Holding weights

MooseJam

Does holding weights as opposed to lifting them do anything ?
Say if I stood in a T with a pair of dumbells and timed myself every go

InKonspikuou2

Improve your grip maybe depending on the weight. Would want to be heavy. Try walking with them or holding them over your head.

j1974

MooseJam wrote: »

Does holding weights as opposed to lifting them do anything ?
Say if I stood in a T with a pair of dumbells and timed myself every go

having never done weights before, youre more likely to strain your rotary cuff. no!!! is the answer, you wont grow or get stronger at all. and if you use heavy weights, youll damage yourself faster.

just life them like anyone else does, in a press, in a lateral lift and in a front or back direction, though not as important as the former two lifts.

one of the best execises for overall size is cleane and press a good weight as many times (no more than ten) as you can, for as many sets. hurts bad next day.

If you did that on monday, squats and legs on wednesday, and bench and deadlift on friday, youll grow good. but maintain form, eat well, rest plenty and keep putting weights on.

cheers.

d'Oracle

MooseJam wrote: »

Does holding weights as opposed to lifting them do anything ?
Say if I stood in a T with a pair of dumbells and timed myself every go

There is a type of weight training called Isometric Contraction Training.
Thats all I know about it.

Gymnasts get pretty strong using a lot of static bodyweight training, although not exclusively.
Which is something that might interest you.

Can't really advise you on any of it.

An Citeog

In short, yes. I've never tried it personally and it's not particularly conventional but have a read of this article for more info.

itsallaboutheL

j1974 wrote: »

having never done weights before, youre more likely to strain your rotary cuff. no!!! .

OP search for a member called Boru. He was big into his isometric training and has some informative posts on it.

corkcomp

MooseJam wrote: »

Does holding weights as opposed to lifting them do anything ?
Say if I stood in a T with a pair of dumbells and timed myself every go

The question i would ask is this: if you have access to weights and the time to stand holding them why the hell dont you lift em? :pac:

Roper

The whole thing with isometrics is lifting the most weight you possibly can over a really short ROM, so doing that T thing isn't really isometrics in the sense of the training style. I've seen it and there's some science behind it but as usual, people take it as a total training system rather than as a part of the whole.

That T yoke you're talking about; there'd be a strength effect, but it would be minor and you'd reach diminishing returns more quickly than with other resistance training. I doubt you could go heavy enough to hurt yourself. If you are to do it, record it and put your progress up on youtube.

MooseJam

corkcomp wrote: »

The question i would ask is this: if you have access to weights and the time to stand holding them why the hell dont you lift em? :pac:

I think I'd find it a much easier way to gauge improvement in strength, if I can do it for x seconds today and x+1 tomorrow well yah things are improving, plus I just think I'd be more pleased with myself for managing to hold x weight up for x seconds, yeah gravity F U lol.

I do lift them too though

corkcomp

MooseJam wrote: »

I think I'd find it a much easier way to gauge improvement in strength, if I can do it for x seconds today and x+1 tomorrow well yah things are improving, plus I just think I'd be more pleased with myself for managing to hold x weight up for x seconds, yeah gravity F U lol.

I do lift them too though

yeah your spot on in that you are looking for constant progression but you should be looking to achieve this via more reps or higher weight

Roper

stop dissuading him, this will be gas. Put it on youtube! My target for you is a pair of 20kg plates held out for the duration of the Countdown theme. Go.

kumate_champ07

Ive done it a bit. crucifix with dumbells. as humans we lift things everyday, but we also hold things everyday, sometimes heavy things. so holding weights at the gym has its benefits too

rubadub

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmaKdA0mzWk

The next one is boru who was a user here, not around anymore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZpzW_TTqb8

Gaz

itsallaboutheL wrote: »

OP search for a member called Boru. He was big into his isometric training and has some informative posts on it.

Boru ? What ever happened to him ... wasnt he the lad that trained the FBI, LAPD , SWAT , counter-terrorism, was blackbelt, a doctor , isometric guru and dodged sniper fire in his spare time .... legend :rolleyes:

d'Oracle

Is 1 rep not kind of an oxymoron?

Also, did Boru not just do a single Heavy rack pull there?

d'Oracle

Gaz wrote: »

Boru ? What ever happened to him ... wasnt he the lad that trained the FBI, LAPD , SWAT , counter-terrorism, was blackbelt, a doctor , isometric guru and dodged sniper fire in his spare time .... legend :rolleyes:

Do I detect a re-reg?:D

digme

MooseJam wrote: »

Does holding weights as opposed to lifting them do anything ?
Say if I stood in a T with a pair of dumbells and timed myself every go

Most posters in here are very, very weak when it comes to anything isometric related.It's quite funny to see strong people putting something into the back of a car for example with their arms out stretched, they're as weak as cats in that department.Everyone should be doing some isometric strenght exercises in their programs.

Penn

digme wrote: »

Most posters in here are very, very weak when it comes to anything isometric related.It's quite funny to see strong people putting something into the back of a car for example with their arms out stretched, they're as weak as cats in that department.Everyone should be doing some isometric strenght exercises in their programs.

How do you know?

d'Oracle

digme wrote: »

Most posters in here are very, very weak when it comes to anything isometric related.

You have literally no basis for that at all.

Roper

d'Oracle wrote: »

Is 1 rep not kind of an oxymoron?

Also, did Boru not just do a single Heavy rack pull there?

I want him back he was great craic. Yes he just did a single heavy rack pull with a weight that most posters here could pull with 2 years training. But don't let the facts get in the way of a good sell.