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Weight lifting belt recommendation?
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Evan Tipps
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I like belts. Id go with a inzer belt if you could but its costy
hulkamainia 119
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I never use a belt and I find it helps more because its true power and you have to work harder for it which is better lol but I do admit the last time I used one I felt it helped but still I agree with what he said, but if you have an injury that's aching you then take it slow and easy.
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Evan Tipps
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Belts are allowed in raw powerlifting. Lol
who said they weren't?
however it doesn't mean they should be used. belts, straps, gloves, wraps, all that shit I am 100% against.. you use them and you won't develop your core, your wrists, and your forearms correctly. the guys who walk around the gym with a belt and wear gloves day in and day out i guarantee have horrendous lower back core strength and their grip is horrendous. i would like to see them lift without their belt and their gloves and see how they do. they would likely struggle bigtime
i'm not one of those guys at the gym who go around telling people this though.. if someone wants to bring the entire Dick's sporting goods section to the gym with them thats their business. however i have talked to countless guys who have come up to me while i was doing squats and deadlifts and have asked me "hey you don't wear a belt?" or "you want to borrow my belt?" .. and i have told them why I don't wear one... so i hope i have explained it to everyone in this thread why a belt should not be used.. if you want to continue wearing one and crippling your lower back core strength then thats your own business, just remember long term its gonna hurt you more than help. and as far as gloves? sheesh don't get me started on that. manipulating your grip strength weakens grip strength, this is common sense. a lot of these glove and strappers at the gym doing deadlifts wouldn't even be able to do 1 plate raw, thats how weak their hands are
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this is correct. if someone is injured they shouldn't be going heavy to begin with. a belt should never be used to cover up an injury, that is just pure ego and stupidity
been there and done that. a lot of guys need to learn the hard way (i was one of them)... I don't let my ego do the lifting anymore and I have stayed amazingly healthy the past 2 years.. before that it was all about ego and i was battling injury after injury
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Evan Tipps
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Well as long as the belt isnt worn all the time its fine.. I mean if I work my way up to squatting/pulling 405 without a belt then I use one my core strength would still be 100 times better than the average persons
miked8c
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"A belt should be used judiciously, possibly restricted to the last warm up and work sets, if then. Some trainees will not require a belt at all, for much of the early part of their training career, and if the abs are strong and the back uninjured, may prefer to never use one. This is a judgement call, one that must be made with the input of the trainee, but it is probably prudent to err on the side of safety if there is any question at all about it. A belt will not prevent the trunk from getting and staying strong-- there is plenty of work for the trunk muscles even if a belt is worn on heavy sets-- and it may help the trainee to safely squat enough weight to radically improve his strength, something he might not be able to do without it."
" A belt protects the spine by increasing the amount of pressure that can be applied to it by the muscles that support it... At the same time, the belt acts as a proprioceptive cue for a harder abdominal muscle contraction: you can actually squeeze harder with a belt on than you can without one, just as you can push harder against a loaded barbell than you can against a broomstick. This effect ultimately produces both stronger abs, due to the stronger isometric contraction facilitated by the belt, and a strong squat, due to the heavier loads made possible by a more stable spine"
-Rippetoe, Starting Strength
" A belt protects the spine by increasing the amount of pressure that can be applied to it by the muscles that support it... At the same time, the belt acts as a proprioceptive cue for a harder abdominal muscle contraction: you can actually squeeze harder with a belt on than you can without one, just as you can push harder against a loaded barbell than you can against a broomstick. This effect ultimately produces both stronger abs, due to the stronger isometric contraction facilitated by the belt, and a strong squat, due to the heavier loads made possible by a more stable spine"
-Rippetoe, Starting Strength
I normally use the belt when i am doing deadlifts or very heavy lifting i recently purchased the max strength belt from ammfitness
really helps with supporting my back i use to get lower back pain a lot not sure if this is to do with the heavy lifting or bad form but the belts do help
really helps with supporting my back i use to get lower back pain a lot not sure if this is to do with the heavy lifting or bad form but the belts do help
Johnny 138
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I have lower back issues yet still never use a belt. Proper form. That's key. As Steve said belts, wrist straps and so on are not what we need if we are truelg trying to develop strength and not just trying to impress somebody we don't even know at the gym. Lift raw and minimal, IMO.
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