#zercher

[projectbatman193]

I began adding zercher variations on my lifts, since they more closely mimic how one would carry someone or some awkward objects.

Zercher Deadlift

Zercher squat

[kalianos]

Edit: artist found!

[pneumaticpresence]

[T]o suggest that novelists should never write cross-culturally or in the voice of a character different from themselves would be to condemn books like Cry, the Beloved Country or At Play in the Fields of the Lord. Fictionalizing the Other has a distinguished literary history—Faulkner did it in Go Down, Moses, William Styron did it in The Confessions of Nat Turner, and Kazuo Ishiguro did it in Remains of the Day. Fiction is often more about the Other than about oneself, and novelists' freedom to inhabit the skin of someone unlike themselves is a critical aspect of their work. Otherwise, cultural identity becomes a property that no outsider may transgress and literature itself becomes impoverished.

—Valerie Weaver-Zercher, Thrill of the Chaste: The Allure of Amish Romance Fiction (2013)

[hydrogenandtime]

Trying to apply some of the lessons I've learned at different seminars this year in order to work around the shoulder/elbow niggle. With this exercise variation, the legs are brought up and placed on something to help make it easier to keep the ribs down. Doing this then should help the scapula move around a bit more, and it seemed like it worked a treat today.

[ancientroyalblood]

The Power of Loaded Carries: Farmer’s Walks and Beyond

Loaded carries are among the most brutally effective—and underrated—exercises in the strength and conditioning world. They’re simple, primal, and punishing. Whether you’re carrying heavy dumbbells across the gym or hoisting a sandbag through uneven terrain, you’re engaging in a time-tested movement that builds total-body strength, core stability, grip endurance, and mental fortitude. At the…

[rusholme]

let’s barbell squat with mama

3x7 @ 55kg

1x15 @ 25kg narrow stance depth training

1x12 @ 25kg zercher (WOW these send my HR up)

cc my training partner in spirit @meloromantics

[memories-of-ancients]

When you squat use safeties!!!

There was a bodybuilder named Justyn Vicky who was recently killed while attempting to squat 460 lbs. He failed the squat, the bar rolled forward, he fell forward and the bar severed his neck. He was only 33.

I just watched video footage of the incident. Two things were apparent.

No safety arms or safety pins were set

The spotter was useless if not more of a liability.

If you are going to back squat make sure safeties are in place. They are there for a good reason. If your gym doesn't have power racks or squat racks with safeties then find another gym. If there are no other gyms then learn some kind of squat variation that is safer and easier to bail the weight such as zercher squats or hack squats. Back squatting without is a horrible accident waiting to happen and there is no good reason not to take the time to set up safety arms or pins. No offense to the deceased but squatting without safeties is just f$%&ing stupid. It's like driving without a seat belt or riding a bicycle or motorcycle without a helmet. Set those arms or pins high too. Learn where your squat depth is and set them right at that height or as close as possible. Ideally at the bottom of your squat the bar should be just barely touching the safeties. Even in the picture below I would set them just a little bit higher if possible. No taking chances.

Secondly, the spotter was useless, and this doesn't surprise me. The back squat is perhaps the hardest lift to properly spot because of positioning and leverage. Watch squat fail videos on youtube and in most of them the spotter is either useless, causes more harm than good, or ends up getting hurt in the mayhem. This might be a controversial hot take but I believe that it is better to back squat without a spotter than with. Oftentimes the spotter will try to control the bar which, unless the spotter's overhead press is stronger than the lifter's squat, will not work. Successful spots I have seen involve the spotter bear hugging the lifter and lifting the person and bar with weight back into position. Again, you have to be pretty damn strong to do that.

The best way to fail a squat is to just bail the weight. Basically just lean back and shrug the weight off. If you have a spotter behind you, you can't do that. This technique can be difficult as well especially at very heavy weights. You may have no choice but to learn forward and go to your hands and knees. WHICH IS WHY YOU ALWAYS SET SAFETIES!!!!

PS, use safeties when bench pressing too!

[arthropodrespecter]

it's not often that i try a new exercise and immediately dislike it but good god don't do zercher anything without a full size or bigger barbell

[popculturelib]

Thrill of the Chaste: The Allure of Amish Romance Novels (2013) by Valerie Weaver-Zercher

Browse the inspirational fiction section of your local bookstore, and you will likely find cover after cover depicting virtuous young women cloaked in modest dresses and wearing a pensive or playful expression. They hover innocently above sun-drenched pastures or rustic country lanes, often with a horse-drawn buggy in the background--or the occasional brawny stranger. Romance novels with Amish protagonists, such as the best-selling trailblazer The Shunning by Beverly Lewis, are becoming increasingly popular with a largely evangelical female audience. Thrill of the Chaste is the first book to analyze this growing trend in romance fiction and to place it into the context of contemporary literature, religion, and popular culture. Valerie Weaver-Zercher combines research and interviews with devoted readers, publishers, and authors to produce a lively and provocative examination of the Amish romance novel. She discusses strategies that literary agents and booksellers use to drive the genre's popularity. By asking questions about authenticity, cultural appropriation, and commodification, Thrill of the Chaste also considers Amish fiction's effects on Amish and non-Amish audiences alike.

The Browne Popular Culture Library (BPCL), founded in 1969, is the most comprehensive archive of its kind in the United States.  Our focus and mission is to acquire and preserve research materials on American Popular Culture (post 1876) for curricular and research use. Visit our website at https://www.bgsu.edu/library/pcl.html.

[suzieb-fit]

Lower body weight training and yoga for today.

I'm taking a 50/50 kind of day.

Only these two workout sessions, shorter fast and no macro focus.

I feel I'm due a day with less of a push. Not a full "free day", but somewhere in between.

I didn't go too heavy on that quad/calf focused routine. I struggle with those front loaded "zercher" squats. Need to work on keeping that chest up and straighten that upper back.

I could have gone heavier on all the other moves, but I kept it as it was.

A good little workout.

No sunrise for my upgraded breakfast. Added grapes and ground almonds.

And for the yoga, I put two short ones together. A slightly gentler one, then a more energetic one. Nice balance there.

[the-firebird69]

Zercher Lift - 212.5kg | Coach Vishwa | Strongman of India | #powerlifti...

This is very competitive this industry to support but it is an industry. Everybody wants strength everyone wants muscles and it's gross it really is nasty outside might not even notice our son might not notice now he will it come right out to you and say we'll strip you of your title if you don't hand it over and they're horrible and they did it to the Rock no he's not in weightlifting and bodybuilding they do it in wrestling nowhere near as often and not as loud and if my son goes into it they love talking and shouting at people something favorite thing to do and our son likes to push your buttons says oh here's a wimp who's willing to go to the fire and he pushes your buttons and you're all going to be small and he's probably not going to be massively bulky no he is and you're going to look small...

With that said we would say that our son is going to straighten you out because you'll fight each other over and making stupid comments and it's going to be painful you're so dumb and it gets to you and you begin to solving each other I hear we're just looking that way and it gets worse and worse until you're physically beating each other up just out of sight and you think you can use that and you start getting hauled away yeah you're a little kids and you're stupid I'm actually looking forward to it it happens at the gym practically none of you survive after his gym you're ridiculous people.

There's a couple that were pardoned by Trump like Chris Christina or something and wife they were by him about 3 days ago it's in the news because people can't deal with it what he did was some violent crime no it was some form of embezzlement and they're saying you can't just pardon anybody and you don't even know these people but he does know them and they're directly responsible for millions losing their money and Trump is taking hits and his people and it's a dumb thing to do but this brings up a point about these guys they're breaking the law in office and they like to do that and people hate them for and they keep doing it their cities are getting ruined because they're doing this people are taking advantage

We are going after these people and after any of supporting stupid mood it's a dumb thing to do but we go after them and they are going to be deceased because of this nonsense people say none of you should be around in this circle we have to very very hard and we mean the trumpsters

Jason gets a fight here but he's trying for area he needs as much as ge can he wants to start clothing you need to tell him.. no they tell a lot of people and they're going to go to hell more shortly.

Thor Freya

Olympus

Geez okay then so hard on my husband

Hera

[lifeofsage]

After my motorcycle accident last year, I was, and still am worried I wasn’t able to do much, if anything, with my leg. I tore open my left thigh, and it was difficult to get back to normal. But not impossible.

This was my last set at the end of the day. Zercher squatting 195 lbs for 10 reps! Also the 25’s were on the inside 😅 I was warming up before starting.

[pneumaticpresence]

Several of the Amish people with whom I spoke dismissed the books on literary grounds. Sitting outside on a warm June evening, holding her son on her lap, a young Amish mother in Ohio who taught school for eight years is eager to chat about her favorite novels by Barbara Kingsolver and James Herriott. When I ask her about Amish romance novels, she talks first about the plot weaknesses of the ones she has read and then tells me her theory of why they're so popular: "They're light reading," she says, then raises her eyebrows significantly and leans forward. "You sure never have to go for the dictionary."

A middle-aged Old Order Amish woman in Pennsylvania, who calls The Shipping News, by E. Annie Proulx, the greatest book of all time and who loves the novels of Toni Morrison and Richard Russo, also charges the books with being mediocre literature. "I'm very picky about what I read," she tells me; "No Christian fiction holds my interest." When I ask whether her friends and family read Amish novels, she says no. "They're big fans of Karen Kingsbury and Francine Rivers," she says. "My mother reads and reads and reads them. But they don't read Amish." And although she hasn't heard of anyone in her community who loves Amish fiction, she says that her mother and several other older women have begun passing around Danielle Steel novels—a revelation that makes her daughter, who is sipping tea, clap a hand over her mouth and slap the table in silent mirth.

I can't stop smiling at the image of Amish grandmothers sneaking around with Danielle Steel contraband either, and the idea of Amish women reading Toni Morrison I find equally lovely. These revelations underscore that the Amish are diverse enough to include several taste publics, each of which values distinct kinds of literature. One Old Order Amish woman I spoke to in her kitchen in Leola, Pennsylvania, summed up the view of the Amish taste public that has no time for Amish fiction. "I know there has to be a good reason that Amish novels are so popular," she told me bluntly, "and I am not that reason."

Valerie Weaver-Zercher, Thrill of the Chaste: The Allure of Amish Romance Novels (2013)

I want to meet this Old Order Amish woman reading E. Annie Proulx and Toni Morrison. it sounds like she reads them openly; how is this possible?! from what I remember, The Shipping News is so sexually explicit that I was afraid to get caught reading it (as a high schooler), and no one ever policed what I read

[myogon]

i love zercher squats....