Ok…why would you bother to LOAD the bar up with this? the bar/weight is just meant to keep the upper body tensed, so 135 would do the job…hell, just the bar would be sufficient.
My suggestion: Use just enough weight to force you to keep yourself tensed. Now lie exactly in between TWO cable stacks and hook BOTH to your feet and try to progress with the load you’re pulling…that should serve some purpose from the point of view of progressive overload and actually let you overload your lower abs and hip flexors with this movement.
If you want a catchy name, call it the “windshield wiper”.
[quote]tribunaldude wrote:
Ok…why would you bother to LOAD the bar up with this? the bar/weight is just meant to keep the upper body tensed, so 135 would do the job…hell, just the bar would be sufficient.
My suggestion: Use just enough weight to force you to keep yourself tensed. Now lie exactly in between TWO cable stacks and hook BOTH to your feet and try to progress with the load you’re pulling…that should serve some purpose from the point of view of progressive overload and actually let you overload your lower abs and hip flexors with this movement.
If you want a catchy name, call it the “windshield wiper”.[/quote]
Ten bucks says there will be a bowflex attachment for this exact purpose within 5 years.
[quote]tribunaldude wrote:
Ok…why would you bother to LOAD the bar up with this? the bar/weight is just meant to keep the upper body tensed, so 135 would do the job…hell, just the bar would be sufficient.
My suggestion: Use just enough weight to force you to keep yourself tensed. Now lie exactly in between TWO cable stacks and hook BOTH to your feet and try to progress with the load you’re pulling…that should serve some purpose from the point of view of progressive overload and actually let you overload your lower abs and hip flexors with this movement.
If you want a catchy name, call it the “windshield wiper”.[/quote]
I am still lost as to WHY someone would do this. That doesn’t look fun. It looks dangerous and if the person doing them is as small as the guy in that vid, it looks a little pathetic.
Get good on the stuff that works before you try reinventing the wheel.
Hey, its MY brilliant idea (to be picked up by Bowflex) and I’m making millions of it. Go peddle your commonsense elsewhere.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
tribunaldude wrote:
Ok…why would you bother to LOAD the bar up with this? the bar/weight is just meant to keep the upper body tensed, so 135 would do the job…hell, just the bar would be sufficient.
My suggestion: Use just enough weight to force you to keep yourself tensed. Now lie exactly in between TWO cable stacks and hook BOTH to your feet and try to progress with the load you’re pulling…that should serve some purpose from the point of view of progressive overload and actually let you overload your lower abs and hip flexors with this movement.
If you want a catchy name, call it the “windshield wiper”.
I am still lost as to WHY someone would do this. That doesn’t look fun. It looks dangerous and if the person doing them is as small as the guy in that vid, it looks a little pathetic.
Get good on the stuff that works before you try reinventing the wheel.[/quote]
[quote]That One Guy wrote:
zephead4747 wrote:
Atrophy man does these in the squat rack after SRCs sometimes.
Yeah, I named a guy in my gym atrophy man. And if anyone even looks at me the wrong way in there I’ll start a fight. Guy needs to do some fucking leg work.
[quote]Yossarian wrote:
rock27 wrote:
Yossarian wrote:
Mondy wrote:
It’s an exercise in the 300 workout.
Enough said. Don’t do it.
That’s a bit of a retarded thing to say, because it is in the 300 workout…they also use pull-ups in the 300 workout, maybe i should drop those too??
No, it’s not. It’s good advice. For one, the pullups that they do in the 300 workout are generally kipping pullups, which I think are crap. More importantly, however, is that “The 300 Workout” is not a bodybuilding workout, but this is supposed to be a bodybuilding forum. Also, I still remember dealing with people for whom 300 was the new fight club, and I wasn’t left with a favorable impression.[/quote]
[quote]Professor X wrote:
tribunaldude wrote:
Ok…why would you bother to LOAD the bar up with this? the bar/weight is just meant to keep the upper body tensed, so 135 would do the job…hell, just the bar would be sufficient.
My suggestion: Use just enough weight to force you to keep yourself tensed. Now lie exactly in between TWO cable stacks and hook BOTH to your feet and try to progress with the load you’re pulling…that should serve some purpose from the point of view of progressive overload and actually let you overload your lower abs and hip flexors with this movement.
If you want a catchy name, call it the “windshield wiper”.
I am still lost as to WHY someone would do this. That doesn’t look fun. It looks dangerous and if the person doing them is as small as the guy in that vid, it looks a little pathetic.
Get good on the stuff that works before you try reinventing the wheel.[/quote]
Ok, this is my last word on this, cause it seems not many ppl ar
seem to have difficulty understanding general english here.
Of course you concentrate and work on the basics, and the “stuff that works”. This movement is not supposed to replace the deadlift or squat or anything like that.
Wow I didn’t mean to start such a heated argument =)
Also I had no idea that these were part of the 300 workout, lemme guess…I bet they did an article about it on BB.com?
They love that sort of thing…
“See the super secret workout of Ryan Reynolds”! And then it ends up being 3x10 with some cardio and maybe some GPP work if they are really hardcore.[/quote]
In fairness, 3x10 with some cardio is a proven method that will actually work if you put in the effort. Is it ‘the best’, or ‘the new thing’? Maybe not, but a lot of people spend a lot of time worrying about stuff they read on the internet, and not a lot of time working hard in the gym.
Wow I didn’t mean to start such a heated argument =)
Also I had no idea that these were part of the 300 workout, lemme guess…I bet they did an article about it on BB.com?
They love that sort of thing…
“See the super secret workout of Ryan Reynolds”! And then it ends up being 3x10 with some cardio and maybe some GPP work if they are really hardcore.
In fairness, 3x10 with some cardio is a proven method that will actually work if you put in the effort. Is it ‘the best’, or ‘the new thing’? Maybe not, but a lot of people spend a lot of time worrying about stuff they read on the internet, and not a lot of time working hard in the gym. [/quote]
Depends on how you interpret 3*10… Three sets at the same weight or ramping up? etc…
But yeah, it’s not such a bad method… I just like one additional ramping set on most exercises, or the weight jumps become too big.
[quote]YoungBull wrote:
I do those and I’m big as hell!
J/K, but I do see a lot of people doing them in my college gym… I guess it’s the new fad… like the bench press[/quote]
Awesome. Fads are radical, cool, fly, tight, bad, tubular, slammin’, the bomb, illin’, too hype, and really nice to see in mass exhibitions of sheep-hood.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
YoungBull wrote:
I do those and I’m big as hell!
J/K, but I do see a lot of people doing them in my college gym… I guess it’s the new fad… like the bench press
Awesome. Fads are radical, cool, fly, tight, bad, tubular, slammin’, the bomb, illin’, too hype, and really nice to see in mass exhibitions of sheep-hood.[/quote]
Add hella in front of all those adjectives and you’ve hit the nail on the head
The 300 guys didn’t look that bad. Everyone despite the captain, his son, and his sons friend (who were all pathetically small imo) all have pretty good physique. The kings dad at the beginning of the film especially. Way bigger than fight club. The whole ab obsession though was very gay.
