Husky33

that video shows the difference between bouncing and not. The first reps he does from a dead stop, then after that he bounces. quite obvious

there was no rest(if you call that resting you have to be kidding yourself), there was no bouncing(the weight stopped before he lifted again), and it was lowered under control(dropping the bar out of your hands is out of control, lowering down really slowly is not 'under control', it's stupid and will do you damage). Awesome effort, will have to try for 38

Just remember though markos, i don't just lift anymore. My max dead is around 200kg's. I do sprint sessions twice a week, longer runs twice a week, cross fit style workouts a few times a week, swimming 1-2 times a week, and go cycling with mates. Not looking for an excuse, but if i was just lifting day in day out, the lifters at your gym would cop a hiding

He is talking about static stretching right before you are training. When you static stretch, you reduce the blood flow to that area. This is obviously not a good thing right before you are going to load the muscle. I do lots of static and pnf stretching, but at home, when i have an hour to do it properly. Cause you will be bloody sore if you stretch properly, and you need time to do it. You don't need your muscle to stretch any more than the rom of the exercise you are doing. So just warm up with the exercise you doing, obviously start light and work up. If you can't do the full rom of the exercise, you need to work on this outside of the gym, as, like i said, you need time and it hurts.

I always unrack it myself, i'm pretty ocd with certain things in the gym.

you can do it yourself if you wish

yeah all up to you, i just don't think i've ever met anyone who doesn't have a pair of runners

i'm not talking about just lifting, I wear weightlifting shoes for most most of my lifting. I didn't realise he didn't run, sprint, do circuits, play some sport, or do anything apart from lifting weights.

well i would definitely invest in a pair

^^ you don't have runners?

Hey, I probably couldn't do 60kgx10 atm, but i will be the first to admit that it is light. And the only reason it is light is because i don't train it as much as everything else, like yourself, and 99% of people. It's actually pathetic when you look how much higher my bench is.

that's light

ok, i will do it again in a couple days when it's not 50dg and I'm not hungover

I know, but cmon, I do too much cardio these days dammit

should be fixed now

rog....wait

Looking at the vid, i should have kept going....weak prick Im out of the comp btw, but am happy to compete in everything

125 for 25 reps, weighing 83kg's. Everything was fine except for legs blowing out a bit, which was a bit disappointing. Excuse the top off, was about 50dg's in my garage at sydney

but they're hard

Well i prefer to do military press properly and I prefer to save my back by strengthening it, not avoiding exercises. Each to their own though.

The military press/strict press was a lift that was done at the olympics. These guys were pushing 200kg's, and they had to have their legs locked. Doesn't matter what people do or what people call things, the military press is done standing, with legs locked. It's not made up gym rules, it was a sanctioned olympic lift. If you want to military press, stand up, knees locked, and don't bend your back too far. If you feel you are straining your back, stop the exercises and/or drop the weight. Work on your core strength and lower back strength. If you just want to overhead press, then doing whatever way you want. Bent knees, split legs, sitting down, upside down....who cares.

I'm not apologising it's just a figure of speech. Splitting your legs may take some pressure off your back as it stops you from leaning back as much. However, this has nothing to do with knees being locked out or not. And leaning back has nothing to do with the exercise, it has to do with the person. If you are pressing overhead and start to struggle, you can either stop, start push pressing, and/or lean back to try and reduce the rom. Just don't lean back stupidly and you'll be fine. I personally think flexing your quads gets more muscle fibres activated and provides a more stable base and core. And to do this your knees have to be locked out. And to finish, the exercise 'military press' is done with legs locked out. If you are doing anything else you are not doing a military press.

Sorry but that still doesn't tell me why.

dude, your form was fine. Even the last reps were better than 90% of the people i see deadlifting fresh.

why?