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Yeah, the gym owners wouldn't mind me go over there with saw horses.

The thing is, I have a squat rack but the safeties are too high for me to full squat... it messes everything up since I always have to think "don't hit the supports" and my squat suffers immensly.

When you squat in the low bar position the bar just presses (at least for me) hard into the hands. If you fail a rep, and are outside the squat cage, how do you unload the bar? How do you get outta there? I'm talking no spotter.

Because with the low bar, there's no space but down for the bar to slide and if that happens, it could catch your arms/elbows and pull you down.

Full squatted 220lbs 10 times today, also deadlifted 352 lbs (ties ).

That's what you get from wearing a corset all day long.

I remember that picture by the way, there was in some book, not sure which one (either in a Pavel Tsatsouline book or in Starting Strength).

Quote from: Raptor on April 08, 2011, 02:42:10 pm

What about a side plank? I always do that when I warm up for dunks... kind of stay in a "star" pose laterally (with the non-working arm and leg elevated) for about 20 seconds and I can feel my glutes come alive after that.

single leg side plank? those are damn tough for glute-med/tfl.. i used to be able to do them so easy, havn't done them in a long time, last time i tried, really sucked at them, but that was a while ago.

prone rev hyper (bodyweight) makes me feel real good when jumping too.. and i'm liking these leg-extension TKE's too.. it's helped to get my VMO firing properly, very fast.. i had a major firing issue over the last few weeks, but after 2-3 tke-iso sessions, contracting maximally, seems to be firing almost normal.

pC

Yeah the single leg side planks. I'm pretty good at them, I think I MIGHT be able to hold one for one minute. I usually hold it for 30 s and it's pretty hard.

How do you do iso tkes?

That's cool and all, but why go for 50 reps?

I think overdoing on the isos can mess up your proprioceptive awareness if you do them before dynamic things (like playing your sports).

That's also static stretching shouldn't really be done. I for one, whenever I do static stretching, I'm not actually relaxing but staying very stiff and contracted to be able to maintain that position. If I were to relax my body would move/limbs move/lose the stretch. So that's basically an iso that messes up with your proprioceptive awareness.

Crazy dream last night... oh man...

I dreamed that a nuke just fell somewhere like 5 kilometers away from my building and I was like "hey, is this really happening? I mean, it only happens in my dreams, I never thought this will happen in real life" and then I went on the streets and the streets were flooded with water all the way up to the neck, sometimes even higher, and was walking through water behind a neighborgh of mine, and he was walking and sometimes entering deeper water and I used to get so scared.

Then I took a subway "to Hell", everybody was bragging about how cool it is and that I should take it. Went in through a back door of the train and there were so many WEIRD people there... everybody looking at you and pointing and stuff like that, and then some train "officials" came in and gave us some weird, bug-like pills to take... and took that and swallowed it and then we had a moment to realize that maybe that wasn't the brightest of ideas ... but we couldn't do anything about that since we already swallowed it ... and then we reached "Hell" which was some kind of computer generated level with "blocks" of blue... then I don't remember anymore.

If anything, search for "minecraft" on youtube, it looked like that, but blue and underground.