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Originally Posted by Matthew
What if you squatted raw one day and geared in your second session, alco? Still start off raw on your geared day?
Thanks for the responses guys. You all raise good points.
Do you think your gear would stretch out too much if you were to train in it every week?
Also, kind of a silly question. Do you wash your gear the same way you'd wash any gym clothes?
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i would say, what would it be that you wanted to bring up? Would it be your geared squat or raw? Do you want to do well in PLing only, or do you want to be overall strong and strong w/o your gear?
If geared, and are doing the WS split, i'd go geared one day, and just briefs or suit bottoms no straps on the DE day.
There are lots of strongmen who do PLing meets in the off season to keep their motivation. probably 8 months at least, out of the year, they're training for strongman, with no gear at all. Then they switch to it for PLing. Marshall White (over at marunde's board) and Ben Moore (wannabebig.com) are two PLers/strongmen to train this way. They are perfectly strong outside and with their gear on.
I guess for me, i wouldn't want to rely only on gear to get strong. I would want to be able to go in and hit a strong pull or squat without gear. If i forgot gear at home, i wouldn't want it to totally ruin my workout. My goals are different than some people's though. I also think training in gear year long can be disastrous, and you are not getting strong this way. Sure, you're getting to know the gear, but if you take it off, is your raw strength up.
Like i said, my goals are different, so i guess if you train ONLY PLing, then it could be different. I really like the way Al (artica) over at sostrength.com has his training set up, and he sees good results this way.