The Jimbo Slice memorial thread, feat Nate Dogg - The new Off Topic thread

Brian?

caviardreams wrote: »

I hear ye - apparently your arm span is meant to be the same as your height - I am 5 7" and my arm span is just over 5 10"

I feel you brother. I’m 6ft 3 and my arms are over 6 5. That’s a lot of arm.

Brian?

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

He doesn't look like he has particularly short arms in person



Not T-Rex short anyway

I suppose it’s subjective. They ain’t long.

Alf Veedersane

Brian? wrote: »

I suppose it’s subjective. They ain’t long.

Nope. But not especially short.

Still though...over 500kg. The insanity of it all.

Alf Veedersane

caviardreams wrote: »

I hear ye - apparently your arm span is meant to be the same as your height - I am 5 7" and my arm span is just over 5 10"

Should be good for your deadlift so. Or does the knuckle dragging work against it?

Brian?

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

Nope. But not especially short.

Still though...over 500kg. The insanity of it all.

It’s absolutely mental.

Is it common in the gyms you go to for people to bench without a spotter? I don't think I've ever seen anyone use one in mine, even when people are benching serious weight.

Mellor

Deleted User wrote: »

Is it common in the gyms you go to for people to bench without a spotter? I don't think I've ever seen anyone use one in mine, even when people are benching serious weight.

I rarely, if ever, use a spotter.
If I'm going for 5 reps, I've already 3repped it or higher. So I judge by how grindy the 4th rep is whether or not to go for 5th. sometime I might come up short, but that's usualy a stall halfway up and I can rack to the lower pegs.

Maybe if I was going for a big 1RM and was a completely new weight, and the bench had no safeties.
Most guys getting spotted on 12 rep sets are doing so because they can;t lift the weight unassisted.

Alf Veedersane

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Is it common in the gyms you go to for people to bench without a spotter? I don't think I've ever seen anyone use one in mine, even when people are benching serious weight.

I never use a spotter. I might if I was going for a PR and I knew the person and that they wouldn't make a balls of spotting.

If there are safeties, you can let them do their job if needed. No safeties, I'd possibly ask a spotter if I was going for a PR.

That said, I wouldn't call my max a serious weight. But it's all relative.

Brian?

Mellor wrote: »

I rarely, if ever, use a spotter.
If I'm going for 5 reps, I've already 3repped it or higher. So I judge by how grindy the 4th rep is whether or not to go for 5th. sometime I might come up short, but that's usualy a stall halfway up and I can rack to the lower pegs.

Maybe if I was going for a big 1RM and was a completely new weight, and the bench had no safeties.
Most guys getting spotted on 12 rep sets are doing so because they can;t lift the weight unassisted.

Same here. Most benches have safeties these days. If you know how to set them right there's almost zero risk.

Trust me, I've slid out from a number of attempted PRs

Dtp1979

Brian? wrote: »

I feel you brother. I’m 6ft 3 and my arms are over 6 5. That’s a lot of arm.

I’m 6’1 and my reach is 6’6

caviardreams

Dtp1979 wrote: »

I’m 6’1 and my are 6’6

Ah here, do you have three arms or sth??

Alf Veedersane

Dtp1979 wrote: »

I’m 6’1 and my are 6’6

coffee_cake

I can safely say iv never checked that ratio
Must go get a measuring tape

Alf Veedersane

Probably late to this particular party but it seems that Jeff Cavaliere (Athlean-X) joined the fake weights gang.

JJayoo

Always found him to be a bellend, just repeats the same sh1t over and over.

Alf Veedersane

JJayoo wrote: »

Always found him to be a bellend, just repeats the same sh1t over and over.

I haven't persevered with his videos long enough to have an opinion either way.

But when you get called out for fake weights after a beltless double with 225kg the way to prove people wrong is not to put up a video of a beltless single with 192.5kg with the kind of form you warn people about

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

Just back into the gym a few weeks ago after over a decade off.. Been watching some YT videos and am starting to kind of doubt how useful a lot of the content is.

Athlean-X guy basically says that everything you're doing is wrong, and the comments are fawning over him. Is he just making content for the sake of making money? Feels like if you laid out all his advice in a spreadsheet, it would be a complete mess.

Thinking of just ignoring all that for a good few months until I have need for looking at specific content.

My post from last year.

Mr. CooL ICE

Athlean-x's video thumbnails are enough to not take his stuff seriously.

Cill94

Deleted User wrote: »

My post from last year.

Not sure if you have found better info since then, but just in case.. Some much better resources than the Athlean guy:

Greg Nuckols / Stronger by Science
Elite FTS
Chad Wesley Smith / Juggernaut
Mike Israetel
Jim Wendler
Barbell Logic
Barbell Medicine
Starting Strength
Alan Thrall

Alf Veedersane

Cill94 wrote: »

Not sure if you have found better info since then, but just in case.. Some much better resources than the Athlean guy:

Greg Nuckols / Stronger by Science
Elite FTS
Chad Wesley Smith / Juggernaut
Mike Israetel
Jim Wendler
Barbell Logic
Barbell Medicine
Starting Strength
Alan Thrall

Rippetoe also does some BDSM erotica if you need to double-up on resources for that...

Cill94

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

Rippetoe also does some BDSM erotica if you need to double-up on resources for that...

Must be why he keeps a machete in the gym.

the baby bull elephant

Cill94 wrote: »

Not sure if you have found better info since then, but just in case.. Some much better resources than the Athlean guy:

Greg Nuckols / Stronger by Science
Elite FTS
Chad Wesley Smith / Juggernaut
Mike Israetel
Jim Wendler
Barbell Logic
Barbell Medicine
Starting Strength
Alan Thrall

Strong seconding to the ones in bold. Never heard of Barbell Logic. BBM people apart from Feigenbaum seem good. I've seen mostly good stuff from Israetel but some people seem to get way to caught up in the weeds following his volume recommendations.

Not a fan of Rippetoe and from what I've seen a lot of SS coaches are way to dogmatic about something they really shouldn't be.

Other people I've found to have good content, Brian Alsruhe, Eric Helms, John Meadows, Australian Strength Coach (on instagram) and the Hybrid Performance (Stefi Cohen) crew although I wouldn't watch every video each of them do apart from maybe Alsruhe.

A lot of strength athletes have their own channels now as well but mostly seem to be vlogs with less directly informative content.

Alf Veedersane

Cill94 wrote: »

Must be why he keeps a machete in the gym.

And why the Starting Strength Bench is just a slab of wood.

Cill94

the baby bull elephant wrote: »

Strong seconding to the ones in bold. Never heard of Barbell Logic. BBM people apart from Feigenbaum seem good. I've seen mostly good stuff from Israetel but some people seem to get way to caught up in the weeds following his volume recommendations.

Not a fan of Rippetoe and from what I've seen a lot of SS coaches are way to dogmatic about something they really shouldn't be.

Other people I've found to have good content, Brian Alsruhe, Eric Helms, John Meadows, Australian Strength Coach (on instagram) and the Hybrid Performance (Stefi Cohen) crew although I wouldn't watch every video each of them do apart from maybe Alsruhe.

Good additions there.

I don't 100% agree with any single source I listed by the way. But if you look at the broad message, they all agree on the basics. Everyone is pretty much doing the same thing, with some minor differences.

And most importantly, they would all never be caught dead lifting fake weights for social media clout.

"Research your own experience. Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own.” - Wise karate man

Mr. CooL ICE

Remember that Six Pack Shortcuts lad? He was gas. Remember reading something about him spending thousands per day on advertising, which explained why he was everywhere. His actual content was hilariously bad.

bladespin

Mr. CooL ICE wrote: »

Remember that Six Pack Shortcuts lad? He was gas. Remember reading something about him spending thousands per day on advertising, which explained why he was everywhere. His actual content was hilariously bad.

Absolute car crash in the end, it was just shocking.

Cill94

Mr. CooL ICE wrote: »

Remember that Six Pack Shortcuts lad? He was gas. Remember reading something about him spending thousands per day on advertising, which explained why he was everywhere. His actual content was hilariously bad.

Yep. Now he's been replaced by V Shred.

After a few years those guys disappear when their audience realise they've been had. You can only con people once.

Mr. CooL ICE

Cill94 wrote: »

Yep. Now he's been replaced by V Shred.

After a few years those guys disappear when their audience realise they've been had. You can only con people once.

And wasn't V Shred accused of copying Athlean-x's videos?

Jesus, it's all the same recycled nonsense

JJayoo

Sebastian Orb has some nice videos on setup for main lifts and his gym looks so nice and shiny.

I don't post here often, and haven't been on in a while, but what's the craic with rowing machines? Have they been banned or something?

Can't find them anywhere for sale, especially not the Concept ones. I found a few sites that do rental, and I can't even rent one. Has everyone gone mad buying them up because they can't get to the gym? (I'm assuming not - as I never seen anyone using them anytime I ever went to the gym anyway).

I need to lose a little weight off my belly. And back. And arms, legs, thighs, chest, ankles, ass and chin, so was considering getting a concept2 rower, as I figured if i got fed up with it after a few months I'd sell it on without losing much on it as they tend to hold their value a good bit.