@SwarmShawarma He's training for meets. Arching the back is allowed and shortens the distance that the bar has to travel. Most competitive lifters use some amount of arch, though the extreme arches are mostly lighter bodyweight lifters and females. If you are focusing on bodybuilding and not absolute strength, training with a flat or relatively flat back is a good idea. In the routine I've been doing, most weeks there'll be a bench day where I do "Larson" bench presses, which just means extending your legs straight out and keeping back flat on the bench. It takes away leg drive and is a bit harder than a regular bench press.
I'm not sure what he was going to do if he had had problems on the squat. He must have been confident he'd get the lift. I don't recall any safety bars but maybe there were. If he had gotten stuck, he wouldn't have needed much help to complete the lift, so the chick behind him likely could have helped enough to get him upright and be able to rack it. When I had a training partner, we'd spot each other from the back and never had issues. If we were going for a new max, we'd get side spotters, but that wasn't frequent.
Wearing the belt up high during deadlifts is new to me. I don't remember any lifters doing that until recently. They believe that wearing the belt high allows them to increase abdominal pressure and thereby get a solid "brace" for the lift. I don't know if it makes a difference or not, but some evidently think it does.
Read Morewww.youtube.com/watch?v=_6l_1PSbx6k. This is some of the most incredible lifting I've ever seen. 165 pound guy squatting 727 for 3 reps, bench pressing 476, and deadlifting 771. He competes in drug tested meets, so it isn't his supplement regimen.
@Vermillion-Rx It wouldn't surprise me if the real motive was to send a message to China and Russia. I've heard that this Administration has a fondness for the Monroe doctrine. The drug running excuse is pretty lame; if that were the concern, we'd be taking action against Mexico.
I don't care about this operation too much but am not a fan of bringing Maduro and his wife here for trial. Seems hypocritical and a waste of resources. I'd rather see them grab some of the British and EU officials who are haranguing our tech companies to censor views those officials don't like. Now that would send a message.
@SeasonedRP defenders keep saying, "Well, people grieve in different ways..." Right now, Erika appears stuck in the WWE Pyrotechnics and sparkly clothing head to toe stage of grief.
@MentORPHEUS Several women I know think she has behaved in a manner unbecoming of someone whose husband was just murdered. I haven't noticed but also haven't paid much attention. But her fellow females are sure zeroing in on it.
@TwoInchesOfShaft Depends on the career trajectory. Doing that when young so you can obtain substantial pay and responsibilities later on is a reasonable choice. Beating your head against the wall in your 50s for 60 hrs/week year round doesn't sound appealing.
@First-light These are good observations but it's important to keep in mind that work capacity is influenced by years of training and how that training is performed. An elite level 60 year old may well be able to handle significantly more volume than a less trained 25 year old.
@Typo-MAGAshiv I just may give it a try again. This.was a weekday so the store wasn't crowded, and apparently that's a good time to go.
I've never had anything like that happen at the grocery store, but I go on Saturday mornings after the gym, and probably 95% of the women are married. I wasn't expecting anything like that at Home Depot; certainly not at 9:30 a.m. on a weekday. But now I know.
@Typo-MAGAshiv I hadn't been to Home Depot or Lowes for a while and don't have tik tok, so it was new to me. I'm pretty out of touch on some things.
