Almost five chins at 4.5 months post shoulder surgery.
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
Almost five chins at 4.5 months post shoulder surgery.[/quote]
Those are, like, real chins. Starting from the bottom and with your chin over the bar and everything.
J/k…I expected nothing less.
Nice work, shoulder looks like its doing really well.
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
Thanks for the feedback on the video! It’s so helpful. If you think I look “hawt” in that video, I would say you need to get out more.
Since I am only pulling the 35s in that vid, I won’t have to drop as far to pull once I put the bigger plates on. I can get my feet all the way to the plates but seem to have no strength. My hips are hyper flexible and there’s no tension in the hole. I am going to post a pic to show what I mean. [/quote]
i’ll just say nice picture and leave it at that.
if you have very flexible hips then you need to find a way to build some tension in them. turn your feet out so they are parellel to the bar and get your hips as close to the bar as you can. i bet you will feel some tension in the hips if you do that:) basically get your thighs and feet entirely parallel to the bar and get as close to the bar so that your groin is all the way open. this should build the necessary tension you are looking for.
That should be a training video on the proper way to perform chin-ups. Really nice exercise form.
Hey snap, killer form on the chins, that’s awesome. good luck on the sumo. a regular bar isn’t long enough for me to do sumo, and I dropped it on my foot once. that’s why I do conventional 8*)
That’s it. I’m going with the pigtails from now on.
Holy shit, those are nice looking chins. Not being sexist, but those are the best I’ve ever seen from a female.
those are the best looking chins I’ve ever seen Snap - no joke. and poste surgery too! you better be damn proud. I can’t even do 1 like that.
Honestly, your chins look better than mine. Good stuff.
Wow. Thanks for all the compliments. And my videographer cut off my first chin. I used to be able to do sets of ten like that. And I will again. By the end of the year. I’m holding myself to it.
I can’t say how pleased I am with my shoulder. My surgeon fixed it well.
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
Wow. Thanks for all the compliments. And my videographer cut off my first chin. I used to be able to do sets of ten like that. And I will again. By the end of the year. I’m holding myself to it.
I can’t say how pleased I am with my shoulder. My surgeon fixed it well.
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send your surgeon a link to that video or better yet to this log
I don’t think I can get my chest to the bar like you do on those chins
have you ever noticed that in the back of any gym video you see a bunch of people doing a bunch of nothing??
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
have you ever noticed that in the back of any gym video you see a bunch of people doing a bunch of nothing?? [/quote]
Well, the sad thing about my chin video is that the woman in red in the background is one of two female trainers at my gym. They’re both wildly out of shape. And I can honestly say that I’ve never once seen either of them working out in any capacity.
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
have you ever noticed that in the back of any gym video you see a bunch of people doing a bunch of nothing?? [/quote]
Well, the sad thing about my chin video is that the woman in red in the background is one of two female trainers at my gym. They’re both wildly out of shape. And I can honestly say that I’ve never once seen either of them working out in any capacity.[/quote]
personal training as a career these days is such crap. it seems like every gym now has to go and spend a ton of money on machines that will basically do all the work for the trainee. I NEVER see actual trainers teaching poeple how to deadlift, squat, bench, miltary press, chin or any other free weight movement that will actually transfer to real life situations. The reason…they don’t know how to do the lifts. trainers these days plop their fatties down on some machine and then have them rep out “number 2” on the stack. WTF is that?? how does that help anyone accomplish anything? IT doesn’t.
that fatty of a trainer should have turned her fatty of a trainee around and said -“look… that’s a chin up.” “we both need to get off our fat asses and start doing these.”
tuesday nights at my gym a local community college’s P.E. program uses the gym to teach “weight training”. the “teacher” sits his ass in a chair at the front of the gym and hands out a “workout” to all the students. it is basically every machine in the gym…no free weights. i once saw the “teacher” showing his students the “proper” way to bench. he had his feet up in the air, elbows all the way out and lowering the bar half way down. he said that touching the chest takes tension off the pecs. he also said it was a good idea to keep the feet up to develop core stability.
in my squat video from last night he was the one asking me how much weight i had on the bar and was asking what the bands were for. he then told one of his students that squats were very inferior to leg extensions.
I agree with you wholeheartedly, MM.
I’ve had many people tell me I should be a trainer since I’m very passionate about lifting and often seem to know more than most trainers. But the majority of gym-goers are lazy asses who don’t really want to work hard. I apologize for my elitist attitude, but I believe it’s true. And trainers don’t help the situation by having beginners do exercises like sloppy bicep curls on bosu balls.
Occasionally someone will approach me and ask me to show them what I’m doing (squat or DL or good morning usually). I’m always glad to help someone who is interested.
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
I agree with you wholeheartedly, MM.
I’ve had many people tell me I should be a trainer since I’m very passionate about lifting and often seem to know more than most trainers. But the majority of gym-goers are lazy asses who don’t really want to work hard. I apologize for my elitist attitude, but I believe it’s true. And trainers don’t help the situation by having beginners do exercises like sloppy bicep curls on bosu balls.
Occasionally someone will approach me and ask me to show them what I’m doing (squat or DL or good morning usually). I’m always glad to help someone who is interested.
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the fitness industry is constantly trying to find ways to make exercising easy and painless. when the reality is that the things that work are very painful and not easy at all.
that’s why we will never see people actually doing what is necessary to get into shape.
i think you would make a great trainer. especially considering you are a woman that can do things most men can’t. unfortunately you wouldn’t keep many clients:)
Sumo pull vid - agree, widen your stance a little, I just learned your should have the shins parallel, your knees are a little past ankles. Open your knees up (lordy you’ve got the flexibility!) Pull into yourself and up, scrape your legs some. Your butt doesn’t want to be the first thing to move.
Chins - what wonderful form, I could never get my chest up that high,and so slow and controlled! Your shoulder must be healing well or did they put in some bionic parts?
I thought chin level was why they’re called chins !
BTW - you’re awesome !
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
I agree with you wholeheartedly, MM.
I’ve had many people tell me I should be a trainer since I’m very passionate about lifting and often seem to know more than most trainers. But the majority of gym-goers are lazy asses who don’t really want to work hard. I apologize for my elitist attitude, but I believe it’s true. And trainers don’t help the situation by having beginners do exercises like sloppy bicep curls on bosu balls.
Occasionally someone will approach me and ask me to show them what I’m doing (squat or DL or good morning usually). I’m always glad to help someone who is interested.
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That is hardly an elitest attitude. You’re merely stating easily observable facts. Most people who go to the gym are “doing it for their own good,” but have no real enthusiasm for the endeavor. EVEN SOME PERSONAL TRAINERS. They therefore do as little as possible to reach their “goals.” They learn nothing about how their own bodies work, what strategies will work for them. They merely fill out the little checkboxes for each machine as they do their circuit and then go home satisfied that they have “worked out,” never paying attention to the enduring fact that they have not progressed in any respect.
I don’t talk to people nor attempt to give advice at the gym any longer. And I am extremely reluctant to answer questions from observers of my various odd efforts any more either, because they don’t do anything I say, they don’t try it out, they just do what they’ve always done and taken ten minutes of my life in the bargain. I’ve no patience with that.
Observer - “Why are you doing that that way?”
Me - “Cuz it’s harder.”
Stunned cow look.
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
Observer - “Why are you doing that that way?”
Me - “Cuz it’s harder.”
Stunned cow look.[/quote]
I am stealing this.
Snap, neither of us could be trainers. Our patience with lazy asses could snap (ha!) at any moment and someone could get either (1) get a dope slap or (2) hear the unvarnished truth and then complain to management that their feelings were hurt.
We are OK with doing the hard thing, but that makes us the rare exception and unsuitable for associating with Lemmings.