[quote]Stinker wrote:
Digital Chainsaw wrote:
Shrug? Curl? Calf raise? You decide.
Acutally, it’s called a Shralf Curaise.
It’s on page 51 of last month’s Muscle and Frightness in the article “Bomb Your Body With This Two Minute Wonder-Workout!”
Just trying to help.
Stinker[/quote]
LMAO! That’s Great! Thanks for enlightening me.
[quote] full body wiggling movement thing.
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I love it.
[quote]Digital Chainsaw wrote:
Shrug? Curl? Calf raise? You decide.[/quote]
Wait a minute…There is a power shrug/calf raise combo in the “maximum CNS” workout that’s part of that Max Contraction crap from Pete Cisco.
[quote]simon-hecubus wrote:
Digital Chainsaw wrote:
Shrug? Curl? Calf raise? You decide.
Wait a minute…There is a power shrug/calf raise combo in the “maximum CNS” workout that’s part of that Max Contraction crap from Pete Cisco. [/quote]
Holy crap! Really? Someone actually put a similar exercise down on paper and expected people to benefit from it?
Oh, as an update, I have not seen said young twig man in the gym since performing this odd exercise. He’s probably sitting at home with two bags of frozen peas propped behind his yanked-out lumbars.
Saw a new one today!
This one may actually have some benefit, but the oddness was more in the way this guy was complicating a very simple exercise.
The machine in question was a cable machine that has two pulley arms that extend outward from the machine so it can be adjusted to do the crappy, home gym versions of just about any exercise. This guy was standing in front of the machine, facing away from it while holding the handles for each of the two cables in a supinated grip at his sides.
Then, bending his elbows slighlty, he raised the cables to forehead height, bringing his hands together at the top of the movement. He would then let his arms drop back to his sides and repeat.
The name I came up with for these was “eucharist raises”. Catholics (and recovering Catholics like myself) will know what I mean here, but for those of you unfamiliar with the term, the eucharist is the unleavened bread wafer that is passed out during mass.
To start this part of the mass, using both hands, the priest will raise one of the wafers to forhead height with his arms nearly fully extended in front of him, much like our friend at the cable pulley machine in the above sequence.
Now, I suppose this may be beneficial as a front raise (although the supinated grip makes me wonder), but if that’s the benefit he’s going for, why not just grab a dumbell and do front raises (properly, with a pronated grip, of course)?
This looked like one of those kooky Bow Flex info-mercials in action.
I actually have an “amazing gym sight”,not a story about some idiot.
There is a 5’4 190lb swoll-big-hulk-bald-asian-beast that goes to my gym.He looks at least 35.I have seen him use 110lb dbs for his db press…the man reps with this shit,he saw my jaw on the floor once and was kind enough to pick it up for me.I also saw him rep 500lb deads.The guy is unreal,and yes those weights are correct I’ve had many chances to count the plates.
[quote]jmwintenn wrote:
I actually have an “amazing gym sight”,not a story about some idiot.
There is a 5’4 190lb swoll-big-hulk-bald-asian-beast that goes to my gym.He looks at least 35.I have seen him use 110lb dbs for his db press…the man reps with this shit,he saw my jaw on the floor once and was kind enough to pick it up for me.I also saw him rep 500lb deads.The guy is unreal,and yes those weights are correct I’ve had many chances to count the plates.[/quote]
So what was your “amazing gym sight”?
LOL thats funny as hell, my gym sight is as follows:
2 guys in my gym big biceps,shoulders,traps and lats, about 16% bf no legs atall and they seem to literally live in the gym, im not kidding everytime me and my bro go there, they are there doing 10kg upright rows on the smith machine and talking for 10 mins, its fking stupid. But because they are “bigger” everyone comes over and joins in on there workout, its like the running scene from rocky, now that is a sight.
[quote]Charged wrote:
LOL thats funny as hell, my gym sight is as follows:
2 guys in my gym big biceps,shoulders,traps and lats, about 16% bf no legs atall and they seem to literally live in the gym, im not kidding everytime me and my bro go there, they are there doing 10kg upright rows on the smith machine and talking for 10 mins, its fking stupid. But because they are “bigger” everyone comes over and joins in on there workout, its like the running scene from rocky, now that is a sight.[/quote]
HA HA! Yeah, remember that Daffy Duck cartoon where Daffy gets harassed by the beach-bully duck that has a huge upper body but still has tiny duck legs? There is a guy at my gym who looks like this, I’m not kidding. Sounds like the blokes you describe as well, good times!
[quote]jmwintenn wrote:
I actually have an “amazing gym sight”,not a story about some idiot.
There is a 5’4 190lb swoll-big-hulk-bald-asian-beast that goes to my gym.He looks at least 35.I have seen him use 110lb dbs for his db press…the man reps with this shit,he saw my jaw on the floor once and was kind enough to pick it up for me.I also saw him rep 500lb deads.The guy is unreal,and yes those weights are correct I’ve had many chances to count the plates.[/quote]
should ask him if u can train with him once a week, always nice to have someone help with the plates and sounds like u could gain from training with him.
[quote]simon-hecubus wrote:
Wait a minute…There is a power shrug/calf raise combo in the “maximum CNS” workout that’s part of that Max Contraction crap from Pete Cisco. [/quote]
Pete Sisco wrote Static Contraction Training. John Little helped him, but decided to branch off and write Max Contraction. I don’t think I’ve heard of any maximum CNS calf/shrug combo, in MCT he has you hold the top of a shrug and calf raise separately. Pretty standard actually. Both exercises have such low RoM anyway that MCT isn’t really much of a deviation. Only difference I guess is in calf raise you wouldn’t lower your heels.
Fat guys wearing bodybuilding.com T-shirts.
Why can’t all hot chicks perform high rep pantiless adduction/abduction? There needs to be a rule!
I actually saw a personal trainer use collars on the barbell his client was using.
I was amazed.
[quote]Digital Chainsaw wrote:
Saw a new one today!
This one may actually have some benefit, but the oddness was more in the way this guy was complicating a very simple exercise.
The machine in question was a cable machine that has two pulley arms that extend outward from the machine so it can be adjusted to do the crappy, home gym versions of just about any exercise. This guy was standing in front of the machine, facing away from it while holding the handles for each of the two cables in a supinated grip at his sides.
Then, bending his elbows slighlty, he raised the cables to forehead height, bringing his hands together at the top of the movement. He would then let his arms drop back to his sides and repeat.
The name I came up with for these was “eucharist raises”. Catholics (and recovering Catholics like myself) will know what I mean here, but for those of you unfamiliar with the term, the eucharist is the unleavened bread wafer that is passed out during mass.
To start this part of the mass, using both hands, the priest will raise one of the wafers to forhead height with his arms nearly fully extended in front of him, much like our friend at the cable pulley machine in the above sequence.
Now, I suppose this may be beneficial as a front raise (although the supinated grip makes me wonder), but if that’s the benefit he’s going for, why not just grab a dumbell and do front raises (properly, with a pronated grip, of course)?
This looked like one of those kooky Bow Flex info-mercials in action.[/quote]
The supinated grip could help activate more of the anterior head, as well as get a little pec action going. Yeah, still an action that can be performed with dumbbells, but it’ll work with cables too as a change of pace.
As for funny gym sights of my own, there was an old headband-wearing, 70s porn mustache-havin’ guy basically humping the bar while trying to do t-bar rows. I got a chuckle out of that.
[quote]gojira wrote:
I actually saw a personal trainer use collars on the barbell his client was using.
I was amazed. [/quote]
Wait a second, just to clarify, the barbell had no plates on it!?!?!?
thats f’in hilarious
[quote]T K O wrote:
bretc wrote:
Why can’t all hot chicks perform high rep pantiless adduction/abduction? There needs to be a rule!
Its simply a matter of paying your dues.
You have no idea of the amount of fat ugly women we had to watch doing abductions before we hit the jackpot.[/quote]
truer words were never spoken!
[quote]Jason B wrote:
I have read some of the others here and felt lucky that I never really saw anything in my gym that was like what others saw. A few days ago that changed.
There was a guy doing decline bench. I have never seen him in the gym before. He was using the cambered bar that you would use for greater range of motion. I found out he was using it to keep from bumping his head as he laid back. He proceeded to do what would maybe be a 1/8th rep for a set of 10. Added weight and repeated for 3 sets. He moves to incline and does the same thing. Then I see him go do pullups. He continued 1/8th reps there but made it a full body wiggling movement thing. Then he did dips and maybe made it a 1/10th rep and actually moved more from his shoulders moving up and down than from elbow flexion.
What are people like this thinking?!?!? Why waste the time in the gym?!?!? What in the blue hell?!?!?
I don’t get it.
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UNL Rec? I think I know of the man you speak of, if not we have one at the rec as well…
If you want a real laugh ask the guy doing the 1/8 reps how he got so strong. As far as crazy strong I’ve seen a guy do 10-15 reps with a 500 pound squat where his ass was probably 4-6 inches from the ground at the bottom. And yes his back was rounded quite a bit–not sure how long he’ll be able to walk, but it was pretty impressive.