kc,

I'm interested in you theory on athletic carryover with cheat curls. Currently I (don't) compete in an Olympic event. More on cheat curls and its carryover to athletics. Additionally I'm considering training for the long jump. Should I include cheat curls?

Are cheat curls the curls where you don't use your arms so much as you use your whole back and whatever else you can to get the bar up while I laugh at you and how terrible you are?

I think it's just a powerclean with a curl grip? Or is it done slowly?

Some bro comes in wearing 2 gold chains, immediately does a set of db curls with too much weight, then goes over to the cable machine and does a variety of movements utilizing his entire body. Afterwards he goes and flexes in the mirror. /facepalm.

do your m00bs jiggle when you're laughing at how terrible the hyuge bros are

Indian guys have to be the worst exercisers ever. In 4 months at this gym I've seen dozens of skinny-fat Indians and not a single one who looked like he was in decent shape or heading that way. They are really good at misusing the machines. Today I saw one guy hanging from the pullup bar and moving his feet like he was walking. Then he went to a cable machine and spun around like a ******ed child. I kept watching and then realized he was the guy I got a BP spot from a few weeks ago where the guy curled my bar in spite of explicit instructions.

Trainers are too easy on their clients. I'm assuming the trainers actually know what they're doing which is probably generous. Middle aged guy was getting PT and he was doing "power cleans" and then push presses. His power clean was a rounded back DL, reverse curl, then a jump and the PT just keeps telling him good job.

i pretty much berate and make fun of my clients nonstop, they seem to like it. i try to take it to bill walton-esque levels, stuff like "oh sweet, i think that was the worst squat in the history of western civilization" and "wow, now i know what anne sullivan felt like trying to teach helen keller". i do the guy laliberte to david benyamine from time to time as well, "hey good job, that's a lot of weight...for you"

What?

Indian guys tilt me. I see a ton of them that are way too lean doing db and bench presses with too much weight and awful form.

Ouch. I mentioned SS to someone in a bbv forum on here and said he didn't need leg presses, just to focus on squats for your legs. After he was correcting some one diet and listed his leg workout. Then he lost a gasket and posted some ridiculous stuff. I lol'd.

No offense, but you are both wrong imo

That Abe gai is not very smart.

Obviously I'm a big dunceface for asking this question, but how is chet wrong?

Today I made the very big mistake of trying to give unsolicited advice in they gym, and I payed the price for it. Two guys were doing deadlifts together. One obviously knew what he was doing and had good form, but the other guy was clueless. His lower body was basically going down into a full high bar squat ATG every rep while holding the bar in a mixed grip deadlift. And he was only doing like 80 lbs, so the weight was not even enough to force him into the correct starting position.

Despite his ridiculous execution of this lift, his friend stood stoically not saying a word while he did his reps. Finally, I could not take it any longer and I walked over and tried to give some advice. However, while I was trying to explain how he could correct his form, the guy just cut me off and said, "Its my first time," and his friend came to his defense and said, "Yeah, its his first time" and they turned their backs to me and went back to lifting.

What can you do.

Probably too broad an application of a good heuristic.

Just stuff like this:

"performing lifts is not real helpful in losing weight"

"I would suggest looking up starting strength by Mark Rippetoe. Following that program to build strength"

Abe is obv a brotard, but is probably not going to be able to get much out of SS since he says he has been working out for a while.

LOL jeeeez he probably shat himself if he was that defensive

It's not PC to just blanket state that an entire ethnicity sucks at something, but my gym has a ton of Indians at it, just the area of town I live in really and it's pretty much 100% ******ation. Other gym tards will at least occasionally do something like a bench press or a half ass squat or something of redeeming value.

If you see a guy working out in a polo shirt at my gym, 95% chance it's an Indian guy. Pretty much every exercise involves a 10 lb dumbell or 20 lb curl bar. I dont' think I've ever once seen any of them sweat or breath heavy or look like they are putting any sort of effort into anything ever.

Guy was deadlifting with gloves..and used chalk

Gotta protect the gloves imo

i have an indian friend who i tried to take to the gym a couple times... i was like okay let's try bench. he benched one set then started bouncing around doing situps and pullups and some dumbbells then he jogged and then we left. like wtf was that.

meh, I'm 25% Indian and have better lifts than 90% of this forum...**** the haters!

imagine if instead of 25% indian you were 25% bulgarian tho

I've seen this albino guy at my gym, doing decent squats, but nothing really heavy, maybe 100kg-110kg. Fairly good form. He's probably low 80s bw and pretty lean.

Anyway, yesterday I was attempting a new world record of 145kg for 5 on my last set and he was hanging around waiting for the squat rack. lol1rackaments.

So as I do the first one, he comes over and stands behind me because I am obviously going to need a spot.

After my 2nd rep, I try and say something like "No. No spot.", but I am so f*cked it just comes out like "nuhhhr.hurrn nuhhrn"

3rd and 4th reps I barely get it up and he's moving in for the spot, hands getting ready to caress my chest.

5th rep it's like I barely even try and when he comes in to help me, I just dump the weight on the safeties, get up and politely thank him for the spot while flashes of deformed babies getting drowned in flaming radioactive waste flash through my head.

fml

Later I saw him snatching 60kg with what looked like good form to me. Although, the sum knowledge of my snatching come from watching the commonwealth games last month.

"if I want a spot I'll ask for one" AINEC