****Official Beginner Question Thread****

[SmileyEH]

I'm always a few beers away from blacking out and streaking.

[kyleb]

I was assuming that we were normalizing for pathological behavior.

[kyleb]

Additionally:

Originally Posted by SmileyEH

Quality reps are key kyle.

I must disagree, good sir!

[axel_nld]

Originally Posted by SmileyEH

I'm always a few beers away from blacking out and streaking.

tbh i am too, just not that often.

[Thremp]

Volume >>> Intensity wrt drankz

[axel_nld]

Originally Posted by Thremp

Volume >>> Intensity wrt drankz

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[huzzah]

I was lurking on some forum, and saw some people talking about muscular imbalance causing injuries and bad posture. Examples given were people doing only pushups or bench press. I do a couple of hundred pushups every morning, and that's all I've ever done other than an occasional run. Should I be worried?

[kyleb]

Probably not. It's not enough intensity to matter.

[SmileyEH]

Having a desk job would be far far worse for you than only doing pushups.

[Thremp]

Foam rolling your ass for 8 hours will do wonders for innervating it.

[Yeti]

hey,

could someone look over these form vids? these were taken during the 5th session of SS.

there are vids for me and a friend, the 3 squat worksets and also the deadlift workset, 8 vids total.

i apologise in advance for the camerawork, my camera blows and there's no space to really rest it so it has to be held. though feel free to comment on which angle is best for future vids.

http://rapidshare.com/files/324060995/gym.rar (24mb)

thanks

[Yeti]

secondly, a question about bench press technique.

rip seems to advocate a 'straight up and down' approach, with everything kept vertical and very little lateral movement of the bar.

however i just watched dave tate's bench press cure vid. his technique involves an almost 30 degree bar path with flaring of the elbows.

is tate's stuff for more advanced lifters? which should i be trying for?

[axel_nld]

Originally Posted by Yeti

secondly, a question about bench press technique.

rip seems to advocate a 'straight up and down' approach, with everything kept vertical and very little lateral movement of the bar.

however i just watched dave tate's bench press cure vid. his technique involves an almost 30 degree bar path with flaring of the elbows.

is tate's stuff for more advanced lifters? which should i be trying for?

yeah those are inconsistent statements.The technique by dave tate is always specifically for powerlifting, and more specific: geared lifting. if you read SS rip advises tucking of the elbows some as well (90 degree upper arm to the body is bad for the shoulder) thus the bar path can't be perfectly vertical (you'd touch your collar bone).
the point is that with a shirt you really have to touch low to get the most out of the shirt, and this calls for more extreme tucking, he has said (or jim wendler, idk) that for raw lifting the tuck should not be so exxagerated, because you'd just lose the bar low.

basically tuck your elbows but the extreme level of tuck and arch dave tate advises is probably over done for general strength purposes. If you think it feels better, by all means go ahead though, because both rips and dave's set up are ways to get strong.

[Soulman]

yeti,

uploading to youtube means there's a way bigger chance people will bother to comment. Also rapidshare had no slots for free accounts.

[Yeti]

haha urgh yeah i was being super lazy and hoping no one would mind. i'll get on it.