I gota be honest. I dont really have much faith in the potential of alot of the young "up and comers" who are being promoted as the next big thing....but you strike me as one who can make some noise. You carry alot of muscle, but unlike alot of the other younger guys, you still have alot of room for MORE muscle. Your frame will hold it nicely, so i will be looking for you to do well in the future.
Your legs seem to be a very strong point. Do you mind if i ask what you like to do for them? I remember seeing a squat video a while back, but i havent seen it in a while on the internet. How did you build those huge wheels in such a short time? I like to squat heavy, and my LEGS can handle the weight, but it seems when i load over 405 on my back, my UPPER back seems to crunch up as if i were doing shrugs and isnt strong enough to support the weight through a set. I also squat REALLY deep....do you think that is necessary, or do you stop at parallel?
Thank you your positive opinion!
Well, if your back is a weak point during a few exercises such as squats and shrugs...I think the problem is your training program in the past...
When I started training back in 1999, I already started with basic exercises such as deadlifts, squats, bench presses, dumbbell presses, barbell rows, T-bar rows, barbell curls...I did everything heavy and every muscles on my body was getting bigger and stronger. If we see only the strenght I don't have any weak points. And this is because I did all of the basic exercises constantly.
About back (especially lower back)...I can did a single-rep deadlift with around 530 lbs when I was 17 years old, natural and I was about 180 lbs.
So because of this training style in the past now I don't have any problem with my lower back during squats, shrugs, barbell rows ect... Now I don't do too heavy deadlifts but for example I can do barbell shrugs with 585 for 12 reps.
About deep squats... Yep, I always did them deep. Al least paralel.
