Went in today feeling good, feeling like I could do 495 with chains, it was my last chance to do it before the meet, and would give me a lot of confidence hitting my last meet's squat plus 45lbs worth of chain, and front squatting 405 for the first time the day before, and hitting 500 with reverse bands the day before that. I'm going to open 480ish, but I'm going to do some singles with around my opener on Friday... opener or last attempts, basically just going to work with weights just about to be heavy, until my body loosens, then stop, do some upper back high rep work, stretch my hips and leave with pretty much whatever movement I'm doing. I'm just going to make the last few squat days front squats so it doesn't mess with my back squat style, and keep my shoulders and brachials feeling good.
Right front my first rep I felt really on my heels from the start to finish, and it was easy money from there on out. I think just my really high do wins are great for generating knee torgue, but you've gotta work to get serious depth, but I think work really well for someone like willie albert who has longer legs, whereas mine are just a bit on the short side. I really don't know though, sometimes I think Willie is built to deadlift, other times I think Willie is just strong, generally I think both. But something I've noticed about Willie and Alexey Nkiliu... or whatever his name is, are great knee wraps squats, great sumos, and good benches, and Willie had problems getting his raw above 565, but feels he's going to hit some crazy knee wrap numbers, I think he's going to outsquat the russian, he outdoes him in everything else. The kid has a freaky squat though.
I just notice Willie walks with his toes pointed out, and so does Paul V and Jordan Foley. The thing with Paul is he has a great yoke walk, Jordan trained with Paul quite a bit, then they both developed this walk, and they both have tremendous yoke walks. Jordan can do 900 for sure, and has competed on the Quebec Cup, as good as strongman gets. Paul has a tremendous yoke walk, it's one of his biggest strengths. I feel they've just developed the right hip flexibility to be able to walk like that but with their glutes. I notice a lot of people with bad posture walk with their toes out, but have inactive glutes, I say this because that was me. What I've also noitced is I've recovered my glutes, and feel them powering my walks and lifting now, whereas before it was my hips. the one stupid thing I did was to do a 290 farmers walk for around 30 feet, and I went toes out, and it tore my hips apart, my low back was spasming by the time I got out the door, I had to stretch my hips for a couple hours just to be able to recover.
I think if I built up slowly again, I'd be able to turn this into a much better event for me, whereas I could pick generally anything up, and hold onto it for however long it needed... generally, but I couldn't walk for shit. The actual walking part just destroyed me. I look forward to trying that again, most likely this summer.
Keep in mind, Both are very good at truck pulls, and Jordan is a rugby guy, they both know how to sprint, and can roll their feet, Paul does a lot of prowler work.
I find sprinters that don't have some way of developing their external flexibility are going to be prone to some low back injuries, I do see a lot of people with terrible posture walking around with their feet pointing forward... but they probably never played hockey. Hockey probably kept me good for kicking, and healthy-ish for lifting, but just destroyed me as an athlete through high school. Ohri has been fighting a nagging low back, but we're going to bring up his sumo deadlift, and I think this will help him out, he's so naturally athletic he gets there easily. I'm going to raises his volume with 75 and 80% for a while on sumo and conventional, and keep him squatting light-ish for a while.
I think this will help his low back more than anything, as well as a lot more upper back work.. his schedule is on, so I'm just going to make him do roughly what I'm going to be doing myself anyways.
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