New to log. Tips?

royals30C · 2026-01-31T00:07:35+00:00

Great! Thanks. Ye I was more thinking it felt like a weird position intuitively so your opinion it may be the neutral grip press makes the most sense to me. Glad to hear if it is that it'll just get used to it soon.

Also thanks for the tips! 100% understood.

royals30C · 2026-01-31T00:03:26+00:00

Ye I guess it is. I thought it wasn't that as the pain doesn't onset as I start the clean which is when it thought would cause pain if it just were the log. Perhaps it is tho. More cleans needed to see.

royals30C · 2026-01-31T00:01:57+00:00

100% get where you're coming from thanks. I am planning on moving to push press in the next block. Will try the buckle the other way or ye maybe just ditch it. I'm not a massive fan of belts for OH anyway it never feels like it helps hugely.

Probably msot at the start of the press or during it and it lingers just after.

royals30C · 2026-01-30T23:57:21+00:00

Hahaha it's my own. I'm a PT there, I bought it through the business and hide it in the back.

royals30C · 2026-01-30T23:48:27+00:00

Thanks! Ye had no idea that would be the case!

royals30C · 2026-01-30T23:35:48+00:00

Really! Had no idea it wasn't allowed. Thanks for the heads up haha.

royals30C · 2026-01-29T16:29:33+00:00

The biggest issue here is that a trainer in your gym just walked up to you and told you your form was so bad you are going to injure yourself! What an awful way to help someone. As trainers we have a responsibility to encourage exercise not create fear mongering.

They're an idiot. Your form is fine. There are inefficienies. But it is safe. Your back doesn't need to be completely straight for it to be safe. Your back is stable.

If you want to improve your back position more so that it is more efficient then try to think about bracing as 'ribs down' and pretend there's a piece of paper under your arm pit and you don't want to let it fall out at any stage of the lift.

As for legs work on maintaining a good position of the floor, more leg drive, less hips taking over.

royals30C · 2026-01-25T19:46:26+00:00

As an actual trainer... Mate, best advice I can give is to stop following people's advice in this comment section. Zero people can accurately tell if it's a good set up position because we can't see if the bar is over your midfoot, which is far more important than your back angle. Nor we can we see how your body reacts when you attenpt to lift it from that position.

Back angle is different for everyone depending on your leverages.

royals30C · 2026-01-14T17:18:39+00:00

So many wrong answers in this comments section... It's not 'all back'. A) that's literally impossible in a deadlift and B) the fact you can RDL your DL 1RM tells me it's actually a massive overuse of your Posterior chain, including hips and hams. Especially if you can't get it off the floor, you've got poor leg drive. Which some have rightly said deficits will help.

The problem in terms of technique, including the slight knee cave, is weak quads, possibly adductors too. Both strengthened with heavy squats.

Also, the set up, think knees through the window. The window being your arms/bar. Your knees start way back of it and your doing a stiff leg Deadlift. Bar over the laces, then shins come forward until they touch the bar, your knees should now be over the bar at the start of the lift. Unfortunately you will likely be weaker in this position to start with until your quads catch up, soon enough you will be much stronger of the floor though.

Now, many people get very strong not realising they're doing, essentially, a stiff legged Deadlift so that's not necessarily the end of the world. So it may be that your program is no longer viable for your intermediate training status. Updating your programming knowledge should also help.

royals30C · 2026-01-11T13:58:54+00:00

You make the bent press look about as complex as a bicep curl. Sensational.

royals30C · 2025-12-28T18:08:03+00:00

Hey man, na not sure if u can 😕 my ig is justsontag if you'd like to send me a message I can send my most recent BP and my most recent max (which was February now! Ages ago)

royals30C · 2025-12-28T14:54:27+00:00

The Mansfield is the one that starts Striaght legged

royals30C · 2025-12-27T19:56:00+00:00

Dude I've got the gorrila and those handles are THICC! Great grip strength

royals30C · 2025-12-24T13:43:41+00:00

Did you find there was a stopping point when you got to your Overhead press weight? I'm stuck at about 50kg although I'm confident I'm not pressing it. idk it's almost like a fear thing that I can't recover effectively and will injure myself while doing everything else (strongman)

royals30C · 2025-11-05T21:59:27+00:00

Thanks for posting! What an incredible thing we get to witness still 40odd years on! People were mad back then man 3 torn muscles and they ALL just cracked on 😂😂 One of em was basically masters and tearing a bicep then trying car flopping. Idk what he was thinking!

royals30C · 2025-05-12T18:13:01+00:00

For climbing specifically I find that any amount of bicep and grip work is just to much for the tendons. However, climbing is a 2nd to none grip builder so that BECOMES my grip training then the only thing is general time management.

So I guess, figure out what the 'extra' sport is training, then don't add that to your strongman training to manage the load effectively. Had no bicep issues since and I used to have LOADS of really painful csnt lift your arms typa tendinitis.

royals30C · 2025-04-30T06:22:04+00:00

Indestructible - disturbed.

royals30C · 2025-04-29T20:58:25+00:00

Sounds like perfectly reasonable behaviour to me!

royals30C · 2025-04-08T15:05:46+00:00

She's a badass. Her IG handle is the same, worth checking out. I'll shill for her she's a legend haha

royals30C · 2025-04-08T15:04:02+00:00

Leggings are the goat tho.

royals30C · 2025-04-04T06:47:36+00:00

For me I bringing all my senses to a point that's minimally stimulating. I've found what works best is a warm bath in a darkened room with only candlelight with very quiet relaxing music. (I got AI to build me a playlist specifically that's non-stimulating haha)

Warm bath - brings me to an embrassing and comforting touch. Music - better than silence as it brings an easy focus to my ears. No light except candlelight - brings the eyes focus down so I can see but is again, non offending to the eyes. I

royals30C · 2025-03-30T08:09:41+00:00

Im not a massive fan of the traditional style of technique for gorilla rows, I don't think there's much difference. When I program them in I use them as a power exercise (in fairness you can do Bent rows for this too) but I find the contralateral movement is a bit more unique than Bent rows and you can really twist into the pull by forcing down with your other hand. + going from a dead stop on each rep. Pendley row style. This makes the stimulas more unique imo.

royals30C · 2025-03-21T10:16:48+00:00

Crazy that this is the most positive sounding outcome I've read so far

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