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Thread: Another Squat video.. 405x26
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12-20-2012, 04:12 PM #16
U know originally this real high rep thing started as a competition at my gym before thanksgiving but I have changed my training a ton the last year or so. I was the same way.. I use to come in and tell myself oh I need to deadlift or squat 600lbs. Now I focus more on the muscle and I never went over 500x8-10 on either of those lifts where 585 was common for me for around 6 or more. For years my buddy and very good national bodybuilder told me I needed to stop lifting like a powerlifter and more like a bodybuilder. I finally listened to him last year and focused more on the muscle and movement instead of driving the weight up and only working my core, joints, and tendons... The result was it helped me gain 20lbs of stage weight in a year when the offseason I was the most lax about my diet and supplements in a very long time, especially because I thought I wasn't competing last year but thankfully did lol. I really started to read a ton from John meadows and followed similar workouts to his. I feel much better and my growth has increased a ton. When I go high reps I am very sore for a few days. My training has finally became more bodybuilding specific and not a powerlifter/bodybuilder.. Heck I have flat benched twice in the last two years and my chest is my best body part. The ego lifting days for me are gone. I am only 24 but have been lifting for a decade so I notice little nagging things in my body and want to focus on longevity as well.
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12-20-2012, 06:10 PM #17
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12-20-2012, 06:48 PM #18
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12-20-2012, 06:58 PM #19
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12-20-2012, 07:17 PM #20
Come...come now....Tom Platz 500lbs x 23 reps.
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12-20-2012, 09:13 PM #21
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12-20-2012, 09:16 PM #22
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matt, when i was starting i was about where your depth is now.. it was an eye opener but its what made the difference as the many many yrs went on [ yea im old lol] get your adductors an abductors worked on .. have your illacius worked on and you're depth will be easy to to reach for sure ..
keep posting vids , i need someone chasing me ;0)
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12-21-2012, 01:02 AM #23
thanks!
thanks bro! I gotta give Derik credit where credit is due. He is one of the best high rep squatters in the world on top of being one of the best ART guys in the world. He is way more knowledgable than me on this subject so I will always welcome his advice even if I did 100 reps of 405 lol.
Platz is king.
Lol funny how that works.. I remember when I first started getting into bodybuilding, I use to watch the videos of some pros and be so mad and confused that I was "stronger" than some of them in lifts and obviously looked nothing like them. I learned real quick though that there is about 10 million other things that goes into it besides the amount of weight you are doing.
Thank you again for the tips and help! I admit I am fully to blame for not getting anywhere near enough work done with a massage therapist or ART specialist, on top of not stretching enough and using the foam roller/tennis ball. I am my own worse enemy. I have actually started taking a more active interest in it and researching it a ton more to get done, thanks to your ART videos. It is unfortunate in my location there isn't a whole lot of qualified people to go to, and no one near your level.
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12-21-2012, 06:56 AM #24
I find that once I get to 405 that stopping slightly above parallel is harder than going ass to ankles even w/o bouncing at the bottom.
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12-21-2012, 07:54 AM #25
Thanks for the response I'm right with you man. I was forced to change my way of training. I was literally taking 5-8 ibuprofen each leg workout my patellar tendonitis was so bad. I was getting pec strains weekly and constant biceps strains...not to mention painful elbows.
I don't have pain anywhere now and I'm leaner and bigger than ever. I'm 6 years older than you and I wish I would have smartened up when i was 24 or 25 so you are definitely making a good decision changing things up and thinking longterm.
The other thing that got me was even besides the injury I realized there has to be another way to get big. You are not going to get stronger forever or every pro woudl be deadlifting 1,500 pounds and benching 1,100 pounds. There is a point you will just not get stronger as far as total poundage so I had to find out how to grow without getting stronger in a 1rm sense.
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12-21-2012, 09:34 AM #26
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Same here. I don't understand how people do such huge squat sets. I'd struggle with 135x20.. I can get into the 400 range for sets of 6-8 with perfect form and full ROM.. but trying to go high rep with ANY weight just kills me. I will always follow squats with sets of 20-40 on leg press though.
Guess that's a sign that I should drop the weight for a bit and start shooting for reps.. ugh.
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12-22-2012, 02:10 AM #27
You're strong but you definitely need to go deeper... You're not even hitting parallel.. Would be surprised if you could go more than like 12+ atg..
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12-22-2012, 11:39 AM #28
nice squatting man...with knee wraps you get that spring out of the bottom so hitting depth wont be a problem with the pop you get..Crushing it as always.
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12-22-2012, 12:08 PM #29
Dang. Just dang.
BTW it was feeling like and old school dungeon gym for the length of this thread... thx for that little flashback to like... gawd.. somewhere in the late 80s...
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12-22-2012, 01:17 PM #30
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