Every Lifter could use a Squat Buddy!!

It’s a great tool to have in your gym bag especially if you’re a strength athlete or enthusiast who attacks it at the gym. We’re human, the body needs support sometimes. If the concept helps with bench and your upper body then why wouldn’t it help with squats and your lower body? Think about it

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This should be fun 🔥🤙 • @nofamegame Strength. Speed. Skill. Grit. 💪

It takes many things to be a great thrower, but it only takes you the courage to seek out and join your local or regional throw group to start. Highland Games isn’t just in Scotland. It is everywhere throughout USA, Canada, Europe, Australia, and more. And, it’s for everyone, not just people with Celtic heritage. 🌎🌍🌏

Try something new. Check out the Highland Games and it’s Heavy Athletics, where strongman meets track and field in kilts. 🤘

@nofamegame got you covered. Lots going on in New England. Here’s what we got: 😁

✨Home Games
June 15
Milford, MA

✨Festival at Fort 4
June 29
Charlestown, NH
@fort4fest @fortat4

✨Maine Highland Games
August 17
Thomas Point, ME
@maine_highland_games

See you there! 🤟

#highlandgames #traditionalsports #strongman #trackandfield #strengthtraining #powerlifting #celticculture #heavyathletics

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💪🔥🔥 • @coachbarr89 Prepare | Strain | Win | Repeat
#compete #football #offseasontraining #grit

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💪🔥 • @pascal.a.arteaga About a month ago, I regained the ability to dip 3 plates. I am still about 20 lb off my 1RM with this form; unfortunately, I had a major setback last year (October 16, 2023) due to a partial latissimus dorsi tendon tear at the humeral insertion. Nevertheless, I am slowly working my way back up and so can you with these tips:

For strength development, external cues appear to be superior to internal cues, according to the limited studies we currently have on the subject. Contrasting with bodybuilding, it may then be helpful for you to imagine pushing the bars away, not concentrating on primary movers. However, it will almost certainly always help to consider the moving body parts, when first learning the motion.

Although not perfect technique, notice how I lean forward on the descent, resulting in a better body orientation to recruit chest fibers. From there I exploit the body’s natural stretch-reflex, springing out of the hole with the assistance of the spinal erectors as well. If purely interested in putting on the most amount of weight possible, you should not go nearly as deep as I am in this video, stopping just below parallel to adhere to competition standards. You will be able to lift significantly more with a reduced range of motion, given the length-tension relationship of sarcomeres and self-evidently less total work/distance needed.

Here, I am utilizing this exercise for basic strength and more importantly muscle growth in an accumulation phase of my training. Shown are top sets for post-activation potentiation to make my true, working sets feel lighter and easier while receiving additional neuromuscular benefits from the increased load exposure. There is compiling, empirical evidence to suggest that the pectorals are responsive to stretch-mediated hypertrophy, meaning that movements with tension in a stretch seem slightly superior for certain muscles. This looks to be particularly advantageous in movements, where the hardest portion of the exercise is in the stretch as exemplified in the bottom position of a dip for the pecs.

Hope that helps!

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Reverse squat with Kaleidostrap and Henny 👏🔥 • @hennyattachment No space for a sled or want a sled with an eccentric component? Or no cable stack for reverse squats? Reminder #hennythingispossible with the Henny attachment. #madeinamerica #conditioning #reversesquats #sled

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Gateway Suit for the win 💪 • @savannahschepp Conventional stance is finally in the 4 plates club. 🤠

#deadlifts #strongman #strongwoman #girlswhopowerlift

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Our Sleeves plus Archie is a win win 🙌 • @thompsonbowtie The Fat Archie prototype!
Been working on this over a ten year period. Finally figured out the glitch.

0-90’s & old Arched inclines have poor positioning on their pads. Like horrible. Leading to shoulder impingement. Corner of hard pad pushing against seem of posterior shoulder under load…BAD!

David Barth @universalathletics & l worked on a split pad in 2018. I have pics, vids of it. It was a lot better. But we needed it perfect.

I looked at two ends of @abmats Thompson FatMats butt end together. There was the solution.

@the_iron_illustrator Byung Kim, Cam & Will at @williams_strength are working on this ‘Legacy’ piece now.

Very happy to be working with them. Young go getters in the industry.

To my competition: You didn’t think of this type of pad because you are not lifters!! You can’t comprehend how shoulders work..especially under a weight load. You are gimmick driven. You can try and copy my pad but your late to this strength party. 🤡😜

Let’s Go!!!💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾

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It was inevitable

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