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/10? And yah, I can imagine shipping outside the US might be harsh. The basic design here seems really solid and I hope more companies copy it going forward as it seems vastly superior to conventional weight vests.

So as a little update there's a straightforward solution to the weighted pushups problem if you're willing to shell out the money. https://kensuifitness.com/products/kensui-ez-vest The primary feature here is that you can actually load the vest with olympic (or even standard with an adapter)...

I appended this to the original post but also wanted to update this thread in case anyone misses it... A couple of other notes I wanted to add after having used this movement for a while. 1) This leverage belt squat motion doesn't work quite like a normal squat, the weight you're lifting goes...

I feel like the best option in terms of stability would probably be to build them, no?

edit: I'm open to entertaining this conversation further but as I thought about my reply here I think I'm at risk of derailing the point of this thread (sharing non-traditional, at-home type exercises people may not have seen before). We can definitely agree to disagree here, and belaboring...

I understood your original meaning, the dip belt basically puts the loading right in the middle of the kinetic chain such that it has optimal leverage to pull you out of position, in this case into (lumbar) hyperextension. You're relating the body to some sort of simple mechanical structure...

For a little more perspective here, I'd caution against causally talking about exercise doing a "lot of damage" and the like in the absence of compelling data, as this is an area of particular interest to me (pain and injury research, my academic background being exercise phys). How we talk...

If you allowed it to pull you into gross hyperextension I could see it being problematic, but like any exercise involving the muscles around the core, part of the point is to train said muscle to resist appreciable spinal motion. Which is already built into pushups, for most people you have to...

You are definitely going to dislike this latest video btw O&G. It's weights on the floor gore :(

I've changed the title of the thread so I can upload a few more of these videos over time, as I have some creative stuff I do at home. For part 2 I'm going to demonstrate how to do weighted pushups if you have a barbell and rack. The main problem with pushups, which in theory might just be...

Yah, it feels very leg-y. I probably feel it most strongly in my quads and glutes. And it feels very low back friendly, far friendlier to me than a normal barbell squat. To me it's probably the closest one can get to feeling leg-press-like in terms of muscle usage for at-home exercises using...

Edit: note I've changed the title as I'm going to share a few more of these and encourage you all to do the same. I enjoy seeing new exercises available at home that I haven't tried before, and I hope you guys do too! For part 1 of this thread, I wanted to show you guys what's probably the...

Yah, as I speculated in that original thread, I think a legit 5 RIR (also 5 RPE since they're synonymous there) is probably right at the threshold for effective sets. 4 RIR is probably a little safer, but for programming purposes, as I've been thinking out modern iterations of HST, I think I'd...

Yah, this is a personal area of interest that I'm still really curious about. I have a sort of conspiracy theory idea in my mind (meaning I don't lend it much credence as on paper it's probably wrong) that the working warmup sets might wind up nearly as effective as 3 all out work sets, though...

And for thoroughness, let's take a look at one of many Dr. Ken Leistner suggested routines, performed twice weekly: http://www.cyberpump.com/preview/sense.html Full Squats - 15-20 reps (1 set quads, 1 set glutes) Pullovers - 10 reps (1 set lats, though this one is weird, and I'm tempted to...