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Diet-Fitness-General Wellness Your Thoughts?

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Doing a lot of olympic lifting lately and I am noticing one significant weakness that is really limiting my ability to increase weight. Whenever I get to a heavier weight on squats, deadlifts, cleans, etc., my upper back rounds well before my legs reach their lifting limit. Anyone have any exercises to address that particular weakness?
 
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Giving up fast food for the next month (at least)...and not due to that graphic above. Still willing to get my subs (Subway and JJ) occasionally, and a nice meal out a few times, but no more crap food.

Not a weight problem, necessarily, as I've always been on the lighter side, but a definite health-conscious decision. Plus I want to tone up more.
 
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matt_thatsme;2355750; said:
Doing a lot of olympic lifting lately and I am noticing one significant weakness that is really limiting my ability to increase weight. Whenever I get to a heavier weight on squats, deadlifts, cleans, etc., my upper back rounds well before my legs reach their lifting limit. Anyone have any exercises to address that particular weakness?
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matt_thatsme;2355750; said:
Doing a lot of olympic lifting lately and I am noticing one significant weakness that is really limiting my ability to increase weight. Whenever I get to a heavier weight on squats, deadlifts, cleans, etc., my upper back rounds well before my legs reach their lifting limit. Anyone have any exercises to address that particular weakness?
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late response but i see you just got another response...

when you reach your limit, especially in deadlifts, there will be a natural rounding of the back. of course, it shouldn't be excessive, but it's not like you're just going to have a straight back upon reaching your one-rep max.

do you practice the valsalva maneuver when you deadlift? if you don't, you must. it aids in maintaining proper spine curvature and may just keep you out of the hospital.

finally, if you want a stronger back, work your abs. other than that, the meat and potatoes for a stronger back are pull-ups, barbell rows, and deadlifts (the latter i regard as the best all-around exercise).
 
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Does anyone have a good place for me to go have a Vertical Auto Profile (VAP) test? My doc doesn't think insurance will pay for it and I want to have it done.

Sorry for not digging through all 67 pages here:wink2:
 
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BuckBackHome;2365134; said:
Does anyone have a good place for me to go have a Vertical Auto Profile (VAP) test? My doc doesn't think insurance will pay for it and I want to have it done.

Sorry for not digging through all 67 pages here:wink2:
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Most blood diagnostic places will have it done. You just need to find someone who will help you interpret the data.
 
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muffler dragon;2365191; said:
Most blood diagnostic places will have it done. You just need to find someone who will help you interpret the data.
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Thanks. That was my wife's comment last night: If your doc doesn't know what the test is how can he interpret the results.

Where is our old heart doc member? Why did we have to go up and ban him:wink2:
 
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BuckBackHome;2365286; said:
Thanks. That was my wife's comment last night: If your doc doesn't know what the test is how can he interpret the results.

Where is our old heart doc member? Why did we have to go up and ban him:wink2:
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FWIW, when I convinced my Mom to have the test done, she was able to speak with someone at the diagnostic center that walked her through the data. Therefore, you may be able to find someone through that means instead of through the medical practice.
 
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http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2013/09/should-olympic-athletes-train-like-cavemen.html

Should Olympic Athletes Train Like Our Paleo Ancestors?
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Stuart Farquhar stepped onto the track, claps and cheers ringing in his ears. The night air was crisp and cool. Bright lights, and a stadium packed with people filled his peripheral vision, but he sternly zeroed in on the runway ahead. Holding his 800-gram javelin aloft just above his right ear, Farquhar began to sprint. Near the end of the short, 30-meter runway, he initiated his throwing motion. Extending his right arm straight back and cocking his upper body like a taught bow, Farquhar built up an immense amount of potential energy in a mere second. In the next second, he unleashed it all, hurling the javelin into the night with a barbaric yawp...

...The spear struck its target: in the midsection, just behind the boar's front-right leg. The animal sprinted off, but the hunter knew that it would not go far. Keenly tracking the pig's path through the dense brush, the hunter found the boar prostrate, rattling off its final breaths. Tonight, there would be food for all.

Many Olympic sports closely parallel the activities of our Paleolithic ancestors: javelin throwing and endurance running, for example. It's a similarity that might cause one to wonder, should athletes train like our ancestors as well?

In a new paper published in Sports Medicine, Professor Daniel Boullosa of the Catholic University of Brazil posits exactly that.

"Our ancestors lived as hunter-gatherers for approximately 84,000 generations. An appealing hypothesis could be that activities that favored survival before and during the Paleolithic Era may evoke greater physiological adaptations and subsequent performance than other training stimuli."

Olympic athletes train their bodies as befits their chosen sport. The regimes are honed to such a degree that it would make the average person's head spin. Sprinters, for example, mix bouts of sprinting, lower-intensity exercise, and maximal strength weightlifting at precise times in order to extract peak physiological performance from their bodies when the starting gun fires. Tiny tweaks can mean fractions of a second, which in turn can translate to being on the medal podium or off.

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