Oh man, I am relatively new to powerlifting (1year) and I am a bigger lifter. I'm 6'6 280lbs, I've lost around 75lbs but still have a lot of belly and around 4 months ago I ran into George Leeman's video on wearing a belt higher. I tried looking for more on this but couldn't find much, anyway, I tried it, and it's made such a positive impact on my lift! I'm glad Nick brought it up, it reinforces that I made the right call!
on the opposite side, im a 66kg lifter and wear my belt high too just cause of my short torso, i lean forward a lot on squats and deadlifts and sometimes the belt gets in the way and bruises my hips. one day i just decided to screw it and put it higher, squatting and deadlifting immediately became more comfortable, stronger too.
Like Mike-Litorus said bellow, bull mastiff is an Alexander Bromley program. My man is a strength and muscle brained machine with a strongman background. He promotes base development and volume as a means for developing capacity in strength outside of highly specific contest prep. I think his approach is king for intermediate lifters and could probably teach a lot of advanced lifters a thing or two as well.
It's wearing the belt around the lats. So like, normally you're bracing your abs/tva/etc into the belt. With it high, you're bracing the lats into the belt. Bullmastiff is a program from Alexander Bromley's book Base Strength, and is essentially GZCLP.
A sort of mindset critique I'd add to lifter 2: "I want to open at 500" - I don't think it's useful to set yourself some lofty goals for your openers. Nobody cares about an opener. Take it easy, smoke it, add weight. Being fixated on a number to open up on is not productive. Pick an opener that is only as high as needed as a starting point to your second attempt, and a second attempt only as high as needed to gather data for third attempt selection. It's the third that matters - not the ones before it.
That first lifter, the stocky dude with the deadlift. Once he breaks the bar off the floor, it swings out in front of him a little. With his leverages, that small deveations will fuck him on lockout. I'm built similar to him (my deadlift is about 10 kilos less). I had the same issue. I think he's overcompensating by sinking his hips too low at the start, causing them to shoot up and the movement to become a RDL.
So I started the 16 week program recently. I'm currently in week 2 but for some issues I've to take a break from gym for 1 month. Should I start from week 3 after my return or just start from the beginning again?
I'm i the only one with an issue with discord ? It seem the chat is not available anymore last week it was still okay ? Does anyone know how to fix the issue
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