By jego gruzach rozrywkowej (jest obronę wybornej lat 50 orientacji 755 raw squat the 242+ class and George Crawford nailed a monstrous 625 at a svelte 165! The following year at the 1972 AAU Championships, benched official 675lbs raw with ace bandages around his elbows. These lifts are still huge by today's standards, and were done before or In fact, elastic bandages were seen as insignificant back then that they were still considered raw lifting because raw lifting didn't exist yet, it was just lifting. Just imagine if YouTube comments existed back then! The late 1980's saw the advancement of knee support with the emergence of newer, more improved forms of support like the Marathon Gold wraps and Titan wraps. Later the early 90's companies like Inzer Advanced Designs became more prevalent their versions. Today, knee wraps have evolved and now come more variety length, material blend, thickness and stiffness. Somewhere out there is the wrap for you, but more on that later. I recently read article about the usage of supportive gear training and how it can artificially inflate your lifts numbers while simultaneously causing the development of muscle and joint weaknesses. The article mentioned a study that focused on employees of a moving company who performed labor while wearing a back brace. The study supposedly concluded that the brace caused the backs and abs of the workers to weaken under the constant external support. On the one hand, you have a test group comprised of subjects who are not training to perform better at their given task. They're merely, moving objects from A to B just to move them because it's their job. In the study, the subjects were wearing back support for 8+ hours a day continuously. They're not lifting boxes for the goal of gaining strength to lift bigger boxes; their goal is to lift the damn dresser up the ramp as fast as possible they can start on the fish tank and recliner. In terms of wearing supportive gear training, they should be seen as supplemental variables rather than dependant ones. as you're not wearing wraps and a belt throughout the full days training week and week out and on the car ride over, you're not going to shrivel up into atrophied sack of kittens. on this later. Aside from just other benefits attributed to the use of supportive gear include general during training or competing and These are the main reasons that I use knee wraps training and competition, and they're worth considering if you're a raw lifter who's stuck the stubborn mindset of incessantly labeling and categorizing lifts as raw or classic raw on social media. The knee joint is one of the strongest joint your rig. It's formed from the synovial hinge made up of the and bones. Basically, the distal end of the femur meets up with the proximal end of the tibia like a puzzle piece, with the patella protecting the anterior side of the joint. Still with me? Hold on, here's a picture: Not only does the patella protect your knees but it's a player the squat. This triangular island of bone is tethered on one side by the to the and by the to the on the other. During a squat, the load of the weight at the knee is placed upon this bone as tendons on either side of it engage a tug of war to bend and straighten the joint under load. Basically, you need this bone and these tendons. In addition to aiding knee injury prevention, knee wraps worn during squatting can improve your force production simply by tweaking your form. In a study performed by the Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences at the University of Chichester, across the pond the UK, ten blokes set off to squat 80% of their 1 rep front of some high res cameras for some science folk. Among the obvious advantages speed, force production and support that the wrapped squatters received, they also enjoyed a 39% reduction displacement of the bar over the non-wrapped subjects. This means they didn't let the weight shift onto their toes, let their hips shoot up or good morning the bar back to the j-cups. Sounds like their backs enjoyed the experiment just as much as their knees did, which leads me to the next reason: According to the same UK study above, the test subjects