[quote]165StateChamp wrote:
He’s not clueless, but I don’t really get what he’s doing.[/quote]
Yes I would love for him to explain it.
[quote]Ty Carlson wrote:
This one is just fantastic.
Maybe if he did more full squats, he’d be in the NFL.
[quote]Adam-F wrote:
[quote]___ wrote:
WTF[/quote]
To be fair, that is probably the best thing I have seen the smith machine being used for in a long time. Although it would have been a lot more impressive if she was hot.
Maybe by her doing those “exercises” it forced some impressionable young guy to do his squats in an actual squat rack instead.
oh wow
HAHA!
That last kid has actually come a long way.
He has a blog somewhere that he updates with his progress.
He’s gotten a lot stronger.
[quote]Ty Carlson wrote:
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lil fucker had no business attempting that weight apparently
WTF Andy Haman… “when some people bench, they scream; when we bench, we use whipped cream”??? that whole video is just really, really weird, in a creepy way.
And then whats up with all those idiots holding on to the squat rack doing 1/3 squats… that’s also just really weird, and also creepy, like some dude has a bunch of kids locked in his basement forcing them to do horrible squats.
[quote]Ty Carlson wrote:
This one is just fantastic.
Well yeah the guy is a douche, but I do think in terms of a sport specific training, that isn’t a terrible show of strength. Albeit, I don’t think I would ever do it that way, but nonetheless, in football where you take off from the line from a dead stop either to slam into someone or just to sprint full speed ahead, you need a lot of power generated from a purely stationary position, hence the resting of the weight on the rack. Similar to box sqauts. However, when I do box squats I don’t yell and act like a gorilla after I complete my set.
[quote]TRTblastcruise wrote:
[quote]Ty Carlson wrote:
This one is just fantastic.
Well yeah the guy is a douche, but I do think in terms of a sport specific training, that isn’t a terrible show of strength. Albeit, I don’t think I would ever do it that way, but nonetheless, in football where you take off from the line from a dead stop either to slam into someone or just to sprint full speed ahead, you need a lot of power generated from a purely stationary position, hence the resting of the weight on the rack. Similar to box sqauts. However, when I do box squats I don’t yell and act like a gorilla after I complete my set. [/quote]
OK, maybe it has some applications for football, but you don’t go screaming like a douche…and if you do, you don’t post a video on youtube like you are a total bad-ass, especially with all the other youtube videos of guys doing actual full-squats with way more weight.
[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:
[quote]Ty Carlson wrote:
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lil fucker had no business attempting that weight apparently[/quote]
It’s good that he can laugh it off. He could have been seriously hurt had his torso moved forward and the bar did not slide off his back. It would have basically power drove his torso into his knees and his face into the ground.
[quote]hockeydawg wrote:
OK, maybe it has some applications for football, but you don’t go screaming like a douche…and if you do, you don’t post a video on youtube like you are a total bad-ass, especially with all the other youtube videos of guys doing actual full-squats with way more weight. [/quote]
Oh don’t get me wrong, I completely agree. There is some extreme douchebag-ery going on in that video. I remember in my gym once, there was this pencil sized guy that was always decked out in real extreme workout attire ( you know spandex shorts, tight shirt, gloves, straps, elbow/knee sleeves and an american flag bandana ) but lifted less than my grandmother. Douchebag already, right…
Anyway, he would set up weights on about 4 or 5 different things and then circuit them taking up all sorts of bars including bicep curls in the squat rack (douchebag points 2 and 3 there). So this one day, some guy unknowingly removed some of the weights from the squat rack bicep curl set up mr. pencil dick had going on and from across the gym (big gym 50 yards away), mr. pencil dick starts screaming at the top of his lungs, threatening the guy whose taking the weights off. Douchebag to the extreme; long story short, the “larger” actual bodybuilders (one of whom was the guy removing the weights on the bicep curl bar so he could do actual squats) complained to management and had the guy’s membership revoked.
He is lucky he didn’t his head pushed through the wall. I can’t stand the guys who set up a circuit and hog 5 (or more) different stations at a time. And then they have the audacity to seem indignant when you actually want to use one of “their” pieces of equipment.
thats one lucky fucker!
[quote]hockeydawg wrote:
[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:
[quote]Ty Carlson wrote:
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lil fucker had no business attempting that weight apparently[/quote]
It’s good that he can laugh it off. He could have been seriously hurt had his torso moved forward and the bar did not slide off his back. It would have basically power drove his torso into his knees and his face into the ground.
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[quote]hockeydawg wrote:
He is lucky he didn’t his head pushed through the wall. I can’t stand the guys who set up a circuit and hog 5 (or more) different stations at a time. And then they have the audacity to seem indignant when you actually want to use one of “their” pieces of equipment. [/quote]
That was at my gym back in Seattle, well actually Bellevue, by the way. Judging by your big W, you have some sort of affiliation with UW.
Anyway, I completely agree. And what makes the circuit even more douchey is the fact that he’s got a ten on each side of the bar in the squat cage… don’t use squat cages for curls, its bullshit.
[quote]TRTblastcruise wrote:
[quote]Ty Carlson wrote:
This one is just fantastic.
Well yeah the guy is a douche, but I do think in terms of a sport specific training, that isn’t a terrible show of strength. Albeit, I don’t think I would ever do it that way, but nonetheless, in football where you take off from the line from a dead stop either to slam into someone or just to sprint full speed ahead, you need a lot of power generated from a purely stationary position, hence the resting of the weight on the rack. Similar to box sqauts. However, when I do box squats I don’t yell and act like a gorilla after I complete my set. [/quote]
Dead stop squats good, dead stop quarter squats pointless.
I do dead-stop quarter squats once a month to get me accustomed to bigger weight - not useless. My old max of 365 feels like a feather on my back now and 405 is not bad either. You still need to do full squats and box squats to develop power out of the hole (sticking point for 99% of lifters). Agreed that if some d-bag thinks this means he can squat ridiculous weights just cause they can do 1/4 squats to pins with big weights, they are bullshitting themselves.
Also, you can tell when someone squats big weights just by their back and thighs - if you have legit heavy squat those are gonna be big. It is always the d-bags that do 1/4 squats with 600lbs that look puny next to someone that can really squat this weight
Why do dead stop with less than full range of motion. You want to get used to heavier weight do overmax support, do heavy partials what is in the video looks pointless.
[quote]Ty Carlson wrote:
Lucky bastard.
Fuck him for making me jump…
[quote]Ty Carlson wrote:
You stupid!! You ruined a bar!!!