Gym And Supplement Discussion

[TM7GTR]

If it helps you sleep better at night, we took a vid of him doing the lift. Paused at chest level too if that makes it official. I'll see if I can get it off his phone.

[France]

If he can bench 175kg he can bench 175kg. Why the need too put PTC and official power lifting comps above everyone/all else?

May be hard to believe, but some people do not want to be power lifters. (and I'm not just talking about weak people)

[some_cs_student]

If it helps you sleep better at night, we took a vid of him doing the lift. Paused at chest level too if that makes it official. I'll see if I can get it off his phone.

Nothing makes it a competition lift if it wasn't at a competition.

But if its paused on the chest without spotters touching the bar then its an excellent gym lift

[-FIGJAM-]

Edited October 28, 2012 by -FIGJAM-

[NickR33]

'functional bulk' lol

[TM7GTR]

"I walk to the truck" hahaha lost my shit

[markos]

Whoa, everyone take a deep breath.

I ONLY commented because the OP said something about strength training an in a way insinuated his mate was stronger than PL, who compete, thats all.

I never ever competed and had zero interest in competing, so I never compare my gym lifts with those of my competing clients. It doesnt mean I never lifted those weights, but I never benched xxx after I just did 3 squats with over 200kg prior, so I cant compare

This guy is strong regardless, because to hold 175kg over your face is not done by girly boys.

He doesnt need to present a vid, no one does, like someone said he just trains for himself in the gym, just like I did.

I hope one day he, and anyone else that strong, does compete, because I hate seeing wasted talent, which he obviously has.

We had a BB do one of my novice comps recently, apparently he banches over 170kg in the gym, he weighs around 92kg.

He made a good 160kg bench press, with zero PL experience, so clearly very strong

He actually benched 170kg but got 3 red lights on his 3rd attempt

His other lifts were 220kg squat and 220kg deadlift, he always trains with wrist straps and pulls 250kg +, but he couldnt hold onto more than 220kg without them, which surprised him.

He is VERY strong and does zero strength training, he won his first IFBB BB comp

So there are very strong gym lifters out there, what most are saying its VERY different in a comp, as Michael found out

[Birds]

Decided to step up my incline dumbells to 35s...getting hard to roll them into starting position!

[Mitcho_7]

i have always found getting the dumbells up harder for incline compared to flat.

[Birds]

It should be harder! Less range of motion for the roll back and you pretty much have to hammer curl them too (well at least the way I do it).

[vspecIInur]

Incline dumbells requires your shoulders to be strong for getting them up on your own. Bloody pain in the arse when there isn't no one to spot you.

[Mitcho_7]

It should be harder! Less range of motion for the roll back and you pretty much have to hammer curl them too (well at least the way I do it).

Fark hammer curling them haha!

I just use my knees to flick them upto my shoulders then sorta roll back at the same time. Works for me at the moment. Be interesting to see how I go when I start doing the 40's.

[TM7GTR]

Recently with the 40's I've been getting someone to hand me one of the DB's when I get into position rather than spending too much time in struggle town getting them there myself. More energy for my actual set.

[Birds]

Fark hammer curling them haha!

I just use my knees to flick them upto my shoulders then sorta roll back at the same time. Works for me at the moment. Be interesting to see how I go when I start doing the 40's.

I use my knees too, but when you get to 35s on a 45 degree incline, your knees can only do so much - need to involve biceps and delts just to get them into starting position!

It's worsened by me usually having come off lat pulldown / chin ups as my token pull exercise on push day = biceps already dead!

[TM7GTR]

Come to think of it, here's an interesting discussion point....

When doing incline presses, what angle (roughly) do you have the bench at?

Birds says 45 degrees, I go much less.

[TTT]

39.6 for me.

[Mitcho_7]

Maybe do your benching first or something to see if it makes it any easier.

I don't have the bench at 45 when I incline bench, I found it was working my shoulders more than chest so I moved it down to like 35.

I train alone, so I have become a firm believer of "if i can't get the weight into position, I probably shouldn't be lifting it..."

[Birds]

The reason I do 45deg is because it's smack bang between the angles of my flat bench and behind neck military press. I also have a bit of a back arch while pressing, so that gives it a little bit of a shift towards chest. Though I probably should have less of an angle, as I'm pretty front delt heavy

I adopt the same principle for lat muscles, where I'll do seated row (0 degrees), behind neck wide grip pulldown (90 degrees) and close/V grip pulldown in front (not really 45 degrees, but still in between).

[SRS13]

Decided to step up my incline dumbells to 35s...getting hard to roll them into starting position!

I thought you'd be doing heavier than that. is that for a straight press or is that press twist (not sure on the real name for it)?

Re the angle, I've dropped it down a bit from 45 to lessen the strain on the front delt which I am overworking at the moment.

Edited October 30, 2012 by SRS13

[Birds]

On what basis did you assume I'd be doing heavier than 35s?