***MARCH IS HERE. WINTER HIBRONATION IS OVER LC THREAD*** - Page 12

-All in all, I found this video to be sort of a tweener. The girl is not doing anything impressive enough for me to enjoy this as a fitness video, and she is not quite attractive enough to make it good eye candy, so kind of stuck in no man's land.

I somewhat agree, but her old stuff is better than her new stuff.

Try youtubing some older videos. Over the years she has become too ript. Which I guess was her goal, so props for that.

03-06-2012 , 08:42 PM

#278

00Snitch

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 20,865

Quote:

Originally Posted by therowdy

Gym idiot story followed by a question for the H&F regs.

A week ago I managed to completely lose my grip on the bar benching and dropped 270 lbs. on my chest. It was an embarrassing and painful ****-up. It's been a week and the pain level is pretty unchanged. Most movements that put strain on the chest cause pain in the upper chest. For example, rolling over and getting out of bed in the morning is pretty painful. Laughing hurts and sneezing is awful. But it's not an unbearable pain nor is it constant.

Do I bother going to the doctor and getting x-rays? Or do I just figure it's been a week, I probably didn't break anything, let it take care of itself? Even if I did fracture a rib or something the treatment is just go easy and wait for it to heal so I feel like it isn't worth it to spend the time and money on appt. with the doctor and x-rays.

I have no medical advice... but were you using a thumbless grip? If so, this is indeed a 'gym idiot' story.

For the record, it does sound like you could have broken/fractured a rip or maybe done cartilage damage. Last time I did this, the doctor diagnosed it by standing in front of me, puttig one hand on either side of my body and gently squeezing. With very little force it was seriously painful.

03-06-2012 , 08:50 PM

#279

therowdy

enthusiast

Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 62

Quote:

Originally Posted by 00Snitch

Not a thumbless grip. It was the last rep of my first work set. Honestly not sure what happened. One second I was benching the next I was thinking oh **** the bar isn't in my hands.

03-06-2012 , 09:10 PM

#280

-C-P-

veteran

Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 2,288

Wife is watching MTV'S True Life "I'm Addicted to Exercise." A dude on the show works out like 3x a day, which is already pretty awesome. But then he steps it up a notch and becomes a true bro's bro...he goes in and does an 8 hour arm workout after reading it in a magazine. Awesome.

03-06-2012 , 09:32 PM

#281

fredd-bird

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 19,336

That's really gotta bump up his gym cred when a TV crew comes in to watch you lift.

03-06-2012 , 09:54 PM

#282

Gorilla4Sale

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 5,208

Quote:

Originally Posted by anklebreaker

SS + Ultimate Tak Ball, Imo

http://kottke.org/12/03/super-crazy-taser-soccer-rugby

I wanna play.

03-06-2012 , 10:13 PM

#283

Evoken

2014 Golden Loco

Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 10,302

Quote:

Originally Posted by -C-P-

If only we could match him up with John Broz....

03-06-2012 , 11:02 PM

#284

The Yugoslavian

STTF HUC II Winner

Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 25,040

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gorilla4Sale

I wanna play.

They'd have to get more powerful tazers imo. Kind of like when Shaq was in the NBA for a while they had to build different hoops so they didn't all break.

Also, I assume they require you to be in shape to play. So....I dno, may be kind of hard to get on a team.

03-07-2012 , 12:29 AM

#285

cha59

ARTist

Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 25,254

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ra_Z_Boy

It's because it is designed to maximise the weight on the bar by taking advantage of ROM, leverage etc. There is nothing inherently wrong with it, but to me, just like raw powerlifts, conventional DL will always be significantly more awesome.

So what's your opinion on squatting with a super wide stance? It seems to me that gives a powerlifter a greater advantage than sumos would over conventional DLs.

If sumos are easier to pull more weight, then why are the only two (I'm only aware of two) guys who pulled > 1000 lbs doing conventional DLs and no one has done it sumo style?

fwiw, my PR conventional DL is 20 lbs > than my PR sumo. I do sumos primarily because of a hip issue that only rears its ugly head when I do heavy conventional DLs. They are easier on the low back too.

03-07-2012 , 12:36 AM

#286

-C-P-

veteran

Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 2,288

Here's a guy that I went to high school with doing some variation of westside. He's a pretty strong dude. Whoops.

http://youtu.be/oDS_Soxb98w

03-07-2012 , 01:12 AM

#287

milesdyson

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 23,856

Quote:

Originally Posted by cha59

the squat stances you are alluding to are impossible to get into without using a monolift. that alone ruins the argument.

the two 1000+ deadlift guys don't sumo because they are too tough.

03-07-2012 , 02:17 AM

#288

cobrastatus

veteran

Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 2,319

Quote:

Originally Posted by saw7988

Has anyone tried or considered doing a chaos & pain type training routine? I found this article and assume it's pretty much what people are talking about when they say they are doing CnP for their training: http://chaosandpain.blogspot.com/200...in-basics.html

I have a lot of respect for the guy (even though I think some of his principles in fitness/nutrition are a little... I dunno what the word is... but he's pretty adamant about keto for example), and I have a lot of respect and interest in the "just do what you can in the gym (which means more than you think you can)" type of training mentality and I think it'd vibe with me very well. Probably not for a cut, which I seems to always be on, but whatever.

Also, I'd love to be doing Bears and Super Bears in my training routine one day...

Thoughts?

I'm gradually increasing my work capacity, with the ultimate goal being daily squatting, snatching, and jerking, so C&P but with an Oly, pseudo-Bulgarian tilt. I say pseudo because I don't ever plan on training twice a day, I don't have the time for it. But I can do daily, and I think that the theories behind overtraining and supercompensation are not as well elucidated as Rippetoe et al would have one believe. Testing with sample size = 1

03-07-2012 , 03:42 AM

#289

Evoken

2014 Golden Loco

Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 10,302

Quote:

Originally Posted by cobrastatus

A couple people on here have done it (higher frequency training for olympic lifting). Forums moderator SmileyEH (RIP) had some success with it. Parlay Slow had a lot of success with it and I believe still trains this way, though I can't speak for him.

03-07-2012 , 09:07 AM

#290

chuckbomb

adept

Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 773

Meanwhile in Russia:

Last edited by chuckbomb; 03-07-2012 at 09:07 AM. Reason: old, probably been posted before, deserves to be posted again

03-07-2012 , 09:10 AM

#291

00Snitch

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 20,865

It's fairly old, but I hadn't seen this one.

03-07-2012 , 09:30 AM

#292

zinna

old hand

Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,638

Best epic meal time I have seen

03-07-2012 , 09:39 AM

#293

Gorilla4Sale

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 5,208

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Yugoslavian

It appears they have them toned down a little bit anyway. I've been drive stunned several times, it hurts, but it's nothing too terrible.

I would add in some conditioning to play that.

03-07-2012 , 10:14 AM

#294

zinna

old hand

Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,638

Why have you been stunned several times?

03-07-2012 , 10:33 AM

#295

MortalWombat

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 5,125

Elite Highland Games training method.

03-07-2012 , 11:06 AM

#296

saw7988

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 11,463

Yea, about the CnP thing, I find it really interesting, and it's becoming much more accepted recently. There was a thread on the powerlifting forum on bb.com about how two years ago you would've been called a joke if you said you were training like that, but now it's somewhat common.

My lifts aren't amazing yet, I could probably benefit just as well with lower risk from a standard proven program like TM, 5/3/1, etc. for my next bulk, but eventually I'll definitely try it.

03-07-2012 , 11:22 AM

#297

cha59

ARTist

Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 25,254

Quote:

Originally Posted by milesdyson

the squat stances you are alluding to are impossible to get into without using a monolift. that alone ruins the argument.

Quote:

Originally Posted by milesdyson

the two 1000+ deadlift guys don't sumo because they are too tough.

I'm sure they would both do sumos if they thought they could pull more weight that way.

03-07-2012 , 12:05 PM

#298

downtown

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 12,446

Replied to a friend's FB post on the China Study and he deleted my and all dissenting responses. New policy: don't talk to vegans about anything ever. Maybe throw them or something, for a party trick.

03-07-2012 , 12:06 PM

#299

zinna

old hand

Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,638

If someone thinks the guys who pull 1000+ lbs can pull more sumo but wont do it for whatever reason then you need to seek medical help ASAP

03-07-2012 , 12:07 PM

#300

Ra_Z_Boy

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 36,966

Quote:

Originally Posted by cha59

If they did it raw, pulling it out of a rack, no problem, but overall super wide squats are less impressive to me so it's the same.

It doesn't necessarily make it easier to pull more weight for everyone, but it does for certain people, all the while in a movement that is less impressive. Conventional is just way way more awesome.

Page 12 of 66

First

2 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 22 32 62

Last

Closed Thread Subscribe

...

Page 12 of 66

First

2 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 22 32 62

Last