LiE's Diet and Training Thread

Hixxy couldn't care less about manual handling guidelines. To be clear, I'm not posting his video to point and laugh, the guy is one of the best strength athletes in the country.

My opinion:

Train for perfection, then close your eyes on maxes day ;) avoid maxing out as much as possible, particularly if your form still breaks a lot.

Use the form breaks you find to fix things as you build back up on your next training cycle.
 
Aye I know you're not finger pointing :)

I still wouldn't want to compromise form THAT much, each to their own mind :p
 
Yep good advice ice. Lets be honest, 1RM are only really useful for comps and aren't that useful in day to day training. So yea, a bit of form break on something that is mainly used in competing is fine. Saying that, some of the squats I saw in that video your brother posted were shocking!
 
Yeah... some of the people in that gym are great when it comes to the technical side of lifting. Some... not so much! If my max looked like that I wouldn't be going anywhere near it.

I think the only good squat from that vid actually looked high.
 
Ironically it's the active members of the powerlifting club that aren't very good. We were watching the try-outs for varsity and there was a guy bent in half with the back of his head between his shoulder blades to pull off a 140kg deadlift. I don't even know if it can be called a deadlift when it looks that bad :eek:
 
Tonight was interesting as I've never done a 1RM military press before. All I can say is my shoulder flexibility sucks and my actual 1RM was some weird ass lift. The weight went up, stalled, went down a bit then back up...
Got 87.5 in the end, tried 90 but stalled. So yea my military press actually looks weird because I'm not actually lifting directly up due to shoulder tightness... need to really address this big time.

Check out the strain face :p
before this I did 65x1 and 75x1 and 82.5x1. Perhaps too many singles.

Here's my 82.5 lift. I should have probably rested more between doing this and the 87.5 lift.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8LUG5a0Ym4
 
:eek:

Yeah, sort those shoulders out mate! Your arms are a long way off being vertically above your shoulder.

Look at stretching/rolling your lats too.
 
Yea didn't realise how ridiculous they are until I had a video done!
I'm working on internal rotation of the shoulders, any other bits you recommend?
 
wider grip to combat the long arms. With the close grip it appears that your tris will take a large proportion of the press

As staple grip for presses, I tend to have my third finger rested on the outer ring on the bars, not sure if all bars have it, but my gyms barbells do

Aren't you like only 26 or something? Coulda fooled me :p you appear to be a bit older
 
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internal rotation/external rotation/lats/pecs... the whole lot really. Do test/retest with arm overhead on each thing you try so you find out what's working best.
 
Cheers ice, looks like I got a fair bit to work on. It's pretty damn tight overall, probably all these years of heavy bench press and no stretching.

Tommy :p yea I'm 26, 27 in July.
 
Dunno if I'm missing something....But if he puts his hands wider apart is this just not going to make it worse? (the arms out I mean?)
 
Aye, keep the back tight as you normally do buddy! And don't lock the knees too early ;)

Wish I could be there to see it!
 
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