First Crossfit, now this? Is bodybuilding in peril?
there is nothing to fear from those shinanigans. Not nearly as hard as its made out to be. The Crossfit crowd is something to be reckoned with. Crossfit has better results for women then men anyway so I think bodybuilding is safe.
Aloo who the fuck would set something like that up eh?
Looks like an interesting way to tackle grip assistance work… I’d try it!
[quote]younggully wrote:
First Crossfit, now this? Is bodybuilding in peril?[/quote]
Only if you think that indoor climbing gyms somehow keep people from bodybuilding.
That actually looks like fun, I’d go to mess around every so often if there was one nearby. It was stuff like this that got me to start training in the first place, it just sort of grew from there. As far as your worries go, dumb stuff like this was the first step for me and I imagine many others, it may just increase bodybuilding’s popularity (though there’d probably be more ‘functional’ gurus aswell).
sweet a gym for 9 year olds.
That actually looks like fun. It’d be cool if they had a good number of different “courses”, each with varying difficulty.
I love this stuff, I could literally do it all day. Functional strength where it counts.
Very similar to the creation of Tube City.
This stuff is harder than it looks. I visited Monkey Bar gym in Madison to try out some of their exercise bands to take with me on work trips where there is no access to a gym.
They have a band that you wrap around your back and strap your hands into it to increase the resistance of a pushup to more like a bench press. Trust me, it’s not as easy as you think. It’s not designed to get you big, but it will get you strong.
You get stronger at what you do. If you deadlift, squat and bench with barbells you get strong with that. If you work against stretchy rubber bands you get strong with that. Like gymnasts get strong with bodyweight stuff.
There is a monkeybar gym guy who did 81 consecutive one-legged squats holding 80 lbs of kettle bells. He only stopped at 81 because that broke the previous record of 80.
Try doing one legged squats with only your bodyweight. How many can you get?
[quote]andrew_live wrote:
there is nothing to fear from those shinanigans. Not nearly as hard as its made out to be. The Crossfit crowd is something to be reckoned with. Crossfit has better results for women then men anyway so I think bodybuilding is safe.
Aloo who the fuck would set something like that up eh?[/quote]
eh…lol you a newfie?
I don’t think I could do that stuff for very long. Seems kinda cool, though.
I went wall climbing for one of my back days and had a blast. Another time the gym I was in had one of those thick climbing ropes. Tried going up hands only. It’s harder than it looks! I may have to stop in WI to check this out. Or hit up a playground. Do they still have monkey bars in the playground?
[quote]younggully wrote:
[quote]andrew_live wrote:
there is nothing to fear from those shinanigans. Not nearly as hard as its made out to be. The Crossfit crowd is something to be reckoned with. Crossfit has better results for women then men anyway so I think bodybuilding is safe.
Aloo who the fuck would set something like that up eh?[/quote]
eh…lol you a newfie?[/quote]
hahah nope! but hats off to the newfies. I live in shitty Sault Ste. Marie Ontario. That means no monkey gyms here or even across the river in Sault Michigan. Maybe I’ll go scare some kids away from their playground at recess.
Anyone have that vid of the dude jumping up to grab a chinning bar, and the whole damn thing dislodges from the ceiling and the dude goes crashing down?
Man, I love that vid!
LMFAO!!!
SS, neither of those are the one I’m talking about, but DAMN they’re funny!
That second guys deserved that crash because he was doing his chins like a pussy!
lol
Thanks for those!
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
LMFAO!!!
SS, neither of those are the one I’m talking about, but DAMN they’re funny!
That second guys deserved that crash because he was doing his chins like a pussy!
lol
Thanks for those!
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Shoot, I tried. I’d like to see the one you’re referring to.
That would be a cool addition to a rock climbing gym.
There is a nice place here in Pittsburgh with a couple of walls of varying degrees of difficulty. I used to go to it quite a bit. They are a lot of fun.