lennarn wrote:Vagabond wrote:What do you think the reason is your DL and SQ are weak?
Squat: I think my long limbs are giving me poor leverage compared to many lifters. Tight hamstrings make it difficult to anterior pelvic tilt in the hole, so maybe this is why I get so winded from squatting. It's a massive anaerobic event for me. Maybe it's just an efficiency thing.
Deadlift: Tight hamstrings again. I learned to hip hinge this past year. Not sure why my back keeps rounding every time I pull. This lift might be better now that I've done tons of RDLs but I havent tested it for nine months.
How long have you been lifting? How long have you been lifting with a progressive structured program? What were your #s when you started? What are your #s now?
The deadlift problem might be legitimate. A simple solution is to get a coach (in real life) to correct your form. The rest; long limbs, short limbs, doesn't really matter. You'll find very strong people with long, short and medium limbs.
99% of the time below-average progress is a lack of consistency, poor nutrition, or unrealistic expectations. Strength is earned over years and decades as J-Madd pointed out.
People that are consistent will progress faster than people that are not consistent.
Sometimes we might honestly think we're being consistent, but if we take a close look there are little (or big) gaps in between training days that creep up and add up. It starts out innocently, a day here a day there. "I'll make up for it tomorrow" which becomes "I'll start over again next week". Pretty soon months have gone by and you've completed maybe one or two weeks without interruption if you're honest with yourself (not saying this is you, speaking in general).
Gaps can be legitimate as well, caused by illness or real life. Like others in this thread have mentioned, most of us get sidelined once in a while, sometimes for short periods of time, sometimes longer if injury's involved.
If you follow professional mixed martial arts at all, you'll notice fighters can go into a fight camp looking downright tubby, and come out 12-16 weeks later looking like machines. There's a few things at work, but one of the major contributing factors is consistency. These guys are training twice a day or more like clockwork. They're consistent with their nutrition, they're consistent with their skills training, they're consistent with their strength training, they're consistent with their rest and sleep habits. An extreme example, but that's the power of consistency.
Unrealistic expectations; don't expect to put in 3 or 4 months of work and wake up with a 500lb squat. It takes years of hard work, and is no easy accomplishment. If it was easy, everyone would be doing it. It's not easy, but it's very possible for you and pretty much everyone else, but you need to take all the steps to get there....and there are many many steps up leading up to the top of that mountain
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