Zorch Posted October 14, 2013 Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 I know that there's a reason why Runners should do squats, but the Surfer in me can't remember shit One big reason, which may not apply to 100% of people is to correct muscle imbalances. Muscle imbalances(particularly a weak posterior chain) can lead to oddities in form and potentially inuries - particularly knee issues and/or iliotibial band syndrome. Just in general, you should take note of how much you're using your hamstrings and quads, and how tired you're getting. If your hamstrings are worn out before your quads, it's a good sign that you should work on strengthening them. The old saying that you're only as strong as your weakest link applies here - as soon as one muscle group fatigues you'll slow down, and/or your form will tend to get worse(injury risk). Any endurance runner needs a strong core and posterior chain - and there are a number of runners who may benefit from giving a little attention to them. "Restlessness is discontent - and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man-and I will show you a failure." -Thomas Edison Link to comment
Tony Posted October 14, 2013 Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 So much fail at the gym last Friday. I don't pay it that much attention until it holds me up. Two guys doing shoulder rolls? in the squat rack. A couple making eyes at each other holding up one of the two deadlift spots. And about 5 guys deadlifting together but taking 10 minutes between sets because they're talking. Ghoul MonkLevel 6 Push ups: Yellow Belt Link to comment
I-Jo Posted October 14, 2013 Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 So much fail at the gym last Friday. I don't pay it that much attention until it holds me up. Two guys doing shoulder rolls? in the squat rack. A couple making eyes at each other holding up one of the two deadlift spots. And about 5 guys deadlifting together but taking 10 minutes between sets because they're talking. I don't understand... you can dead lift anywhere- you don't need a "deadlift" spot. Link to comment
Tony Posted October 14, 2013 Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 I don't understand... you can dead lift anywhere- you don't need a "deadlift" spot.I understand you can deadlift anywhere, the gym manager, on the other hand, does not. At my gym there are two spots with rubber mats, bumper plates, and a barbell for deadlifts/rows/olympic lift. All the other barbells are associated with a bench or rack. I often take a bar from one of the ten benches and use it; however, if the gym is busy, you're told to put the bar back on the bench and go to one of the bars on the ground. That's what I meant by deadlift spot. Ghoul MonkLevel 6 Push ups: Yellow Belt Link to comment
pwallace Posted October 14, 2013 Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 I understand you can deadlift anywhere, the gym manager, on the other hand, does not. At my gym there are two spots with rubber mats, bumper plates, and a barbell for deadlifts/rows/olympic lift. All the other barbells are associated with a bench or rack. I often take a bar from one of the ten benches and use it; however, if the gym is busy, you're told to put the bar back on the bench and go to one of the bars on the ground. That's what I meant by deadlift spot. LAME! Level 0 Human, Monk 82%82% Lose 75 lbsStartin Fresh"Nothing is ever easy." Zeddicus Zull Zorander"Do or Do Not, There is no try" Yoda"Weak people face life obstacles with an excuse in their hand, strong peple carry a hammer."Estemated 1RMBench: 195lbsSquat: 245lbsDeadlift: 295lbsTotal weight: 735lbsGoal Weight 1000lbs Link to comment
I-Jo Posted October 14, 2013 Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 I understand you can deadlift anywhere, the gym manager, on the other hand, does not. At my gym there are two spots with rubber mats, bumper plates, and a barbell for deadlifts/rows/olympic lift. All the other barbells are associated with a bench or rack. I often take a bar from one of the ten benches and use it; however, if the gym is busy, you're told to put the bar back on the bench and go to one of the bars on the ground. That's what I meant by deadlift spot. That's just stupid. LAME!I concur. You need a new gym LOL my gym doesn't have any special 'area'- I mean we have 1 power cage and 2 of those like half rack squat things- most people do their dead lifting there- but I have given up my space for sure to someone who wants to squat. I think we have like 8 or 10 spare barebells for benching- so yeah- I steal them all the time- I have no shame. blarg- that sucks. esp with a crowd holding it up- I feel like 2 people rotating through heavy lifts takes up a shit load of time- much less like... 5. 1 Link to comment
Timmy M Posted October 14, 2013 Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 saw an odd thing today... 2 obvious newbies doing cable rows, guy not doing them sits down with a massive arch in his back, bracing like mad, the guy doing the rows uses 1st guy as a seat back and has his back rounded to match his mates arch, he then proceeds to do rows that have no back action whatsoeverkinda wanted to say something but i was in a hurry and i don't usually train at that time anyway (t'was the broing hour on a monday...*shudder* luckily i did some arse to ankles squats and pendlay rows to balance things out a bit) Link to comment
Angie_Phoenix Posted October 15, 2013 Report Share Posted October 15, 2013 Conversation with an elderly man at the gym.Him looking at the treadmill I just got off- "you run 30 minutes?"Me- "nope, 26 I've only been running since September. I can't run 30 minutes straight yet."Him- "wait till you get older"Me- "I don't know I can do more now than I could when I was younger" Him-"me too"...pause..."that's right, you've got to lick the salt off the nuts" (I think it was implying you have to get everything you can from life not a creepy pick up line ) Link to comment
Timmy M Posted October 15, 2013 Report Share Posted October 15, 2013 ooooor... he was telling you that you'd sweated an awful lot and need to replenish your sodium Link to comment
Timmy M Posted October 24, 2013 Report Share Posted October 24, 2013 had a right mix of stuff today:clips on the plate loaded leg extension... 1 15kg plate a side with room for about 6 more of them... i mean come on... IT'S A FIXED AXIS!!!!!behind the back upright rows on the smith, bar moves about 6 inches'yates rows' done pretty much vertically and with about 3 inch of movement, in the squat rack and off the safetiessame guy as the rows on the smith, pushdowns with the rowing attachment shown below, elbows pointed outwards, the guy also had an elbow brace on... your choice of pushdowns my be the reason you need a brace my friend Link to comment
Gainsdalf the Whey Posted October 24, 2013 Report Share Posted October 24, 2013 "Women skipping the weight room because of misconceptions about weights is just as silly as men skipping yoga because they're afraid it will make them get their periods." This is going on FB and possibly my signature. Massrandir, Barkûn, Swolórin, The Whey Pilgrim 500 / 330 / 625 Challenges: 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 31 32 34 35 36 39 41 42 45 46 47 48 49 Current Challenge "No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. What a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable. " ~ Socrates "Friends don't let friends squat high." ~ Chad Wesley Smith "It's a dangerous business, Brodo, squatting to the floor. You step into the rack, and if you don't keep your form, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to." ~ Gainsdalf Link to comment
Cr33g Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 Apparently when squatting, you don't need to squat down low. All you need to do is bend your knees and flex your quads. And then - you will get mad gains. The last part was added by me, but the first part is what some guy told me. Because apparently squatting low is going to break every single joint in my lower body. Link to comment
Timmy M Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 i don't get why most people believe that parallel is hamstrings to parallel... it's hip crease to knee crease! saw one guy even worse the other day though, wasn't getting depth on anything, he got up to 100kg and we thought he'd not go any further... NOPE! 11, 120, 130 aaaaaaaaaand 140kg! he also managed to half rep some front squats with 60kg, i wasn't aware it was possible to screw up a front squat... Link to comment
andygates Posted November 2, 2013 Report Share Posted November 2, 2013 Never underestimate the ability of people to half-ass a squat. Link to comment
Artinum Posted November 2, 2013 Report Share Posted November 2, 2013 Which is a neat trick, given that it's supposed to work your whole ass. What happens when you play Final Fantasy VII with everyone called Cloud? It gets quite confusing... https://ff7crowdofclouds.wordpress.com/ Link to comment
andygates Posted November 2, 2013 Report Share Posted November 2, 2013 *My* whole ass is so sore I can't sit comfortably today, but I was doing pause-at-parallel squats earlier. Actually, wind back a while and I was doing what I thought were decent squats, but turned out to be the traditional too-damn-shallow affairs. It took asking a trainer to eyeball my squat depth for powerlifting meet legality ("hey, check my depth?" "dude, red lights" "whaaa?") to highlight the problem. A solo trainee is always at risk of doing things that they think feel and look okay, but are horrible. Link to comment
Guest Dirty Deads Posted November 3, 2013 Report Share Posted November 3, 2013 Saw a guy in his mid-late 60's on the leg press doing 3-6" motions. Later he sees me on there shoving my knees into my armpits and says "I would go that far, but I'm not young and have bad knees" So I say "By only doing the first few inches you're stressing your knees more.Then he comes with this bit of fantastic "I only lift like that in case I ever need to lift a car off a friend and he only needs 3-4" of room to escape."I guess if they need 5"+ they die. Link to comment
Georges Posted November 3, 2013 Report Share Posted November 3, 2013 ^ Hey, dude, friendship only goes so far... This used to be where my weight loss progress bar was. Maybe it will be here again when I'm ready to face the scale and work on my fat problem. NewBattleLog OldBattleLog (between challenges) Spoiler Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. -John Wooden 2013 Running Tally: I lost track in July, at 148.925 ((plus 0.5)) but I finished a Very Slow marathon in October. Then I mostly stopped. 2014 Running Tally: 134.1 miles plus 5k (as of 17 September) lost track again, but I know I had at least 147.2 plus 5k for 2014. 2015 Running Tally: 41.2 treadmilled miles & 251.93 real world miles 2016 Running Tally: 0 Link to comment
Morrigainz Posted November 5, 2013 Report Share Posted November 5, 2013 Why are they trying to clean with alternate grip? that doesn't even make any sense. 1 Level ? Half-Dwarf/Half-Amazon Warrior STR:21.25 STA:15 DEX: 10.95 CON: 14 WIS:15.5 CHA:17 SWOLE BUCKS: 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Link to comment
Gainsdalf the Whey Posted November 5, 2013 Report Share Posted November 5, 2013 There are some gems in the audio [AND in the Comments] Although the title card says "Albany Crossfit," I don't believe this is really a Crossfit workout; just a bunch of knuckleheads pretending to be weightlifters The mixed grip power cleans make me want to punch my screen. Any weight that allows you to switch grips while holding it on your belly does not require mixed grip. And it's not a 1 time thing, these clips were taken at multiple times of day and there were multiple references to PRs. Massrandir, Barkûn, Swolórin, The Whey Pilgrim 500 / 330 / 625 Challenges: 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 31 32 34 35 36 39 41 42 45 46 47 48 49 Current Challenge "No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. What a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable. " ~ Socrates "Friends don't let friends squat high." ~ Chad Wesley Smith "It's a dangerous business, Brodo, squatting to the floor. You step into the rack, and if you don't keep your form, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to." ~ Gainsdalf Link to comment
chairohkey Posted November 5, 2013 Report Share Posted November 5, 2013 That video has been floating around for awhile now. They're doing some Strongman stuff and continental cleaning an axle. Its a legit technique including mix gripping. Still probably not the best idea for weak noobs to try. Link to comment
chairohkey Posted November 5, 2013 Report Share Posted November 5, 2013 Although the title card says "Albany Crossfit," I don't believe this is really a Crossfit workout; just a bunch of knuckleheads pretending to be weightlifters See, you're applying Logic to something Xfitter-ish ... that's a bad path, right there Everyone who's familiar with me knows I'm a CF skeptic but please don't bash them out of ignorance. Link to comment
I-Jo Posted November 5, 2013 Report Share Posted November 5, 2013 I have so many many many questions. Link to comment
chairohkey Posted November 5, 2013 Report Share Posted November 5, 2013 As a Runner, a Surfer, a Triathlete, a long-standing member of Slowtwitch, and as a friend of someone who OWNS a Crossfit joint, I have many tools at my disposal. other than just Ignorance; it just works 90% of the time Makes sense that you didn't recognize a traditional Strongman lift and passed it off as "just a bunch of knuckleheads pretending to be weightlifters". Link to comment
This is Seth Posted November 5, 2013 Report Share Posted November 5, 2013 Oh hey, more people talking about continental cleans. These things are like the litmus test for lifters: Do you know what it is or do you think it's idiots with bad form. You ever see those guys who look like they totally used to be in shape? I'm working to get back to that... Link to comment
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