The Bodybuilders Thread!

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I have hangover day... not ideal.

Also had a sick wife and missing dog last night, so I'm suffering from sleep deprivation, will gym tomorrow.
 
Can use it for deadlifts, should be able to lift more weight than standard deadlift.
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Interesting, was watching the T guys on Youtube talking about trap bar not stressing your lower back as much since you in the middle of the weight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8gmMAOKBxI

Cant weight till I pick everything up, will report when I collect it this coming weekend.
 
Hemps said:
Interesting, was watching the T guys on Youtube talking about trap bar not stressing your lower back as much since you in the middle of the weight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8gmMAOKBxI

Cant weight till I pick everything up, will report when I collect it this coming weekend.
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That looks just waaay to awkward. I'm not sure I'll be comfortable with that.
 
Tinuva said:
Going up with deadlift should be fairly safe, just keep in mind, do not activate your biceps, you can very easily tear them. All you have to do, is make sure you keep your arms locked straight, then if it is too heavy, you can always just drop the weight and apologize to the people that may get upset with you dropping the weight.
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OK, well then i won't be going for max DL then unless i am somewhere that has bouncy plates or where dropping the DL is normal after a lift (a la Crossfit). Thanks :)
 
Tinuva said:
What is your current bodyweight and how tall are you?
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85kg and I think 183cm. Nothing breathtaking, but I had always thought that 100 would be too heavy.

Edit: My Bad. I was talking Romanian Deadlift. Trying to sleep now as the DOMS sets in. Eish .
 
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Thoughts on sumo DL vs conventional? Do u guys try to do both types or stick to just the one?

edit: Why do people have to wear singlets for powerlifting competitions?? :erm:

Yahoo Answers says this:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070415160243AAk1Yng
Typically they are one piece uniforms that stretch. With T-shirts, singlets, shorts or sweat pants, there can always be longshot problems of rips, tears or elastic breaking, which isn't good when lifting/squating a huge amount of weight.
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Hemps said:
Ease of mind to replace my Trojan equipment, always in the back of my mind that the equipment might fail and weight come crashing down on me.
I have already seen this equipment and it's all soldered together, some of it's been abused but that's gymming.
A month back I was going to spend about 5k on a single bench off fitness supply website.
Lucky I got the cable cross over, he still has plenty equipment, hack squat, leg press and benches etc available.
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Where is this? I'm looking for a decline bench.
 
So I can barely do 70kg on squads because I try and break 90°, and keep it controlled.
Another oke at the office go over 100kg, which always amazed me until yesterday I mentioned my trying to break 90°
, and he was surprised.
So now which is better, lighter and going down like you're taking a nice steaming dump or heavier and not so much down?

Rested a week due to a cold and of course I nearly puked @ streetfit this morning, we had to do everything with a 20kg plate(even burpees).
And I'm sore from yesterday (doing reg parker 5x5) and suddenly I have to do 30 squads with 20kg
 
kolaval said:
So I can barely do 70kg on squads because I try and break 90°, and keep it controlled.
Another oke at the office go over 100kg, which always amazed me until yesterday I mentioned my trying to break 90°
, and he was surprised.
So now which is better, lighter and going down like you're taking a nice steaming dump or heavier and not so much down?

Rested a week due to a cold and of course I nearly puked @ streetfit this morning, we had to do everything with a 20kg plate(even burpees).
And I'm sore from yesterday (doing reg parker 5x5) and suddenly I have to do 30 squads with 20kg
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Squats*

If you want to brag, go heavier and do half squats, but unless it is your goal to only practice the first half of a squat, it will be only that, half a squat.

A proper squat means going just just below parallel. This is the upper line of you upper legs need to be parallel to the ground. In fact, it is strange that it is bodybuilders that do half squats, and power-lifters that do full squats, because bodybuilders aim for range of motion and time under tension. You can get time under tension with half a squat, but not full range of motion, where the biggest benefit of any exercise lies.
 
Yep, fail there:
A squad is a small military unit.
Squat, a lower-body exercise in strength and conditioning.
I would offer the excuse of being afrikaans, but my afrikaans spelling is even worse these days.

Still it's amazing the burn of 30x20kg squats(even if you leave out the weight and just do 30 squats) when i'm chuffed at being (barely) able to do 5x70kg.
 
Tinuva said:
Squats*

If you want to brag, go heavier and do half squats, but unless it is your goal to only practice the first half of a squat, it will be only that, half a squat.

A proper squat means going just just below parallel. This is the upper line of you upper legs need to be parallel to the ground. In fact, it is strange that it is bodybuilders that do half squats, and power-lifters that do full squats, because bodybuilders aim for range of motion and time under tension. You can get time under tension with half a squat, but not full range of motion, where the biggest benefit of any exercise lies.
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When I squat, it's almost ass to the floor. Did 2 reps of 220kg yesterday.
 
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