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Title: Creating torque?
Post by: Raptor on August 12, 2013, 04:32:20 am

http://bretcontreras.com/creating-torque-by-screwing-the-feet-into-the-ground/

Title: Re: Creating torque?
Post by: Joe on August 12, 2013, 05:20:24 am

contreras strikes me as a major goober

Title: Re: Creating torque?
Post by: Raptor on August 12, 2013, 07:29:26 am

What is a "goober"? It's like some sort of Word Police and Certified Asshole?

Title: Re: Creating torque?
Post by: Joe on August 12, 2013, 07:34:03 am

Quote from: Raptor on August 12, 2013, 07:29:26 am

What is a "goober"? It's like some sort of Word Police and Certified Asshole?

It's kind of like a doofus but with some goofball thrown in.

Title: Re: Creating torque?
Post by: AlexV on August 14, 2013, 09:43:27 pm

Kinda lame

Pavel calls this rooting and has been talking about this for over 15 years (that I know of).  OLympic lifters and powerlifters have been doing it since the dawn of time.  Basically you are taking the slack out of a joint and making it more stable.  More stable joint = more efficient force production from prime movers cause you are not leaking energy.

Title: Re: Creating torque?
Post by: LBSS on August 14, 2013, 11:46:13 pm

yeah rippetoe talks about this, too, in starting strength. "spreading the floor" has been a good cue for me in the past when i feel myself being a unstable.

btw i just realized that starting strength is currently the 741st best-selling book on amazon, which means it's selling something like 800-1000 copies a month. rippetoe publishes the book himself, so he's probably netting like $10k/month just on starting strength sales. not too shabby, especially if you live in BFE, texas.

Title: Re: Creating torque?
Post by: Raptor on August 15, 2013, 03:47:52 am

So people actually BUY books? Weird.

Title: Re: Creating torque?
Post by: pelham32 on August 15, 2013, 04:23:00 am

Quote from: LBSS on August 14, 2013, 11:46:13 pm

yeah rippetoe talks about this, too, in starting strength. "spreading the floor" has been a good cue for me in the past when i feel myself being a unstable.

btw i just realized that starting strength is currently the 741st best-selling book on amazon, which means it's selling something like 800-1000 copies a month. rippetoe publishes the book himself, so he's probably netting like $10k/month just on starting strength sales. not too shabby, especially if you live in BFE, texas.

Whhaatt!? Well kudos to Rip for that..