LiE's Diet and Training Thread

icecold said:
This is not the case. As with deadlifts, there is no practical way to overload the bottom position (discounting deficit deads, as that is more about extending the ROM past the bottom position).
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Sorry I have my band methods the wrong way around. Using bands that are from the floor up is a good way to help develope explosiveness out of the hole.

There's a little bit on it here:
http://robertsontrainingsystems.com/blog/squat/

Also goes in to what I mentioned before the reverse band squatting but that is focused in the middle to upper part of the drive.

I am pretty certain that a pair of lite weight red bands will not pull the weight off your back.

Djdom56 said:
Yeah if you think about it there will always be more weight at the top.
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That's actually what you want as you want to be explosive out of the hole.
 
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Syla5 said:
That's actually what you want as you want to be explosive out of the hole.
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Yeah but then you can just do that with a lighter weight.

From the article:
If you miss in the hole…

Getting stuck in the bottom of the squat is a common sticking point.

Start by incorporating box squats into your programming. Hold for a one count in the bottom, work on staying tight, and exploding out of the hole.

If box squats aren’t your thing, consider pause squats. Pause squats are similar to box squats, but instead of sitting on a box, you’re simply holding tight in the bottom position for a specified period of time (generally 1-3 seconds).

A final option is 1 1/4 squats. To perform a 1 1/4 squat, squat down to the bottom position, come up about 1/4 of the way, go back down, and then return to the starting position. That’s one rep.

Yes, these suck – bad. But they work.
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I think I'll give some paused reps a go for bench press. Not sure how many reps/sets to do though.

For squat paused reps at the bottom sound good, I'll give these a go too.

For deadlift I'm going to drop the reps down and focus on doing multiple sets of a heavier weight for 3-4 reps.
 
For bench I'm not really sure, there has been some debate over the rep scheme for paused bench. Some people say that singles is enough, others say just do it as you normally would. I've got a friend who is one of the latter group and does sets of 3 second paused 170kg for 5 reps :eek:.

Squats I recommend trying triples when you are doing paused.

Deadlifts, it's all about triples :).
 
Yea triples make sense. Thanks I'll let you know how I get on, and perhaps get some videos. I've got to learn not to hold pressure in my face for squat paused reps. Looks like my face is going to explode otherwise (also feels like it will too!).
 
Yea the weights will be higher for sure, but the main benefit is keeping things tight and strict.

On a different note, starting to like the Pollock more :)
 
A bit of both. I'm pre-heating the oven for 5 minutes and adding no water. Cooking for 25 minutes, it's as good as it's going to get :p I'm used to the texture/flavour as well so it doesn't bother me. I will need to eat a bit more next week because it loses a lot of weight when cooked. 230g becomes 145g after cooking!
 
Fair enough. I think I'm going to try some haddock next week, we have some in the freezer that needs eating and I'm curious to see how I do :).

Back on the topic of paused squats:

:eek: That's 195kg :eek:
 
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This is actually 200g of Pollock with the tasty sweet potato.
 
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