Thread: core stregnth

Over head lifts are always good. Planks are great as well.

Heavy leg press and partial deads

Eat a lot of fiber. The constant shitting will keep your core firm from straining.

Originally Posted by LightBearer

Heavy leg press and partial deads

This^^^

Leg press has proven to me time and time again to be a soild mass builder.

heavy leg press it is

don't know if constant shitting will lead to size gain

Originally Posted by SFW

Eat a lot of fiber. The constant shitting will keep your core firm from straining.

Do I superset? or Go to failure?

Originally Posted by SFW

Eat a lot of fiber. The constant shitting will keep your core firm from straining.

Originally Posted by dirtwarrior

Do I superset? or Go to failure?

Need an answer to this

dirtwarrior,

Belt Squats

A Belt Squat, overall, is a much better exercise than the leg press. It not only works the quads but involves the glute and hamstrings moreso than the leg press.

All Legs, No Back

Belt Squats take the lower back out of the equation and place the work load on the legs.

Weak Link

The lower back is the weak link in a back squat. That means that the lower back give out before the legs are completed overloaded.

Equipment For Belt Squats

1) Loading Pin
2) Dip Belt
3) Boxes To Stand On.

Kenny Croxdale

Originally Posted by dirtwarrior

I love squats and dead lift. Nothing better for raw size.
If someone has a bad back what would be a good one to do to replace these?

I'd rather advise lighter weight and better technique so that your back takes less of a load, but if your goal is just to lift heavy then leg press is better simply because it is not a load on your entire spine, it is more on your pelvis.

Have you tried front squatting?

Originally Posted by Kenny Croxdale

The lower back is the weak link in a back squat. That means that the lower back give out before the legs are completed overloaded.

Not sure if I agree here. My legs give out first without any strain on my back at all.

Looks interesting

Originally Posted by x~factor

Not sure if I agree here. My legs give out first without any strain on my back at all.

Your Situation

Without knowing more, it hard to assess you situation.

Squat-Morning

It appears your back/trunk is stronger than your legs. In situations like this once the leg drive stop during a squat, the lower back usually comes into play.

A squat is turned into a Good Morning, the lifter doing whatever it take to get up with the weight, survive so to speak.

Weak Link

Every movement has a weak link in it. The lower back is usually the weak link the the "squat chain".

That is one of the reason's many bodybuilders super set a pre-exhaust exercise with another exercise.

Lat Pulldown Example

In a lat pulldown, the biceps are the weak link in the chain. That means they give out long before the lats are overloaded.

By peforming a pre-exhaust straight arm pull down or a pullover, you take the biceps out of the equation.

This allows the lats to be completely worked.

After performing a straight arm pulldown or pullover, a lifter then immediately perform a traditional lat pulldown.

Since the lats have already been pre-exhausted, they are more effectively overloaded during a traditional lat pulldown.

"When The Back Says NO and The Legs Say Go"

One of the nations dominate 242 lb Powerlifters of the 1980s was Hollie Evette. Evette was also a strength coach.

Evette's article, "When The Back Says NO and The Legs Say GO" prescribed a method of taking the back out of the equation to maximize leg training.

I agreed with Evette's principle but am not of the fan of the exercise he prescribed.

Belt Squats

Belt Squats are a much more effective method.

1) They replicate the squat.

2) They take the lower back out of the equation.

3) They overload the legs to a much greater extent.

Kenny Croxdale