Good post Fruitacious.
Buckeye - Oh, I don't know anything about lifting do I? Lets look at what's wrong with the football lifting program.
1. Explosive lifting. Ask any experienced body builder and they will tell you that explosive lifting is terrible for your body.
2. Power cleans. Yes, these can be beneficial, however, way too many players stack on plates and perform this lift with awful form, thereby hurting their backs. And, the dumbass coaches just standby and read their magazines in the corner.
3. The same thing I said about power cleans can be said about squatting.
4. Although I've implied it in my earlier reasons, more emphasis is put on weight than on form. This leads to many injuries.
When I started lifting I had no idea what I was doing. That was three years ago, and in that time I've taken several classes and talked to many experienced weight lifters. Mr. Erba is rather intelligent about lifting, however, the fact that he promotes explosive lifting makes me think that he is as jackass. Why don't you ask the Randall brothers what exactly hurt their backs. Oh yeah, it was the motherfucking football lifting.
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