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Not sure but I think suits were allowed this year too so he could be wearing that also. Still ridiculous weight. Thank god they didn't use that stupid ****ing elephant bar they had at the Arnold Classic.
 

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Some dude at my gym eating sour patch kids the entire workout. Didn't know wtf he was doing it for. But at the gas station I noticed a pack of gummy bears had damn near 100g carbs total. Got me thinking how beneficial if at all would eating these delicious treats be during workout?
 

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It's pretty common for Instagram trainers
 

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It's pretty common for Instagram trainers

That actually sounds exactly like him. He always tries to give me tips and he's actually the guy who spot raped me in a singlet that one time. Always coming up to me setting up some contraption that is supposed to help my lift. He at one point tried to set me up to deadlift with three separate ****in bands set up. One around the hips and tied to a weight behind, one around the bar and ties to a weight in front, and one tied to the top of the power rack. Looked like a ****ing spider web.
 

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That actually sounds exactly like him. He always tries to give me tips and he's actually the guy who spot raped me in a singlet that one time. Always coming up to me setting up some contraption that is supposed to help my lift. He at one point tried to set me up to deadlift with three separate ****in bands set up. One around the hips and tied to a weight behind, one around the bar and ties to a weight in front, and one tied to the top of the power rack. Looked like a ****ing spider web.

Please let this guy know I will ****ing kill him. Slowly.
 

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think of a steel foam roller,

Oh damn I've done that before. Works really well. Especially when your body weight isn't enough to smash the quads. Just had my legs out in front of me and rolled over the top of em.
 

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Anyone lifted in the APA? Wondering what bars they use for the lifts so I can be sure to train with the same ones during my prep.
 

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Train with bars that make it harder lol. Then beast out on the platform.
 

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Train with bars that make it harder lol. Then beast out on the platform.
That makes sense and I agree I just want to eliminate as many unknown variables as I can. Would hate to train with a stiffer bar and end up having the pull with a deadlift bar and vice versa. I have enough unknowns to worry about.
 

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Anyone ever **** their lever on their belt up? At the beginning of my squat day I picked mine up and a screw fell out. Tried to put it back in and the threads were all ****ed up so I can't get the screw to engage. Gonna try to tap and die it but I'm surprised how soft the damn metal is.
 

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That makes sense and I agree I just want to eliminate as many unknown variables as I can. Would hate to train with a stiffer bar and end up having the pull with a deadlift bar and vice versa. I have enough unknowns to worry about.

My first meet I trained with a stiff bar. Come meet day an okie dl bar. It felt like a rack pull it was so easy
 

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Starting my next prep for my 2nd meet in a couple weeks. Now that I'm at an actual powerlifting gym I can use waves of specialty bars. I'm pretty excited.
 

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My first meet I trained with a stiff bar. Come meet day an okie dl bar. It felt like a rack pull it was so easy

To be honest man when I pull with a Texas Power bar I can do just as much weight as a Texas DL bar. But I'm not pulling real big weights so maybe it's at the big weight where it really helps.
 

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Starting my next prep for my 2nd meet in a couple weeks. Now that I'm at an actual powerlifting gym I can use waves of specialty bars. I'm pretty excited.

Im spoiled as ****. I have Texas Squat bar, Texas DL bar, Texas Power bar, Iron Wolfe Squat bar, Duffalo bar, SSB bar, cambered bar, fat bars, and a load of other ones. I almost regret having them because when I do my home gym I will at least want a Texas Squat and Texas Power and those are $450 each. The Iron Wolfe would be badass too but that's about $1k.
 

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To be honest man when I pull with a Texas Power bar I can do just as much weight as a Texas DL bar. But I'm not pulling real big weights so maybe it's at the big weight where it really helps.
This is pretty accurate. It's a more flexible bar, so the more weight you have on it the more you'll be able to take advantage of that. Honestly o don't feel any difference till I'm over the mid 5's.
 

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To be honest man when I pull with a Texas Power bar I can do just as much weight as a Texas DL bar. But I'm not pulling real big weights so maybe it's at the big weight where it really helps.

You will understand come meet day. Low to mid 5 that thing starts to bend. By mid 600 it can get unruly if you aren't tight.

The important thing and the reason it worked out fine for me to make that switch at a meet was because I had always practiced taking the slack out of the bar before my pull.
 

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Dan Green 804*3 meet prep for BOB3.
Sick as a dog right now so compensating by watching PL vids and porn.
 

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This boss of bosses is gonna be fukking sick. Lots of strong dudes competing.
 

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This boss of bosses is gonna be fukking sick. Lots of strong dudes competing.
Dan Green, Yuri Belkin, Kevin Oak, Tee Cummins going head to head is going to be so badass.
 

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