Please dont make me pull out belt less squat numbers David lol
Yeah I wanted to quote those, but all I could find on a quick look through the ptc was the deadlifts, it's only a comment on a forum to a guy who prefers to talk about his penis, I wasn't going to spend hours on it.
You'll be glad to know the teacher at RMIT was dissing belts today.
"Why would you do an exercise and not have it work all the muscles it could?" He made an exception for people doing max lifts at national level, though noted that plenty did without even then.
"When you're lifting at the extremes of what's humanly possible, maybe you need some extra support. Are your clients going to be national-level powerlifters? Are you one?"
haz said:
makes no sense. there would be thousands of people who wear a belt and deadlift over 200kg.
Where is this mythical place with "thousands of people" who deadlift over 200kg? Can you point a few of them out?
Because the place I know with the strongest drugfree lifters overall - in Melbourne, excluding perhaps the Oly lifting clubs - is PTC, and they don't belt up.
I mean, I see blokes with belts on in my local gym and my school gyms. And they're squatting and deadlifting less than
me - less than a guy with scoliosis, which if you look it up and use your imagination will see does not help in lifts using the lower back, since only half your lower back gets used.
So I think these sorts of lifts are not that common. But hey, if they are, let me know, the more heavy lifting gyms out there I can visit or lift at or recommend to others, the happier I am.
Unless you're just making it up?
haz said:
im sure you'd find that alot of the people that deadlift over 300 wear belts. ill judge by those results that we all MUST wear BELTS.
Did they wear belts training all the way from the 20kg bar to the 300kg lift?
Sure, you're doing a competition lift, lifting the heaviest weight in one go you'll lift in months or even that year, I can see that you'd want extra support - but hey, heaps of people don't use it even then. But say your comp lift is 300kg, you need the belt for the 100kg warmup?
Do you lift 300kg? How did you get there? Or if you don't, how did those people get there? Belts all the way? If there are "thousands of people" who do it, should be easy to tell us about some of them, yeah?