just eat , more then I would , if left to my own devices.
[quote]skidmark wrote:
I’m starting the see-food diet. I just have to make sure I see some. Going to eat every two hours, hungry or not, of whatever is available.[/quote]
Skid, i’d recommend my diet, but I don’t think you want to weigh 300 lbs with the monster tummy.
You might try SteelyD’s methodology. that dude gets over 400 grams of protein a day. I am betting you are very carb tolerant (skinny guys usually are 8*), so you might get away with the same amount in carbs.
In all seriousness, I would trade problems with you in a hearbeat. I gain weight just looking at food. The way you’ve been progressing, I can only imagine what your lifts would look like if you packed on another 20 lbs.
just remember, the saying about how your belly helps you out of the hole? its bullshit spread by guys like me that can’t get rid if the belly.
You could always gain Dave Tate style - a whole large pizza with pepperoni and sausage and grease and lard for dinner every night. if you do that, doesn’t really matter what you eat the rest of the day.
I would stick with the steely d method. that should save you hundreds of dollars on baby wipes.
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[quote]skidmark wrote:
Actually carbs futz me up awfully if I get too many. I get muzzy-headed and sleepy, my joints ache and my vision starts to get fuzzy.
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x2. I’m treading lightly with the carbs. Starchy stuff (rice, sweet taters, and corn) on heavy days. Fruits (dried and fresh) daily, but early. Very low on off days.
At least that’s what I’m trying to do. I’m avoiding breads like the plague. Pizza and the occasional fig newton catch me off guard once in awhile
The other thing I’ve been doing for about a month or so is my ‘workout cocktail’ which is my homebrew of this site’s drink. I mix Leucine, Beta Alanine, and L-Citrulline in Gatorade, so there’s some carbs, too.
