If I’m ever feeling pissy, I pull my hat way down and put on my headphones and ignore everyone, I suggest you do the same if you’re going to be intolerant to people with different training methods than yourself.
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
BlueCollarTr8n wrote:
rock27 wrote:
maraudermeat wrote:
don’t get me started on those morons that use leg drive.
I know man leg drive on bench press is an injury waiting to happen!
Holding your legs up in the air so that you simultaneously get a pump in your abz is clearly the most superior way to bench.
Gotta have the knees bent at the proper angle!!
i find that i’m able to stabilize much easier with my legs up in the air if i force my elbows WAYYYY out to the sides. the super flare really helps to keep me from falling off the bench.
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Yup, could not have said it better myself. The super-flare is a topic which I have began to use not too long ago. And once you combine it with the optimum leg raise, anything is possible.
Thanks to this marvellous technique tomorrow I’m gonna load 400Kg on the bench, lie down, ensure there is no possible arch in my back actually i might put a plate on my abdomen to ensure no possiblity of an arch, raise my legs high in the sky while maintaining the correct hip and knee angle, which is as close to the roof as possible and hope for the best.
I’ll let ya know how I get on!
[quote]AccipiterQ wrote:
dude…I saw someone at my gym doing a bench press and they weren’t even using a barbell. They had a dumbbell in each hand. What a retard. [/quote]
Crazy bastard.
Some people…
[quote]Westclock wrote:
Your not that likely to fall off or crush yourself with dumbbells used for flys.
60 pounds per hand or so isnt going to hurt you.
getting pinned with 350+ on you chest will.[/quote]
Agree, I wouldn’t do it for bench.
One day I saw a guy who could barely squat 225 load the bar with 315. He leaned to the left and the plates on that side fell, after that the weight on the right leaned him towards that side and the other 3 plates fell. Just silly.
I recently started using suicide grip after years of wrapping my thumb around the bar, and I have to say it works far, far better for me than the alternative. I also recently started a thread about it and the positive responses from experienced trainers far outweighed the negative.
All of a sudden I can do close grip bench presses and actually FEEL it in my triceps, instead of my shoulders pulling themselves apart.
It keeps my elbows directly under the bar on virtually any pressing movement and I believe it’s responsible for an overnight jump of 10-20 lbs or more in some of my lifts. I sure wish I could find a small tweak in my squat form that would pay similar dividends.
[quote]DJS wrote:
Bill Roberts wrote:
Along those lines: at my gym, the thing for the stupid is side bends holding a dumbbell in each hand.
Thus counterbalancing the body so no net work is done.
This one is classic! I see it all the time! Cracks me up! [/quote]
x2.
One day I’ll probably go up to someone doing it, and act completely interested in the trap exercise they’re doing.
I’ve never heard the term suicide grip. I used to wrap my thumb around the bar but stopped and found it much better and easier! Am i using the suicide grip now? Thumb on the same side as my fingers…
Yup that’s the suicide grip…
saw a guy forget to load one side of the bar on bench
bet you can’t figure out how that ended
side bends w/ a dumbell, skinny fat chicks and guys do it all the time, it’s the exercise that looks like heavy effort w/out much effort.
Why anyone would want to add mass to the oblique is beyond me! That’s exactly what it will do, build up the oblique. E.g. old school look like Sandow himself.
[quote]cyruseven75 wrote:
side bends w/ a dumbell, skinny fat chicks and guys do it all the time, it’s the exercise that looks like heavy effort w/out much effort.
Why anyone would want to add mass to the oblique is beyond me! That’s exactly what it will do, build up the oblique. E.g. old school look like Sandow himself.
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I like having a bulky torso.
I wanna look like a mini-Mariusz.
[quote]Tumbles wrote:
saw a guy forget to load one side of the bar on bench
bet you can’t figure out how that ended[/quote]
One handed bench press?
[quote]LUEshi wrote:
I recently started using suicide grip after years of wrapping my thumb around the bar, and I have to say it works far, far better for me than the alternative. I also recently started a thread about it and the positive responses from experienced trainers far outweighed the negative.
All of a sudden I can do close grip bench presses and actually FEEL it in my triceps, instead of my shoulders pulling themselves apart.
It keeps my elbows directly under the bar on virtually any pressing movement and I believe it’s responsible for an overnight jump of 10-20 lbs or more in some of my lifts. I sure wish I could find a small tweak in my squat form that would pay similar dividends.
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Well… Are there any vids of you squatting? Maybe mm and co could give you some pointers?
When someone lads up the bar with a bunch of weght, then have to have 3 spotters help them thru the whole lift while they grunt and holler and then want to get off the benh like they did something.
When I was in high school, football players used to do tha al the time. They would put 350 on the bar to bench, then use 3 spotters to help them get it up and then would claim a 350 bench. Yet the same player could barely bench 225 for a good set of 6 on his own. You do the math.
I’ll take a vid next time. I have problems staying on my heels, mostly.
1/4 squats
1/4 pullups
full body curls
“RDL”
Dumbest thing I ever did.(bout 20 years ago)
I was doing incline Barbell presses and since the racks in the gym were occupied I just kept it light, cleaned the weight and sat down with it on the incline and then kept my seat while bringing the weight back down to the floor.
Worked fine until the third set when I lowered the weight and caught my dick between the bar and the bench when I was putting it back down.
I had circumferential bruising and swelling on my shaft for several days afterwards. Hurt like hell, but surprised me when I did it and it took a couple of seconds for the pain to really register. I just kinda kneeled on the floor and tried to play it off like I was breathing hard from the set.
Coulda been much worse, but it was bad enough, albeit funny as hell.
Same gym but it wasn’t me:
I was resting between sets and heard loud clacking of dumbells and looked over to see a guy doing flatbench dumbell presses and slamming them together forcefully at the top.
Well the weights got out of the same plane during one of his reps and the weight on the side of one dumbell slammed into his hand on the other side resulting in a painful bloody open fracture. Ouch.
Awwww dude that SUCKS! About the dink pinch… Eeesh…
I was doing decline Triceps Extensions last night & we don’t have a regular decline bench… so I used the one with Barbell uprights…
Anyway… I was CLANGING away on it (because the uprights were in the way…) the collars slowly moved down… then OFF… and ALL the plates spilled onto the floor… this was AFTER spilling my water on myself earlier… I was SOOOO pissed off… I had to go into the washroom to cool down… lol