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bblazer
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If you can get a good spotter, doing an "overload" can be a good thing.
After you are done with your next squat workout, load the bar to roughly 455. Unrack it and just stand there with it for 1 minute. Then put it back in the rack. Then do it again.
Make sure you keep your body as tight as possible, good arch to your back, and your abs tight like you are expecting a 3 way punch to the gut from me, B Fold and Scotsman. Make sure you keep breathing too.
As a warning, you may start to feel like you are going to pass out. That's fine as long as you don't. But that's why you have spotters.
The whole idea here is to shock your CNS and start getting your body used to feeling what heavy weight feels like. One of the biggest problems people have in progression is when they do something heavy, their brain kicks in and say "holy shit this is fucking heavy, I'm scared and need to protect myself!" When that happens, your form immediately goes to shit, and you can end up getting hurt. By doing overloads it sort of gets your body ready to accept that and be OK with it. Think of it like decoditioning therapy for someone with a fear of heights. You slowly put them in higher and higher positions until it becomes normal and not something to fear.
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After you are done with your next squat workout, load the bar to roughly 455. Unrack it and just stand there with it for 1 minute. Then put it back in the rack. Then do it again.
Make sure you keep your body as tight as possible, good arch to your back, and your abs tight like you are expecting a 3 way punch to the gut from me, B Fold and Scotsman. Make sure you keep breathing too.
As a warning, you may start to feel like you are going to pass out. That's fine as long as you don't. But that's why you have spotters.
The whole idea here is to shock your CNS and start getting your body used to feeling what heavy weight feels like. One of the biggest problems people have in progression is when they do something heavy, their brain kicks in and say "holy shit this is fucking heavy, I'm scared and need to protect myself!" When that happens, your form immediately goes to shit, and you can end up getting hurt. By doing overloads it sort of gets your body ready to accept that and be OK with it. Think of it like decoditioning therapy for someone with a fear of heights. You slowly put them in higher and higher positions until it becomes normal and not something to fear.
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