The Official Powerlifting and Strongman Family Appreciation Thread: Part XVIII

[Daemonium]

Thinking I've either strained my glute med/TFL, which is sort of strange but its the right area. Been bothering me for a couple of months now. Possibility that its my psoas tendon but idk. Anyone deal with pain like this before? most painful movement is hip flexion/abduction

so you're not doing smolov jr...the reason it sucks is the "original" layout. If you chance, the volume, progression, frequency and intensity....YNDTP.

I've only run smolov jr once but I thought it was awesome.

[308smk]

Thinking I've either strained my glute med/TFL, which is sort of strange but its the right area. Been bothering me for a couple of months now. Possibility that its my psoas tendon but idk. Anyone deal with pain like this before? most painful movement is hip flexion/abduction

Advil that chit till it goes away

[Big.Jazayrli]

I agree. Not saying its for everyone, or that its right. But I've done much better in a meet setting than I've ever done in the gym. Could be because its a meet and I have the competition and the adrenaline and the peaking doesn't do ****, could be because the peaking works (for me anyway).

The chains is just 40lbs, so its not a lot of actual weight (7% overload at the top on squat and 11% at the top on bench going on my previous meet numbers). I don't think it really changes the mechanics of the squat itself, its more designed to help me feel heavy weight and get confident with it on my back and going down and coming back up with it. I think a lack of confidence with heavy weights is a big issue for myself personally, so this is a way to help me out with it.

Also: The percentages aren't set in stone. For instance, this cycle I couldn't hit the percentages on bench, so it dropped down a bit. I'm not sure if I'll put anything on my bench this meet, because I'm basically using the same weights I used at the previous meet (just hit 5x1@315 this past week which would be week 4, which is 90% of 350 not 95, so I'll be backing down my week 3 and 2 to 87.5%+chains and 90%+chains).

I like experimenting with my training to try and find out what works for me though. I seem to have stumbled upon something that works decent.

FWIW - it seems like you're still getting stronger at a very reasonable rate - with the expectation of bigger PRs from meet to meet it makes sense to train with higher relative intensities. I am very conservative with these things though

[Daemonium]

Advil that chit till it goes away

lool. If it's chronic inflammation then I'll probably have to. If its something else I dont want to fuuck with the healing process.

[308smk]

lool. If it's chronic inflammation then I'll probably have to. If its something else I dont want to fuuck with the healing process.

Ibuprofen is a saint!



All those lies that it hurts the healing process is a bunch of pencil neck bullchit.

[breathinglife]

Yeah, I actually researched that whole ibuprofen thing a while back for my own reasons. I read peer-reviewed articles instead of Men's Health or some insane T-Nation nonsense.

Turns out, ibuprofen is just plain good for you.

[Hunttarded]

I use Naproxen. Ibuprofen's better then? Or same crap?

[Larfleeze]

Anyone got any tips for reducing quad/inner thigh doms from squatting? Getting tired of only being able to squat/DL once every 8 days or so due to my legs feeling like death

[308smk]

Anyone got any tips for reducing quad/inner thigh doms from squatting? Getting tired of only being able to squat/DL once every 8 days or so due to my legs feeling like death

Squat more often and they'll actually gain some work capacity and you won't be sore anymore.

[martin_mathers]

Yeah, I actually researched that whole ibuprofen thing a while back for my own reasons. I read peer-reviewed articles instead of Men's Health or some insane T-Nation nonsense.

Turns out, ibuprofen is just plain good for you.

Good to know.

[Rags85]

Squat more often and they'll actually gain some work capacity and you won't be sore anymore.

Yup, a while ago I added a squat day just to eliminate doms. During normal training, my quads/glutes rarely get sore with the extra day. As soon as I reduce frequency though, it comes back.

[dang111]

I'm flying tomorrow and not checking a bag. Think I'll have issues bringing a lever belt in my carry on?

Squat more often and they'll actually gain some work capacity and you won't be sore anymore.

^^ This

[308smk]

I'm flying tomorrow and not checking a bag. Think I'll have issues bringing a lever belt in my carry on?

Zero problems I often travel with my whole bag full of gear.

[Hamzzza]

road to 300

glad we're not doing the knee-hip dots stuff, gpc depth 4life

[NorthStrong]

What are some of the most useful things you guys have found for improving your deadlifts?

My squat and bench go up pretty consistently but deadlift doesn't seem to want to move as much. I know some people say "squat builds the deadlift" but I've definitely not found that to be the case for me (at least at this stage).

[simpson54]

What are some of the most useful things you guys have found for improving your deadlifts?

My squat and bench go up pretty consistently but deadlift doesn't seem to want to move as much. I know some people say "squat builds the deadlift" but I've definitely not found that to be the case for me (at least at this stage).

Besides just deadlifting more, speed work from deficits, good mornings and SLDL have helped mine a lot. Improving my speed has helped all 3 of my lifts considerably.

[whitessp]

FWIW - it seems like you're still getting stronger at a very reasonable rate - with the expectation of bigger PRs from meet to meet it makes sense to train with higher relative intensities. I am very conservative with these things though

I think youRe right as far as the intensities go. If I hit what I want to in the meet, these percentages are going to be a bit lower than what they are basing it off of my previous meet PR.

[Larfleeze]

I'm flying tomorrow and not checking a bag. Think I'll have issues bringing a lever belt in my carry on?

Strange, was literally thinking about that sitting in the airport yesterday. Needed something to take my mind off of how ****ing awful the dolphins were

[dang111]

Zero problems I often travel with my whole bag full of gear.

Yeah, but they probably don't throw you into a room and give you a cavity search in Canada if they're mad at you.

Strange, was literally thinking about that sitting in the airport yesterday. Needed something to take my mind off of how ****ing awful the dolphins were

Hey, just try being a Bills fan.

[isaku900]

just take your lever belt out of your carry on and put it through on the conveyor like its a laptop. if you leave it in the bag they might not understand what it is.

[CooCooCaChoo]

'Murican here, never had problems with lever belt in carry on

[showmestate08]

What are some of the most useful things you guys have found for improving your deadlifts?

My squat and bench go up pretty consistently but deadlift doesn't seem to want to move as much. I know some people say "squat builds the deadlift" but I've definitely not found that to be the case for me (at least at this stage).

Squat gains =/= gains on deadlift for me either. Maybe because I'm a wide stance, low bar squatter and a conventional deadlifter?

Heavy rows, shrugs, lots of ham work, and explosive leg pressing...preferably a leg press machine that allows you to deload/relax the load on the bottom part of the lift and explode to a locked out position--so similar to a deadlift in that there is no stretch reflex.

[martin_mathers]

So Pacifico is going to go singleply again and try to break Belyaev's 2425 total record.

I hope he doesn't actually think he's on the same level as Belyaev. Even if he gets the "record".

[SPFjudge]

So Pacifico is going to go singleply again and try to break Belyaev's 2425 total record.

I hope he doesn't actually think he's on the same level as Belyaev. Even if he gets the "record".

To be fair if its done under similar conditions why wouldn't he be???

[showmestate08]

Came across this video of Brian Shaw deadlifting. I thought how he locks in his lats/shoulders before the pull was pretty interesting.

Starts @57 sec

[NorthStrong]

To be fair if its done under similar conditions why wouldn't he be???

I was going to post the same thing. But Jimmie will very likely not walk his out.

His raw strength is probably not where Belyaevs is, but if you're not comparing raw totals who gives a ****.

[martin_mathers]

To be fair if its done under similar conditions why wouldn't he be???

Idk mang. Looks very different.

[Smolovicus]

What are some of the most useful things you guys have found for improving your deadlifts?

My squat and bench go up pretty consistently but deadlift doesn't seem to want to move as much. I know some people say "squat builds the deadlift" but I've definitely not found that to be the case for me (at least at this stage).

I think in the lower strength levels especially (400-600), there's a rather high incidence of low volume / high intensity dead training resulting in ridiculous jumps. On this board alone there's been like 10 guys who went from 400 to the mid 5s by doing little more than working up to a DL max every couple/few weeks. My back's been tanked for the better part of an aeon (although I'm finally back up to PR pull numbers), but I progressed from a hard 400 to 470 conventional pull while my max squat was around 300-315... only training I really ever did for it was working up to a heavy top single every ~2 weeks and maybe a back off set or two. Since beginning deadlift training again, I've been doing about the same and it has been moving up smoothly again. In general, deadlift reps have always broken my recovery for weeks at a time.

Just something to consider I guess.

Also more upper back work. Always more upper back work.

[SPFjudge]

To be fair if its done under similar conditions why wouldn't he be???

Idk mang. Looks very different.

What if he does it in USPA? I have no inside info or anything but if he did do it in the uspa thats a pretty close comparison other than the deadlift bar.


Belyeav is no stranger to the mono either

[martin_mathers]

What if he does it in USPA? I have no inside info or anything but if he did do it in the uspa thats a pretty close comparison other than the deadlift bar.


Belyeav is no stranger to the mono either

I doubt he will do USPA but if he does, I really don't think he'll get one squat passed. Never seen him squat to depth. Even though I would love to see him attempt to walk it out to set his wide stance.

Belyaev squats to depth. His WR was still done walked out though.