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Eric Lilliebridge 400kg World Record Squat

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Eric Lillibridge squatted 400kg (881lbs). Youngest and lightest person to ever squat 400kgs raw w/ wraps. All time Junior and Open world record. Previous open world record raw w/ wraps was 395kgs – 870lbs, beat it by 11lbs! And here are his thoughts about the meet and choice of weights. Update: Warm Up Reps

Good Morning Mistakes

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Clint Darden goes over the details of Good Mornings. He talks about arched back (hamstring emphasis) and rounded back (lower back emphasis) version. elbows down butt goes back with wide stance, force knees out bar goes up and down, you go back

Eric Spoto & Stan Efferding on Vegas Power Hour

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Since today is bench day, here is a fine piece of podcast for your listening pleasure. Eric Spoto & Stan Efferding were guests on the Vegas Power Hour. I enjoy lifting weights. If there was no competition, if non of this existed, I would be lifting the exact same weight at the gym every Monday.  – Eric Spoto Topics: […]

Mancakes

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Forget your regular old pancakes, here comes the real deal – Mancakes by redditor blabberbrain. Pretty self explanatory: make a circle with the pancake batter, let it cook for a second put an egg in the center of the pancake put bacon strips around it or, as a commenter said: “remove the egg whites first, chop up […]

Standing Hip Flexor Stretch

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Stretch out Saturday … Kit Laughlin shows a limbering version of the hip flexor stretch. get in a lunge position square your hips then squeeze the glutes sink down, re-square, re-tuck, re-straighten the back leg, then lean back Add a contraction for the bottom position if you like. Once in the deepest, and technically best, […]

Hysen Pulaku Banned for 2 Years

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Hysen Pulaku Update. Update 27.09.2014: It was confirmed by the IWF to the Albanian federation that Hysen can lift at the Rio Olympics! The IWF Sanctioned athletes page was updated. Hysen is banned for 2 years, until 27.07.2014. As for what that means for Rio 2016, the Olympic anti doping rules (PDF) say the following: In […]