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Never did hack squats. What are they good for?

You should focus more on strength and do just a handful of "warmup" plyos before your strength workouts right now IMO.

See the JackM split or my log for examples.

What you really mean is "take a look at my calfzillas"

Private video^^^

By the way - how do you use the smith machine? You need to rotate the bar to put it back? Is there any other way to re-rack it? Because at my gym I have to rotate the bar using the hands and it's sliding in my hands and I have to bend my back to help rotate it back on the racks and I've had TERRIBLE back pain two times from this - so I'm not using it anymore. Way too dangerous for my back because of this.

Is there any other way I'm not aware of to re-rack the weight?

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Quote from: Raptor on December 06, 2012, 12:59:50 pm

I don't have a problem with VAT tax. The problem is that stuff that comes from the USA come up with HUGE transport taxes, customs taxes and warehouse taxes, and you need to go to some kind of warehouse to get it from.

Thanks but I'm not available for that kind of an effort.

what are you talking about? i was gloating about things being cheaper and more freely available in the US, nothing more. 

We also pay for our own medicine here. If you end up in a hospital, even if you pay medical insurance, you will need to pay the doctors, nurses, your meds, everything, otherwise they won't look at you and pretty much let you die. This while paying your ensurance. It's pretty cool.

None. Just that. And some mild pain that is just enough to shut down my quad when trying to be explosive. I can still put out force with it though. I also have Osgood Schlatter on that knee, a pretty big lump, ever since I was 13 or so. Never got better since then. No wonder my right quad is so dead, I guess I'm involuntarily protecting that knee when moving around so my quad has gone down in terms of size, for such a long time.

Probably some kind of compensatory thing is going on too, with the right glute firing pretty well, and also with the left leg getting stronger. When I do depth jumps I never jump straight up - I always end up jumping a bit to the side.

LBSS, what is VAT?

Also, Raptor, where exactly is you knee pain? What movements cause it?

I've pretty much eliminated all of my knee pain so maybe I can help.

1/8 to 1/4 squat range. First 20% of knee flexion, starting from an extended leg. The pain is on the lateral side of the knee, in the "knee hole" on the lateral side (basically to the right of the patella, in that "hole" in the knee). Some thing in there "snaps" when I get past a point of flexion.