I always get funny looks from others when I do incline bench curls with as little as 20lb dumbbells. People look at me like I am weak, but my arm development is better than theirs. I don’t understand ego lifting on a freaking curl…it’s supposed to work a small weak muscle.
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Come on man! If you aren’t hip chucking 1.5x bodyweight up on to your collar bones with your wrists supinated, what are ya even doing?
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Is it that obvious I don’t know anything?
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On the bro science vs science based training shiz, this summarizes my thoughts quite nicely
Formal knowledge vs tacit knowledge
I’d make a video lampooning dudes that curl with their hips, but literally every single time I start goofing around with weights I hurt myself worse than who/what I was making fun of.
“Man records his own death, crushes trachea with ez-curl bar…”.
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I remember an article put out by Thib which had you doing 5-4-3-2-1 reps of a bunch of compounds. Really fun program and worked really well but in one of his videos he throws biceps into it at the end.
I did the same - probably where my elbow issues started but it was great fun and worked pretty well haha
I like curls and lots of other isolation/splits. One of my favorite exercises, actually. But I also like making fun of stuff.
As soon as I can get back to moderate/heavy stuff I’m gonna bro out to drop sets of curls and do medial delt raises until until my shoulder capsule turns into gravy.
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Haven’t watched the video yet… according to my oldest son. Hes been told straight out by many professors that most the research in exercise science over the past decade has been aerobic focus. So things related towards hypertrophy and or strength performance is way behind.
And I mean, this makes sense. Getting big and strong is SO stupidly simple: it doesn’t need research. As crass as it is, Jamie Lewis really put it best: “lifting weights is so simple they do it in the special olympics”. We figured out how to bench 600lbs raw in the 60s FFS. And it’s too easy to argue that the majority of advances we’ve seen in records regarding strength and size are far more a result of improved chemistry vs improved biology. Meanwhile, we keep dying from heart disease, so MAYBE it’d be good to figure out how to cardio better, haha.
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Yeah but you can’t market that…
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My FAVORITE marking scheme of all time was a product called “metabolife” in the late 90s. It was a powder you mixed with water, and they said if you drank it 3 hours before bed and didn’t eat anything afterwards, you’d lose weight.
Which is interesting, because it’s been demonstrated consistently that, if you don’t eat 3 hours before you go to sleep, there’s a good chance you’ll lose weight.
So the powder was completely worthless, BUT, people wouldn’t buy off on just restricting eating: there HAD to be a powder. Just like how they included “add an egg” to instant cake mix, even though there is ZERO need for the egg: people just wouldn’t accept baking without that egg.
But I don’t hate the player.
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The ikea effect.
Adding the egg makes ppl feel like they’ve actually done something
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For me the ikea effect is opening the package, seeing the allen key and saying the f-word over the course of 4 hours.
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Ya’ll gotta deal with me being bored at work on a 12 here.
I confess to cardinal nutritional sin here: I microwaved steak. I must seek the forgiveness of resident steak gurus @flappinit and @boilerman
Please allow me an explanation of my sins though. Yesterday, I was doing some super bro meal prep, getting ready for this very day I’m experiencing. Part of that meal prep was to prepare 2 whole eggs and 1 egg white mixed with avocado and 2.25oz of grassfed new york strip steak I had cooked earlier on the grill. This was leftover steak from a special occasion: breakfast Week 5, Day 5 of Building the Monolith. Normally, I just mix in grassfed ground beef instead.
Well that’s the problem: when I woke up at 0315 and grabbed my breakfast from the fridge, I auto-piloted and assumed it was my normal egg and ground beef mixture, which microwaves just fine and becomes like a breakfast burrito. And then I took my first bite and realized: I was eating microwaved steak…
No steak deserves such a fate: I am a terrible steak parent.
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Does your cake come out of the oven with a section of it unbaked because the egg had to be cracked along its longest side but in the instructions it was pictured as a round egg?
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I’ve imagined the little bubble man from the instruction packet coming to life simply so I could throw hands with him after taunting me for so long.
Look, it wasn’t my idea.
I’m pretty sure the original study used legos. The guy who came up with this had/has probably never actually even been into an ikea
And that the recruitment of test subjects and test subject characteristics is always an important thing to look at. It’s no secret that sometimes they recruit college kids that are heavily invested in sport or are also in the field. Of course that’s going to differ from the average sedentary person. The results may not be applicable to the other.
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I’m pretty sure I once read that cough medicine that tastes nice does not sell as well as the stuff that tastes like arsenic.
And it always reminds me of this:
Confession - I think Space Jam is a BRILLIANT film. The intro to the match gets me all pumped up. I’m proper involved.
I’m 36 years old.
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My wife and I have that VERY discussion. “Why do they call it cherry flavor? It tastes NOTHING like that. The technology is there to make it taste better: let’s use it!”