And again, we are using Rack Pulls to strengthen the deadlift, not just for the sake of Rack Pulling. Short ROM Rack Pulls are better thought of as a way to strengthen the erectors rather than test your absolute strength. This means using rep work to build muscle mass.
Today, there are well over 50 million members of Generation X. We are sometimes referred to as Baby Busters because our birth years follow the baby boom that began after World War II. That boom began to decline in 1957 and was further hastened by FDA approval of oral contraceptives in 1960.
As the 1990s and 2000s progressed, Gen X gained a reputation for entrepreneurship. In 1999, The New York Times dubbed them Generation 1099, describing them as the once pitied but now envied group of self-employed workers whose income is reported to the Internal Revenue Service not on a W-2 form, but on Form 1099.