New to the forum I guess although I've been on the site for about a year and a half. I agree about the arguments though. I should know better and just stay away from the forums, lol!
Really I'm not trying to pick a fight over the squat rack. I've done curls as well from there but, as you've mentioned, only after making sure that no one else was going to be using it for squats, lol!
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To be honest I was just being a smart a$$ because we can get some pretty heated arguements going over this subject. I admit i have curled in the squat rack but only after making sure nobody was doing legs at the time. I see your new around here, so I'm sure you will see one of these disputes soon. welcome to the O35!
what are floor wipers? need some new ab exercises.
floor wipers are taking a weighted BB and holding it up like you're starting a bench press with your legs flat on the floor (just lying on your back). Keep the bar locked out and take your legs and touch one of the plates on one end, lower your legs and then touch the other plate. You're basically swaying back and forth lowering to the ground each time using your abs. It's a pretty nice ab exercise.
anyone know if there is an official name to the one I posted for shoulders/traps upstream? I mean, outside of "guy you stole that from made it up ~ raise".
floor wipers are taking a weighted BB and holding it up like you're starting a bench press with your legs flat on the floor (just lying on your back). Keep the bar locked out and take your legs and touch one of the plates on one end, lower your legs and then touch the other plate. You're basically swaying back and forth lowering to the ground each time using your abs. It's a pretty nice ab exercise.
anyone know if there is an official name to the one I posted for shoulders/traps upstream? I mean, outside of "guy you stole that from made it up ~ raise".
Thanks. I've done them just didn't know that's what they were called.
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A couple other things I love to do, that I have not seen mentioned, nor seen anyone in my gym do, are 45 degree incline curls, Gironda drag curls, and wide grip tricep pressdowns.
On second thought, I do remember watching a guy try out the incline curls, after I had done a few sets. He grabbed the 40 pound dumbbells that he normally heaved up in some kind of full body curls....... sat down on the bench, leaned back and let his arms hang down....... and froze. He could not curl that weight for a single rep with his bi's isolated like that! He ended up just letting the weights drop, and got up cussing under his breath....... it was quite funny!
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reverse grip benching
good mornings
leg press calf raises
standing ham curls
db ham curls
bb rows (I don't see them done @ my gym, maybe your's but not mine)
overhead cable ext
bench knee up/crunch
kneeling narrow grip pulldowns
db pullovers for chest
db pullovers for lats
1 arm db rows off the rack
supinated 1 arm pulldowns
Gironda neck presses
GHR's
vacuums
db press/flyes
Arnold's
braced behind the back shrugs
incline bench lateral db raises
rear db laterals
low pulley cable shrugs
full range of motion
and...
puking on leg day.
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Romanian deads and weighted hyperextensions using a 50 lb dumbbell and holding for a count of 3 at the top of each rep.
I bet you don't see those from men or women.
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Long-Bar Rows
Thank you
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Just talked to a guy that used to belong to Planet Fitness. He quit that gym. They wouldn't let him do standing military presses. The presses had to be seated.
That sucks. That's one of my favorite lifts!
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Weighted pull ups.
I've seen lots of people doing different types of cable pull downs on machines, but I've rarely seen many people hook weights to a dip belt and proceed to do pull ups.
I love'em.
I've only see a guy do them one time. Hell, doing regular pullups is not unheard of, but certainly not an everyday thing.
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puking on leg day.
Lol! Good one!
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That might be true but the simple fact is you're causing, according to soft tissue expert and frequent contributor to ironman mag, Joseph Horrigan, a good deal of shearing to the cartilage in your knees by artificially stopping the the lift where stress on that cartilage hits it at a weak and thin area.
Artificially stopping? My full range for me just so happens to be above parallel, I currently don't have the flexibility to go any lower without rounding my back. If I could, I would just to say I can do it... I stopped doing atg recklessly over 10 years ago. My half squat would be what others consider a quarter squat at present.
Where I train, I have yet to see a dude go past parallel without rounding & knees floating past toes... the day I do, I'll start a thread about it & ask the guy if I can film it to post here...
..With the exception of one gal recently, I watched her break parallel doin' hack squats w/ the smith machine. Her back didn't cave & her knees were in line... I made a comment to my workout partner about how nice her legs were except her butt was way too big!!!
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...but the point was that there is no need for a non-PLer to do them. You could get the same pump by doing partials with dbells in that range with out adding to the wear and tear to the shoulders of initiating the lift at such an artificial starting point. Actually since the the fibers in the pecs don't fire as effectively in that range, you'd probably get an even better pump by doing dbell partials from the bottom portion of the stroke, ie. x-reps ala Steve Holman and Jonathan Lawson.
There's that word again... "umm" what artificial starting point are you talking 'bout?
Lying DB rows
Lying DB front "y" raise
Seated modified db front raise (low/out to forward/in)
Lying cable curl
Elbow supported one-handed db external rotations
Seated hammergrip laterals
Kelso shrugs on the supported t-bar row machine
Incline DB shrugs
Smith front and back shrugs
Smith steep incline bench presses
Seriously though deadlifts are one of those exercises that no one seems to want to do. Its part of my program and has been, reguarly for years but I'll be damned if I ever see any guys at the college weight room doing it. Why? Its a tough, uncomfortable lift that takes more effort than the majority of guys are willing to put in and its not a glory lift like barbell bench press. The same thing goes for good mornings.
I swear if I see another turd in the weight room doing chest for the the third time in a week while walking on matchsticks I'm going to blow a blood vessel in my forehead, lol!
In my whole life I've never seen anyone doing deadlifts at any gym I've been to.
Never, not even once lol.
The only one I've seen is myself, it's my fav exercise.
I don't think it has to do with how hard an exercise it is.
Calve exercises are tougher if you ask me, they burn like hell.
I always see people moaning and farting doing leg presses, benches and stuff till failure so it's not about effort.
It's because people go to they gym and they are given a workout to do and it never ever has deadlifts in it.
Most don't even know what it is.
And they don't know what it does either.
Biceps curls will give you big arms, what are deadlifts gonna do for you?
I've talked to some of my friends who work out about it and they were all concerned about injuring themselves so I gave up.
Let's face it, 90% of people hit the gym to look good for the Summer, they could't give a rats' *** about deadlifting.
Of course it's one of the two best exercise for packing on mass and staying lean for life but try to explain that to people who think ab exercises will burn the fat off your belly.
Still, I kinda like it that way, I'm the only one in the gym who does them, they do abs for 45 minutes I do the king of exercises, feels great!!!
I'll second that.
When I do them it feels a little weird that I'm at the gym with all that equipment around and I'm doing an exercise I can do on the street so to speak but, well, it's one of the best upper body exercises and still people don't do it!
I've seen lots of people doing different types of cable pull downs on machines, but I've rarely seen many people hook weights to a dip belt and proceed to do pull ups.
I love'em.
yea
it seems most folks are either too weak to do body weight pullups or heavier
or they are too strong "meaning have the mistaken idea they aren't beneficial"
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I've never been to a gym that had the machine either and if you don't have a partner these are good workarounds.
I like doing
zercher squats, lumberjack squats (w/or w/o an OH press), glute cable kickbacks (even better is the 4 way hip extension machine, but only 1 gym had those), cable pull throughs & iron crosses...
I've been wanting to try BB zercher bulgarian split squats
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This my first post on this forum. When I was in my twenties and now in my forties whenever I mention this exercise I get a dumbfounded look.
Zottman curls.
I do these on the preacher... and it's true, I see nobody doin' 'em. I posted a youtube demo vid in Fitty's thread on short biceps. Nobody responded or repp'd, everyone must of thought it was too alien. I love 'em!
oh yeah & repp'd, now you need 49 more posts for it to show.
I'll second that.
When I do them it feels a little weird that I'm at the gym with all that equipment around and I'm doing an exercise I can do on the street so to speak but, well, it's one of the best upper body exercises and still people don't do it!
I always finish off chest day with pushups but I go home and do them on my pushup pro handles.
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I would end up injured if I tried that.
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DB pullovers (across the bench). They can be a great way to finish off your chest workout IMO.
Totally agree. Love em!
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This my first post on this forum. When I was in my twenties and now in my forties whenever I mention this exercise I get a dumbfounded look.
Zottman curls.
Thanks. I'll try those too.
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I've seen guys in my gym doing something similar to this, but not for legs. Instead of going up and down, they swing it from side to side, in an arc. Basically a weighted oblique / delt / lat exercise. Usually done by MMA wannabees.
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