Ya bro, not bad. Now if I kept my diet and sleep in check I think I can be a lot more strong. I don’t even think I eat over 80g protein a day. I crave carbs, and processed foods and don’t count no food anymore. Cooking takes too much time. Also Starbucks made me into a sugar junkie. I crave carbs more than protein.

Also my shoulder pain came back a little. Need to be careful bc another injury will piss me off. Also last week I tweaked my right ankle taking out the trash at work. Some dumb idiot topped the trash with all the coffee grounds and it weighed a ton and i missed a step out the back door stairs. It was stiff for like 5 days. Still pain but luckily I can squat.


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Do you train beltless? I started doing so about 4 years ago. 500lb deadlift weighing like 180lbs is coming soon. Keep up the great work, N1H!

Ya I’m 100% raw. What is the purpose of a belt? Also why do some contests allow belts? Shouldnt everything be done raw? I consider it cheating if it’s not raw.

Ya I noticed I can pull way more if I use straps. I used to use straps but felt a bit beta bc my grip strength was weak af. Then I got chalk and that helped a lot. Still, if I used wraps everything is easier as it takes the load off the grip and u got more energy to pull the heavy deadlift.

I agree 100%, bro. I used to use belts and knee sleeves and stuff. It's a buch of cope. It's geared lifting. It's not you lifting the weight. Straps are cheating too but there's still a compelling reason to use them if you're training for hypertrophy rather than strength.

I hate seeing all these knew powerlifters using SBD sleeves that literally add 30lbs to your squat and then a thick 11-13mm belt that adds another 30lbs. That's not the person lifting the weight on their own.

Ya bro, for me it kind feels fake if not done raw.

If they compete with SBD belts, wouldn’t it be the same as everyone competing without one? The numbers will be lower but whats the point of a belt when everyone’s number will be higher? It’s all the same lol. Maybe for safety reasons not to blow out your back.

Also those belts cost like $200 bucks, I rather invest in another pair of lifters or more protein powder

You can have my belt bro. It's like 150 bucks and its cool looking. From the first Golden to the last Golden.

You will pick up 20+ pounds on squat and a little bit on deadlift.

What's it for? Good question. But they are mostly allowed in competition. So can't ever compete without one, you will leave poundage on the table.

Wow thanks. Can u ship it to me? Or the next time we have ABPx•Loco Pt. 3, can you bring it?

I have over 120 vacation hours that needs to be used.

So today didn’t have didn’t have work. Wake up around 1:30p, chill and eat. Now my warm up for Both DL and bench were flying. Didn’t feel taxed and felt real fresh. I have not had a fresh feeling in a while. Might need to not work no more.




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I think the belt just help provides a cue to help engage your core and stay tight. You can do it without, but having the belt to push against gives you some feedback that you are actually staying tight.

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So what's the straight IEL 2023 take?

raw all day all night

500 should already be there based of those numbers. Prob 600 with a cheater belt

Squat very heavy. My squat has not moved in like 6 month I believe. I also filmed and I have crazy butt wink. Not sure if it’s fixable. I try wide and narrow stances. Nothing prevents it. Now i have back pain, but not when I squat which leads me to believe my butt wink isn’t that serious. I believe my back is compressed as hell and needs decompression.

Bench single felt v heavy. But I knocked out 4 reps of 240 @10 which is roughly around 247.5-250 single @8.

500 is easily doable considering I pulled 490 with straps on. Felt cucky with those, so I bought chalk and learned to go all raw. My grip has improved a lot.

Obv, but why? That's the take I'm looking for.

This log is pretty boring without the butthole pleasures tbh

Yuppie. Getting butthole is for gays. ABPs deadlift and sigmagrind.

Ha. My anal days are over I think. Probably won’t find a girl as nasty as the last one. It was almost like I was in a porno. She was down for anything

Today was ok. DL felt off. My hip rising slightly before my chest. Maybe need to lower weight and work on form, but will prob hurt my eGo.

So I thought I recorded my 250x3 bench, but when I got to the camera after the set, it turned off and told me my storage was full. 🥲

Feminine energy follows Masculine energy. ABP can get as much of that backdoor pleasure as he wants.

Doesn't do anything and may stop you from actually engaging the core (especially at lighter weights).

Keep in mind he's talking about a competition belt. If you're using a velcro WLing belt, which a whole nother giant nothing burger, then you won't see the same effect. Basically if you can move you belt around, it isn't what he's talking about. 13mm PLing belts are basically half an inch thick.

I used knee sleeves cause I didn't wanna wear sweatpants and my gym was cold and my old man knees would get achey. (I use the cyoote blue ones.) My new gym is super hot, and I don't olytard any longer so I don't wear them. May or may not if I ever get home gym.

Barbell Medicine recently did a podcast on belts reviewing pretty much all studies on them. It seems the consensus is there isn't evidence that belts help or hinder anything except they likely let you lift more weight (or lower the RPE of what you're lifting).

So I'm not sure NotThremp's take has any actual evidence for it. OTOH, belts helping you engage the core also doesn't have evidence.

Tbf, a lot of the evidence (especially the big studies) involved occupational work (lifting boxes, etc.).

https://www.barbellmedicine.com/blog...lifting-belts/ - this is the written version, which I haven't read and is likely better and more thorough than the podcast they did.

See my above posts since you seem to be interested in the science behind using belts to lift things.

This is how aspy wars happen.

I questioned the use of a belt. Evoken said raw all day. Thremp says it doesn't do anything. Melkerson thinks it does nothing, maybe a cue.

And now yugo says the science says it doesn't do anything.

But he is ready to go to war because thremp said it may cause loss of core engagement with lighter weights.


Guys everyone is on the same page.

The thing is to look good at a powerlifting meet and add a few pounds to your lift (especially squat).

I am finally home, I will take a pic for you N1.