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People who hold barbell weights while standing and rotate their core...

  • 21-01-2009 10:30am
    #1
    AARRRGH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,382 ✭✭✭✭


    Hello

    I'm just looking for opinions on this.

    I dislike crunches (currently I do plank type exercises) so I'm looking for some alternative exercises to work my stomach area.

    I sometimes see people standing in the gym while holding a heavy barbell weight in front of their chest. They sort of rotate their body so each part of their core has to manage the weight of the barbell. It sort of looks like they're dancing with the weight.

    Does this work or is it inefficient?

    Thanks


Comments

  • #2
    Blacktie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,903 ✭✭✭Blacktie.


    I find after a heavy day of squats and deadlifts the next day my core feels it big time! Just focus on them for a while and you'll be building muscle all over :-).


  • #3
    Roper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,448 ✭✭✭Roper


    I think all it takes is a bit of common sense to know what's going on with an exercise like that. A barbell, minimum 20kgs. Hold it and then twist your spinal column, arrest the momentum of the weight by twisting back the other way...

    Would you do it? Lots of good ways to work your stomach without doing something retarded. Try pulldowns, handle behind the neck bending at the waist on the lat pulldown machine. Knee tucks while hanging off the chinning bar, L sits from the same position. Don't copy what you see people doing in the gym, remember that 50% of the population have a below average IQ.


  • #4
    AARRRGH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,382 ✭✭✭✭AARRRGH


    Roper wrote: »
    Lots of good ways to work your stomach without doing something retarded.

    That's what I was thinking. I figured it might be a fairly inefficent exercice.

    Roper wrote: »
    Don't copy what you see people doing in the gym, remember that 50% of the population have a below average IQ.

    I make an effort not to copy people in my gym. Some of the stuff I see is frankly quite amazing.


  • #5
    Degsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    AARRRGH wrote: »




    I make an effort not to copy people in my gym. Some of the stuff I see is frankly quite amazing.


    On one of the lat pulldowns in my gym there's a sign saying "do not pull down behind your neck,its dangerous and uselesS" or words to that effect.
    Guess what?
    Yes.....


  • #6
    AARRRGH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,382 ✭✭✭✭AARRRGH


    Speaking of retardedness in the gym, I don't think I'll ever be able ok with skinnyish lads wearing gloves and lifting belts.

    EDIT: Sure while I'm at it, the gay guys trying to chat me up in the changing room. WTF is that all about?! Inappropriate...


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  • #7
    madmik
    Closed Accounts Posts: 423 ✭✭madmik


    AARRRGH wrote: »
    Speaking of retardedness in the gym, I don't think I'll ever be able ok with skinnyish lads wearing gloves and lifting belts.

    EDIT: Sure while I'm at it, the gay guys trying to chat me up in the changing room. WTF is that all about?! Inappropriate...

    What gym is that?


  • #8
    AARRRGH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,382 ✭✭✭✭AARRRGH


    Jackie Skellys Clarendon Street.

    It's a nice gym though. The skinny lads wearing gloves and the gay chatting up doesn'y really bother me, but they're still a bit odd...


  • #9
    bridmwhite@gmai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22 ✭bridmwhite@gmai


    Roper wrote: »
    remember that 50% of the population have a below average IQ.

    50% of the population have a below median IQ; the number with a below average IQ can be greater or larger than this.


  • #10
    Roper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,448 ✭✭✭Roper


    bridmwhite@gmai wrote: »
    50% of the population have a below median IQ; the number with a below average IQ can be greater or larger than this.
    Yeah I can just see me quipping with that in a social situation now. I'd say the long winter evenings fly by in your company...


  • #11
    Mikel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 863 ✭✭✭Mikel


    bridmwhite@gmai wrote: »
    50% of the population have a below median IQ; the number with a below average IQ can be greater or larger than this.
    If it's pedantry you want he didn't specify the arithmetic mean, average can mean several things.
    Do I win?

    OP, try leg raises from the pull up bar, ot the L sits mentioned above


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  • #12
    Thomas_S_Hunterson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,151 ✭✭✭Thomas_S_Hunterson


    bridmwhite@gmai wrote: »
    50% of the population have a below median IQ; the number with a below average IQ can be greater or larger than this.

    Actually the IQ test is designed to yield normally distributed results Given that the normal curve is symmetric (around the mean), it is entirely reasonable to say that 50% of the population are above/below.


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