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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRXBP7cZk7s" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRXBP7cZk7s</a>

Guess that's a good motivation to lift ^^^

Yeah it doesn't make too much sense... maybe that % allows you to be explosive enough and at the same time it's still very heavy so the power output is the highest? I don't know.

By the way - it's better to be rich than poor and better to be healthy than sick.

You can thank me later.

By the way - when it gets warmer outside I'm going to try and jump with a weight belt on. If the weight belt gives me a boost in terms of strength in the squat, I'm going to see practically if that's due to better bar stabilizing or if it's also a matter of muscle irradiation with the leg muscles contracting more forcefully due to the core generating more force by pushing into the belt.

I know the vast majority of people around here will laugh at this ^^^ but I'm going to see it for myself. Not sure anyone tried this in the past (jumping with a weight belt on). The downfall is it's weight but I'll try it nevertheless.

You're weak. That's your problem

So you dove deep down into your pinnacle of knowledge to pull out this?

You're weak. That's your problem.

Considering my squat PR today (140kgx5reps), I just came to some "thoughts" after working out so far:

1) At this point, for me at least, it appears I have reached a point where I'm being overwhelmed cardiovascularly at this weight. After my 140x5 I felt REALLY dizzy and felt like passing out... it appears that's pretty much my limit as far as conditioning is concerned when doing strength training. Why should you care about this? Because it could apply to you to. I don't hear anybody talk about conditioning and cardio "strength" for strength training so I thought I should fill that in.

2) I have came to the conclusion that high frequency squatting is the way to go. Even though you might get ballooned squat numbers, the effect that squatting heavy weights again and again has on developing your muscles is unmatched.

You might come in and say "yeah but that squat is not transferrable to athletic movements and is just an improvement of squat movement efficiency". And of course you'd be right. But the thing is - it actually indirectly helps athleticism. You will use higher poundages that will develop your muscles better (subjecting them to heavier poundages will develop both your muscles and your nervous system) and that will, in turn, help with the actual athletic movements.

Also - moving a heavy weight frequently is being underrated in the effect it has for your stabilizer development... since the bar isn't stable (because you won't have 100% perfect movement when squatting) and needs to be, well, stabilized. That creates a good CNS firing to stabilize it and by that I mean a "quick" CNS fire ability. This is so underrated in my opinion.

Yeah we've had this conversation some time ago and it will keep on getting back and back into these boards because frankly, it's pretty interesting to discuss. But the bottom line is what vag said.