StrongLifts Member Reign (20y, UK) shared an article by powerlifter Matt “Kroc” Kroczaleski (who is also featured on page 22 of the 5×5 report) inside the StrongLifts Community last week. One passage hit home for me: Many, many times I’ve had to listen to people talk about how I was done and my lifting career was [...]
The StrongLifts Fan Page now looks like the profiles. The tabs at the top are gone which I don’t like at all, and as Martin Fuller pointed out: when you load the page you now see pictures of half naked StrongLifts Members which isn’t really safe for work. I followed the tip of Stephen McCann – [...]
Rick asked… Hi Mehdi, I’ve changed the position of the bar when i squat. I have dropped it about a bar thinckness lower from looking at yours and other people youtube videos. Anyway, it kills my wrist. So much so that i have bought supports for my wrists. But when I see SL Member Myles Squatting 180kg with no [...]
NOTE by Mehdi. This post was written by StrongLifts Member Scott (“Cleave”, 44, USA) who lost 90lbs total and increased his Squat to 285lbs for 5×5 even though he started struggling just getting up a flight of stairs. ### “Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.” - [...]
Last Saturday I asked on the StrongLifts fan page what percentage of gym people you thought used steroids (read the answers here). If you read through the comments, you’ll see that most guys estimate 1 to 10% steroid-use. Well StrongLifts Member Nico (“Holvoetn”, 42y, Belgium) sent me a news article about this several days ago. [...]
Here are this week’s facebook updates. If you don’t belong to the StrongLifts Facebook Fan page yet, I urge you to join by clicking here to gain access to exclusive content not on this blog and you can ask questions and get advice from other SL Fans. Here are just some of the things you missed this week… [...]
