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Just realized that I'm leaning toward Old School Westside...

Repetition Day for mass
Dynamic Day for recovery and speed
Maximal Effort Day for strength

At least for lower body. Sets of five on Monday for volume. Lighter squats on Wednesday to allow for recovery and to move quickly. Then very low volume and high intensity on Friday.

That's not old school Westide That's old school Russian concurrent training. If you're rotating exercises/workout styles then it's concurrent/conjugate. Louie and the WSB crew have got English speaking to associate any type of concurrent/conjugate training with Westside when really it's less like Westside and more like the original inspiration for Westside.

U.S sucks at olympic lifting because

1. it's not a major interest of athletes, coaches, or athletic programs in the US
2. usa doesn't screen youth & force them into olympic lifting camps to develop them
3. it doesn't pay well
4. most every gym (high school, college, commercial) doesn't have real olympic bars, bumpers, & platforms
5. "powerlifting" and strongman are much more "fun" & popular in the u.s.

:F

I don't think it's just that but the kids who would be good oly lifters don't just miss out on getting exposed to the sport but get filtered out of highschool sports because they often don't really suit anything else. Especially the REALLY small ones. A lot of guys who would be really good middle to heavyweightlifter lifters will also suck at anything that involves running. Chad Vaughan for example has a club foot. Didn't stop him clean and jerking over 90% of the world record for his weight class.

lack of popularity hurts, but it doesn't explain why we rapidly went from dominant in the 30's, 40's and 50's to completely irrelevant starting in the mid-60's.

i repeat: interesting articles are interesting.

The sport changed. Up until that point the US had a comparatively large number of guys lifting and had access to enough food. Other countries didn't until later. Somwhere in these years doctors were saying lifting heavy things is dangerous and Add in the rule changes in the mid 60s to allow the bar to touch the thighs and suddenly the snatch and clean and jerk mattered a lot more. It's really damn hard to snatch/clean and jerk without the bar brushing the thighs and suddenly someone with more lower body strength and better pull mechanics could lift a lot more. Training became a lot more specialized and sophisticated. With the press being dropped in 1972 it almost completely changed the sport.

US sucks at any sport because the best athletes play football or basketball, for the most part

You're successful in a lot of other sports despite that. It's the exposure and talent identification.

We can't be good at every sport. I bet we don't even have our "potentially" fastest athletes in sprinting. And I agree with bball2020. I don't see how you think he's joking unless you are reading what he is saying incorrectly. He's not saying we suck at any sport besides basketball/football, he's saying if we do suck it's because our top athletes are playing other sports.

Have a look at the guys dropping some of the lowest 40 times who also ran 100m in college. They're not running 9.58 any time soon. Fast over 40 yard with dodgy timing does not make you fast against olympic sprinters over 100m with full electronic timing.

Some sources.

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rofl adarq you want to delete this

Quote from: LBSS on June 28, 2011, 11:37:10 am

interesting thought about bmi. i kind of like it.

the tables on exrx are a joke, though. look at them closely, they make no sense. how is an advanced 315 pound lifter only lifting 10 pounds more than an advanced 275 pound lifter? how is a 250 pound squat at 165 in any way intermediate?

Least sense make evar.

Quote from: steven-miller on August 12, 2011, 07:30:48 am

Your harness does not save time in the learning curve btw., it just lets you get away with shitty control of the exercise. If that is the goal, fair enough.

Huh?  Why does it mean he has shitty control of the exercise if the rack position is uncomfortable?

The cause of pain in the rack position is nearly always bad thoracic and scapula mobility once the basic technique is covered.

That was off the Kermadec island's which are 500km away from mainland NZ. Tsunami was only 2 foot high too. Could have caused some problems for the lower lying pacific islands but I never heard anything.

Haha, I know, what I love with BSS is that I can overload the legs without necessarily overloading my back. I can also play with stance length to get different recruitment levels.

Think about it - doing BSS with 40 kg dumbbells (80 kg in total) is like doing bilateral squats with 160 kg in terms of leg stimulation. Now I realize it's more to that than just weight but still, it's just a great thing to do.

The back leg side still contributes significantly in the BSS AFAIK.

Might want to check out the EMG study mentioned here though:
http://billhartman.net/blog/2010/02/14/two-leg-squats-vs-modified-single-leg-squats/