In the comments, Grey Cat Barbell Club mentioned Front Squats from that Taranenko interview article.
I still can't convince the silly robot that runs this software toy that I'm not a robot via a 2009 dead email account, so I'll just post this here . . .
It's an outstanding Oly lifting channel. I keep trying to watch more but the speed these guys go under a Jerk makes me wanna take up bowling and drink weak beer all day.
Weightlifting House is great. They recently did a piece on Pisarenko which was quite good. I've always hoped Bruce Klemens would go on a podcast or write some of the stories he must have - the guy really has captured some amazing moments in weightlifting since the 70's.
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DeleteAre you going to drink Bud Light?
ReplyDeleteI rethought the thng and am going with a couple-a ice cold Gin Greyhounds. It's just a Salty Dog without the salt. Gin and Grapefruit juice. And nix the bowling. So, I'll basically be sitting like a worthless lump sipping on Gin and Juice. Nah. Might as well lift.
ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/M-m2piOkpmI?t=1897
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A little over two years, but I finally figured out how to spell "Thanks!" Might be the gin-and-juice. Or, just possibly, that header I took a while back onto my dumbbell rack . . . coulda resulted in frontotemporal lobar degeneration which for me is easier to spell than "Thanks Again!" Self-lobotomizing this way does have its upside. The dumbbell sticking out of my forehead makes for some great neck training variations. And come to forget how to remember how to think about it, the part of my brain that came shootin' out the back of my baked head is an excellent foam roller.* Not too soft, not too hard, juuuuuuuuust right and soon for sale if I can recruit more "take a header into the DB rack and get paid big money" types from around my area. Take one for the team. Sign on and sign up. We guarantee you won't regret it. Won't even remember what regret is for that matter. So far, only six or so signed on for the job and they're wandering around outside here at night with a confused look on their faces and a wad of cash in their near-lifeless hands . . . asking frightened strangers they bump into how to get to that place where they film The Walking Dead, so all's well with this little business venture. You had to get me started, didn't ya! Let's get together and go without sleep for three nights so the rest of the world's population seem to be the sick ones! It works every time.
Delete* Goldilocks and the Three Bozos foam roller only sold in pairs. Each order includes one undead individual. Not responsible for discarded rotten limbs or slightly strange dietary habits.
Why must you insist on doing this to me when all I ask of life's great gift is to have a calm and peace-filled mind that dreams of apple pie cooling on the windowsill in Spring, the smell of fresh cut grass mixed with lilac scent in mid-Summer and just enough of my own feces to finish the masterpiece on these living room walls. Cut it out!
Deletethe EU weightlifting crew are fantastic lads. seb from weightlifting house is a glossary of obscure lifters, like a kid with all the baseball cards. the guys at sika strength are the best, in my opinion. the way they cover all sports and the training halls of those crews, including sports one might not associate with strength. and then Clarence kennedy, who needs no introduction from me or anyone.
ReplyDeleteAAAGHGHGHGH!! i love this website! youre doing THE best work for us and we appreciate it! if there is any way to give back, please let me know.
Clarence Kennedy! Some days that guy makes me wanna lift, others he makes me wanna quit. What a lifter! Best way to give back is . . . wait for it . . . you guessed it . . . . Enjoy Your Lifting!
DeleteI've thought about it for twenty-nine months and there's another way you can give back to the deal here. If you happen upon a monkey in a tux, top-hat and spats buy that chimp a good cigar. Now then, how in hell do you set up the "Buy a Well-Dressed Chimp One Good Cigar" button on this damnable software? My wetware ain't up to it.
DeleteI dropped all manner of booze and dope over here for a week and it still hasn't stopped bouncing. Must be wired wrong up topside or something. The straighter I get, the weirder and quicker what's left of my mind gets. There's a medical term for this and I believe it's called Enjoyable. All's well and allow me to let you in on what I've learned: you take easier dumps when you're clean and sober although it was always easier to get a seat on the bus after shitting myself, so there is a down side to this. Once again, one door opens, another door closes and there's money to be made here with a spray-on-yourself feces-scented cologne aimed at weary transit riders. Not to be confused with my "Take a Leak, Get a Seat" manual for bus people.
DeleteHas anyone tried the Hise shrug here? I would like to know your results if you had any.
ReplyDeleteI did them for a few runs. You can use a lot of weight in those, over time. There were results. Muscle-wise, less than a pretty much any other form of shrug within reason, for me. The heavy breathing/wheezing had some small effect, much less than a decent uphill run in my opinion. There's a good article on the deal here . . . http://ditillo2.blogspot.com/2008/09/senescence-and-hise-effect-arnold.html I did not find the results were worth the risks of spinal compression once the weights got larger. Results in all things vary for each of us, though. Have at 'er and see what comes of it!
ReplyDeleteLater that same lifetime . . . the Hise Shrug could come in real handy when squatting's not really much of an option even later down that same lifetime. So far, so good, though. After not taking much real care of myself and not caring after a few deaths and things like that, my poundages really lessened as my health declined. No worries here, they're coming back real nicely the last two months, even when I wasn't sleeping much or sleeping almost all the time, eating like a constipated, berf, bird with two hernias and all the rest that comes with the turf. Things are lookin' up and so am I. Sometimes I wonder why God hasn't just tossed me on the trash heap yet.
DeleteI dunno, 15-20,000 views before re-upping this Front Squat video stash hidden behind a gone-bust Mom-and-Pop convenience store in Baltimore. It's so wonderful to know people have interest in the Front! What a lift! Nothing like that feeling . . . some fear, some grit, an occasional good-day grind and plenty of fun. Try it out for a couple-year ride with a bar before it's too late and you can't! It took me FUCKING FOREVER just to get a 300 x 1 with a real rack and down to where you can pick up a wallet in your crack depth. Big deal, but it was, for me. Go For It Now before you cannot.
ReplyDeleteBeing six foot three with long femurs my leverages are not good BLAH BLAH BLAH and who effing cares about excuses. It's ALL relative in this life on this plane and the struggle is no less important in the long run. Be it an empty bar FINALLY fronted by a guy coming off of time spent in a wheelchair or quadruple bodyweight MASTERY at work . . . the challenge awaits and the goals reached are all valid marks on our eternal souls. What the fuck do I think I know, pardon my grossly exaggerated sense of importance.
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