110 Pound Dumbell Curls

Training Powerlifting
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[quote]SWR-1222D wrote:
terribleivan wrote:

It seems kind of silly to sit up with the weight when the floor is right below you. Don’t you have mats under the weight equipment at your gym? And, aren’t dumbbells able to handle the stress?

I actually like lifting with dumbbells that have been dropped a few times. They have some life in them. And, I’m not a big fan of risking neck or back injuries from sitting up with 100’s or 120’s.

It’s not stressful at all to sit up with them once I turn them parallel to my body and the weight pivots at my hip, then it’s just a matter of standing up with them (like half squatting 220lbs but with a better leverage advantage) and setting them down (like a fast 1 rep negative with db rows).

If you’re risking back or neck injury sitting up with that weight, with that much of a leverage advantage, I would think you would need to start strengthening your back to catch up with that of the average human male.

If I drop it, not only would it make an unnecessary, obnoxious bang, but I also risk having them roll into where someone else is working out. I just think that’s kind of disrespectful, rude and selfish.

I would know because a while ago I was only able to get 2 reps with the 120s and was still able to set them back down. That was also back when I didn’t work my back very much either, so I’m sure others would be able to do it without a problem.

I know I can get away with it and only get eye-rolls from people, and I shouldn’t care about what they think, but the same thinking could go for someone wearing a headband, jeans, work boots and screaming with every rep. I just don’t want to be ‘that guy’.

I don’t know, maybe I’m just being anal about it, but unnecessary weight slamming annoys the hell out of me. That and too much cologne (which was all I was smelling today at the gym, but that’s another story).[/quote]

I don’t mind lots of noise if you’re DL’ing or something and using a lot of weight. If you’re curling and throw the bar back on the squat rack from six inches away just to hear it crash you’re a pole smoker. (I’ve actually seen this.)

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If a weight is getting to the point where it’s soo heavey I can’t lift it anymore without hurting/risking hurting myself. I stop lifting and try to put it down. If I can put it down without making a ton of noise/without hurting myself I do. If not it makes some noise then it’s ok. Stop worrying about what other people are doing.

If they’re being noisy strictly for attention and you pay them none you’ve done all you can to make them stop. In the meantime any more talk or thoughts about the whole thing beyond that is pointless and makes you just as retarded as “that guy” you don’t wanna be. Like it or not.

BTW, I just watched the kid benching and have NOOO clue why anyone wouldnt’ think it’s real. He might weigh more then 140 though, but who cares that’s 70 lbs more then his bodyweight. WOW!

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[quote]doogie wrote:
ybthere1 wrote:

To me the best part was that he didn’t slam down the weights to get everyone’s attention like he was a badass.

I AM a weight slammer. This is not because it makes me cool. I am definately not an attention whore. I do it because I lift to failure. Inevitably, my final movement is going to be an eccentric movement. This makes me literally unable to do anything else but drop the weight. Why is this difficult for people to understand?

Instead of just dropping the weights, you could wait a couple of seconds at the bottom until you had enough strength to push them to your knees and get up without being a douche.

Or you could call some 110lb. chick over to take the pink plastic dumbbells out of your hands for you.
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Push what to my knees? Have you ever benchpressed with DB’s? By the way, if it only takes you a couple seconds to recover from your set, maybe you should borrow my pink plastic dumbbells.

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[quote]ybthere1 wrote:
doogie wrote:
ybthere1 wrote:

To me the best part was that he didn’t slam down the weights to get everyone’s attention like he was a badass.

I AM a weight slammer. This is not because it makes me cool. I am definately not an attention whore. I do it because I lift to failure. Inevitably, my final movement is going to be an eccentric movement. This makes me literally unable to do anything else but drop the weight. Why is this difficult for people to understand?

Instead of just dropping the weights, you could wait a couple of seconds at the bottom until you had enough strength to push them to your knees and get up without being a douche.

Or you could call some 110lb. chick over to take the pink plastic dumbbells out of your hands for you.

Push what to my knees? Have you ever benchpressed with DB’s? By the way, if it only takes you a couple seconds to recover from your set, maybe you should borrow my pink plastic dumbbells.[/quote]

If these guys have a few seconds to hold the BD’s at the bottom and rest, they may not understand what pressing to failure is all about.