Absolutely :-)

It’s extremely handy!

Ha!

Glad you found it useful!

Thanks very much, and will do!

Sorry to hear about the wrist pain - I hope this proves very useful to you going forward!

Thanks so much, Tom!

Here are two cues that often work well: 1. Elbows forward 2. Lead with the elbows However, if you're coaching yourself, it's important to video yourself to evaluate whether or not you're executing the cue properly. What the lift feels like and what's actually happening are often two different things, so remember to record yourself and then compare it to what's discussed in this video.

Thanks - glad you like it!

I'm glad they've been useful for you - that's great to hear!

Excellent - glad to help!

Absolutely!

p.s. is your gym going through a renovation? maybe share the details with your fans. your gym has always looked great

Reasonable question - growing the beard was actually Becky's (my wife's) idea . . . it's possible that I've taken the idea further than she intended :-)

Thanks for the kind words regarding the gym, and no, it is not going through a renovation. With that said, a good chunk of the footage in this video comes from our recent IronFest event, a team-based event that we hold every summer. With the amount of people in the gym and since all the footage took place on the metal plates/pound plates side of of the gym, I'm guessing things might have looked a bit different.

Thank Bert!

You're welcome!

You're welcome!

You’re welcome, and I’m glad it’s been useful for you!

Glad you like them! We have a couple of members with the TYRs - the heel (21mm) is a bit bigger than my general recommendation, but not by much, and as you alluded to, I've heard positive reviews from people who need a wider shoe.

@@TestifySC I see many people using the cross trainer (crossfit) shoes for both weightlifting and some short runs and rope climbing -- yes I said the "c" word. Any experience or a possible follow-up video on this topic would be cool.

Thanks for the kind words, and I'll pass that on to Mike (the first lifter)!

Excellent town

You’re very welcome!

Good call on that.

Glad you found it useful, and thanks for the kind words. Hopefully, now the terminology is a bit more sensical :-)

I posted this in response to your question on the "STOP Doing This!! Your Shoulders are DESTROYING Your Bench Press" video but wanted to post it here too to make it easy to find. I hope it's useful for you. "In general, it is far better to have the hooks a bit too low than a bit too high as you don't want to finish a set and then run the risk of not getting the bar back into the hooks while in a fatigued state. As far as the height of the hooks seen in this video, they are different for each lifter, so don't base the height of your hooks on what you see in the video (perhaps I misunderstood the "1 peg lower than in the video" comment, but I wanted to be clear just in case). If your arms have to be perpendicular to your torso to reach up and unrack the bar, then your hooks are most likely too low (I would say "certainly too low" but I haven't seen you lift in person, so perhaps I'm not correctly envisioning what you're describing). You should be able to reach back slightly as seen by the lifters in this video and still clear the hooks with an inch or two of space when unracking and racking the bar. Setting up so that you are reaching straight up to unrack the bar (instead of up and back slightly) means you are essentially directly under the hooks, which means that eventually, you'll end up benching up directly into the underside of the hooks, getting trapped under the hooks in the process. This is not a situation you want to be in. Probably a longer explanation than you were looking for, but I hope it was helpful. I'll post this to the other video that you commented on as well so you can see it in either place."

In general, it is far better to have the hooks a bit too low than a bit too high as you don't want to finish a set and then run the risk of not getting the bar back into the hooks while in a fatigued state. As far as the height of the hooks seen in this video, they are different for each lifter, so don't base the height of your hooks on what you see in the video (perhaps I misunderstood the "1 peg lower than in the video" comment, but I wanted to be clear just in case). If your arms have to be perpendicular to your torso to reach up and unrack the bar, then your hooks are most likely too low (I would say "certainly too low" but I haven't seen you lift in person, so perhaps I'm not correctly envisioning what you're describing). You should be able to reach back slightly as seen by the lifters in this video and still clear the hooks with an inch or two of space when unracking and racking the bar. Setting up so that you are reaching straight up to unrack the bar (instead of up and back slightly) means you are essentially directly under the hooks, which means that eventually, you'll end up benching up directly into the underside of the hooks, getting trapped under the hooks in the process. This is not a situation you want to be in. Probably a longer explanation than you were looking for, but I hope it was helpful. I'll post this to the other video that you commented on as well so you can see it in either place.

Glad you found it useful!

Thanks very much - glad you found it useful!

Solid question, and the issue is the durability of the bar. A 15 kg bar has significantly more flex than a 20 kg bar due to the difference in diameter (25 mm vs 28-29 mm). As result, a 15 kg bar doesn't hold up well long term to heavier loads on lifts such as the squat, deadlift, bench, and press. This is exacerbated by the fact that, on a lift such as a squat, the plates rest on the bar even between sets when the bar rests on the hooks of the rack. Load a convenient weight such as 100 kg or 225 lb on a 15 kg bar as it sits on the hooks, and you'll already notice more flex in the 15 kg bar, and this gets more significant as the weight increases. As a result of all of this, a 15 kg bar used in regular strength training will bend over time unless only lighter weights are used.

@@TestifySC okay and one more question; i am watching that you are using mostly bumper plates instead of olympic plates. does they make any difference because bumper plates are mostly used in weightlifting competitions internationally where they clean and jerk and throw it on the ground. what’s your advice to use which plates ( for bodybuilders ).??

Our plates at home (in our garage gym) are kilogram plates, so I mostly train in kilos at the gym so I don't need to go back and forth between different units. Our kilo plates at Testify are all bumpers since these are the plates we use during the snatch and clean-and-jerk (both in training and competition), so this is why you usually see me using kilo plates. Beyond that, if you're not performing the olympic lifts, you don't need bumper plates (although you certainly can use them), and metal plates are cheaper.