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Anonymous
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Assistance primarily. My coach had me doing GH under the idea that it would fill in my gaps. I always had huge quads from walking on my tip-toes as a kid and sprinting in track/field but my hams and glutes were lacking comparison so his theory was that I was unbalanced. He more or less proved it by taking pictures of my squat form at the start of the 6 weeks and end. Had me do 25 squats with 135lb and watched to see what failed first. Sure enough my lower back would go out around halfway then my hams/glutes.
During the 6 weeks he had me drop my lifts to 65% of my max so that I could focus on control through the full range of motion on squats, then I would max out at the end of each week to test progress. The other thing we worked on was flexibility as my lower back was fighting against my hams for hip control right before reaching parallel, which caused some lose of lower back curve.
Once this was solved it was literally like day and night. Started doing 15 and 20 rep sets of 225 on squats which was absolute murder since i'm not really a big guy, just got blessed with retard strength in my legs. lol
I'm part of a Crossfit franchise where I live so I still have access to a GHD and while I don't lift more than 1.5x squat/dead and .75x clean these days it still keeps me where I need to be.
Hope that helps
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