The Bodybuilders Thread!

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Tamerlane said:
Please share any tips you have I wanna learn everything about this sport.
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I have reservations about bulk exercises. It looks good but is not very practical. You don’t (generally) move well with these – insufficient practise. For example (I only know male examples) Arnold Shwartzenegger is a product of bulk and strength exercises – Mr. Universe. Jean-Claude von Damme is a product of speed exercises – martial artist - with a gymnast’s muscle structure (forget his crap movies). It has been said that a top martial artist and a top dancer move in the same way. This is their muscle structure where balance and speed are privileged. Grace and poise follow involuntarily. You move well with this training (and fast). A gymnast’s muscle structure is superior to a bodybuilder’s muscle structure IMO. Takes more work, however.
 
Chris_H said:
Pick up the dumbells, put them om my quads and sit down on bench, fall backwards and using my legs "roll" the dumbells to the starting position, next to my chest, and then push :) It is a bit harder when you do incline presses and then I usually need some help getting it up the first rep...



True, but on the dumbells it is a bit harder than straight bar as you have to use more stabilizing muscles to keep the weight from snapping you arm or chest lol :)
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So that's a flat bench, dumbell press? I prefer bench press. When I do dumbell press I go far lighter than my max but instead of pressing I like to stretch is out so dumbell flys...
 
Sensorei said:
Problem with shoulder injuries like this is once you injure your rotator cuff tendons even after they heal and there is no pain you are left with scar tissue.
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Is it possible that it's not the rotator cuff? I find there is little or no pain except when I do bench press (in excess of 100kg) and shoulder press, shoulder press or anything simulating that is absolutely numbingly painful...
 
Chris_H said:
It is a bit harder when you do incline presses and then I usually need some help getting it up the first rep...
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With incline I throw myself back quite hard using momentum to swing the dumbells up for the first rep coz I don't have someone to spot me usually. Without the momentum I can't get them up. 45KG for 8 reps with no spot and I'm 82kg. Incline and shoulder press are my fave exercises now.
 
Sensorei said:
With incline I throw myself back quite hard using momentum to swing the dumbells up for the first rep coz I don't have someone to spot me usually. Without the momentum I can't get them up. 45KG for 8 reps with no spot and I'm 82kg. Incline and shoulder press are my fave exercises now.
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Incline is awsome! There is this one guy at my gym that does the same weight as me, but weighs about 20Kg less, some people are just stronger than others. I blame genetics and my parents :D
 
Chris_H said:
;) I'm the only one who posted pics in this thread so far, and like I said, I will post some just before my summer diet and then again around new years!
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Chris i have not seen your pics... we would like to see pics and see the progress guys come on
 
Chris_H said:
Incline is awsome! There is this one guy at my gym that does the same weight as me, but weighs about 20Kg less, some people are just stronger than others. I blame genetics and my parents :D
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Lol it sucks when some guys you see have these super genes. At my last gym there was an 80Kg guy who would squat 200kg (rugby player). It was mindblowing to watch coz he didn't even have a thick build. Just very ripped.

sandmanm34 said:
Is it possible that it's not the rotator cuff? I find there is little or no pain except when I do bench press (in excess of 100kg) and shoulder press, shoulder press or anything simulating that is absolutely numbingly painful...
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Sounds like rotator cuff to me. In your shoulder there are 3 deltoid muscles and 4 rotator cuff muscles/tendons. If your deltoids are injured you can always feel on the outside. Rotator cuffs you sometimes only feel the injury doing certain movements but then its a sharp pain usually.
 
Sensorei said:
Sounds like rotator cuff to me. In your shoulder there are 3 deltoid muscles and 4 rotator cuff muscles/tendons. If your deltoids are injured you can always feel on the outside. Rotator cuffs you sometimes only feel the injury doing certain movements but then its a sharp pain usually.
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mmmm... it feels/seems like a bit of both actually, deep seated pain but also a superficial pain... better get it x rayed..
 
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