good job on the overhead pressing. i noticed that your grip is narrow and your forearms are angled in as you press. I would think you would have more leverage with the forearms being perpendicular to the bar.
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
good job on the overhead pressing. i noticed that your grip is narrow and your forearms are angled in as you press. I would think you would have more leverage with the forearms being perpendicular to the bar. [/quote]
Trulio they are. It feels comfortable, but may not be doing what I want. I’ll try taking my grip out a bit more.
Nice work,
the press is looking solid- and I do detect some trap growth…
kmc
Nice MPs, Skid! I’m always impressed by people who put heavy weights over their heads.
[quote]kmcnyc wrote:
Nice work,
the press is looking solid- and I do detect some trap growth…
kmc[/quote]
Dood, I gots musckuls in my back where I dint even no I had places.
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
Nice MPs, Skid! I’m always impressed by people who put heavy weights over their heads.[/quote]
I’m still playing in the wading pool…but thanks. You’re not doing too badly yourself.
That’s some nice pressing, Skid. Good work, but where’s the cape?
Dude,
When you log on, does your computer say,
“You’ve got abz!”
?
[quote]sfp wrote:
That’s some nice pressing, Skid. Good work, but where’s the cape?[/quote]
I was late with the dry cleaning bill and the dry cleaner pawned it.
I burned down his shop…
[quote]mathineer wrote:
Dude,
When you log on, does your computer say,
“You’ve got abz!”
?
[/quote]
Nope - it says. “You smell funny!”
[quote]skidmark wrote:
Now Z, My face looks like that ALL the time.
Those shoes are the super Chucks. They’ll add 40 lbs to your lifts (even curls!) and make you as attractive to the fairer sex as chocolate.[/quote]
I messed with the bull, and got the horns again…you’d think I would learn.
Dude with all the crap skid gets this is becoming a tough room when he fires back
kmc
“There’s nothing manly about a 6-pack” Phil Stevens
Man - this cycle has been so successful that I’m really looking forward to deadlift day. Moving furniture and cleaning a friend’s garage Saturday, so I may be coming in Sunday a bit fatigued, but I think it’s going to go well.
Six pack of abs, or six pack of beer. Cause if it’s beer, my opinion of Phil just went down. 
You’re doing great, Skid. Kick some deadlift arse this Sunday!
It was about abs, Matty. Phils all for beer, I’m sure.
AskAMillionQuestions Guy was in the gym yesterday. He’s actually a nice guy, but he asks me a million questions (hence the name - get it?) and asks them over again the next time he sees me. I always give him the same answers, the same advice, none of which he takes. He still does the same crappy exercises in the same crappy form, has all the same complaints and gets the same results.
How can this be? He’s not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but he’s not an idiot…
I think he likes being in the gym and garnering a certain amount of respect for the poundages he moves, but then he seems to have settled there and decided - at some level - not to keep going. But he pretends to himself that he is attempting to move forward. And he’s wasting my time to keep up this fantasy for himself.
It’s interesting to watch - to a degree - but also a bit icky if you know what I mean.
I hope someone shoots me if I fall into that.
I think there are two things possibly going on there.
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if a person’s not truly serious about training, they’re not going to learn a thing (or at least it won’t sink in) no matter how much they ask for advice.
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even when someone is serious, it takes time to absorb all that needs to be absorbed. How many times have you read over that Cressey article on squatting (or something from Meat, Dave Tate, etc.) or benching and discovered something new? It always amazes me how I could have overlooked something. People need to be ready to hear and understand. They need to have reached a certain level to understand and internalize.
That’s my take, anyway.
I’d agree with you on 2 but for the fact that I’ve given him the URLs to all the websites I visit and care about and which would answer his questions. If he’d been truly interested he’d have gone after that like a starving man. But he hasn’t. So he falls firmly into #1 in my book. That’s fine, not everyone has the bug and I actually like him, but his need to pretend eats into my training time and I have little enough of that.
[quote]skidmark wrote:
Rule for Calculus teachers: Never drink and derive.[/quote]
And if you do, invoke the mean value theorem. If you are on the road at two different points, then you must have been going straight somewhere in between.
[quote]skidmark wrote:
It was about abs, Matty. Phils all for beer, I’m sure.
AskAMillionQuestions Guy was in the gym yesterday. He’s actually a nice guy, but he asks me a million questions (hence the name - get it?) and asks them over again the next time he sees me. I always give him the same answers, the same advice, none of which he takes. He still does the same crappy exercises in the same crappy form, has all the same complaints and gets the same results.
How can this be? He’s not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but he’s not an idiot…
I think he likes being in the gym and garnering a certain amount of respect for the poundages he moves, but then he seems to have settled there and decided - at some level - not to keep going. But he pretends to himself that he is attempting to move forward. And he’s wasting my time to keep up this fantasy for himself.
It’s interesting to watch - to a degree - but also a bit icky if you know what I mean.
I hope someone shoots me if I fall into that.
[/quote]
What a dose of reality… AskaMillionQuestions Guy is me. ood post skid, and thanks for snapping me into reality again!!