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If you don't powerlift, but you have no bench to lie on, would doing floor presses instead help you increase your size/strength. I.e would increasing your floor press from say 100kg to 160kg help pack on some size as well as have a strength carryover to the bench without ever needing to actually...

I've always termed full squats as oly squats and parallel as powerlifting squats. Two completely seperate movements. Oly squats must be always done full rom. No excuse. Doing oly squats to half rom is like doing bench to half rom (as described above). Powerlifting squats is all about sitting...

I use to get the same thing as you with the back squat parallel as well as full. Halfway up, especially when I'm going heavy (1-3RM), the weight kind of stalls. My ass starts to stick out more and rise up and my 70-80 degree back tilt becomes 30-45 degree tilt. The weight then goes up and I've...

You've been reading too much men's magazine. Just grab something heavy and lift it, whether it be a stone, db, log, bb, or your dog. They all do the same thing for your shoulders i.e make em HOOGE

Looks similar to the russian squat program. I just finished the russian squat program. Gained 5kg on the squat at the end of 6 week. Also incorporated benching as well following the same rules. Gained 10kg on my bench during that 6 week as well. I'm thinking of doing another cycle but with front...

Weird how even running all these programs and reading bill starr's work, you must have come to the conclusion that HIT training is not as effective as many other routines out there. I've tried many routines out there as well (mainly powerlifting), and even I know HIT isn't something I'd try. It...

Right click the rar, click "extract here", it will tell you to enter the password then it will start extracting to your disk. It will then tell you to point it to the 2nd/3rd rar files (make a note of what percentage of the extraction this happens). If you don't have the 2nd/3rd rar file, it...

Yea, I've also seen the 6 week russian as well as the smolov a while back. I've done korte's before. Not too bad. Though my bench didnt go up as much as my other two lifts. I'm also doing the 6 week russian as well. I'm only going to squat (no assistance) and see how well my squat goes up and...

Hmmm... hard to give sypnosis. Well, I guess you'll have to watch it yourself to really comprehend the stupidity that the "supposed" HIT coach was blurting out to the trainee. "Slow, do it really slow because blah blah blah" "Never use momentum, make sure you don't accelerate the weight because...

Sorry to say but HIT looks like crap. After watching this HIT clip I'll never look at any other HIT routines. http://rapidshare.de/files/14992371/_BODYBUILDING_-Mike_Mentzer_s_HIT.part1.rar.html http://rapidshare.de/files/14992332/_BODYBUILDING_-Mike_Mentzer_s_HIT.part2.rar.html...

My home gym setup consists of a olympic bar, 6x20kg, 2x10kg, 2x5kg, 2x2.5L coke bottles with water filled in it, 1.25L coke bottles with water filled in it. I use a metal chair as my bench rack and press on the floor. I use my big ass tree in my back yard with chains+hooks attached hanging...

I think this is correct...read myth #4 and #5 on this page.. http://www.usapowerlifting.com/newsletter/13/coaching/coaching.html This should be true because I've also read one of lou simmons article in which he says the same thing as well.

Explosiveness and/or lockout strength. When I did westside, I use bands instead of chains because they were faster/easier for me to setup then chains. I did make some good gains on my normal bench for awhile. I'm not sure if it was due mainly from all the ME/DE workouts or from the bands/boards...

I second that. My form was pretty much RDL every time I deadlifted back then. I just stop deadlifting altogether and did as much squat variations as possible. Then I went back to dl'ing after 3-4 months and started it up again with lower weights. Felt much, much easier to "sit back" on my...

I wonder what you guys would rant about in this post if you were to see guys in your gym performing exercises similar to the one on this page. http://elitefts.com/documents/unconventional.htm I remember the first time that I was in a commercial gym, I saw some guys doing weird, wonky exercises...