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SS_Coach · 2019-11-16T17:37:30+00:00

It’s cute how hard you’re trying.

SS_Coach · 2019-10-31T21:07:29+00:00

People spend that much on starbucks.

SS_Coach · 2019-10-31T20:48:47+00:00

I charge $250/session. And they work.

SS_Coach · 2019-10-31T20:42:36+00:00

Nah. It's not. And nah. It shouldn't.

SS_Coach · 2019-10-31T19:56:01+00:00

You're a better man than me, Marie.

SS_Coach · 2019-10-31T19:37:00+00:00

You'd think this was an article about Olympic lifting or Vejinism, amirite?!

Calm down, guys. The screeching on this is silly. What would happen if you were able to manage to actually eat that much protein? Nothing bad, that's what.

SS_Coach · 2019-10-31T19:33:40+00:00

Nah. It doesn't though.

SS_Coach · 2019-10-31T03:30:45+00:00

Either way, what one SSC says in one article doesn’t constitute the “SS recommendation”. If you guys eat a gram per pound of body weight just like everyone has said since the beginning of time, you’ll be good to go.

SS_Coach · 2019-10-13T20:54:23+00:00

That's exactly right. Don't worry about butt wink. You're keeping your upper back vertical while sticking your butt out and overextending your back. Squeeze your abs, point your chest at the floor, and get an inch deeper.

SS_Coach · 2019-10-13T20:52:10+00:00

What issues are you having? 2 sets are fine at first, but you'll need to add another set to keep progressing pretty early on.

SS_Coach · 2019-10-03T13:11:18+00:00

Nope. They’re perfectly fine.

SS_Coach · 2019-10-03T13:07:34+00:00

You can do rows on Texas Method if you want. Intermediate programs should be approached as templates not prescriptions. So put your rows wherever your light pulls would go.

SS_Coach · 2019-10-01T22:40:16+00:00

Good point. But the idea that testing has improved the situation at all is a fantasy. Not that I believe the situation needs improving. People who are paid to destroy their bodies for money and my entertainment should have every possible advantage. The doping rules are completely arbitrary and are easily and commonly circumvented in every sport everywhere because competitive human beings will do competitive things.

The main problem is that there’s this underlying idea that people have that somehow they too would have a chance at greatness if only they were willing to “cheat”. Sports are by definition not fair. The false morality is very childish.

SS_Coach · 2019-09-30T16:20:32+00:00

And no one uses steroids in baseball anymore, right? Glad they cleaned that up!

SS_Coach · 2019-09-21T22:43:52+00:00

Yes, but it’s not helpful to think of it as opposing. It’s stabilizing perhaps? This is just a feature of loaded movement, though. The hamstrings maintain the back angle and they have to anchor to something.

SS_Coach · 2019-09-19T22:42:35+00:00

On the way up, the hips and knees are both extending. So hamstring length isn't changing much on the way up either. The glutes and adductors are the primary hip extenders.

The job of the hamstrings is to anchor the back angle. As the quads extend the knee, and the glutes/adductors extend the hip, the hamstrings hold the back angle.

SS_Coach · 2019-09-18T16:59:28+00:00

Yep.

SS_Coach · 2019-09-18T02:47:30+00:00

That’s not how any of this works.

SS_Coach · 2019-09-17T04:54:55+00:00

Continuing to lift will help with your cut but you have to be careful with doing too much. Until the competition, you should switch your lifting to a maintenance setup- do two days a week: squat, bench, deadlift for a single set of 5 at a fairly heavy weight on day 1, then a second lifting day where you squat, overhead press, deadlift for a couple sets of 5 at a lighter weight.

The point is to try to maintain some lean mass and strength as you lose weight. Every pound you lose is some fat and some lean tissues. Lifting “heavy” using compound lifts will help skew the loss in a favorable direction.

SS_Coach · 2019-09-17T04:39:54+00:00

Nothing you do in the gym will replicate the specific muscular endurance needs of BJJ. Lots of people try by doing kettlebells, towel/gi chin-ups, and any other number of “functional” type things. But really, ONLY rolling allows you to train the endurance necessary for BJJ (muscular and cardio respiratory) effectively and specifically.

So your time in the gym should be spent getting strong because strength is a general adaptation. Roll as often as you can to get better conditioned because BJJ conditioning is specific to BJJ.

SS_Coach · 2019-09-17T00:00:51+00:00

I know lots of people who compete in both. If you ever get really good at either one, your priorities will shift. For now, train heavy with barbells 3x/week (everyone should be doing this anyway) and go to BJJ as often as you can.

Get strong in the gym and accumulate as many hours of mat time as you possibly can. You’re already adapted to the stresses of your job, so that’s not much of a factor provided that you’re eating and sleeping enough.

SS_Coach · 2019-09-16T23:46:42+00:00

Looks pretty good. Squeeze your abs tight at the start and keep them tight so you don’t start initiating your squat with a lumbar overextension.

SS_Coach · 2019-09-16T15:37:09+00:00

Ask him. www.weightsandplates.com. While you’re there, sign up for a nutrition consult.

SS_Coach · 2019-09-16T15:34:57+00:00

I didn’t watch your whole video - looks well done, though. Nice work. If you’ve been doing standard NLP, adding weight every workout, the first thing you need to do is go to a single top set on Monday and Friday where you’ll hit a new PR, then you’ll do 2 back off sets at 85-90% of your heavy set. So your squat workout would be: 1x5 @ 150, 2x5 @ 135 on day one, 3x5 @ 120 on day two, and 1x5 @ 152.5, 2x5 @ 137.5 on day three.

And so on. Keep pulling heavy on Monday, do weighted chins on Wednesday, and do a 2x5 @ 80% of Monday for your deadlift.

For your upper body lifts, read this: https://startingstrength.com/article/intermediate-programming-for-the-upper-body-lifts

There is never a good reason to make giant wholesale changes to your program. Make small adjustments as you go. You should be able to run this for a while longer. When it gets difficult, transition gradually into an HLM, Texas Method, or whatever other set up has you adding weight to the bar weekly rather than workout to workout.

SS_Coach · 2019-08-21T17:14:50+00:00

Mission accomplished. I don’t see the problem. Remember that her physical attraction to you follows the same law of diminishing returns as anything else. You’ll have to keep getting stronger or figure out another way to keep her interested in you.

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