Yeah, you got it, same thing: contract the triceps to move the weight, not the elbows.
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Thanks! Appreciate the response. Definitely don’t want to get the elbows flared up again.
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You might want to give this a read. It goes into more detail. It seems there are questions about other studies he has done, but I haven’t got time to read it now and have only skimmed through it.
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I skimmed through it too, it’s pretty dry material but the point is clear - either Barbalho needs to explain a whole bunch of stuff or all his studies belong in the trash. I think it’s going to be the latter, when you mentioned earlier about the study being retracted I was trying to find him on social media (he was on IG and Facebook before, I had looked him up when i first heard about him) and it seems he has disappeared. It’s a shame because he was studying some good topics and had (seemingly) realistic methods that compare to actual training, so much for that.
Will someone PLEASE tell 39 year old Brian Carroll to get real?
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I’d have to read the whole thing in order to really have an opinion but… I agree with Teh Punisher. I’m friggin less than a month from hitting 29 years yet I just squatted 295 pounds for 5 reps today after three years of zero strength work. All I did the months prior was pure cardio and form-checking through super light weight.
Nah, age is overrated as long as you’re not silly enough to compare yourself to the freak athletes younger than you.
Will someone please tell 39 year old Brian Carroll to get to depth… Oh wait this isn’t the flame free place is it.
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That is honestly the best depth I have seen in a LONG time for a 1200+ squat
Agreed, I’m actually very impressed by the depth he got in what I assume is multiply?
I can’t tell if you are f**king with me here, haha.
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I may have underplayed my confidence in the assertion
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I used to powerlift and loved the days of Westside with Vogelphol, Tate, Wendler, Ruggeria, etc. etc…I stopped watching anything remotely multiply related because of this. Is Brian Carroll strong as a bull? Absolutely. Was that squat anywhere near depth? Absolutely not. If they could sink 1000+ squats in the mid-late 90s with the equipment at that time, lifter of today should be able to lift more and still be held to the same standard.
And no, I’m typically not a squat Nazi analyzing each and every video for depth. But this is just ridiculous.
If someone ever squats 1300lbs in single ply, you no longer drug test them: you Krypton test them.
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Dave Ricks is even worse, squatting 705x3 at 61 years old. The danger if he continues like this is that he might get even stronger.
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That was incredible.
I also like the nonchalant pirate from a pandemic version of “Dodgeball” just casually watching in the background.
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It’s that Gino guy who MCs at IPF meets. I don’t think he lifts though, hard to do that with a peg leg and hook arm.
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Look, other than paying attention to your mobility and your endocrine and nutritional status, I don’t think there’s anything the over-40 guys needs to do that much differently other than getting rid of outdated training fashions like Magic Johnson-era Gold’s Gym short shorts or T-shirts that boast about their participation in the 1997 Woonsocket, Rhode Island 5K.
Of course, if you started training in your 30’s then “over-40” training might mean something, but if you’ve been training for at least 10 or 15 years by the time you hit 40, it’s just another in a long line of meaningless, arbitrary “milestones” that are based on civilization’s obsession with round numbers.
Over-40 training advice needs to be added to the seemingly endless list of “one-size-fits-all advice” like needing to sleep 8 hours a night, drink, I don’t know, 16 gallons of water a day, or ejaculate 3.62 times a week for maximal health.
Phooey.
Listen, if you start believing you’re over the hill at 40 or 40-plus and that your body has suddenly gotten all snow flakey, then that will become the truth. Instead, rage, rage against this supposed dying of the light and don’t bother making any great changes to your training.
How very interesting…
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This is what I have been doing since getting back in the gym 4 years ago. Raging against being soft and middle aged. That’s if you call training whilst trying to balance the fatigue of working and being a father of three kids ‘raging!!’ 
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Kind of a contradiction from the other article… speaking from experience the one major thing different is I have found is addressing recovery.The other is listening to what your body is telling you… knowing when to push it and when it’s time to retreat.
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I definitely relate to TC’s article. I haven’t noticed much difference as far as training goes. I haven’t had to modify or eliminate any exercises and don’t feel at any more risk of injury than I ever have. Here are a couple things that are different, though:
-I used to be able to train at 1 am if I was working a night shift (I’d train during lunch) or go in at 9-10 pm on a day off work and then sleep after. As I got into my mid 30’s, with two kids, if I was working nights, I’d take an early lunch and train at 6 pm, because I had zero energy any time much later than that.
-If I do get injured, it takes a lot longer to heal. I don’t worry too much about injury in the gym, but a couple years ago, I got a high ankle sprain playing flag football and it took months before I was pain free.
-Power has decreased and strength takes longer to build/come back after a lay off.
I’m not sure how much of the above is due to age or rather just other life demands. When I was in my 20’s, I was married, but didn’t have any kids, so I got more sleep and had more time/less stress.
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