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Hey hey hey, I've got a wrecked ankle and I'm still squatting 3x a week for 3 sets of 10 reps, granted it's only a bit over 50kg, but that's more than half my body weight on a crap joint. Plus I'm stil doing SLDL and some lunges.

I'm also just about to buy a rack once I settle on a bench.

A dodger I may have been, but no more!

well I've done challenge one, I wish my gymbros were up for doing squats more than once a week, instead of insisting on fluffing around with cables etc.

TTT are you a big fan of Starting Strength or just squatting?

Is it normal for gyms to not allow photos / videos? in mine it's expressly forbidden.

Was watching a dude doing squats on the smith machine yesterday....he only had 70kg worth of plates on the thing, but holy jesus his "form" was horrific - even considering there is no real correct form for using this stupid machine. He was almost literally touching the ground with his ass, but it was a very violent descent and more or less bouncing off maximum ROM. Made me cringe hard.

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