Jim Leon

@FLEXjss Understood . Thank you for clarifying. Your training posts are top notch, in the moment, the pains and the gains all there to see. Much appreciated.

@JimLeon19479198 Its not tightness. A condition I had as a child. I wore leg braces for 2 years.

Right hip was not playing nice today on squats, so I tied a knee wrap around it and did what I could. Top single was 375 lbs Backoff set was 325 lbs for 5. 😤

@USronaldcarter Flooding due to trash clogged sewer grates, due to littering. The infrastructure is in place and works as intended when it’s maintained.

Nobody is telling you how FUCKED New York City's infrastructure actually is right now. Everyone is watching the flood footage. The cars underwater. The subway stations turned into swimming pools. Nobody is talking about the fact that six inches of rain just paralyzed a global city. Not a hurricane. Not a once-in-a-century storm. Six inches. In a few hours. And the Long Island Expressway shut down in both directions. The F train suspended. Flash flood warnings across every borough. By rain. → Cost of fixing this: deferred for decades → Cost of not fixing it: the entire city grinds to a halt → That is not a weather problem. That is a maintenance problem. NYC's catch-basin cleaning fleet was 63% out of service during prior storms. By end of 2023 it was 77% out of service. The city had 19 functional trucks for five boroughs. Nineteen trucks. For eight million people. 💀 Here's what nobody is explaining to you: This doesn't just change THIS storm. This changes ALL storms. Forever. → NYC has 7,400 miles of combined storm and sewer pipes that back up the moment rainfall exceeds capacity → Many of those pipes are over 100 years old — built before cars existed, let alone SUVs and modern runoff volumes → Fewer than half of the city's 964 priority catch basins were inspected before recent storms hit → This exact same thing happened in 2023. And 2025. Same expressway. Same subway lines. Same excuses. → The city knows which drains are clogged. They have a data-driven priority list. → They just don't have the trucks to clean them. → So every time it rains hard, the same streets flood, the same trains stop, the same headlines run. → And then nothing changes until the next storm proves it again. The source tweet said it directly: "Six inches of rain shouldn't do this to a major city, but clogged drains and years of deferred maintenance will." That's not a weather forecast. That's a confession. New York spent decades deferring the maintenance bill. May 21, 2026 is what the invoice looks like. Bookmark this. You're watching the biggest infrastructure failure since the last time it rained. I'll keep you updated. Turn on notifications. 🚨

@eorden Give em a bag of a chips a soda put em out the door and let em live ther lives.

Two kids in my daughter’s class in Carroll Gardens got pre-K offers at a school in Crown Heights (30-plus minutes away by train, with transfers) that they didn’t list on their application.

@justsmbdyithink Use a small one, you’ll do better. Those big golf umbrellas will get you in trouble, punched in the mouth.

Walking with an umbrella in nyc is an extreme sport

@Breedlove22 Very good high bar squats. I like the neutral head position instead of the common (wrong) “look-up-to-go-up” position.

Another one for the “don’t skip leg day bro!” bros 😂… 275 lb full squats

@C8ishop Either way, you’re a great deadlifted. I’ve studied your form and tried to copy bc I have a similar build. Thanks for posting

Deadlift comparison: 2 different ways I do conventional deadlift. Touch and go style and full reset standard form. Caveat - I’m not a coach or someone with decades of lifting knowledge, just somebody who loves the lift. When I post high rep sets on here, I usually get someone talking about the ‘bounce’ and how this isn’t a real deadlift. What I’m looking for with these touch & go reps is constant posterior chain tension. The weight is fully controlled on the way up AND the way down. When I do a standard lift, the descent will be much faster, with more of a ‘drop’ of the bar, losing a lot of the tension on the way down. Neither is wrong in my opinion and I like to use both styles. Touch and go when working around 70% of 1RM and standard form when working closer to 100%. I know people can get very religious about this lift but for me, the best way to grow is to utilise all styles and not pigeon hole myself either way. Food for thought. (Video on right looped to match timing but the point is the same.)

@bhenrystrong @sam_gzstrength Great tip. I’m going cue that on every rep, set harder. Thanks.

Set your back harder each following rep in your set.

@FLEXjss How tight do you make your belt on OHP. I found loosening a couple of notches helps relieve the stress on lower back during press out.

Had a very okay OHP session. Top strict single was 185 lbs Push Press at 200 lbs Backoff triple at 165 lbs Loaded up 145 for AMRAP but bailed after 2 reps; lower back was done. Das it...

@gothichijabi I was doing the G to 7 transfer. It’s horrible. So’s the walk to the G. I just started taking M to Broadway Laffayette 6, to Grand Central 7. Adds about ten minutes but avoiding that Court Sq is worth it.

yes we all know about the evil 42nd st suicide tunnel but what is YOUR most hated transfer? mine is queensborough 7 to the G

@RossBarkan Baseball fans that moved to NYC as an adult are usually dismissible dipshits.

Walk the streets of Greenpoint, Williamsburg, Bushwick, Ridgewood, Bed-Stuy, Crown Heights, Prospect Heights. Find a baseball fan who moved to NYC as an adult. Vast majority are Mets fans.

@miriam_riviera Been like that for years.

I was near eighth Avenue today and 33rd St. What an absolute cesspool. The whole area around Madison Square Garden and eighth Avenue is disgusting with the amount of mentally ill derelicts wandering around, eyeing you, sizing you up. Is this what New York City wants to show tourists when they come from Pennsylvania station or go to see a show at MSG ?

@claireforny There’s a dirty little pile on the sidewalk by the BP station on Queens Blvd. The sun doesn’t shine on the 4’ sq. because the BP sign blocks it.

I found the last snow in Brooklyn.

@Marcopolis84 Good work. You just need to tune up your form. Look up Sam Krapf. Ground Zero Strength Training. He’s got a great DL guide.

325 pound deadlift for 4 singles. First time moving this weight in 7 months. Always a challenging lift for me…I just need to be patient.

@Soulful1865 Guy’s a literal mouth breather. Wife sounds fat and wheezy. Made for and deserve each other.

Hes about to run out on her and the kids....Fatherless homes. - America

@sam_gzstrength That’s just about the same for me.

Yeah with the Marrs bar this is what I would consider "hip crease just below top of knee" our what Our Standard is for a low bar squat With a barbell I'm typically a smidgeon lower because I'm not playing with the forearms hitting my thighs Long legged fellas and low bar squats you won't see the calves touching hamstrings in pretty much anyone

If you’ve got banged up shoulders - cannot recommend purchasing a Marrs Bar enough. Massive tool in my client toolbox and my own training - with my wrecked shoulders and kyphosis

@Aaron_HGC I’ve faced that many times, London, Hong Kong, all over U.S. If you want to get in a legitimate workout, find a barbell gym nearby. There’s always at least one. Otherwise you’ll play with the dumbbells and end up pissed about wasting your time and energy.

Well, this sucks balls..

@sam_gzstrength For the last 10 years I’ve stuck to the basics, S, OHP, B, DL. it’s worked well for me, physically and mentally. On light days I work in some of the more exotic lifts like high bar squats and barbell rows.

Ask anyone who has seen training success "Yeah I just rotate the same 8-10 lifts, look to progress them over time, and eat the same shit every day. Been doing it for years" Boring basics consistently = success and lifter mutation

@zachhomol_ Good job daddy-o.

Don’t always get the “best” workouts from home But Ambrose is always involved & “in the way” which adds for extra difficultly 🤣 I started doing most all my training from Home +2 years ago when he was born. I do most of my endurance training with him. -Rucks/ Hikes -Stroller walks / runs -& MTB rides