[quote]enrac wrote:
My rep counts can never be prime numbers…[/quote]
that eliminates a lot of them. 1,2,3,5,7…
I really don’t have any, I’m like a robot in the gym. Fuck I’m boring.
i wave my arms back and forth when going to deadlift, fill my belly with air and think: back straight!
nothing too fancy.
for squat i just shake the bar while telling myself: quick and tight.
[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:
lol, this is going to be good!
IDK why but I developed the habit of pointing in the stannds and blowings kisses to my girl in high school during wrestling/football comps…It carried over to the weight room.
But now its just me blowing kisses and pointing at randoms spots on the wall in front of me[/quote]
LOL
[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:
[quote]enrac wrote:
My rep counts can never be prime numbers…[/quote]
that eliminates a lot of them. 1,2,3,5,7…[/quote]
Yup, I’ll always try for one more.
It was mentioned earlier - but the face of the weights must be facing in. If they’re not already, I will change it before I lift.
FYI - I’m an accountant who’s stressed, but generally laid back and real happy with life.
I can’t be still in between reps, I have to pace around the room. Not dancing or nothing but I have to kind of walk off the last set. I also do the song thing where I time the lifts to a certain part of a song. Deadlifts and 1349’s “Sculptor of Flesh” go well together, “Do you hear them calling from beyond” and then lift haha. I’m also ocd about geting that sweetspot grip.
You “plates in” people are nuts. The plates must ALWAYS face OUT.
I also have to lift at a 90 degree angle to the nearest wall - or a 45 degree angle if I’m near 2 and need to compromise.
[quote]ronaldo7 wrote:
[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:
lol, this is going to be good!
IDK why but I developed the habit of pointing in the stannds and blowings kisses to my girl in high school during wrestling/football comps…It carried over to the weight room.
But now its just me blowing kisses and pointing at randoms spots on the wall in front of me[/quote]
LOL[/quote]
I know man, I know.Don’t make it worse. lol
But, hey, it worked back then and continues to do the job now…why stop?
blows kiss and points in random direction
Nothing special, first plate on the bar faces in, everything else faces out. I don’t do the inner monologue stuff I just crank up my music for big lifts.
Mental cues to maintain good form aren’t what I’d call silly, y’all.
LOL @ you people who need plates loaded a certain way. My (bumper) plates are symmetrical, thank God, or I may too have developed this weird habit.
Anything to get myself fired up. Sometimes I can do this intrinsically, other times I need to make a bit of noise. I usually lift to Rammstein.
most badass pre-lift ritual
[quote]Ghost22 wrote:
Mental cues to maintain good form aren’t what I’d call silly, y’all. [/quote]
I could be mistaken, but I think most of us are admitting to saying this stuff out loud. And probably with some sort of weird voice. I go with a Russian accent sort of thing usually. Upon reflection, it’s plenty silly.
I try to make eye contact with the hottest girl in the gym and hold it for at least a second or two.
My dick usually hangs down the left side of my shorts, but before I lift I reach down there and manually readjust it to the right side. I call it, “Flipping the switch to ON!”
Actually I just do the Wanderlei Silva wrist roll and make a HOO! noise that sounds like a growl/dog bark. I don’t even do it on purpose or on every set, it just comes naturally right before I do something brutal.
I get some guy in spandex to slap me in the face…
I spend alot of time rubbing chalk all inbetween my fingers, even for bench.
I like to stare off into space for like 20 seconds.
I compulsively check to make sure the plates are good and tight.
I shake the shit out of the bar right before the set, cept on deads, on deads I just roll it back and forth a few times and get it in the perfect spot.
I spasm my legs and to tap my heels and toes a lot between sets of most lifts.
I hit the bar like its a drum with the outside of my fists a lot.
On incline benches I will lift myself out of the bench while holding the bar in a big arch and then slam my shoulders down with the scapula back and down. This must be done more than once.
And the naked old dude in the locker room - if its a PR day I tickle his balls for good luck. In case you were wondering, thats what those guys are there for.
Not that I can’t do the lift without it, but I don’t like deadlifting without this song:
I put it on really really loud, stand over the bar looking at the fucker thinking about the lift, and at 1:20 I let the bar have.
I didn’t actually realise I was lifting to the same part of the song for a long time.
Also, one that is sure to get me a lot of strange looks when I go back to lifting in a public gym, I’ve taken to hitting myself quite hard on the head before a heavy set. Dunno why but it just seems to get the adrenaline pumping and I seem to ‘switch off’ a bit more.
On squats, I do the forehead on the bar as well. I’ll also think about alot of shit like being rejected, dumped or just about anything that pisses me off.
On bench, my hands HAS to be exactly the same width on both sides. Usually thumb length from the smooth part.
For deadlifts, I don’t really do much. Just drown my palms in chalk and pull.
i just realized a lot of things i do
- i constantly check to make sure the weights are on tight and i have the same amount in each side, multiple times as someone said above
2)I lift myself off the bench to have my chest touch the bar before a lift, as well as rotating the bar, on squats do 2 air squats while holding the bar, roll it then lift
- i do the music thing with one of 2 songs, either barroom hero by dropkick murphy Barroom Hero- Dropkick Murphy's - YouTube or whats left of the flag by flogging molly flogging molly whats left of the flag - YouTube