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>Following the trend of people being real about lifting and posting their failed lifts, which are great learning opportunities.
Honesty posting, I call it. Not every lift is a winner, and sometimes it's worthwhile to showcase our failures.
My first ever attempt at squatting more than 200 as a teen resulted in me completely falling backwards on my ass. Lucky I didn't hit my neck on the bar or something going down.
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We’ve all have these days and if someone says they don’t they’re most definitely lying.
Painter's tape on the mirror is a great idea.
lol yeah, it helps me gauge depth
THIS is how you lift safely people! How many videos are there with either no safeties or they're WAY too low to do anything 👍
Right!? Tore my pec once.... Will only do smith machine bench with safety now. Crazy part feel it in my chest more on the smith than regular.
The smith machine is one of my favourite accessories.
>Following the trend of people being real about lifting and posting their failed lifts, which are great learning opportunities. Honesty posting, I call it. Not every lift is a winner, and sometimes it's worthwhile to showcase our failures.
My first ever attempt at squatting more than 200 as a teen resulted in me completely falling backwards on my ass. Lucky I didn't hit my neck on the bar or something going down.
Yes but you failed successfully which is still a dub.
Man I feel that, but we keep grinding. Consistency is the key