What Are Your Gym/Fitness/Routine Moans?
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Centurion07 said:
chris watton said:
We had a look around before she decided to join, and in the weights room, there were only two guys in there, the one guy was doing Preacher Curls, but the ROM was laughable. He was swinging his body and only lowering the bar 6-8 inches before bringing it back up.
Genuinely can't workout what they think they're achieving by doing exercises like that. t
ts.I've half a mind to pick up a dumbell, stand right in front of them whilst staring them in the eye and do a full ROM curl. Slowly.
If it's good enough for Mountain Dog, it's good enough for me!
https://www.t-nation.com/training/mountain-dog-arm...
John Meadows said:
Machine preacher curls: 3 sets of 12 reps. I want you to do these heavy, and to not lower the weight all the way down. Choose a weight so heavy you can only do about 6 reps, then have your partner assist you with the last 6 reps. Flex the first 6 reps hard at the peak contraction, and then on the last 6, just keep the weight moving. Your tired brachialis and brachioradialis will not be engaged much at all in this movement, so your biceps will absorb the pounding.
Mind you I'm being difficult and he was probably another ego prick! Calza said:
Centurion07 said:
chris watton said:
We had a look around before she decided to join, and in the weights room, there were only two guys in there, the one guy was doing Preacher Curls, but the ROM was laughable. He was swinging his body and only lowering the bar 6-8 inches before bringing it back up.
Genuinely can't workout what they think they're achieving by doing exercises like that. tts.I've half a mind to pick up a dumbell, stand right in front of them whilst staring them in the eye and do a full ROM curl. Slowly.
If it's good enough for Mountain Dog, it's good enough for me!
https://www.t-nation.com/training/mountain-dog-arm...
John Meadows said:
Machine preacher curls: 3 sets of 12 reps. I want you to do these heavy, and to not lower the weight all the way down. Choose a weight so heavy you can only do about 6 reps, then have your partner assist you with the last 6 reps. Flex the first 6 reps hard at the peak contraction, and then on the last 6, just keep the weight moving. Your tired brachialis and brachioradialis will not be engaged much at all in this movement, so your biceps will absorb the pounding.
Mind you I'm being difficult and he was probably another ego prick! John Meadows said:
Choose a weight so heavy you can only do about 6 reps, then have your partner assist you with the last 6 reps.
So, pick a weight you can manage 12 reps with, except not really because your buddy is going to help with half of them.FFS, if your buddy is helping you with number seven then I'm pretty sure he's going to be doing number twelve all on his ownsome!
I think also, for top lever lifters; BBers and the like, wit their gear and 5 day splits, that sort of partial rep training is all part of it, and they can make it work, and there's an argument for it.
But I'd bet when you see a partial rep in a regular gym, over 90% of the time it'll be being 'performed' by a clueless yo, whose physique/performance won't change that much over the year.
After sayin that, I recall a report a while back now that stated a silly high number for the amount of yo's that use gear in regular gyms, or tried it. I wonder what the numbers are today...
But I'd bet when you see a partial rep in a regular gym, over 90% of the time it'll be being 'performed' by a clueless yo, whose physique/performance won't change that much over the year.
After sayin that, I recall a report a while back now that stated a silly high number for the amount of yo's that use gear in regular gyms, or tried it. I wonder what the numbers are today...
Halb said:
I think also, for top lever lifters; BBers and the like, wit their gear and 5 day splits, that sort of partial rep training is all part of it, and they can make it work, and there's an argument for it.
But I'd bet when you see a partial rep in a regular gym, over 90% of the time it'll be being 'performed' by a clueless yo, whose physique/performance won't change that much over the year.
After sayin that, I recall a report a while back now that stated a silly high number for the amount of yo's that use gear in regular gyms, or tried it. I wonder what the numbers are today...
Sometimes, a glance doesn't always tell the full story either. If someone is doing the 3x7 curl thing (with 7 lower half, 7 upper half, and then 7 full curls) a casual viewer may catch the person.But I'd bet when you see a partial rep in a regular gym, over 90% of the time it'll be being 'performed' by a clueless yo, whose physique/performance won't change that much over the year.
After sayin that, I recall a report a while back now that stated a silly high number for the amount of yo's that use gear in regular gyms, or tried it. I wonder what the numbers are today...
And it works both ways too: sometimes, when I'm 50 minutes into an hour with my PT, and we're doing a drop set, I'll have a humiliation crisis as people just arriving in the gym see me 'cryin' for ma mumma' trying to push 15 kg over my head
V8mate said:
And it works both ways too: sometimes, when I'm 50 minutes into an hour with my PT, and we're doing a drop set, I'll have a humiliation crisis as people just arriving in the gym see me 'cryin' for ma mumma' trying to push 15 kg over my head
https://www.redbubble.com/people/darrensurrey/works/12861956-dont-judge-me-im-doing-dropsets?asc=u
There's a fair bit of drug use in my local Virgin Active (seriously). I've heard bros going on about their usage. Very few of them are terribly impressive given that they have help, but that's because 40% of their training is curls and they've never done full ROM on anything. I've even seen partial deadlifts, which I didn't know was a thing until it was scorched onto my retina.
Lift from the ground for rep 1 but don't quite get the hips through. Lower to mid-shin. Back up to almost complete.
They were doing 5 reps like that. They kept their backs straighter than you would expect, but it was bizarre stuff. 2 large guys (90kg at least) who weren't very strong but had very fetching little vests and made a lot of noise.
They were doing 5 reps like that. They kept their backs straighter than you would expect, but it was bizarre stuff. 2 large guys (90kg at least) who weren't very strong but had very fetching little vests and made a lot of noise.
ORD said:
They were doing 5 reps like that. They kept their backs straighter than you would expect, but it was bizarre stuff. 2 large guys (90kg at least) who weren't very strong but had very fetching little vests and made a lot of noise.
Sounds like a variation on Romanians. That's the exercise, not the nationality of the boys in vests.13m said:
ORD said:
They were doing 5 reps like that. They kept their backs straighter than you would expect, but it was bizarre stuff. 2 large guys (90kg at least) who weren't very strong but had very fetching little vests and made a lot of noise.
Sounds like a variation on Romanians. That's the exercise, not the nationality of the boys in vests.t out of everything, so I don't think they had invented a new deadlift variant. They were just finding a way to complete more reps at a weight they cannot handle.ORD said:
Lift from the ground for rep 1 but don't quite get the hips through. Lower to mid-shin. Back up to almost complete.
They were doing 5 reps like that. They kept their backs straighter than you would expect, but it was bizarre stuff. 2 large guys (90kg at least) who weren't very strong but had very fetching little vests and made a lot of noise.
Define "not very strong" and then we can judge... They were doing 5 reps like that. They kept their backs straighter than you would expect, but it was bizarre stuff. 2 large guys (90kg at least) who weren't very strong but had very fetching little vests and made a lot of noise.
ORD said:
Hoofy said:
So basically 5 failed deadlifts?
But not something I've ever seen before! Never seen anyone miss a deadlift and then carry on for a further 4 half-reps. It's as crazy as it is almost impressive! The delayed onset muscle soreness must be pretty devastating. 
In my last but one gym, one of the main PTs used to sell gear out of car boot, it wasn't unusual to see a punter and he walk to his car.
These days, sheeet, very so often some Indian profile or other nation will try and sell me stuff, it's way prevalent on social media now..or I can recall it a while back, thinking on it, not any recently, maybe the real name thing tightened it up, maybe not. Users are pretty open on FB.
These days, sheeet, very so often some Indian profile or other nation will try and sell me stuff, it's way prevalent on social media now..or I can recall it a while back, thinking on it, not any recently, maybe the real name thing tightened it up, maybe not. Users are pretty open on FB.
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