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The 2024 Squat Big Plates For Reps Challenge!

I've been following Clarence for a long time now. He recently shared a how he squatted at one point.

Summary: 5x5 @ 75-85%, followed by 3 sets of 10 @ 50% ... 5 days a week. For Clarence, he then followed that up with some snatches and some clean and jerks. He talks about how he would try to do the same weight three days in a row, then take a day off, and bump up the weight, and try to do the same higher weight on the next day too.

To be clear he doesn't necessarily recommend this. He talks about how this was so exhausting he couldn't do much else (weightlifting). He also talks about how he basically did this up to 230kg back squat.

At the end he says he does not recommend this program, as getting strong is easy - recovering from injury is hard. It worked when he was 16, but now he thinks there are better ways. He also said he'd only do this for 3-5 weeks at a time before switching back to focus on the snatch/clean and jerk.

 
John K said:
I've been following Clarence for a long time now. He recently shared a how he squatted at one point.

Summary: 5x5 @ 75-85%, followed by 3 sets of 10 @ 50% ... 5 days a week. For Clarence, he then followed that up with some snatches and some clean and jerks. He talks about how he would try to do the same weight three days in a row, then take a day off, and bump up the weight, and try to do the same higher weight on the next day too.

To be clear he doesn't necessarily recommend this. He talks about how this was so exhausting he couldn't do much else (weightlifting). He also talks about how he basically did this up to 230kg back squat.

At the end he says he does not recommend this program, as getting strong is easy - recovering from injury is hard. It worked when he was 16, but now he thinks there are better ways. He also said he'd only do this for 3-5 weeks at a time before switching back to focus on the snatch/clean and jerk.

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Yeah....that's pretty insane. Nobody who's not juiced to the gills, is already a genetic freak, eating at least 4,000 calories per day, and sleeping 10 hours a night could handle that very long without likely encountering injury pretty quickly.
 
Rygor the Swoleman said:
Yeah....that's pretty insane. Nobody who's not juiced to the gills, is already a genetic freak, eating at least 4,000 calories per day, and sleeping 10 hours a night could handle that very long without likely encountering injury pretty quickly.
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I don't know if he was juiced at that point necessarily (I didn't watch the video - maybe he addresses this), but I'm sure he was young and that's essentially "juiced to the gills" too. I feel like anyone who's over 30 with much mileage behind them shouldn't even think about touching this training "plan". I feel the same about Smolov and Smolov variants - the only thing I ever got from them was misery and injury.
 
John K said:
Rats! Haha
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Well, you never know - it could work for you. You won't know until you try it!

I watched the first couple minutes of the video. Clarence is freaking strong - no doubt.

I've written from time to time about widening one's stance - how that can help some people push more weight (and more sustainably). a#@ to grass squatting was a thing long before Klokov and Clarence - it's not something Youtube created. It's interesting that Toshiki squats pretty wide for a OLer and wonder if Clarence were to widen his stance would it help him squat more weight and ameliorate some of the issues he's been (apparently) having? I think it might.

It'd be interesting to have longitudinal studies of the hip structure of weightlifters, powerlifters, gym rats, etc and see if things change over time. What worked for you (depth, stance, bar placement, volume/intensity) when you were in your teens and 20s might not be the best in your 30s and 40s (and beyond)... I've always been pretty agnostic when it came to bar placement and squat stance - I'm probably more agnostic now in my 50s than I was in my 30s, but what the hell do I know?
 
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John K5 (1/1), 10 (1/9), 12 (3/2)
Boris B3 (1/6), 15 (1/13)2 (1/6), 5 (1/10), 10 (2/3)1 (1/6)
silveraw3 (1/8)
Jeff Roark10 (1/9)4 (1/9)5 (1/9)2 (1/9)
Hung5 (1/10)
AnnaC12 (1/12)
William BB4 (1/14)4 (1/14)
JonS15 (1/22)1 (1/14)
TM15 (1/24)6 (1/20)
WWHulkDo4 (1/20)
Philippe G16 (1/22)
Luis G5 (1/23)5 (2/23)
Rygor5 (1/26)
Timo K1 (1/21), 4 (2/19)
Doc Mike6 (1/29)
S Knee1 (2/1)
Pete M20 (2/20)
 
Boris Bachmann said:
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John K5 (1/1), 10 (1/9), 12 (3/2)
Boris B3 (1/6), 15 (1/13)2 (1/6), 5 (1/10), 10 (2/3)1 (1/6)
silveraw3 (1/8)
Jeff Roark10 (1/9)4 (1/9)5 (1/9)2 (1/9)
Hung5 (1/10)
AnnaC12 (1/12)
William BB4 (1/14)4 (1/14)
JonS15 (1/22)1 (1/14)
TM15 (1/24)6 (1/20)
WWHulkDo4 (1/20)
Philippe G16 (1/22)
Luis G5 (1/23)5 (2/23)
Rygor5 (1/26)
Timo K1 (1/21), 4 (2/19)
Doc Mike6 (1/29)
S Knee1 (2/1)
Pete M20 (2/20)
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FYI you might have missed my post but I hit 405 x 6 on 2/12.
 
65 kg x 10. Using 25 kg SQ bar so 60 kg was too much trouble to arrange.



My 3rd day of squatting after a break, just decided to 10 reps because someone asked me if I did that I said I didn't. :)

Looking to hit 100 kg perhaps once before my next meet, recent PR is 107.5 kg.

-S-
 
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