A hairy, slightly ginger mans attempt at strongman

ALWEBB72 said:
i agree with the first bit but i am not jealous of your bench

stephen9069 said:Well done mate on the benching and your right you cant please everyone, remember some people gave Ed Hall a bit of a basing on depth

chaos said:Quality benching and squatting, might be worth going back to box squats to get dpeth issue sorted again?

Oxman said:I use a 12" box mate, puts me under parallel. I'm 5 foot 11" and a bit!
You need to try out the heights in the rack so you know you have it right.

Daws87 said:
Thanks mate I'm feeling it all today! Yea i'll have to make myself a box, what height is best do you know?

chaos said:
Not sure on height per se!! The way I did it was just to use one of those steps they use for step aerobics where you can lower them. Just sat in it looked in mirror then adjusted so when I sat down I was parallel!

Daws87 said:
Thanks mate hows the recovery coming along?

nails said:
Slowly. Just started physio once a week. My the left hand side of my upper traps have locked on. It's causing an impingement on that side so I've got to work on depressing my shoulder blade. Really weird, I could do it easy beforehand but now it takes a lot of effort. I actually break a sweat concentrating on it.
It's quite surprising the strength loss I have on that side. The physio asked me to move my right arm in a certain position and told me to push up while she pushed down. That was easy, she came off the floor and ended up balanced on top. However on the left she could push me down easy. Quite amazing really, just glad its fixable.

Just read your squat post in the training section. Don't be disheartened by negative comments. You are making progress and like you've said technique needs a little work. I'm never happy with my squat technique, there's always something I feel could be better. As long as you keep improving that's the part that counts. Goonies never say die.

EDCLARKE said:i wouldnt worry about getting slagged for depth mate , they might not have passed in a powerlifting comp but they wern't far away, It looked like good gym rep to me . Far too many people on this site get far too hung up on depth. If you were a long standing memeber of the forum posting up a 300k squat to that depth you would probably have drowned in fawning crongratulations.
i guess what I'm trying to say is people are t**ts on the internet!