I heave come to realize that what hurt my progress was not taking any more seriously the assistance/BB work. And that not skipping it, but trying to get stronger on it, filling out my weaknesses, would make me a better athlete that any technique work
Honestly we shouldn’t tolerate this vague gossipy bullshit; just link the fkn thread.
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Yeah hate when people get vague also.
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It’s the Paul Cater BBB thread.
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I’m fucking shocked!
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Dang, if they’re talking about dicks now it really took a turn since I last looked at it.
Speaking of Paul Carter, I recently saw a post of his on Instagram, with a video in which he was doing a dumbbell skullcrusher. The topic was that it’s better to not bring the elbows in during the movement, but rather to keep them as flared out as it naturally feels right to do. Nothing weird here, right?
A user commented that he disagreed. Paul Carter then started bashing on him, saying that “all the internal rotation you get by bringing the elbows is is useless and harmful,” he then proceeded to call the user an idiot and other names.
Now, I ain’t no scientist and I’m not saying that his argument is wrong. There is only one caveat though, and I wasn’t sure so I mimicked the movement to test it. If you tuck your elbows in, that is EXTERNAL rotation, not internal! Flaring the elbows out does feel more natural on that movement, but it’s technically internal rotation.
And I’m not saying that internal rotation is inherently bad, but rather that, if you are going to act like a guru and call people names for disagreeing with you, at least get the fucking technicalities right instead of asserting the diametrical opposite of what you mean.
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It’s like the Wild West.
Dear Penthouse, It was 1979 and I was on my way to a Journey concert… 
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Then I still don’t think you’re doing college right then
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Staying off social media is doing LIFE right.
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I’m someone who:
- dressed as a whermacht soldier for Halloween in 3rd grade because I loved studying WWII
- tried to overthrow the student body president in 5th grade for the fun of it
- convinced my Asian parents to let me major in Russian Studies
- Has a best friend who takes 3 months to respond to texts
- Feels more connected to a bunch of strangers on a fitness forum than to my peers
- I don’t think I’m doing life right by most people’s standards
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I’m not sure whether your comment is more ironic, or mine.
I assure you that my comment isn’t yours.
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No he actually gave you a choice between your comment being more ironic and you having to mine something.
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Apologies, that was written after my final squat set, hopefully ever. I wasn’t thinking clearly.
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I’ve almost gotten run over at least 5 times trying to cross the street after hard squat sessions- you’re fine
Don’t sweat it: I was being a punk, haha.
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At least you managed to cross the street in the end…
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I’m imagining a giant game of frogger now, with a small Chinese girl instead of the frog. Am I showing my age?
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