Jim Clair

Read. Write. Lift. Clair Motor Group (1964 -08) heir. Now a one man review of books. Reading: The Prince, Machiavelli

[Jim Clair @FindJimClair]

@wolfstrength @sam_gzstrength @CoffeeBlackMD Deadlifts have terrible risk reward and doing them still makes you lose in a fight bro.

[Deep Squats, Shallow Thoughts @wolfstrength]

“Nice lift bro, I know a 14 year old 98 lb girl black belt who could still choke you out”
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[AJAC @AJA_Cortes]

The average liberal would rather live in hell and amongst ruins than face the cognitive dissonance of voting Republican

It's akin to asking a devout Christian to desecrate a cross and renounce the Lord

[Jim Clair @FindJimClair]

@TrafficBrokerX Not uncommon. Many cases.

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@wolfstrength Didn't he know the risk reward?

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Elite level parody.

He nails the type of doofus claiming "risk reward" with deadlifts and squats.

[Matthias Schmidt @eurofounder]

My teenage son told me he wants to start lifting weights

"Dad, I was thinking to practice compound exercises like deadlifts and squats"

"If you want to break your spine, sure" I chuckled

"But with correct form-"

"There is no correct form. You bend over, your discs slide out. This is basic physics" I said

He said every coach recommends them

"Of course. Every American coach. They want you injured so you buy supplements"

I also told him the EU is already moving to restrict heavy barbells in public gyms

Choosing weightlifting while better alternatives like pilates exist is truly sign of low IQ

[AJAC @AJA_Cortes]

I see the recurrent ragebait of "dont do squats or deadlifts! they are DANGEROUS" has surfaced again

I say this out of love: these are arguments are retarded

There is NO magical form of exercise that is perfectly safe and has a 0% probability of injury ever happening

You can pick ANY recreational activity, and there will be injuries.

-There are people who tear ACLs MCLs achilles playing tennis

-who take up cycling and crash and shatter a knee (or get hemorrhoids)

-Who jog 3x a week and get tendinitis.

-Theres old guys who golfed too much and are now in chronic pain in their elbows

I also cannot take people seriously who argue about safety or "stimulus to fatigue" ratio.

That whole concept is made up BS, peudo quantification by trainers who want to sound smart.

Resistance training, done in a gym, a controlled environment, and you have total agency over the weight and intensity, that is as safe as it gets.

There is also no way to prevent people from using bad form, lifting too heavy, and making stupid training decisions.

There is no exercise you MUST do.

There is also no merit in sternly warning people against exercises that, broadly, work for the majority of the population.

You dont like the barbell? fine, use a different implement.

None of the people making these arguments have any original ideas, I expect to see the ragebait continue.

This my few cents to hopefully spare some of you from the mind virus of fucktardation.

[Jim Clair @FindJimClair]

@sam_gzstrength The risk reward reply guys now get instant blocks when I come across them.

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@greystrength63 @wolfstrength Yep, downstream slop flows into those continents.

[Jim Clair @FindJimClair]

Saturday morning's training partner.

[Deep Squats, Shallow Thoughts @wolfstrength]

In 20 years of coaching the deadlift to ~everyone I work with, I have had a handful of clients tweak their backs deadlifting but
1) less frequently than I have seen people in general tweak their backs outside the gym in random ways.
2) it usually resolves within a week, occasionally a few weeks, and never once has it been a life-altering injury.

Meanwhile I have coached myself or spoken with hundreds of people coached by friends or doing the program on their own, who have told me that deadlifts changed their life, that deadlifts totally resolved or significantly mitigated their pre-existing back pain that was previously severely limiting them, in some cases contemplating surgery before they started deadlifting.

And this is before we even get to the strength, muscle, bone density, and general performance benefits.

What's also odd is that the internet discourse turned so rapidly against deadlifts, so quickly. In the 2010s, they were considered an S-Tier exercise from what I saw online. Now the discourse is severely negative with NPC-like repetition of "risk to reward ratio" even though no one's done an actual serious analysis of either the risk or the reward, and "terrible for hypertrophy" even though no one has done a serious analysis of that either. Both involve absolute confidence based on superficial obserations (doesn't target any one specific muscle group to failure, etc). A few unverified stories from bros about hurting their back deadlifting and a few videos of anthropometric outliers doing heavy deadlifts without being bodybuilder-jacked, and the Bro Science jury has returned a guilty verdict. End of story, no argument. Risk to reward ratio, bro.

I'm not 100% sure how to explain the vast gulf in my own and my colleagues' collective experience coaching tens of thousands of people with massive benefit and extremely low risk, with the online discourse today. I have some guesses but they are only that.

But I owe it to you to give the other side of the story.

[Jim Clair @FindJimClair]

@CoffeeBlackMD @wolfstrength That shirtless hairless guy even said so!

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@Ne_pas_couvrir @wolfstrength And it doesn't deadlift!

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@wolfstrength Proof he can go rounds with a high school welter weight.

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@wil_da_beast630 Robert Moses wreaked havoc.

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@jarvis_best Profoundly patriotic.

Is Bachman-Turner Overdrive too old?

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@wolfstrength @Super70sSports Patriot.

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[Jim Clair @FindJimClair]

Bret Michaels may have dropped out, but Vanilla Ice is in.

For the 250th Anniversary of America, like Vanilla Ice, my bookclub is in.

I picked America as a topic, and have curated a few books. This will be history focused.

The first book picked: The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III, Andrew Roberts.

Read along, collaborate and listen.

More details below:

[Variety @Variety]

Bret Michaels is the fifth artist to pull out of the Trump-backed "Freedom 250" concerts in D.C.

“Unfortunately, what was presented to us as a celebration of our country has evolved into something much more divisive than what I agreed to be a part of. Concerns have also been raised regarding the safety of my fans, band, crew, family and myself, including threats that are completely unfounded and unforgivable. Because of that, I have made the difficult decision to step away from this performance.”

https://t.co/UoPDN3gQk6

[Jim Clair @FindJimClair]

@Pat_Stedman Hasn't this shtick about "men in their 20s" been around on X for a bit too?