Weightlifting for Kiwis - Discussion and support regarding the art of swole

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Didn't get to see any fun resolutioners today. They were all on the cardio machines. Just waiting for the college kids to go back to school so its not so busy late at night
 
24nagging said:
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They are really good for training the spinal erectors and they are also therapeutic, Louie Simmons created a machine to be able to do them weighed, for now I have been doing them with bodyweight twice a week on an incline bench, if you want you can do bodyweight, isometric holds at the hardest portions of the movement, or use ankle weights to make them harder.

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Anime Waifu NFT collector said:
They are really good for training the spinal erectors and they are also therapeutic, Louie Simmons created a machine to be able to do them weighed, for now I have been doing them with bodyweight twice a week on an incline bench, if you want you can do bodyweight, isometric holds at the hardest portions of the movement, or use ankle weights to make them harder.

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Now this is podracing.
 
Oh man, I thought with the lack of people showing up later that showing up 2 and a half hours earlier wouldn't be a problem. Boy was I wrong. Lets see everything I managed to see from my corner

-Nobody knows how to drive in a parking lot. The point is not to make your car as big as possible and just sit there
-Idk why a guy was using kettle bells for rows but those 15 pound kettle bells do not look easier to do, especially for a newbie
-Someone was doing lunges with 95 pounds and avoiding any leg flexion
-Felt bad for a poor girl trying to learn to squat from her boyfriend who was quarter squatting 185
 
Curling in the squat rack is the obvious free space. Maybe this is primarily my gym, but I see a strangely high number of people using the bench press bench for crunches and shrugs. I get not wanting to do them on the floor, but at least use one of the free standing benches.
 
I think the leg locking out on the leg press isn't a big deal as long as you don't snap them locked fast with no control. You lock out on deadlifts and squats and those are much less controlled less stable movements. Your legs were made to lock out. Actually the leg extension is where I hurt my knee lol. But that's my fault for ignoring the warning signs.
 
Saw my first certified January yesterday, hauled an adjustable bench in the (only) smith cage to do dumbbell flies, at 6:30AM no less. No time is safe. They could be anywhen.

Hasn't been bad otherwise though. The early morning diehards are a pretty set crowd where I go and I recognize most of them and the only new people were doing completely acceptable new-to-kettlebell stuff over in the kettlebell area.

Phone use while tying up equipment is the real free space on the bingo card, extra multipliers for if they're filming and if it's an obvious egolift.
 
Two January confirmed so yesterday. First was pretty wholesome. Young guy on the leg curl machine sitting their looking confused as fuck and wandering off after a few minutes not knowing how to set it up. Bro, I let you down. I should have said hello, pointed out how to use it but I was too annoyed with January number two. I hope you learn, come back, and don't let that put you off.

Fucking number two did endless sets on the leg press whilst spending a ton of time checking his phone inbetween. When I got on it was 110 kilos less than what I do on the leg press machine. I'm not massive but, my brother in christ, you could have just put a heavy pair of boot on and walked up a hill.
 
Different guy with a tripod set up today. This one would do one 1pl8 set on bench press every 5 minutes and then walk around the gym singing to himself. Another kid with 3 different bags on 3 different pieces of equipment while he quarter repped 85 on OHP.
 
Went to the gym 3 hours later than I did yesterday and didn't see anyone doing something stupid or getting in my way. Gonna fuck up my sleep schedule for a month to not deal with them anymore
 
Why is it I can deadlift 2 plate just fine but when I do shrugs with 75lbs dumbbells my grip strength starts failing?
 
The Stranger said:
Why is it I can deadlift 2 plate just fine but when I do shrugs with 75lbs dumbbells my grip strength starts failing?
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Because you aren't holding and jiggling your deadlift for an extended period of time. Just use straps. I shrug 315 for 20+ on the trap bar and I wouldn't be able to do that if I had to hold it the whole time.
 
do you guys buy your own straps or use the ones in the gym?
if you buy them, which ones (traditional, olympic, 8s, etc)?
 
24nagging said:
do you guys buy your own straps or use the ones in the gym?
if you buy them, which ones (traditional, olympic, 8s, etc)?
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Both, since my gym is in my basement. I use traditional, cheap Gymreapers from Amazon. Works fine for heavy deadlifts and heavy dumbbells. I never really looked into the difference until now. To me, olympic seems too loosey-goosie; I don't do cleans/jerks/snatch. Figure-8s sound like I'll dislocate my wrist if I decide to drop.

Something about the ritual of getting the wraps on tight helps with psyching up, so it's a mental boost as well as a grip boost.
 
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