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Mar 13Liked by Raw Egg Nationalist

‪Are there any effective alternatives for deadlifts and squats you would recommend? For me the risks to spine and lower back posed by those exercises outweigh there benefits. Thanks.‬

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For heavy back squats, you can substitute front squats, Zercher squats or, as I'd recommend, Bulgarian split squats. With Bulgarian split squats, you can do them with dumbbells or kettlebells in hand, with a bar in the Zercher of front squat position or, because you won't be using large amounts of weight, with the bar on your shoulders as for a back squat.

Lunges will train your posterior chain nicely instead of deadlifts, and you can also use Romanian deadlifts (stiff-legged deadlifts). Do them slowly, with a low weight.

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Mar 13Liked by Raw Egg Nationalist

Thank you

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Don't hesitate to ask, my friend.

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The Collinses have said previously that fertility rates always decrease if a group has above USD5000 individual income, gender equality, and a third factor (I cannot recall). I would like to know the stats of groups immediately after an experience of war, famine, or genocide: Irish (on the island or in North America) after the potato famine; Armenians after the genocide; Ethiopians after their famine; and the Great Depression (America and Europe) or WWI. We saw a baby boom in the US following WWII, but what of these other deadly experiences. What do the two predict of the demographics of Ukraine five years after a peace brokerage?

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"Double it and give it to another" has run its course

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