we just decided one day to take our lifting a bit more serious and progress on squats
nothing beats that feeling of training with a strong girl who can keep up :P !
any advices or comments you guys have on our form and that method ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4roOs8qpY9o
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Thread: bulgarian method with my girl
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08-04-2015, 09:58 PM #1
bulgarian method with my girl
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08-05-2015, 05:55 AM #2
I did daily squatting for about 15 months. I ran into fatigue in the first few weeks and fixed that by continuing down the same path with no changes. I ran into joint pains a few months later but was able to fix all of them with trigger point release. That took a while; 6-8 months for me. With each pain I worked on fixing, there was a performance dent right after I fixed it, followed by either a small PR or bouncing back to where I was. When I was finished fixing all joint pains, my day-to-day daily max performance became more and more consistent, but it wasn't moving up. I got to a point where I could squat the same amount regardless of what was going on that day, and the amount was an improvement compared to the very beginning of the experiment, but it just wasn't continuing the upward trend. I tried a few different things during that time - different set sizes, more volume, dropping the daily max and just doing volume in case it was a mental block, etc - no change to my max although I was getting stronger in other rep ranges. I would have kept going through that if at least my deadlift was happy - but it wasn't.
The thing that finally made me decide to end the experiment was that a very minor change in my squat form triggered a huge decline in my deadlift performance over the next 2 months. I felt like my body had started to prioritize squat way over deadlift since I was pouring so much time and energy into squat - which is great if you get good carryover from squat to deadlift, but that doesn't always happen for me. I switched for the sake of my deadlift - now I have separate squat/bench/dead days so I can give equal energy to all of them.My powerlifting journal:
Adaptation ~ http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=169905603
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08-05-2015, 06:11 AM #3
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Her depth is way off. Her bar squats and 135 squats are better, but probably still a little high. Her 225 is only about half way to legal depth. I'd suggest lightening the load a bit and work on consistent depth.
Your depth is probably good, its hard to tell since I can't see your knee and hip crease in the same shot.
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08-05-2015, 07:28 AM #4
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08-05-2015, 08:03 AM #5
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08-05-2015, 02:49 PM #6
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08-05-2015, 02:51 PM #7
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08-05-2015, 03:53 PM #8
It might sound weird but I actually had no DOMS with daily squatting. I usually still felt warmed up from the previous day. I did get joint pains if a specific muscle was too tight... but almost no DOMS.
Changing to separate squat/bench/deadlift days made DOMS come back in full force for me - not pleasant. But I still wanted the change so I'm taking vitamins and plowing through it.
Good luck! I think it's a great experiment even though I'm trying something different now. I learned a lot of useful things. I enjoyed it. I might come back to it someday.My powerlifting journal:
Adaptation ~ http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=169905603
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08-05-2015, 08:25 PM #9
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08-05-2015, 08:33 PM #10
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