Deep Squats, Shallow Thoughts

Achieving The Standards 1.0 - 135 press, 225 bench, 315 squat, 405 deadlift - is more important and useful than getting down to 10% bodyfat and it's not even close.

@CoachFHM It has no equal for making sure you’re always in your freshest least fatigued state for every training

@wolfstrength The power split

Lots of people waste time arguing about the best split: total body, upper/lower, PPL, bro split Real ones know, the true elite split was right in front of them the whole time

Most people never get to where the problem is a specific weak point that needs to be brought up. The problem for people who are not advanced is almost always one or more of basic technique, global weakness, testicular fortitude, or under eating.

A different angle: x.com/ThorBjornsson_…

Thor missed his deadlift attempt at 511kg, trying to break his prior record by 1kg He hit 510 last year with solid gas in the tank but has missed 2x now trying to beat it. It’s crazy how thin a razor’s edge that these elite athletes walk on to push the limits of human performance

I have no insight information, but I suspect he’s very insistent on keeping the roll His coach Oreb, I don’t believe teaches the roll to anyone. He got Thor to narrow his stance and grip and slightly adjust his start position, but I suspect Thor has been using that roll for so long that he won’t give it up. With an athlete as elite and accomplished as Thor, you can only push so hard on so many things

@wolfstrength @pilotshive Somebody needs to coach him out of that silly roll. When he does repeat reps his second and third reps look way better than the first rep.

@CoffeeBlackMD What does it say?

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@pilotshive if you look at this one, it looks like he’s still rolling the bar in when he reaches the bottom of his set up, it wasn’t perfectly timed If you look at the 510 from last year, the timing was spot on

@wolfstrength Yeah and at that level bar path 1cm off can cause a miss. This one just looked off from the start.

@TheRabbitCity Peak

Looks like week 3 of the novice linear progression is going well for this dapper gentleman

More recently maybe in 2019, a powerlifter I knew a little bit at the gym asked me to spot his bench so naturally I said sure. I didn’t know what his lifts were, but he looked like the kind of guy who probably had a big squat and dead lift, like 700+, but just an OK bench relative to the other lifts like high 3s to low 4s. I get over to the bench and he’s got 300 kg loaded up I didn’t realize that he was using a single ply shirt, because he competed both raw and single ply Between the angle, he set up on the bench and the way the shirt worked, he pretty much needed me to pick that bar up off the pins by myself and hand it over to him. I had just recently deadlifted 700 for the first time, and benched just a little shy 500, and I couldn’t get the damn thing off the pins in my normal spotter stance. I had to change stances, and even then it felt like an entire workout of its own. So stupid I looked up his numbers later and it turned out his best raw bench was like 420 and here he was doing 660 with single ply. Modern single ply gives more than the old-school multiply used to apparently.

@wolfstrength @oecolamp His raw bench was 275 while I'm benching 150lb dumbbells and we were both 180-185.

Bodybuilding has been net negative for lifters IMO. Gyms are more crowded, everyone hops on roids after their first year. It's basically a trans subculture at this point.

@saybruh99x @oecolamp The first meet I did was in 2012. I remember seeing in the warmups a multi-ply bencher couldn’t even get the bar down to his chest with “only” 365 and it really hit me how stupid that stuff all was. Never touched it.

@wolfstrength @oecolamp It's probably blurring together for me because in 2010-2011 I remember a geared lifter acting like his 420lb sharted bench was his 1rm

No that was the mid 90s to late 2000s. The late 2000s to ~2020 era I was referring to saw the comeback of raw lifting over equipped, and to some extent even the general idea of strength as an important physical quality to develop, rather than just 'what you can get away with in front of judges at a PL meet."

@wolfstrength @oecolamp To be fair, that mindset included bench shirts and squat suits, neglecting upper body strength in favor of deadlifts and squats.

@wolfstrength Hey at least that’s a Coke Zero.

@Ne_pas_couvrir Follow this guy on IG he’ll teach you about the 225 spessshhhhullllll instagram.com/reel/DairWPHAB…

@wolfstrength “tens and 12s and 15s” What dis mean

A simple spell, but quite unbreakable. Everyone wants to rush ahead with the counter argument about specialization and it’s true - to get better at tens and 12s and 15s themselves you will eventually need to do tens and 12s and 15s; to get better at the physical qualities that are developed by tens and 12s and 15s you will also eventually have to do tens and 12s and 15s But the amount you’re able to do later for 10 and 12 and 15 is greatly and much more rapidly increased if you first develop your fives (and 3s and 2s and even 1s)

However easy you’ve been told it is to pull women at 10-12% bodyfat, imagine how much easier it will be if you triple that

@FindJimClair Never seen anyone even close to being this locked in

@wolfstrength Keeping the gains going on the move, love to see a dedicated athlete like this.

Enjoying these posts. The way I always understood it - maybe incorrectly? - was price point is used to place the price of a particular thing within a broader context ie “At $31,499, this midsize sedan sits well within the typical price point for its class.” Whereas if you’re just talking about how much something costs, you say price. But ya it seems like a lot of people use price point all the time for everything now instead of just saying price.

Stop saying "price point." You're only saying that because "everyone says it." It doesn't sound "sophisticated," it sounds stupid. That air conditioner, car, or house doesn't have a "price point." It has a price. You never said "price point" until about 12 years ago. You can stop. -J