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I've been using an old non-adjustable neck harness, and I would like to upgrade to a really good one. If the best is less than $100, that would be great.
Thanks,
Scott

I've been doing full body push-pull weightlifting sessions for many years, but for a couple of reasons I think it would be best if I moved to a two or three way split routine. These are the exercises I'm currently doing in my single session workouts: landmine oblique twist Landmine box squat Sumo de...

thanks O_A: I don't think there's anything out there. I've posted in several places, and I'm getting nothing back.

Longshot posting here, but I've got a friend who's really suffering, and I trust you guys, and I'm hoping you might at least have some forum suggestions for us. He was hit by a car about three weeks ago while riding his bike, and both he and his wife are having a very tough time with the medical bur...

sounds reasonable. between the sumos, water running (really treading water with vigor using a number of different motions) and the elliptical, my knee isn't bothering me at all. I did try running. Can't get more than two blocks before my knee starts to hurt. Guess it'll be awhile before I can get ba...

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I lifted on the 22nd. I attempted the Sumo with the Olympic bar weighted at one end only, with the bar trained under my crotch, and the other end of the bar pinned at the bottom rail of my power cage just below the plate stack. I used a reverse grip at the end of the bar. At the top of the lift, the...

Thanks, and yes, I understand the 1x10 thing. I forgot to mention that the weighted barbell end came to mind because my heaviest dumbbell only weighs 40 lbs. I haven't even tried this yet, so I don't know whether it will "work." I was thinking I would do a reverse grip at the very tip of the bar wit...

I was just thinking that that might make more certain the correct form.

. . . and that with weight sufficient to actually train the muscles. (I don't have heavy dumbbells.)

KPj:

On the sumo DL: would it make sense to weight just one end of the olympic barbell, place the weighted end's tip at midfoot, and then lift as you instruct?

I was just thinking that that might make more certain the correct form.

Thanks in advance,
Scott

Thanks KPj: I lifted yesterday and only did the straight back/straight leg DL. It's supposed to target your gluts, but it seems to hit my lower erector spinae pretty hard. I wonder if my flexibility is so bad that I can't bend over enough to bring the gluts into play? The reason I bring this up is b...

Gotcha. Thanks Jungledoc and Stuward.

OK. So, any DL which keeps my tibia perpendicular to the floor is a go?

Thinking out loud here . . . I have an attachment for my bench which allows me to do lever lying leg curls and leg extensions. I could do standing (cable) hip extensions. So that would be gluts and hamstrings. Add my "straight-leg" leg extensions and that covers everything a barbell squat (http://ww...

Thank you ApolytonGP and KPj: I've found a way to stress my quads without bending my knees at all using a lever leg extension: On my Body Solid weight station I grab hold of the lat pull-down bar while standing with my lower legs trained through the, uh, padded leg things. Then I just lower my body ...