What Are Your Gym/Fitness/Routine Moans?
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I have found that three or four sets of standard spinlock DB's, plus one set of extra long DB's (for DB Rows) suit me absolutely fine and have never once thought about buying a set with fixed weights. My old 1" plates are perfectly fine for the job.
On the other hand, a DB rack resplendent with a full range of DB's would look cool, if hardly used, so ultimately a huge waste of money.
On the other hand, a DB rack resplendent with a full range of DB's would look cool, if hardly used, so ultimately a huge waste of money.
Zod said:
lemmingjames said:
sub 26kg dumb bells all feel as if theyve got hair gel around the knurls, not a sticky kind that would aid grip but it makes it all greasy and starts to slide about. Can see why the weak wear gloves now
I take it you do chest flys with 30kg dumbbells.n_const said:
Zod said:
lemmingjames said:
sub 26kg dumb bells all feel as if theyve got hair gel around the knurls, not a sticky kind that would aid grip but it makes it all greasy and starts to slide about. Can see why the weak wear gloves now
I take it you do chest flys with 30kg dumbbells.No i didnt get any video of it as i wasnt vain enough, though i might have my training logs showing the build up to it or maybe ph user Jon- saw me doing it.
Never really trained arms as i found the sports i did and the by product of how i trained took care of them
HTH
Edited by lemmingjames on Tuesday 24th October 09:43
Sheets Tabuer said:
This guy at my gym spends an hour on the smiths machine with the bar on the top rung doing stretches, he literally stands there for an hour with his foot on the bar as if he is van damme.
I know he's paid his money but by god it annoys me.
You had me at 'Smith Machine'. The worst of all worlds. A trap for the ill-informed. At my local gym, I would guess at the 1 SM seeing twice as many squats as the 2 power racks combined. My guess is that the explanation is as follows: women seem to think it is "safe", and men are unwilling to acknowledge how little weight they can actually squat. 60kg seems to be the SM standard, which is coincidentally "2 of the big plates".I know he's paid his money but by god it annoys me.
t you not. Sheets Tabuer said:
This guy at my gym spends an hour on the smiths machine with the bar on the top rung doing stretches, he literally stands there for an hour with his foot on the bar ...
My God he must have long legs. Can I request photographic confirmation of this amazing dexterity?yesterday in the gym.
guy doing some kind of pull down using a rope on the cable machines.using his whole body so i imagine cant have been good form. doing reps up to about 20. The last 5-6 reps he's grunting so loud the entire floor can hear him and he's counting out the reps loudly too. i could still hear him even with my earphones in.and watching tv
guy doing some kind of pull down using a rope on the cable machines.using his whole body so i imagine cant have been good form. doing reps up to about 20. The last 5-6 reps he's grunting so loud the entire floor can hear him and he's counting out the reps loudly too. i could still hear him even with my earphones in.and watching tv
ambuletz said:
yesterday in the gym.
guy doing some kind of pull down using a rope on the cable machines.using his whole body so i imagine cant have been good form. doing reps up to about 20. The last 5-6 reps he's grunting so loud the entire floor can hear him and he's counting out the reps loudly too. i could still hear him even with my earphones in.and watching tv
Cable crunches?guy doing some kind of pull down using a rope on the cable machines.using his whole body so i imagine cant have been good form. doing reps up to about 20. The last 5-6 reps he's grunting so loud the entire floor can hear him and he's counting out the reps loudly too. i could still hear him even with my earphones in.and watching tv
So said:
ambuletz said:
yesterday in the gym.
guy doing some kind of pull down using a rope on the cable machines.using his whole body so i imagine cant have been good form. doing reps up to about 20. The last 5-6 reps he's grunting so loud the entire floor can hear him and he's counting out the reps loudly too. i could still hear him even with my earphones in.and watching tv
Cable crunches?guy doing some kind of pull down using a rope on the cable machines.using his whole body so i imagine cant have been good form. doing reps up to about 20. The last 5-6 reps he's grunting so loud the entire floor can hear him and he's counting out the reps loudly too. i could still hear him even with my earphones in.and watching tv
ambuletz said:
So said:
ambuletz said:
yesterday in the gym.
guy doing some kind of pull down using a rope on the cable machines.using his whole body so i imagine cant have been good form. doing reps up to about 20. The last 5-6 reps he's grunting so loud the entire floor can hear him and he's counting out the reps loudly too. i could still hear him even with my earphones in.and watching tv
Cable crunches?guy doing some kind of pull down using a rope on the cable machines.using his whole body so i imagine cant have been good form. doing reps up to about 20. The last 5-6 reps he's grunting so loud the entire floor can hear him and he's counting out the reps loudly too. i could still hear him even with my earphones in.and watching tv
ambuletz said:
he was stood up, with the rope (attached to the cable machine at the middle, so you had two ends of the rope to grab onto) held above the head he pulled it down to waist height. a quick look at google suggest not cable crunches. The bet comparison i can make is if you had some window blinds you was trying to raise up and the cord weighed XX'kg and needed both hands.
Straight arm pull downs ?
popeyewhite said:
My God he must have long legs. Can I request photographic confirmation of this amazing dexterity?
Not taking pictures of men in the gym but I can assure you he stays still with his leg pointing to the ceiling for minutes at a time before changing to the other, rinse and repeat for an hour.
ambuletz said:
he was stood up, with the rope (attached to the cable machine at the middle, so you had two ends of the rope to grab onto) held above the head he pulled it down to waist height. a quick look at google suggest not cable crunches. The bet comparison i can make is if you had some window blinds you was trying to raise up and the cord weighed XX'kg and needed both hands.
i recall a bloke who would get on the lat pulldown cable and it would look like he was on a rowing machine.He was crazy
A chap this morning assumed the push-up position, lowered himself about two-thirds of the way down, and then, without moving any other part of his body, moved his head towards and away from the floor at such a violent rate, that I think I would have blacked out or snapped my cervical vertebrae if I had tried to replicate it.
People are strange.
People are strange.
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