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I bolded the part that got my attention. It really doesn't affect your jerk to have only 3 fingers on the bar? I've been doing power cleans, clean pulls, and push presses from behind my neck. I haven't been comfortable doing jerks with any significant weight as I'm not comfortable shoving it...

I have usually done the high bar, oly style squat as mentioned by Protobuilder. I found that doing those, and going ATG (hams on calves) was easier on my knees. That said, there is a place for different types of squats. If you're doing the more PL style squat, yes, sit back and break first at...

Re: ok guys Im gonna start either the 3X5 or the 5x5. Please come in here and help me Just to clarify, the 5x5 that usually gets discussed (Madcow's Intermediate 5x5) uses ramped sets. So for a top set of 200x5, you might do 100x5, 125x5, 150x5, 175x5 and 200x5. Really only the last set or two...

If deadlifts bother your injured discs I wouldn't think that power shrugs would be a good thing, as you'd be handling substantial weight there also. Don't remember where they're usually put in the program, but weighted chins I'd think would be fine. How about hyperextensions? Maybe they'd be a...

Re: other forums?? Interesting post by super_rice on the DLs. Until you get your form ironed out, you can just wear some high tube socks. Easy for me; I workout at home so I don't care what I look like. As for squats, I do mine Olympic style and ATG, so no need to worry about a box. If I were...

That's really nice lifting. I'm planning to work in some more dynamic stuff in my training pretty soon and saved a copy as a reference of good technique. Thanks for posting that.

That's some good work on bench. Are you doing some low rep work for the other lifts also?

I believe that you want www.intensemuscle.com. I'm not that knowledgeable about DC training, and can't direct you to any specific articles there, but I believe that's Dante's site.

I would have bet against you even getting 295. Nice job, very impressive.

How did the weight that you usually used for the singles compare in terms of RM weight range. That is, were you using weights around your 5RM, 3RM or what? Also, about how many total reps for the singles versus what has worked for you in re ME work? Where I'm going with this is that I think...

This is something that I'm interested in also. swanky11 was kind enough to summarize his routine for me and BiggT has done the same for someone in his log. Hopefully they won't mind and this will save them the trouble: swanky11's routine BiggT's routine I've also seen the log of someone (on...

From your log: I'd be interested if you have a link to that workout and/or spreadsheet that has the 5x5 setup with 4 weekly workouts split 2 ways which you said you were basing what you did on. I'm interested in that and the thinking that went into it, since 5x5s that I've seen were mostly...

Interesting, so you did a 4 day split, with 2x/week frequency with each major movement. I've been thinking about something like that and would be interested in the link if you have it. The one that ricanx is doing now looks like a "standard" Madcow 5x5 with 3x/week full body. In general there...

Those are very nice gains for someone who was reasonably strong to begin with and lost fat to boot. If you want advice, it'd help to give a bit more info. For instance, which 5x5 did you run? It's not like there's only 1 version of 5x5 out there. Did you have to reset any lifts, are you...

That seems like a good suggestion. While I like doing olympic style as my main squat, I've had thoughts of trying box squats to augment my training. I'll have to give 'em a try sometime soon.