Hanley wrote: » Fighting Fit on Camden Street (call to check first) Most Elvery's have them. You want straps (to help hold the bar), not wraps (to support your wrists) right?
conzy wrote: » Thanks Yeah I'm struggling to hold a 22.5kg dumbell doing shrugs.
Brian? wrote: » Struggle on. Your grip needs the work. I mean that in the nicest possible way. That is unless your grip is fried from heavy deadlifts etc. Even still, it's probably better to avoid straps.
Dermighty wrote: » I'm getting informed about some all of my bad exercise form, muscular imbalances in my body and stupid **** I'm doing in the gym that i need to correct. A lot of the info here has helped. Quick question about (barbell) deadlifting and the method of lifting the weight:Lift and lower weight (some drop it from waist height, some lower it to their knees and drop it then. Lift, lower, lift, lower smoothly in one continuous movement similar to the first half(ish) of this vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkKvgoQWkb4 At the moment I lift and lower and lift for the next rep as one continuous movement, with the weight tipping the floor at the end of each rep. This works great. As the weight increases and the reps decrease (example: 150kg for 2-3 reps) it becomes harder to smoothly lower the weight from the mid quadriceps/knee height to the floor. If option 1 is the correct way I obviously need to lower the weight, if option 2 is the way to do it then I can just drop it and regrip/reposition and lift again.
Brian? wrote: » Lower the weight slowly. Put the bar back on the floor between every rep, pause and lift. The pause allows you to reset your start position correctly.
Brian? wrote: » Put the bar back on the floor between every rep, pause and lift. The pause allows you to reset your start position correctly.
rubadub wrote: » Is there any benefit to doing something similar with the likes of chinups? My bar is set to a height where at the bottom of the chinup I can put my feet on the ground, I sometimes stand & relax for a split second and do another rep, without letting go of the bar. (i.e. I am not doing rest-pause sets). I find I can do less reps than if I kept going as normal.
Hanley wrote: » What kind of "benefit" are you looking for?
Dermighty wrote: » Cheers folks. Next step is mobility and fixing the little aches and pains I have (in particular my left shoulder blade). Mobilitywod is a good resource. If you had a 4 day split (thinking of reducing it to a three day split) would you do a total body mobility drill before each day or be more specific?
rubadub wrote: » Not sure really, you agreed pausing between deadlifts is advisable, is this solely to allow you "reset your start position". If so why not do the same with chins? I expect most people cannot do it since the bar is not the perfect height.
Personally it forces me to do full reps on the chins, I do not always do full dead hangs and can find my self doing half-assed chins towards the end, chasing rep numbers. Doing a short pause gets over this and any "bouncing" of reps that might go on, i.e. minor kipping type motions. By doing it each rep is more identical to the last, for me anyway. I especially like it doing weighted chins. Perhaps there is some physiological reason/difference/advantage between the 2 methods, like letting blood flow into muscles between reps or something.
Hanley wrote: » 1) Hip mobility 2) glute activation 3) thoracic mobility 4) scapular stabilisers activation Stick 4 exercises in there and do them each day and you're money.
Hanley wrote: » You can correct it without having to resort to deloading/resting!
Sangre wrote: » Can anyone recommend a sports physio in ranelagh/rathmines area? I've no injury or niggles but I want them to look at my upper back. My scap function/retraction is very asymmetrical and my motor patterns at this stage in retracting my scaps are probably useless. Not sure if prehab work as I'm doing it is helping or reinforcing it. I'm fairly sure its my left side that is the problem. The issue evidences it sell in overhead pressing: my left scap doesn't retract properly and while press my left shoulder stay forward and takes an uneven amount of weight and fatigues rapidly. Also comes up in squat, bar doesn't sit even on back. I'm sure it affects a number of other movements e.g. press, row. As I've no injury to speak of looking for a physio with a bit of nuance to help me on right track. Cheers
Sephiroth_dude wrote: » Hi If your knees go past your toes when squatting how do you correct this ?
Sephiroth_dude wrote: » Thanks for that I was in the gym last week and guy came over to me and said I shouldn't squat so deep,knees shouldn't go past toes,I've been squatting since late August and I've always gone as deep as I could,so I was just wondering
Hanley wrote: » Your lower back is naturally curved. Keep that shape while pressing.
Hail 2 Da Chimp wrote: » Hey Hanley, Can you elaborate on this a bit more. I watched some Diesel Crew videos where they recommend arching your back, lifting your ass off the bench and putting all your weight on your traps. The reasoning behind this is, you reduce the rotation in your shoulders and it leads to healthier shoulders when benching. I'll have a look for the vid again.
and a straight lower back at the bottom
Will be stickified if public demand calls for it!!!
