[quote]Professor X wrote:
Sxio wrote:
Professor X wrote:
Let me know when you get to curling 85-90lbs dumbbells without moving your upper body at all.
I’ve always used alt db curls as an opportunity to use some body english.
Non-alternating and EZ curls I think it’s a good idea to try and stamp it out but the body is meant to act as a unit, I don’t think you lose much by adding a little shoulder activation into the mix as long as it’s not turning into something that looks more like a power clean than a curl.
There is also a HUGE difference between that and some newbie who is lifting more weight than he should using every muscle in his body to get a weight up. I see a lot of little guys trying to use absolute perfect form on biceps curls (especially those who use super slow reps)as if someone is grading them on the movement.
I rarely see any of them become “muscular guys” who are lifting the same as those that understand some “educated cheating” is a good thing if your goal is to get much stronger and much larger.[/quote]
What are your feelings about picking a weight you can do 4 perfect reps with before you degrade to 4 more reps with a bit of cheating. Good idea or bad idea?
A sports med doctor/orthopedist told me not to do dips because they are bad for the shoulders. He said I should only do them if I use 100 pounds of assistance. He freaked out when I said I was adding 125 pounds on a dip belt.
Well I proved him wrong.
Just two days after getting that advice (I was in for wrist tendonitis), I came back in with a severely dislocated elbow (from wrestling) that he had to reset. Haha my shoulders worked just fine.
[quote]SkinnySwimmer wrote:
Professor X wrote:
Sxio wrote:
Professor X wrote:
Let me know when you get to curling 85-90lbs dumbbells without moving your upper body at all.
I’ve always used alt db curls as an opportunity to use some body english.
Non-alternating and EZ curls I think it’s a good idea to try and stamp it out but the body is meant to act as a unit, I don’t think you lose much by adding a little shoulder activation into the mix as long as it’s not turning into something that looks more like a power clean than a curl.
There is also a HUGE difference between that and some newbie who is lifting more weight than he should using every muscle in his body to get a weight up. I see a lot of little guys trying to use absolute perfect form on biceps curls (especially those who use super slow reps)as if someone is grading them on the movement.
I rarely see any of them become “muscular guys” who are lifting the same as those that understand some “educated cheating” is a good thing if your goal is to get much stronger and much larger.
What are your feelings about picking a weight you can do 4 perfect reps with before you degrade to 4 more reps with a bit of cheating. Good idea or bad idea?[/quote]
Without being able to see you lift, I would go with “good idea” at face value. The point is though, to get to those heavier weights with the dust on them at the other end of the rack, you will probably have to figure out that a little cheating is exactly what you need.
One comment on the “crunches” thing - if you do a ton of crunches OR reverse crunches, strength in the abdominals will pull at the points of attachment, bringing the chest closer to the hips.
This leads to the “sinking” of the rib cage as described, and to bad posture. However, reverse crunches do the same thing. Strengthening your lower back and stretching your abs would counteract this.
(BTW, to head off comments, I’m not claiming that crunches are spectacular - in fact, I think they’re overused while the rest of the abdominal movements are ignored. I also realize there is a difference between crunches and reverse crunches, but the claim made about them does not make sense.)
I personally do not static stretch before workouts (with minor exceptions) but I do a dynamic warmup.
However, I do stretch AFTER I workout when my performance no longer matters. I think that’s a fair compromise.
I also do extended stretching (and some sensible yoga) separately. It’s something I need to do for my back.
I’ve experimented with not stretching my hamstrings, but haven’t decided on those yet. I may just need to sacrifice performance and stretch them because of my back.
When I first started weight trainning I was doing it with the intention of losing body fat. I read alot and learned that I should eat many small meals throught the day. My ex-girlfriend gave me the advice that if you want to lose weight, you should not eat anything the entire day, and then just have a HUGE dinner.
All the flexibility you need you get from weightlifting alone.
Arnold’s Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding.
Eat less times a day to ‘lose weight’. Yes, muscle weight.
Lift in the 8 to 12 rep range exclusively. Anything heavier and lower in reps isn’t important or smart for mscle growth.
You will die from a low carb diet. I had a ‘dietician’ argue this with me once. About the maddest I’ve ever gotten at someone over something so trivial. She was SO insistant, with not once reference or argument to back her point up over repeatedly yelling, “Your brain needs carbs! Your brain needs carbs!”
I’m getting mad just thinking about it right now. And yes, she was fat. Grrrrrrrr…
Kubo[/quote]
Hey dickhead, if you don’t want to use the advice I give you then fine… but you don’t have to make fun of me on a public forum and that dietician is my girlfriend and she is very smart by the way, because HER brain gets carbs. You could learn alot from her.
Hey dickhead, if you don’t want to use the advice I give you then fine… but you don’t have to make fun of me on a public forum and that dietician is my girlfriend and she is very smart by the way, because HER brain gets carbs. You could learn alot from her.
Hey dickhead, if you don’t want to use the advice I give you then fine… but you don’t have to make fun of me on a public forum and that dietician is my girlfriend and she is very smart by the way, because HER brain gets carbs. You could learn alot from her.
Is this a joke or do you all know one another? [/quote]
I also wear spandex on the weekends… and by that I mean we’re friends and by friends I mean acquaintances and by that I mean I can’t stand the kid.
[quote]Kliplemet wrote:
at this point i’m cracking up my coach who also thinks the guy is an arrogant prick, he says "klilemet is thinking, ‘whatever you say, sport’ …[/quote]
I’m amused that you spelled your own name wrong in your post.
[quote]I don’t keep my body perfectly stiff when doing alternate dumbbell curls. Is it that unlikely he was trying to get this guy to learn that some “cheating” in some movements is a good thing?
Let me know when you get to curling 85-90lbs dumbbells without moving your upper body at all. [/quote]
The reason i was laughing at his post, was because like i said, it reminded me of a time i saw two unexperienced guys trying to do bicep curls which looked more to me like a mixture or power cleans and deadlifts.
Obviosuly there is some movment involved in bicep curling because i bicep a 140 barbell for 3-4 reps and your body does move to accomodate the weight.
But NOT to the degree i saw these guys, they took it over board.
I got a few “good” pieces of advice to share that I heard before I found out about T-Nation.
“Deadlifts are useless, and are bad for your back and knees.”
“Don’t squat, leg press instead or you’ll never be able to walk again.”
“If you eat too much protein, it will kill your kidneys.”
“There are some really good chances that Creatine will kill you (by heart attack (how I don’t know) and kidney and liver failure).”
Some bullshit article on Bodybuilding.com where some guy talks about how the regular method of bench pressing will tear you up, so you should have your knees bent and feet on the bench, a no thumb grip, and lowering down to your neck. I hope it was a joke, but I get this terrible feeling that the author was dead serious.
“No free weights! It’s dangerous. If your going to use something like free weights, use the Smith Machine!”
So very dumb. Spare me the responses about over hydrating and loss of electrolytes. I was told this after being seen with a nalgene by a 220lb kicker who was benching 140 to get “toned.”
[quote]brucevangeorge wrote:
m0dd3r wrote:
Houshin Akai wrote:
I stopped talking to him before considering how to break his skinny, emancipated frame.
why do you hate freedom?
LOL! This is coming from a dude in the States!
How ironic.
“Freedom” as you know it is dead. You have your Government to thank for that.[/quote]
My point had nothing to do with the US government. My comment “why do you hate freedom?” was simply playing on the fact that the post I was responding to referred to breaking “his skinny, emancipated[sic] frame.” Now, either the original poster meant to use the word emaciated, i.e. malnourished, or he hates freedom and wanted to destroy this poor lad for it.
It’s ok though, I can understand how you would miss the joke, it probably doesn’t translate well to French.
emaciated = emacie
emancipated = emancipe
(sorry, the accents wouldn’t show up correctly in the forums.) Does that help?
Or would it make more sense if I reworded it thus:
Why do you hate freedom eh?
(BTW, I have nothing against you silly Canadians, my best friend is one of yours and I actually lived with him in Ottawa briefly. It’s just the damn language barrier I can’t get used to;))
[quote]DanErickson wrote:
I think the worst advice I have ever heard is switch from regular soda to diet soda, and use splenda in your coffee instead of sugar.
This is totally opinion based, but I do belive aspertame is horrible for your body, as well as shit products like splenda. Like I said… totally opinion based.
Anyways, I think it is better to just cut out pop all togeather.
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Agreed. I am a tea drinker, not a coffee drinker but I cut out sweetener a couple years ago and it seems I have a bit less of a sweet tooth once I got used to drinking my hot and iced tea unsweetened.
Hey dickhead, if you don’t want to use the advice I give you then fine… but you don’t have to make fun of me on a public forum and that dietician is my girlfriend and she is very smart by the way, because HER brain gets carbs. You could learn alot from her.
Is this a joke or do you all know one another?
I also wear spandex on the weekends… and by that I mean we’re friends and by friends I mean acquaintances and by that I mean I can’t stand the kid.
1.Benching “with a nice flat back” (hockey coach).
Don’t squat too deep (same coach), he advocated quarter squats…
A bagel is one of the best things you can eat for breakfest because of all the “slow buring carbs.” (How did this coach still have a job?!)
You need juice!
From a big guy at a gym I used to train at (Not an idealogical statement against steroids, so let’s not get into it, but I was 17 at the time).
Sometime after learning that benching with an arch is a good thing, this guy at a gym told me “You arch your back because you’re too short for the bench.” (I’m 5’10") And that I should “bench on the smith machine with my feet on the bench” to fix it.