Dw725
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Had a mock meet today with my buddy. Didn't PR bench but did on squats and deads. 375 bench, 565 deadlift, and 515 squat with wraps.
Edit: bodyweight @ 215
Edit: bodyweight @ 215
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A couple random questions:
At your meet, who loads the weight? Do I gotta bring my own caddy like Happy Gilmore? Same for spots...
I have a lot of younger people at my gyms ask for help when it comes to PLing. I know theres classes and certs to be a regular trainer, is there the same thing to be a PL coach/trainer?
Ok. So no need to hire a bum in the parking lot
A couple random questions:
At your meet, who loads the weight? Do I gotta bring my own caddy like Happy Gilmore? Same for spots...
I have a lot of younger people at my gyms ask for help when it comes to PLing. I know theres classes and certs to be a regular trainer, is there the same thing to be a PL coach/trainer?
Seems damn respectable.
Only wraps I've used are the Inzer true blacks and iron rebel outlaws. Both are good wraps.
How much do you get out of them and is your squat style similar to mine?
First time I used the Iron Rebels I got 30-40lbs out of them. That's having used wraps only once before about a year prior, having had a few weeks off lifting beforehand, and not enough experience with wraps to make he most of them so id say you could set get more out of them than I did.
I'm a high bar squatter. Narrow to medium stance and a fast eccentric with explosive concentric.
That's about what I got out of my Slingshot wraps the first time. Wouldn't high bar, narrow stance breaking at the knees be able to utilize more out of the wrap because of more knee flexion stretching the wrap compared to low bar, wide stance breaking at the hip with toes pointed out more?
Guys like us that drop and explode fast want more rebound than stopping power, correct? I hear these two terms describing the wraps a lot and I'm not sure which one is more appropriate for each style of descent.
Sorry for the long questions, Doc. I've been pouring over forums and websites trying to get a better understanding of this stuff.
Typically a wide stance squatter is not an explosive one and they'll get more out of wraps geared for stopping power.
I'm a more narrow stanced squatter and explode up so I like rebound rather than stopping power as I also tend to go lower than parallel by a few inches minimum.
I guess I'm somewhere between medium and wide. Wider than shoulder width, but not all the way to each side of the rack. I tend to go deeper than I need to as well. Maybe something somewhere in the middle in terms of rebound and stopping power would be my best bet.
Iron rebel's website, if you're interested in their products, has charts to compare the different qualities of their wraps to each other.
So I'm looking into some new knee wraps for my next meet. I've narrowed it down to these choices:
Powerbelly Gear | “Felonies” Knee Wraps
Powerbelly Gear | “Death Row” Knee Wraps
https://www.prowriststraps.com/product/strangulator-knee-wraps/ (Strangulator Knee Wraps • APT Pro Lifting Gear)
https://www.prowriststraps.com/product/convict-pro-knee-wraps/ (Convict Pro Knee Wraps • APT Pro Lifting Gear)
I'm leaning very heavily towards the Powerbelly Felonies 2.5m right now. They're currently out of stock of pretty much everything and from what I'm reading they are almost always out of stock. I'm still about five months out, so I can wait a bit.
Anyone have any experience with any of these and how much did you get out of them? My stance is kind of wide, low bar, pretty fast descent. I currently have Slingshot wraps and get around 50lbs out of them. Looking to get a little more for my next meet.
@acoll83 I remember you saying you used Powerbelly wraps, which ones do you have?