Rant: Back up in your ass with the resurrection.

[spirit3530]

Originally Posted by DOLT.

Question

Is my ban from this thread still active?

yes for all-times

Originally Posted by demike

I am surprised no one mentioned the MMA fights that were on PPV this past weekend, anyone watch them? There were some quick fights.

they were meh for the well known names. Belfort looked sharp.

[Screamin]

Originally Posted by kvk1

New House tonight, bishes.

Oh crap! *runs to check DVR*

Phew



EDIT: When did they start censoring "sh!t?"

[Lencho]

Originally Posted by DOLT.

Question

Is my ban from this thread still active?

Keep posting, and you'll find out soon enough.

Originally Posted by Turco

I could.

We should set up a PPV Texas rant wrestling event.

We can serve BBQ afterwards.



EDIT: ^^ Been censoring that for a while now, brah.

[pFuzzz]

I'm reasonably sure I just typed the word priapism for the first time ever.

[Screamin]

Originally Posted by pFuzzz

I'm reasonably sure I just typed the word priapism for the first time ever.

However, the question remains...would you rather have to type 'priapism' or 'prolapse'?

[pFuzzz]

would find that famous rotten.com picture...but I just ate.

[Screamin]

Originally Posted by pFuzzz

would find that famous rotten.com picture...but I just ate.

[Drekkor]

Originally Posted by Screamin

[img]http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/jhferris/goatse.jpg[img]

Some tricky fcker like turco got me with that back in the day over msn. It's very rare that I don't check a URL first before taking a link now, lesson learned.

[demike]

I don't talk to anyone from here on msn or yahoo or aim......oh thats right, I don't have any of those.....

[GREENFEATHER]

Originally Posted by Striver

I love how in the States you don't consider that to be a long way.

When you make your own fuel, it's not a long way. I can go that 200 miles round trip for about $3.50.

Originally Posted by =M=

When you drive a car that gets 50 mpg while hammerin' down the highway at 80 mph, it doesn't feel that far.


Course, we've been known to take an 8 hour trip to North Carolina to hang out on the beach for a couple hours, then turn around and drive home.

And drive to Ocean City to take a piss, lulz.

Originally Posted by spirit3530

We go 100mph where ever we live.

You drive that slow?

Originally Posted by Mindi911

I don't think our trains go that fast.

You're a Brit, things operate slower over there.

Originally Posted by W8isGR8

Seriously, I'll be stuck there for 3 weeks. Nov 2-20

Well, let us know when you touch down or moor up, I dun wanna know if it's mooring,here so we can set up some sorta place to go get a bite to eat. There's a place in Alexandria called Thai Thai that has fukn AWESOME foodz.

[mightymouse37]

Anyone else out there had to deal with lat mind/muscle connection problems? Back day used to be a breeze for me but ever since I dislocated my right & left shoulders back in 07 & 08, respectively, I have a hell of a time actually feeling my lats contract on any back exercise. All I can focus on is the shoulder joint and what my scapulae are doing. It's frustrating >=(

[demike]

Originally Posted by mightymouse37

Anyone else out there had to deal with lat mind/muscle connection problems? Back day used to be a breeze for me but ever since I dislocated my right & left shoulders back in 07 & 08, respectively, I have a hell of a time actually feeling my lats contract on any back exercise. All I can focus on is the shoulder joint and what my scapulae are doing. It's frustrating >=(

What exercises are you doing and not getting good MMC?

[mightymouse37]

Originally Posted by demike

What exercises are you doing and not getting good MMC?

wide & medium grip pull-downs (don't trust pull-ups anymore, lol), t-bars, bb rows, close-grip cable rows, etc.

Was thinking of trying 1-arm db rows but the full stretch makes me nervous - I don't even press out all the way on bench.

[chazzy1864]

One thing I've found that has helped me with my back moves, was to start the movement with my shoulder blades. On a pull up, squeeze my shoulder blades down and together (which puffs out my chest) and pull my chest to the bar, not my chin over the bar.

On bent over rows, I squeeze my shoulder blades back (again puffs out the chest) and then do the row. Making sure the first part of the move was only my shoulder blades, helped me target my back much more.

Also, picture your hands merely as hooks, do not pull with them, pull with your elbow. If you have trouble with that, use lifting hooks/straps.





This quote made me think of bb.com:
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
- Sidney J. Harris

[theshoupguy]

Originally Posted by mightymouse37

wide & medium grip pull-downs (don't trust pull-ups anymore, lol), t-bars, bb rows, close-grip cable rows, etc.

Was thinking of trying 1-arm db rows but the full stretch makes me nervous - I don't even press out all the way on bench.

I was thinking of 1-arm db rows when I read your last post... I get a really good MMC on pulling those to the hip. Maybe just start light and work on stretching the full ROM?

[mightymouse37]

Originally Posted by chazzy1864

One thing I've found that has helped me with my back moves, was to start the movement with my shoulder blades. On a pull up, squeeze my shoulder blades down and together (which puffs out my chest) and pull my chest to the bar, not my chin over the bar.

On bent over rows, I squeeze my shoulder blades back (again puffs out the chest) and then do the row. Making sure the first part of the move was only my shoulder blades, helped me target my back much more.

Also, picture your hands merely as hooks, do not pull with them, pull with your elbow. If you have trouble with that, use lifting hooks/straps.





This quote made me think of bb.com:
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
- Sidney J. Harris

Thanks, I use the "hooks" trick already, the shoulder blade thing may be tricky. It just never feels "right" when I pull. It doesn't hurt, and I'm able to move the weight, but for whatever reason it just doesn't feel like I'm activating my lats. I don't really feel it anywhere in particular, matter of fact. Weird.

[mightymouse37]

Originally Posted by theshoupguy

I was thinking of 1-arm db rows when I read your last post... I get a really good MMC on pulling those to the hip. Maybe just start light and work on stretching the full ROM?

Yeah, I may need to just go light on back day for a while. I have wide shoulders but my lats have really gone downhill since the dislocations and inevitable layoffs that followed. I have no training partner, but maybe I can convince that cute blonde girl at my gym to touch my lats on each rep till I get that connection back =P

[chazzy1864]

Originally Posted by mightymouse37

Thanks, I use the "hooks" trick already, the shoulder blade thing may be tricky. It just never feels "right" when I pull. It doesn't hurt, and I'm able to move the weight, but for whatever reason it just doesn't feel like I'm activating my lats. I don't really feel it anywhere in particular, matter of fact. Weird.

rows is harder to feel it for me. but pull ups, the chest ot bar, was the biggest factor for me.

[flbabyk]

Originally Posted by demike

Anyone have any tips on how to cure lower back pain? Only on left side though. Any help appreciated on what you have done that worked.

I know guys typically don't wanna hear it, but: yoga. Doing an hour or so 2-3x per week helps a lot with releasing muscular tension, and encouraging body awareness. If you're already suffering from an injury and can't work out maximally, yoga is a good substitute because it is self-guided. Good luck, hope you feel better.

[mAssholio]

Originally Posted by mightymouse37

Anyone else out there had to deal with lat mind/muscle connection problems?

High reps and keeping my scapula depressed [opposite of a shrug] were money when my MMC sucked. Nowadays I can get my lats sore with 3x5 wide T-bar rows

Originally Posted by chazzy1864

On bent over rows, I squeeze my shoulder blades back (again puffs out the chest) and then do the row. Making sure the first part of the move was only my shoulder blades, helped me target my back much more.

Didn't I tell you to stop that? Or am I thinking about someone else? hmmm

http://www.tmuscle.com/free_online_a...verload_part_1

Originally Posted by Paul Chek

The human body is highly intelligent and remarkably efficient. To protect itself from unwanted injury, the body will naturally sequence the recruitment of muscles to provide optimal load sharing across as many muscles and joints as possible. For example, when performing a bent-over row, the body will select the appropriate motor sequence to divide the load among all the pulling muscles.(1) This allows each working muscle to make its maximum contribution when most favorable with regard to optimal length/force and length/tension relationships.

An example of faulty load sharing can be witnessed in those individuals who have been taught to adduct their scapulae prior to initiating a pull with the lats and other muscles. This faulty motor sequence disrupts load sharing by first recruiting the scapular adductors ? shortening them beyond the range of their optimal length/force and length/tension relationships ? which then leaves the scapulohumeral musculature to perform the remainder of the work. This often leads to strain and trigger point development of the teres major, teres minor and infraspinatus muscles, or otherwise known as pattern overload.(1, 2)

The athlete who regularly performs pulling exercises in the manner described above will likely have a shortening of the scapulohumeral musculature which eventually leads to faulty scapulothoracic rhythm. The result is scapulae that rotate prematurely during all pulling or abduction movements. Over time, this results in stretch weakness of the middle and lower trapezius, and rhomboid musculature. Individuals with this type of dysfunction will present themselves clinically as experiencing pain between the shoulder blades and often demonstrate reduced range of motion in shoulder abduction, internal rotation, and shoulder flexion.

Through careful observation, you'll notice that athletes fitting the movement pattern described above chop their pulling movements into segments. The pull is usually initiated rapidly, favoring use of the now lengthened scapular adductor muscles. The pulling motion is terminated after 60-70% of the normal pulling range because the optimal working range of the short/strong scapulohumeral muscles and now lengthened scapular adductors has been reached; the scapular adductors are not weak, per say, they're just strong at the wrong time.

This pattern of overload, and many others can be seen during many exercises commonly performed in the gym. Although it may take a skilled therapist or corrective exercise specialist to identify many of them, it's safe to assume that your average gym rat or pocket calculator physical therapist with a wild new idea about how to perform an exercise isn't going to improve upon "Mother Nature." It's taken millions of years of natural development in the central nervous system (CNS) and peripheral nervous system to develop recruitment patterns that provide optimal load sharing. To test my theory, I consulted some of the oldest known experts on pulling, climbing and exercise (Figure 1). They told me, "if the body works, don't try to fix it!"

[theshoupguy]

Originally Posted by chazzy1864

rows is harder to feel it for me. but pull ups, the chest ot bar, was the biggest factor for me.

I'm the other way around -- I feel it more with rows than I do with pullups. On the flip side, if I do a few higher-rep sets of chinups, I'll feel it in my lats really good the next day.

[mAssholio]

Originally Posted by flbabyk

I know guys typically don't wanna hear it, but: yoga.

wtf is this hippie propaganda

[demike]

Originally Posted by mightymouse37

wide & medium grip pull-downs (don't trust pull-ups anymore, lol), t-bars, bb rows, close-grip cable rows, etc.

Was thinking of trying 1-arm db rows but the full stretch makes me nervous - I don't even press out all the way on bench.

Originally Posted by mightymouse37

Thanks, I use the "hooks" trick already, the shoulder blade thing may be tricky. It just never feels "right" when I pull. It doesn't hurt, and I'm able to move the weight, but for whatever reason it just doesn't feel like I'm activating my lats. I don't really feel it anywhere in particular, matter of fact. Weird.

What about close grip pull-downs? I find good MMC on close grip pulldowns as well as seated cable rows.

Have you tried just hanging from a pullup bar with a thumbless grip? Then just trying to flex your lats like that? Turco does this iirc and I do it sometimes as well. I would suggest doing that some and then once you get the feel of your lats you could try to make that feeling everytime you do a different exercise.

[BluntD]

Originally Posted by mAssholio

wtf is this hippie propaganda

That's what I thought when I saw you actually posted a pic

[mAssholio]

Originally Posted by BluntD

That's what I thought when I saw you actually posted a pic

i've posted 2 pics before

+vid

+n00dz
wut

[demike]

Originally Posted by mAssholio

i've posted 2 pics before

+vid

+n00dz
wut

You never sent me your noodz.....wutsupwitdat?

[theshoupguy]

Originally Posted by demike

You never sent me your noodz.....wutsupwitdat?

The vid had n00dz spliced in, Fight Club style.
If your mind could break the hypnotic nature of the game in the background and the blank burger-chomping stare behind the glasses, you could see them pop up from time to time.

[mAssholio]

Originally Posted by demike

You never sent me your noodz.....wutsupwitdat?

A single batch sent to the highest bidder (Turco)


+



Image unrelated, yet always appropriate.

[chazzy1864]

Originally Posted by mAssholio

High reps and keeping my scapula depressed [opposite of a shrug] were money when my MMC sucked. Nowadays I can get my lats sore with 3x5 wide T-bar rows


Didn't I tell you to stop that? Or am I thinking about someone else? hmmm

http://www.tmuscle.com/free_online_a...verload_part_1

no it was me.

I thought it was telling me to stop leaving my shoulder blades contracted throughout. But yeah, I don't do it anymore.

Also, I just advise that to someone if they are having problems feeling it. It might be bad to do long term, but it can definitely help them out in the short term.

[demike]

Originally Posted by theshoupguy

The vid had n00dz spliced in, Fight Club style.
If your mind could break the hypnotic nature of the game in the background and the blank burger-chomping stare behind the glasses, you could see them pop up from time to time.

Brb rewatching. nah rly

Originally Posted by mAssholio

A single batch sent to the highest bidder (Turco)
+

Image unrelated, yet always appropriate.

I think I still might have one PM you sent me.