It’s this one. I’ve been amused by the responses for years lol.
" I’m a fan of a slight arch – lifting your chest, pulling the shoulder blades down and back, and having an anterior tilt in the pelvis."
“Excessive arching, on the other hand, is when you purposefully try to shorten the distance between your shoulder blades and your butt by attempting to make a downward facing horseshoe with your spine.”
OMG this is so offensive! I’m literally shaking now! I need a coloring book!!! Play dough! Where’s the Playdough???
Sitting in my warehouse waiting for the cable guy to get here so we have internet. An hour late now and my phone is running out of juice. The only chair is the porcelain throne or the forklift. If the ISP is going to have a monopoly you’d think they could staff a few more folks to keep the schedule timely.
Part of having a monopoly means you can do whatever you want - - - including having horrible customer service.
We have two companies that make ballistic vests for us so people have a little bit of a choice. I’m fed up with the customer service of one. I’ve suggested multiple times that we drop them (I have a good relationship with the Captain who makes these decisions). Unfortunately this company has also bought many of its competitors and kept their names. They sell our duty belts and gear. They sell our gloves. They pretty much make everything we use but our clothes, boots and guns.
That may not sound like much but we buy and use a lot of different stuff.
We’re stuck until we find multiple quality vendors for other stuff.
I’m thinking that some enterprising fellow could come up with what I call the “anti-rippletoe”, “anti-SS”,
“anti spider”, build workout. I am talking about the big hips/ass, big lower pec, unimpressive arms build. You’d wanna keep some size but emphasize arms, Lateral delts and abs maybe?
I am thinking:
Push:
Incline Press
upright row
lat raises
Triceps
Legs:
front Squat
biceps
calf
Pull:
Reverse grip rows
rear delt
hamstrings that doesn’t involve hips?
I am not good at programming routines but every time its gets warm and I lean up it just exposes my out of proportion development. I feel like I need to commit to something like the above.
What’s the script with guys in gyms who use bodybuilding as an excuse to touch other guys shit?
Example 1
I gave a guy in my work some advice re band pullaparts. He takes this as a cue to start rubbing my upper back saying ‘so it works there’?
Example 2
Some dumb fucknugget kid is doing DB RDLs on top of stack of steps he’s conveniently set up. When I approach him and ask him what the fuck he’s doing, he starts touching my hamstrings, telling me he’s trying to work these ‘muscles’
Example 3
Polish bodybuilder guy joins the gym and starts offering unsolicited advice L R & C. Complete pain in the dick. Last time I seen him, he’s straddling my mate who’s on the smith doing incline chest press. His balls rubbing tenderly along his torso.
What’s the script with these creepy bastards. Does every gym have one?
There was a creepy dude at a gym I used to use who was quite well known for that.
The best one I saw him doing was “spotting” a chick squatting. He was kneeling behind her, with his hands on her hips. Not sure what he’d have done if she had actually failed a rep, but he pretty much had his nose in her anus at the bottom of every rep, which I think was probably more likely his intention than any form of actual spotting.
EDIT: another time I saw him walk past this smoking hot chick, then he suddenly turned to her and said “oh, your shoelace is undone” and immediately dropped down and tied it for her. I dunno why, but that really creeped me out
“I did my first bodybuilding show between high school and college. I entered the teenaged division […]
It was the competitive side of bodybuilding that eventually did me in. As much as I liked the guys at Hard Body’s and loved the training, I just didn’t get the reward at the end of the long prep that I got from powerlifting competitions.” - Tate, from Iron Evolution Phase 2
When I track lifts performed on the Smith machine, I record them as if the bar weighs 45# (eg, if I put two 45s on each end, I’ll enter ‘225’ in my notes). Of course, the bar is far lighter than that–probably weighs in at 15# or so. I tell myself I record the weights this way because it makes it easier to know what plates to put on the bar next workout (which is true). But really, I’m deluding myself into thinking I’m stronger than I am.
