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    Opinion/insights on Old USSR Bodybuilding Training Plan

    @nathanstrong alex leonidas has talked about his full body 2x/week training which he used to use, mind you, he was pretty advanced when doing that too. ive been doing full body 3x/weeks for some time now, making use of supersets(sometimes its just big movements supersetted with small isolations...
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    How do you respond (and deal with it internally) when someone asks you if you are “still lifting”?

    @kennycool i mean, if their friends were also lifters, i feel like they wouldnt need to ask him if hes still lifting, theyd probably talk about it. dont you?
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    How do you respond (and deal with it internally) when someone asks you if you are “still lifting”?

    @kennycool the whole point was what non lifters think tho... why are you adding your own gymrat biased parameters
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    Your opinion is right: give us your tier list for any workout

    @sarham41 Free weight Quads S: front squats, reverse lunges A: barbell hack squats, high bar squats, split squats B: low bar squats, zercher squats in my experience. havent tried sissy squats or reverse norwegians tho
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    Full RoM or heavier squat

    @bort dont shoot your hips too far behind you. you probably use your hips a lot and it probably is because they are stronger, which means youll have to lower the weight even more. with any free weight squat i use a mental cue of like, "humping" my way up, which puts my hips above my feet and...
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    So systemic MRV isn’t real, same with local MRV?

    @leena2016 i mean, i get it, if youre into sports, athletics or fitness that doesnt just involve bodybuilding/hypertrophy training, overtraining does have a specific meaning, so you wouldnt want to mix them up. but if youre just into bodybuilding, the actual meaning of overtraining has little...
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    What to work on?

    @januaryrose off topic but, dont arch your lower back too much, a little rounding can even make it look better
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    High bar squat more fatiguing to spinal erectors than low bar squat

    @imstillstanding your knees start extending first while the bar barely moves up, leaving all the rest of the rep to be mostly hip extension, the hips therefore taking most of the load. another way to put is your hips shoot back/up at the begining of the rep. in a very "squatty squat" your hips...
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    High bar squat more fatiguing to spinal erectors than low bar squat

    @horation depends on your style of squatting more than where you place the bar. if you goodmoring your squat with a high bar, its gonna tax your erectors even more than the low bar. the reason high bar should tax them less is because ot facilitates for a more squatty squat, more quad focused...
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