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Heel or No Heel? Squatting in Flats vs. Squat Shoes

When we’re comparing shoes to squat in, us powerlifters only have two options: flats, and squat shoes (heeled shoes, or weightlifting shoes). This is because most powerlifting competitions don’t...

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What are Common Powerlifting Injuries?

Statistically, powerlifting injuries occur less often than weightlifting injuries among regularly training and competing athletes, and far less often than contact sport injuries (from football to...

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What Injuries Can You Get from Deadlifting?

Injury prevalence is higher among the deadlift than any other lift, yet studies on injuries are quite low for deadlifting, versus squatting or bench pressing. From what we do know, however,...

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What Injuries Can You Get from Squatting?

Yes, you can get injuries from squatting. That doesn't make squats bad for your knees, your back, or your body. Just to set the record straight: any lift can injure you grievously, and whether...

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Can You Bench Press with a Shoulder Injury?

A shoulder injury is one of the more common injuries in powerlifting. It's also a common injury among weightlifters, tennis players, wrestlers, swimmers, baseball and softball players – you get...

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  • No gym still (8 months now...), but at least I can make other kinds of progress. 20 solid reps @
  • Day 2. Wish I had chalk, it
  • My first clean no-swing muscle up (on camera ). Without a gym, all I can do is set new bodyweight
  • Hammies and back. Throw in single arm rows and Romanian deads with something heavy for more volume. Banded Leg curls
  • You wouldn
  • Banded Push-Ups 4 x 8-12 Floor Press 3 x 8-12 Dips/Close Grip Pushups 4 x 8-12 Banded/Weighted Tricep Extensions 4
  • Weighed in at 73.1kg this morning, starting a powerbuilding program soon. Got a nice solid fat tyre around my midriff
  • Same weight (195kg), two weeks apart. 200kg sooooooon #lifting #powerlifting #pwrlft #fitness #barbell #natty #deadlift
  • First day, back at it! Working up to heavy single on each lift to wake up (85-90%), then going into
  • Thank youuuu @cornucopia.ofhaworthias an inspirational quote to help me with my training goals in 2020
  • Holy grinder 142.5kg/314lbs for 4, RPE 10 (obviously), last squat sesh. Squats have been kinda shitty this past training cycle
  • 182.5kg/401.5lbs for 6. Heaviest set of the year, and my final pull of 2019. RPE 8, too! Squat PR tomorrow.

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