Workout:
Complete as many rounds as possible in 20 minutes of:
500m Row
10 Ring Dips
Post rounds and partial rounds completed to comments
Back Squat Geometry, Mark Rippetoe (CFJ Preview)…[wmv][mov]
My personal squat form is not perfect, and neither is anybody else’s who is not constantly coached. I know what is supposed to look like, but because I can’t see it while I’m doing it, my form will drift over several workouts from good to bad. It will settle into a stable, bad technique and will remain there until I get it corrected again. This is called “form creep”, and affects all uncoached athletes to varying degrees.
Everybody needs a coach, no matter how accomplished they are. A coach provides a good set of eyes and the experience to know what to say to get you to do a movement correctly. This is the primary problem with training alone at home, not the lack of some asshole yelling that it’s “All you, man!” You can’t see it as it’s being done, and you can’t correct it as it happens if you can’t tell what’s wrong. Video is useful, but it’s no substitute for a coach’s correction in real time, your feeling the correction and incorporating it into the movement pattern, and then your feeling the difference the correction made from wrong to right during the set.
Mark Rippetoe
Hey guys,
I was experimenting with Overhead Squats the other days.. Using only a broomstick.. I think I did some nerve damage as I have a constant numbness in my left thumb also my left elbow joint on the inside is very weak..
Has this happened to you guys before? I am hoping it aint permanent damage and that my arms were just simply not used to being in that position..
Any suggestions???
Cheers..
My entire left arm used to go numb on and off for weeks when I started adding weights to overhead squats. It also used to twitch in time to my heartbeat, which is even more disconcerting than it sounds.
I can’t say for sure what it was or what caused it, I used to just stop doing overhead squats until it stopped. After a couple of months it went away and never came back.
I’d guess that it was related to failure to maintain an active shoulder though. For the overhead squat, this basically means you need to drive your shoulders up into your ears when you assume the overhead position. Failure to do so can result in nastiness, most notably this kind of shit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoracic_outlet_syndrome.
If it persists, definitely go talk to some kind of medical person and do whatever they say, rather than listening to some yahoo on the internet (me).