I squat high bar and go below parallel. Would this fly if I did a PL meet? Would it be “OK, it counts, but youre a weirdo try to get with it next time”?
DL I have no issues. A dead is a dead.
I havent flat benched in years. Ive stuck to push press, incline, decline and recently weighted dips, but flat bench always felt weird so I quit it. So I am starting from scratch and can use good PL form from the start.
So basically do I have to change my form to do a PL meet? or can I keep my Oly-style form?
Im sure I will share. This is something ive meant to get around to doing forever, and now I have a stretch where I can focus on strength training (Ive been pursuing other goals for the last 9 mo or so, does parkour count as dynamic effort? lol).
Im in Miami, so I am hoping to do a few months to get back on track in strength training and compete in Ft Lauderdale or maybe Orlando, but I haven nailed down a meet yet.
And I kind of dont care about giving up pounds. I know its the point of PLing, but Im not sure I am exactly a PLer (yet?). I really just do what I think is awesome (credit to Wendler for describing this so eloquently), and for me part of that is oly style squats. Thats not to say that wont change once Im in a meet “competing”. I dont think I will be crushing any records, just want the experience at this point.
Though everyone has already gave you the answer, I’m also most likely squatting high bar/olympic shoes when I do my first meet… if anything it should help with reaching depth due to the need for less ankle flexibility… I also see a ton of big raw/single ply squatting done in oly shoes and they all go nice and deep. Most impressive I saw recently was 300kg single ply by a guy lighter then me in those new red adistar shoes, he was just shy of 20 years old… crazy.
[quote]jake_j_m wrote:
Though everyone has already gave you the answer, I’m also most likely squatting high bar/olympic shoes when I do my first meet… if anything it should help with reaching depth due to the need for less ankle flexibility… I also see a ton of big raw/single ply squatting done in oly shoes and they all go nice and deep. Most impressive I saw recently was 300kg single ply by a guy lighter then me in those new red adistar shoes, he was just shy of 20 years old… crazy. [/quote]
This makes me want to get a pair of oly shoes now. I squat with a narrow(er) stance.
[quote]milktruck wrote:
Im sure I will share. This is something ive meant to get around to doing forever, and now I have a stretch where I can focus on strength training (Ive been pursuing other goals for the last 9 mo or so, does parkour count as dynamic effort? lol).
Im in Miami, so I am hoping to do a few months to get back on track in strength training and compete in Ft Lauderdale or maybe Orlando, but I haven nailed down a meet yet.
And I kind of dont care about giving up pounds. I know its the point of PLing, but Im not sure I am exactly a PLer (yet?). I really just do what I think is awesome (credit to Wendler for describing this so eloquently), and for me part of that is oly style squats. Thats not to say that wont change once Im in a meet “competing”. I dont think I will be crushing any records, just want the experience at this point.[/quote]
Hey! I imagine you’re with Miami Freerunning?
I was one of the parkour coaches at Urban Evolution in Virginia (and one of the American reps for Parkour North America a few years back) and one of the admins of Parkour Virginia. We got into powerlifting as a means of improving our parkour performance.
Not everyone in our group skyrocketed in strength necessarily, but I feel that my parkour experience and training made me significantly more explosive in the lifts, so I do feel that it counts as dynamic effort work if you’re doing it intelligently. Do keep in mind, though, that I trained Westside-style for quite awhile in addition to 1-2 jams/training sessions a week.
Let me know if you have any questions about parkour and powerlifting simultaneously. Email’s andy @parkourvirginia.com no space
I was one of the parkour coaches at Urban Evolution in Virginia (and one of the American reps for Parkour North America a few years back) and one of the admins of Parkour Virginia. We got into powerlifting as a means of improving our parkour performance.
Not everyone in our group skyrocketed in strength necessarily, but I feel that my parkour experience and training made me significantly more explosive in the lifts, so I do feel that it counts as dynamic effort work if you’re doing it intelligently. Do keep in mind, though, that I trained Westside-style for quite awhile in addition to 1-2 jams/training sessions a week.
Let me know if you have any questions about parkour and powerlifting simultaneously. Email’s andy @parkourvirginia.com no space
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Thats awesome man. Im not a coach or anything but I do go there about once every week/two weeks now. I was doing that + sprints, and really working grip strength with grippers, eagle loops, certain climbing exercises for a while. I plan on keeping up parkour about once a week because its fun as hell but focus more on my squats and deads now for a while. They have been on “maintenance” for too long!
Also, parkour made me want to get my belt out and get super strong on the weighted chins and dips. I just learned the trick to a muscle up the other day and feel like I am like 2 weeks away from nailing it.
One of the members of my lifting team squats narrow. He happens to be one of the nation’s best 148lb lifters. It’s more common among the smaller weight classes, but every now and then you’ll see a heavier guy squat with a pretty narrow stance.
Hey, I’m a free-runner too. I was wondering about using high bar oly squats for a meet too! In my experience with parkour and weigh training, you can do a bunch of precisions and box jumps for warm up for squats or deadlifts. As for dynamic effort, it should work if you do a lot of bigger moves and flips.
[quote]Fr3aki wrote:
Hey, I’m a free-runner too. I was wondering about using high bar oly squats for a meet too! In my experience with parkour and weigh training, you can do a bunch of precisions and box jumps for warm up for squats or deadlifts. As for dynamic effort, it should work if you do a lot of bigger moves and flips.[/quote]
Do you know Rene/Res in Vancouver? He was one of the first traceurs in the area and is big into doing the powerlifts and oly-lifts for parkour.
[quote]Fr3aki wrote:
Hey, I’m a free-runner too. I was wondering about using high bar oly squats for a meet too! In my experience with parkour and weigh training, you can do a bunch of precisions and box jumps for warm up for squats or deadlifts. As for dynamic effort, it should work if you do a lot of bigger moves and flips.[/quote]
Do you know Rene/Res in Vancouver? He was one of the first traceurs in the area and is big into doing the powerlifts and oly-lifts for parkour.
Animus, yea, I know Rene. I’ve trained for about as long as him. I helped out with this a long time ago
and then helped teach classes once he started them. Along with some friends, we set up a parkour gym here in Vancouver, and it’s gonna open very soon. Check out www.originsparkour.com/ . This is my channel btw Alexander Vlasev - YouTube