Whilst here - you are correct. Research “Ratners”. The CEO gave a speech. It was in the papers the next day. Then they had to close 300 shops and destroyed the brand.
Rough day.
Not to mention strong men/women. A lot of their work outs are front squat based. And I’ve yet to see them in skinny jeans…
What is the hate for the front squat from some people? Rip came out a little while back with “getting a stronger front squats will not help you get a stronger back squat”
This is the impression I always got. Use Zercher squats as an example. CT really likes these, and I have used them due to his articles and also really like them. PC, rather than just preferring other squats in his program, feels the need to keep going out of his way to bash ZSQ’s (and CT, by extension) for some weird reason. It seems he sees this as a personal clash and he needs to “win” or have his view validated. This is consistent with how he acted on his forum when anyone would question a claim, or point out that other coaches (or even PC in the past) really likes certain exercises.
I’ve always thought that some of these defining statements are really just strawmen.
I mean, are bodybuilders really pinning their scaps and performing a PL bench with the intention of hypertrophy?
Does anybody do front squats as a superior method to build quads?
These are largely performance oriented techniques, not BB. I doubt anybody actually does these things with those goals which he argues against in mind.
Of course I could be completely wrong. There is no end to what people will do with these exercise, so I wouldn’t be surprised if anybody actually did them as he’s describing.
Rip has been on his back squat is superior to front squat jihad FOREVER. Part of his gimmick about knowing how to train weightlifters better than the current Olympic coaches.
Too much can be bad, sure. And doing it isn’t going to blow your shoulders apart necessarily. I just like the pushback against the idea that it’s “safer”. Your scaps are built to move in rhythm with everything.
This is a good point. PC seems to have the approach that his current goals are also everyone else’s current goals, and that everyone’s exercise selection should align with that. PC’s goals, form what I can tell, are usually 100% aesthetic-based, and IMO this is more subjective than performance and strength-based methods/results. Perhaps that’s why it leaves more room for personal arguments, while the effectiveness of strength-based systems is more cut-and-dry.
True. I guess his thoughts may be that anyone choosing to follow him would also have his goals, or they wouldn’t be following him. But, he shouldn’t be bashing CT or others for using something like zercher squats and make them sound like they’re completely useless, rather than just being less-than-optimal for his hypertropy goals.
There was a guy a week or so a go who basically said you said X here and Y here, these conflict, you are shit and CT follows up with a comment on how that is a dick move and explains how it makes sense if you add context and how to apply it to this situation. Then he says he hopes he finds it useful and politely asks that he not bother him again.
The guy does ask a follow up question (he did apologize, to his credit) and CT continues to help.
This guy would have been straight out blocked from me under the life strategy of not allowing toxic people to shit on you but this is a step above.
Only time I have seen less than gold standard was when he had heart failure and even then, still helpful to the polite. I’d like to see him to go full clown dick though.
These comments come from World’s Strongest Man competitor and former American Log Press record holder Robert Oberst, in contrast to the comments of Paul Carter, who holds the prestige of finishing 3 of 6 in the 2016 “Muscle Mayhem” competition!