Jake Di Vita

Here's a question. If oil is "fossil fuel" how did it get 30,000 feet under the gulf? Also, why are there such huge amounts of it localized to one location? Did all the plants and dinos congregate and stack up nice and neat for us before they died?

To have a competitive shooting show with guns that don't impact where the sights are is completely asinine.

Holy thread necromancy. 10 years. Looks like someone used the search engine.

Get to work Slack Keen.

Well folks, after several days of thought, I've decided I won't be posting in the Physical Training section of this forum anymore. I'd tell you all why, but that would require breaking some of the cardinal rules of this forum and I respect Brian more than that. I wish all of you the best of luck with your training. If you have questions for me, please feel free to PM them.

Jeff, You are so far off base it's not even funny. To think that the press is a movement unhealthy for the shoulder is so ridiculous I'm not even going to waste my time writing a book explaining why. Also, you have a severe lack of understanding in mechanics behind the squat and deadlift. Or maybe people just never have to stand up from the toilet or pick anything heavy up off the ground in your world? I hope you understand hominids have been occupying a loaded or unloaded squatting position for hundreds of thousands of years longer than the psuedo-experts have been saying they are bad for you. You are confusing good genetics with proper training techniques. I'm truthfully not interested in discussing this with you further, since whatever I say will no doubt fall on deaf ears. I urge you to brush up on your anatomy and learn from an experienced coach -someone who works with athletes- how to squat, deadlift, and press.

How long did you do linear progression for? How much total weight did you gain? What did your lifts go to and what were they at? I don't doubt that you have "done linear progression." However; looking at your body weight, the fact you have not read the book, and that you can't squat correctly leads me to have doubts you did linear progression correctly. Once you answer the first questions in this post I'll have a clearer picture. Let me put it like this, I'm 2 inches taller than you and outweigh you by more than 40 pounds. Unless you are an absolute genetic freak, it just isn't going to be possible for a male to be strong at 145 pounds. Also keep in mind I'm no genetic freak by any sense of the word, and I gained over 20 pounds of bodyweight my first month of linear progression. The reasons your 9mm is pushing your body back is very likely a mechanical issue with your grip/stance. I think you should gain weight, but that would only be a band aid for the problem.

If you weigh 145 pounds, you quite simply have not done the program. You can't do linear progression without gaining weight while being extremely skinny - it doesn't work that way. When I was doing linear progression I needed over 5000 calories a day to make progress. The eating is quite literally harder than the act of lifting. I was eating until I literally wanted to puke...and then eating more...everyday...for months. If you do it properly, you should be gaining 1-3 pounds of bodyweight between training sessions for quite a while at first. If you can't keep your spine neutral while squatting, you are not squatting correctly. There are no such thing as hard gainers, there are only people who refuse to eat enough. Check out this thread for what happens when the program is done correctly

I'd highly recommend reading the full version of Starting Strength and Practical Programming. That really depends on a lot of variables. What is your age, height, weight? I also don't know your current level of adaptation - but if you have never done linear progression before, it would be a good idea to do it. For an intermediate lifter, Wendler's 5-3-1 or a Texas Method variant are great choices. And for what it's worth, there is no such thing as a slow gainer. Either the training stimulus is not good enough, you aren't recovering enough, or you aren't eating enough (90% of the time, this is the problem).

Well I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree, but suffice it to say that I don't really agree with anything you said. The objections just don't hold water to me. No, I don't read T-nation hardly at all. btdt Have you read Starting Strength and done the program as written? If not, I'd urge you to do that. Not only am I talking from the point of view of some of the best coaches in the world, but I'm talking from my own experience as both a trainee and coach.

Of course form and safety are important. Which is why you learn the movements first at a weight you can handle and progressively add weight from there. The whole premise behind novice linear progression is the weight that the novice uses is not "heavy" in terms of their genetic potential, which means they are able to recover and adapt to the stress between days of training. If the stress (or food intake, or rest) is inadequate, the trainee won't advance. I taught myself how to squat from reading books and watching videos as soon as I started linear progression. No serious injuries here. Naturally a good coach will always be the better choice, but to go off the program because of lack of experience just doesn't fly with me. Generally I can teach someone how to squat properly within a half hour of them walking into the gym, (this includes my Mom who is in her 50s and had never touched a barbell before). As per Rip's recommendations, the proper weight for the first workout is one in which the bar slows down only slightly on the 5th rep. Once again, ego is another problem entirely. If ego is the problem, they will still load up your 2 x 12s and hurt themselves just as easily. I don't really like to use the average gym goer as an example. Yes, I'm aware most people that "work out" have ego, form, laziness, and eating habits that will limit their progress no matter what program they are doing. And if the novice is using weight that they can't do 3 sets of 5 deep squats with, they aren't doing the program. The high rep hypertrophy you are referring to is called sarcoplasmic hypertrophy which is a net gain in muscle size with very little change in force production of the muscles. Low reps, as in 3 sets of 5, are by far the best choice for a novice looking to get strong. I added 120 pounds to my 5 rep max on the squat in 2 months using linear progression, squatting 3x5 on M/W/F and adding weight everyday. Does anyone think there is any chance that I'd add the same weight in the same time using 2 x 12s? I'd bet the farm it wouldn't happen. I'm sorry but your perception of how human adaptation works is greatly flawed. The idea that low reps doesn't cause the CNS to adapt just doesn't make sense to me. I'd highly recommend you read Practical Programming by Mark Rippetoe. This will likely clear up some misconceptions you may have (I know it did for me).

Starting Strength uses a 3 x 5 model for the most part, not 5x5 or 5-3-1, which as you said, are better saved for intermediate lifters. I'd like to hear the reasons why you believe 2x12's are more effective for novices.

No one has hit it quite on the head, so I'll go ahead and post what I was thinking. Perspective.

How much is hand enlargement surgery? lol I'm currently doing a form of linear progression with the CoC grippers. I'll wait a month or two before I post my results, I may forget about this thread so a bump at that time would be cool.

I'm not necessarily going for what the teachings say, more what you feel.

Still haven't nailed it...all good stuff though.

No one has hit the one I was thinking so far, but all good answers.

Let's get some answers. 1 word only.

The Unforgiven, El Dorado, Tombstone are my favorites. I liked the new version of 3:10 to Yuma a lot. Quigley Down Under is another good choice.

Now ya just gotta buy him an Accuracy International.

Ben, What day you shooting the OH section? We should squad up.

I'm aware, but as I'm sure we both know, strength is a hell of a lot harder to gain than conditioning. Since you will only be a novice trainee once, why not take advantage of it? Don't get me wrong, I like the CrossFit Football stuff a lot, especially for our sport. I'm just a big fan of building a good foundation of strength first.

Read the rulebook cover to cover and that should take care of it.

10,000 hours of practice.

The simplest answer is to KNOW exactly where the target is. If you do know where the target is, then you can look at the point the target will appear when you move your hands.