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You're partially right. Wearing a belt doesn't protect you, but you can lift heavier weight and get stronger if you use one properly. When you have a strong core and good form on a lift, and you want to move more weight on that lift, then a belt is fine imo.

McGill says to save belts for your championships because relying on them to protect you isn't good, but I think using one regularly is fine if you have a strong core and good lifting form because you improve your skill/ability to get the most out of a belt when you use one frequently.

09-12-2013 , 10:45 AM

#1002

Syndr0m

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Quote:

Originally Posted by mcb33f

yeota chick has a sick body

if you like fatties

09-12-2013 , 10:52 AM

#1003

Montecore

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Quote:

Originally Posted by mcb33f

pretty sure you're beta4life when you put on the ball and chain

lol quite possibly, but it's worked out pretty well for me so far. I could have never pulled off the level of tinder/okc quality that BTM et al have done even before I was married, so there wasn't really that far for me to fall. Mad respect to those guys for sure.

09-12-2013 , 10:54 AM

#1004

PayoffWiz

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How do you define a strong core?

I wear a belt for squats and deads that are > 80-85%. Sometimes I used them for overhead stuff and oly lifts as well. They let me move more weight, but I'm not foolish enough to believe it affords me any added protection. It's just something my abs can push up against when I am valsalvaing and reminds me to stay tight.

Beginners who don't know how to maintain a neutral spine and don't know how to use the valsalva maneuver have no business using a belt until they learn proper movement/positioning without one imo.

09-12-2013 , 10:58 AM

#1005

Montecore

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Quote:

Originally Posted by PayoffWiz

The underlined is how I use them, never really thought about using them for upper body lifts before perusing the logs of weasel, cha et al.

The rest of the post is obviously spot on, though. Now I've got to see if it helps me bench more.

09-12-2013 , 11:08 AM

#1006

cha59

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Quote:

Originally Posted by PayoffWiz

How do you define a strong core?

I'd know it if I saw it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by PayoffWiz

I wear a belt for squats and deads that are > 80-85%. Sometimes I used them for overhead stuff and oly lifts as well. They let me move more weight, but I'm not foolish enough to believe it affords me any added protection. It's just something my abs can push up against when I am valsalvaing and reminds me to stay tight.

This sounds pretty reasonable.

Quote:

Originally Posted by PayoffWiz

Beginners who don't know how to maintain a neutral spine and don't know how to use the valsalva maneuver have no business using a belt until they learn proper movement/positioning without one imo.

I agree.

09-12-2013 , 11:09 AM

#1007

BustoRhymes

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Just finished the bench 185x10x4 two-minute rest challenge. Wasn't even close to failing this time. Probably nbd to you guys with Wilkes scores over 350, but I gave myself a fist bump.

09-12-2013 , 11:12 AM

#1008

Montecore

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Quote:

Originally Posted by BustoRhymes

Just finished the bench 185x10x4 two-minute rest challenge. Wasn't even close to failing this time. Probably nbd to you guys with Wilkes scores over 350, but I gave myself a fist bump.

Pretty impressive!

I hope you realize, though, that this is another link in the "fakebusto may value volume over intensity too much" chain.

09-12-2013 , 11:12 AM

#1009

saw7988

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Does anyone know of a way (either in Windows, or maybe a lightweight program) to store multiple things on a clipboard? Say for example I'd like to store the names bob, mary, and alex in clipboard slots 1, 2, and 3 or something. Then when typing up the document I wanna just do something like "At the mall today *ctrl+v+1* saw *ctrl+v+3* humping *ctrl+v+2* under a bench."

09-12-2013 , 11:16 AM

#1010

BustoRhymes

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Monte,

I know... Next time 230x3x10?

09-12-2013 , 11:16 AM

#1011

Syndr0m

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What is the valsalva maneuver?

Last edited by Syndr0m; 09-12-2013 at 11:18 AM. Reason: nevermind, googled it

09-12-2013 , 11:19 AM

#1012

Aidan

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@saw http://m8-multi-clipboard.en.softonic.com/

09-12-2013 , 11:21 AM

#1013

Montecore

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Quote:

Originally Posted by BustoRhymes

Monte,

I know... Next time 230x3x10?

230 seems kind of random

Also I think doing reps that are heavy enough to be considered in the intensity range with a predefined locotarding rest period is asking for trouble.

If you actually did TM instead of just shoehorning some moderately heavy reps in in between muscleups and back walkovers, pretty sure you could be benching 275 within a few months.

09-12-2013 , 11:24 AM

#1014

nuggetz87

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Aidan

some of the whiteknighting by others in that thread is pretty close to as cringeworthy as yeotas posts

well let's not overstate. "pretty close to as cringeworthy as yeotas posts" doesn't exist outside of particle accelerators and far away galaxies.

Quote:

Originally Posted by mcb33f

yeota chick has a sick body

Spoiler:

pretty sure you're beta4life when you put on the ball and chain

yeah she is the definition of butterface. body is prettay good.

09-12-2013 , 11:24 AM

#1015

BustoRhymes

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Monte,

You're right brah, and I respect. I'm reconfiguring my programming to be legit TM. Don't pay attention to this week. Just dicking around.

09-12-2013 , 11:30 AM

#1016

saw7988

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Not running SS with a sub 250 squat does not compute imo.

09-12-2013 , 11:33 AM

#1017

BustoRhymes

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I asked everyone for programming suggestions before I decided on TM. We are even FB bros. But maybe I am misremembering and you insisted on SS

09-12-2013 , 11:34 AM

#1018

cha59

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Quote:

Originally Posted by BustoRhymes

Just finished the bench 185x10x4 two-minute rest challenge. Wasn't even close to failing this time. Probably nbd to you guys with Wilkes scores over 350, but I gave myself a fist bump.

09-12-2013 , 11:36 AM

#1019

saw7988

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Aidan

@saw http://m8-multi-clipboard.en.softonic.com/

Thanks Aidan. This seems to be exactly what I want, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to assign & use hot keys (I think I've assigned correctly, but they're not being used). Do you have experience with it?

ETA: OOO nvm nvm nvm. Figured it out. Awesome. TY TY.

Quote:

Originally Posted by BustoRhymes

I asked everyone for programming suggestions before I decided on TM. We are even FB bros. But maybe I am misremembering and you insisted on SS

Oh it's very possible that I didn't even mention SS. Sometimes I assume knowing the different programs out there is common knowledge, my bad. But regardless, I do stand by this most recent comment, and think SS should carry 90% of people well into the 200s for squat. Many say 300, and I would agree under some circumstances, but I'm being conservative for now.

09-12-2013 , 11:39 AM

#1020

Montecore

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TM for upper body and SS style LP for lower body lifts?

09-12-2013 , 11:42 AM

#1021

fredd-bird

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Saw someone at the gym doing Smolov Jr. the other day and he wasn't even squatting 225. Just don't be that guy Busto.

09-12-2013 , 11:44 AM

#1022

BustoRhymes

Grand Elf

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Monte,

Ohhhhhh that deserves srs consideration.

fredd,

Can't lie, I was already that guy

Lookat my log May-June

09-12-2013 , 11:46 AM

#1023

saw7988

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BR you could just say **** legs and we can be upper body bros together...?

09-12-2013 , 11:46 AM

#1024

Soulman

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Montecore

TM for upper body and SS style LP for lower body lifts?

This ainec.

09-12-2013 , 11:48 AM

#1025

Aidan

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Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 24,320

depends how much progression can be milked out of linear progression. if its just not happening, no issue with making slower but regular progress on TM

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