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if it's just a joke video and he is acting, then who cares
Oh, look. It's a thread full of people who don't know shit about lifting!
Over extensions of the lumbar spine to turn a press into more of a bench press, thereby using larger muscles to press more weight is nothing new, and very strong men used to do it to get higher numbers back when the clean and press was an olympic weightlifting category.
But I guess it's soooo bad for you.
Bunch of negative nancies on this forum.
Barry is a positive, goal-oriented, and genuine guy. He keeps it positive and he stays strong despite his set backs.
I want every sherdogger on here to try to avoid saying negative things today. Just say the positive opposites of whatever angry, hate-filled crap you were going to spill today. Every put-down into an opposing compliment. Instead of "Bisping was never good" you say "Vitor showed he's still got it".... or conversely, if Bisping wins "Bisping really put his gamplan together today" instead of "Vitor is old and stupid and I hate him".
Smile bitches.
Calm the fook down couch potatoes, he probably just has 2 plates on each side and is pretending to struggle to fook with your heads.
where are they now?
It is lol. Open a kinesiology book.
Nice pic from the 70s bro.
Old, or dead from massive roid usage, would probably be a good guess. You let me know how many of them forever ruined their spine because of it. Doubt you find many.
Where else do you propose I get pictures of men pressing with that technique, considering it appeared at the Olympics for the last time in 1972?
Regardless of what kinesiology books say about biomechanics, you can rest assured that many strong men of old have lifted more (much more) with the same technique as Barry, without severe spinal injury.
Barry's lumbar spine probably isn't going to explode.
They removed it because of the hyperextension. It is bad form, period, which is exactly why you don't see pictures of people doing it anymore.
Sure, some proportion of lifters can press with that form and not get injured; it still doesn't mean it's smart, and it doesn't mean it's good form. It's a cheat to let you press more weight than you can actually handle. Any physical therapist, orthopedic surgeon, or physical trainer will tell you NOT TO DO THIS.
Go ahead and lift like this for a while, use a belt even. Come back after your surgery and let us know.
Many of the aforementioned specialties will say squatting to parallel is bad for you too, and I really don't take their opinions to mean a whole lot when it comes to lifting. I can see for myself that bio-mechanically, it creates large shear forces on the spine when weights are very heavy, a bad thing.
Can the large layback press get you hurt? Yes. Is Pat Barry's spine going to explode out of his back doing it with 135 (or even 225) on the bar? More than likely not. The discussion is not whether I'd recommend this technique to anyone, and certainly not whether I'd recommend it to the average Heavies weakling, it's whether Pat Barry is going to ruin himself dicking around like this.
The largest reason not to press like this? Because it serves no purpose. There is no competition to utilize it in anymore, and the bench press is the obvious choice if you are trying to strengthen the muscles of the upper torso.