On November 17 2012 04:16 theJob wrote: What I'm seeing in the video is beautiful girls doing a lift that's ten times as manly than the exercises most of the curlmonkeys in my gym ever do.
Not perfect form, but still.
"Not perfect form" sounds like you think those girls are reading this and you want to get in their pants.
To be fair, I doubt it's their fault the form is shit, they were probably taught way wrong, since people were encouraging that shit.
But even then, you should be commenting on the horrible instructors, not calling it "not perfect form".
To be perfectly honest the continental clean is such of an oddity of a lift that I probably couldn't tell a well executed one from a bad one and I highly doubt that a fraction of the people on this forum would either. However, I would imagine that you or maybe others biggest grief with their execution would be the obviously odd "pause on the stomach"-part, when it in fact is supposed to be a clean in two separate stages with a pause on the stomach. So my guess is that while the lifts might seem comical to alot of people who haven't been exposed to this classic lift their form might actually not be as horrible as many thinks.
Edit: And the mere fact that they are doing this lift makes most guys in my gym look like metrosexual, pink kettlebell swinging faggots
On November 17 2012 04:16 theJob wrote: What I'm seeing in the video is beautiful girls doing a lift that's ten times as manly than the exercises most of the curlmonkeys in my gym ever do.
Not perfect form, but still.
"Not perfect form" sounds like you think those girls are reading this and you want to get in their pants.
To be fair, I doubt it's their fault the form is shit, they were probably taught way wrong, since people were encouraging that shit.
But even then, you should be commenting on the horrible instructors, not calling it "not perfect form".
To be perfectly honest the continental clean is such of an oddity of a lift that I probably couldn't tell a well executed one from a bad one and I highly doubt that a fraction of the people on this forum would either. However, I would imagine that you or maybe others biggest grief with their execution would be the obviously odd "pause on the stomach"-part, when it in fact is supposed to be a clean in two separate stages with a pause on the stomach. So my guess is that while the lifts might seem comical to alot of people who haven't been exposed to this classic lift their form might actually not be as horrible as many thinks.
Actually, I'm judging purely off the part where most of them are doing the vastly exaggerated bend over backwards about to snap in half shit like they're fucking Gumby. The rest of the lift I have absolutely no idea about. But if you can honestly tell me that them almost falling over with their back curved 30 degrees backwards is safe, or within miles of good form, I'll retract my earlier statement.
On November 17 2012 03:30 mordek wrote: What the heck is the point of the mixed grip pull o.O Just bizarre. How can you move like that and not question what you are doing...
The mixed grip is because it's an axle instead of an oly bar. It's too big to grip normally with a heavy weight, and the bar doesn't have any spin, so you can't do a normal clean with it. Instead, you do a continental clean, which is what you see in the video (although they're all pretty new/bad at it). It's a legitimate strongman lift.
Thanks for pointing that out. I've never heard of it. First three videos showed double overhand grips though...
On November 17 2012 04:16 theJob wrote: What I'm seeing in the video is beautiful girls doing a lift that's ten times as manly than the exercises most of the curlmonkeys in my gym ever do.
Not perfect form, but still.
"Not perfect form" sounds like you think those girls are reading this and you want to get in their pants.
To be fair, I doubt it's their fault the form is shit, they were probably taught way wrong, since people were encouraging that shit.
But even then, you should be commenting on the horrible instructors, not calling it "not perfect form".
To be perfectly honest the continental clean is such of an oddity of a lift that I probably couldn't tell a well executed one from a bad one and I highly doubt that a fraction of the people on this forum would either. However, I would imagine that you or maybe others biggest grief with their execution would be the obviously odd "pause on the stomach"-part, when it in fact is supposed to be a clean in two separate stages with a pause on the stomach. So my guess is that while the lifts might seem comical to alot of people who haven't been exposed to this classic lift their form might actually not be as horrible as many thinks.
Actually, I'm judging purely off the part where most of them are doing the vastly exaggerated bend over backwards about to snap in half shit like they're fucking Gumby. The rest of the lift I have absolutely no idea about. But if you can honestly tell me that them almost falling over with their back curved 30 degrees backwards is safe, or within miles of good form, I'll retract my earlier statement.
Never said anything about the continental clean being safe or not, with or without perfect form. I don't do them personally. But to be quite honest; most people give a free pass on poor(er) form on proper 1 RM PR attempts. Why be extra hard on these poor people? Especially considering they're obviously new to the exercise. I don't really care if you retract your statement or not considering you didn't even know it was a proper lift up until now.
So as I said before - not perfect form but kudos for doing them.
On November 17 2012 04:16 theJob wrote: What I'm seeing in the video is beautiful girls doing a lift that's ten times as manly than the exercises most of the curlmonkeys in my gym ever do.
Not perfect form, but still.
"Not perfect form" sounds like you think those girls are reading this and you want to get in their pants.
To be fair, I doubt it's their fault the form is shit, they were probably taught way wrong, since people were encouraging that shit.
But even then, you should be commenting on the horrible instructors, not calling it "not perfect form".
To be perfectly honest the continental clean is such of an oddity of a lift that I probably couldn't tell a well executed one from a bad one and I highly doubt that a fraction of the people on this forum would either. However, I would imagine that you or maybe others biggest grief with their execution would be the obviously odd "pause on the stomach"-part, when it in fact is supposed to be a clean in two separate stages with a pause on the stomach. So my guess is that while the lifts might seem comical to alot of people who haven't been exposed to this classic lift their form might actually not be as horrible as many thinks.
Actually, I'm judging purely off the part where most of them are doing the vastly exaggerated bend over backwards about to snap in half shit like they're fucking Gumby. The rest of the lift I have absolutely no idea about. But if you can honestly tell me that them almost falling over with their back curved 30 degrees backwards is safe, or within miles of good form, I'll retract my earlier statement.
Never said anything about the continental clean being safe or not, with or without perfect form. I don't do them personally. But to be quite honest; most people give a free pass on poor(er) form on proper 1 RM PR attempts. Why be extra hard on these poor people? Especially considering they're obviously new to the exercise. I don't really care if you retract your statement or not considering you didn't even know it was a proper lift up until now.
So as I said before - not perfect form but kudos for doing them.
I think you're confusing at least two of us, I was operating under the assumption it was a proper lift, just being done in a way that looked dangerous.
On November 17 2012 04:16 theJob wrote: What I'm seeing in the video is beautiful girls doing a lift that's ten times as manly than the exercises most of the curlmonkeys in my gym ever do.
Not perfect form, but still.
"Not perfect form" sounds like you think those girls are reading this and you want to get in their pants.
To be fair, I doubt it's their fault the form is shit, they were probably taught way wrong, since people were encouraging that shit.
But even then, you should be commenting on the horrible instructors, not calling it "not perfect form".
To be perfectly honest the continental clean is such of an oddity of a lift that I probably couldn't tell a well executed one from a bad one and I highly doubt that a fraction of the people on this forum would either. However, I would imagine that you or maybe others biggest grief with their execution would be the obviously odd "pause on the stomach"-part, when it in fact is supposed to be a clean in two separate stages with a pause on the stomach. So my guess is that while the lifts might seem comical to alot of people who haven't been exposed to this classic lift their form might actually not be as horrible as many thinks.
Actually, I'm judging purely off the part where most of them are doing the vastly exaggerated bend over backwards about to snap in half shit like they're fucking Gumby. The rest of the lift I have absolutely no idea about. But if you can honestly tell me that them almost falling over with their back curved 30 degrees backwards is safe, or within miles of good form, I'll retract my earlier statement.
Never said anything about the continental clean being safe or not, with or without perfect form. I don't do them personally. But to be quite honest; most people give a free pass on poor(er) form on proper 1 RM PR attempts. Why be extra hard on these poor people? Especially considering they're obviously new to the exercise. I don't really care if you retract your statement or not considering you didn't even know it was a proper lift up until now.
So as I said before - not perfect form but kudos for doing them.
I think you're confusing at least two of us, I was operating under the assumption it was a proper lift, just being done in a way that looked dangerous.
Only thing I'm confused about is how can you tell that I'm not being critical enough of their technique while you're not even aware of what the proper form would look like?
On November 17 2012 04:16 theJob wrote: What I'm seeing in the video is beautiful girls doing a lift that's ten times as manly than the exercises most of the curlmonkeys in my gym ever do.
Not perfect form, but still.
"Not perfect form" sounds like you think those girls are reading this and you want to get in their pants.
To be fair, I doubt it's their fault the form is shit, they were probably taught way wrong, since people were encouraging that shit.
But even then, you should be commenting on the horrible instructors, not calling it "not perfect form".
To be perfectly honest the continental clean is such of an oddity of a lift that I probably couldn't tell a well executed one from a bad one and I highly doubt that a fraction of the people on this forum would either. However, I would imagine that you or maybe others biggest grief with their execution would be the obviously odd "pause on the stomach"-part, when it in fact is supposed to be a clean in two separate stages with a pause on the stomach. So my guess is that while the lifts might seem comical to alot of people who haven't been exposed to this classic lift their form might actually not be as horrible as many thinks.
Actually, I'm judging purely off the part where most of them are doing the vastly exaggerated bend over backwards about to snap in half shit like they're fucking Gumby. The rest of the lift I have absolutely no idea about. But if you can honestly tell me that them almost falling over with their back curved 30 degrees backwards is safe, or within miles of good form, I'll retract my earlier statement.
Never said anything about the continental clean being safe or not, with or without perfect form. I don't do them personally. But to be quite honest; most people give a free pass on poor(er) form on proper 1 RM PR attempts. Why be extra hard on these poor people? Especially considering they're obviously new to the exercise. I don't really care if you retract your statement or not considering you didn't even know it was a proper lift up until now.
So as I said before - not perfect form but kudos for doing them.
I think you're confusing at least two of us, I was operating under the assumption it was a proper lift, just being done in a way that looked dangerous.
Only thing I'm confused about is how can you tell that I'm not being critical enough of their technique while you're not even aware of what the proper form would look like?
Because I operate under the assumption that a properly performed lift doesn't make me want to start popping painkillers just from watching it.
On November 17 2012 04:16 theJob wrote: What I'm seeing in the video is beautiful girls doing a lift that's ten times as manly than the exercises most of the curlmonkeys in my gym ever do.
Not perfect form, but still.
"Not perfect form" sounds like you think those girls are reading this and you want to get in their pants.
To be fair, I doubt it's their fault the form is shit, they were probably taught way wrong, since people were encouraging that shit.
But even then, you should be commenting on the horrible instructors, not calling it "not perfect form".
To be perfectly honest the continental clean is such of an oddity of a lift that I probably couldn't tell a well executed one from a bad one and I highly doubt that a fraction of the people on this forum would either. However, I would imagine that you or maybe others biggest grief with their execution would be the obviously odd "pause on the stomach"-part, when it in fact is supposed to be a clean in two separate stages with a pause on the stomach. So my guess is that while the lifts might seem comical to alot of people who haven't been exposed to this classic lift their form might actually not be as horrible as many thinks.
Actually, I'm judging purely off the part where most of them are doing the vastly exaggerated bend over backwards about to snap in half shit like they're fucking Gumby. The rest of the lift I have absolutely no idea about. But if you can honestly tell me that them almost falling over with their back curved 30 degrees backwards is safe, or within miles of good form, I'll retract my earlier statement.
Never said anything about the continental clean being safe or not, with or without perfect form. I don't do them personally. But to be quite honest; most people give a free pass on poor(er) form on proper 1 RM PR attempts. Why be extra hard on these poor people? Especially considering they're obviously new to the exercise. I don't really care if you retract your statement or not considering you didn't even know it was a proper lift up until now.
So as I said before - not perfect form but kudos for doing them.
I think you're confusing at least two of us, I was operating under the assumption it was a proper lift, just being done in a way that looked dangerous.
Only thing I'm confused about is how can you tell that I'm not being critical enough of their technique while you're not even aware of what the proper form would look like?
Because I operate under the assumption that a properly performed lift doesn't make me want to start popping painkillers just from watching it.
Well, they have to to lean back for the bar to settle on their stomach as is done in the continental c&j. If this gives you nightmares maybe you shouldn't be watching youtube-clips without a parent.
On November 17 2012 04:16 theJob wrote: What I'm seeing in the video is beautiful girls doing a lift that's ten times as manly than the exercises most of the curlmonkeys in my gym ever do.
Not perfect form, but still.
"Not perfect form" sounds like you think those girls are reading this and you want to get in their pants.
To be fair, I doubt it's their fault the form is shit, they were probably taught way wrong, since people were encouraging that shit.
But even then, you should be commenting on the horrible instructors, not calling it "not perfect form".
To be perfectly honest the continental clean is such of an oddity of a lift that I probably couldn't tell a well executed one from a bad one and I highly doubt that a fraction of the people on this forum would either. However, I would imagine that you or maybe others biggest grief with their execution would be the obviously odd "pause on the stomach"-part, when it in fact is supposed to be a clean in two separate stages with a pause on the stomach. So my guess is that while the lifts might seem comical to alot of people who haven't been exposed to this classic lift their form might actually not be as horrible as many thinks.
Actually, I'm judging purely off the part where most of them are doing the vastly exaggerated bend over backwards about to snap in half shit like they're fucking Gumby. The rest of the lift I have absolutely no idea about. But if you can honestly tell me that them almost falling over with their back curved 30 degrees backwards is safe, or within miles of good form, I'll retract my earlier statement.
Never said anything about the continental clean being safe or not, with or without perfect form. I don't do them personally. But to be quite honest; most people give a free pass on poor(er) form on proper 1 RM PR attempts. Why be extra hard on these poor people? Especially considering they're obviously new to the exercise. I don't really care if you retract your statement or not considering you didn't even know it was a proper lift up until now.
So as I said before - not perfect form but kudos for doing them.
I think you're confusing at least two of us, I was operating under the assumption it was a proper lift, just being done in a way that looked dangerous.
Only thing I'm confused about is how can you tell that I'm not being critical enough of their technique while you're not even aware of what the proper form would look like?
Because I operate under the assumption that a properly performed lift doesn't make me want to start popping painkillers just from watching it.
Well, they have to to lean back for the bar to settle on their stomach as is done in the continental c&j. If this gives you nightmares maybe you shouldn't be watching youtube-clips without a parent.
Aww, how cute, ad homs. I'll take that as you conceding the point.
Here's a video of someone doing it in a way that doesn't look painful.
Do you see a difference? I sure as hell do, and since I'm not perfect like you, you should definitely be able to tell.
On November 17 2012 04:16 theJob wrote: What I'm seeing in the video is beautiful girls doing a lift that's ten times as manly than the exercises most of the curlmonkeys in my gym ever do.
Not perfect form, but still.
"Not perfect form" sounds like you think those girls are reading this and you want to get in their pants.
To be fair, I doubt it's their fault the form is shit, they were probably taught way wrong, since people were encouraging that shit.
But even then, you should be commenting on the horrible instructors, not calling it "not perfect form".
To be perfectly honest the continental clean is such of an oddity of a lift that I probably couldn't tell a well executed one from a bad one and I highly doubt that a fraction of the people on this forum would either. However, I would imagine that you or maybe others biggest grief with their execution would be the obviously odd "pause on the stomach"-part, when it in fact is supposed to be a clean in two separate stages with a pause on the stomach. So my guess is that while the lifts might seem comical to alot of people who haven't been exposed to this classic lift their form might actually not be as horrible as many thinks.
Actually, I'm judging purely off the part where most of them are doing the vastly exaggerated bend over backwards about to snap in half shit like they're fucking Gumby. The rest of the lift I have absolutely no idea about. But if you can honestly tell me that them almost falling over with their back curved 30 degrees backwards is safe, or within miles of good form, I'll retract my earlier statement.
Never said anything about the continental clean being safe or not, with or without perfect form. I don't do them personally. But to be quite honest; most people give a free pass on poor(er) form on proper 1 RM PR attempts. Why be extra hard on these poor people? Especially considering they're obviously new to the exercise. I don't really care if you retract your statement or not considering you didn't even know it was a proper lift up until now.
So as I said before - not perfect form but kudos for doing them.
I think you're confusing at least two of us, I was operating under the assumption it was a proper lift, just being done in a way that looked dangerous.
Only thing I'm confused about is how can you tell that I'm not being critical enough of their technique while you're not even aware of what the proper form would look like?
Because I operate under the assumption that a properly performed lift doesn't make me want to start popping painkillers just from watching it.
Well, they have to to lean back for the bar to settle on their stomach as is done in the continental c&j. If this gives you nightmares maybe you shouldn't be watching youtube-clips without a parent.
Aww, how cute, ad homs. I'll take that as you conceding the point.
"sounds like you think those girls are reading this and you want to get in their pants."
Start a discussion like this and you might get salty replies.
On November 17 2012 05:20 JingleHell wrote:
Here's a video of someone doing it in a way that doesn't look painful.
Do you see a difference? I sure as hell do, and since I'm not perfect like you, you should definitely be able to tell.
The video you are linking to is proving my point. This guy also leans back to steady the bar on his stomach.
Are you telling me that you, who up til now wasn't even aware of the existence of this lift, can tell me off for not being critical enough about the angle of the torso of the people on the video in an exercise where backwards leaning is a must?
I'm sorry but you are full of it and your answers are attempts to save face at this point. You have obvioulsy not the experience and, I'm guessing, not the credentials to tell wether or not these people are performing the continental C&J with a proper back angle, even less so are you qualified to come off with a f:in attitude towards me when I say "they dont have perfect form" and tell me that I'm not being critical enough of the back angle of the people performing an exercise that you've never seen before.
I was at an army rehearsal. I visited Finnish special forces gym. NOT surprsingily, they didn't have any retarded machines, and pretty much only free weights. Gee, I wonder why? I had extra time, so I went ahead and broke my squat record. was happy.
On November 17 2012 04:16 theJob wrote: What I'm seeing in the video is beautiful girls doing a lift that's ten times as manly than the exercises most of the curlmonkeys in my gym ever do.
Not perfect form, but still.
"Not perfect form" sounds like you think those girls are reading this and you want to get in their pants.
To be fair, I doubt it's their fault the form is shit, they were probably taught way wrong, since people were encouraging that shit.
But even then, you should be commenting on the horrible instructors, not calling it "not perfect form".
To be perfectly honest the continental clean is such of an oddity of a lift that I probably couldn't tell a well executed one from a bad one and I highly doubt that a fraction of the people on this forum would either. However, I would imagine that you or maybe others biggest grief with their execution would be the obviously odd "pause on the stomach"-part, when it in fact is supposed to be a clean in two separate stages with a pause on the stomach. So my guess is that while the lifts might seem comical to alot of people who haven't been exposed to this classic lift their form might actually not be as horrible as many thinks.
Actually, I'm judging purely off the part where most of them are doing the vastly exaggerated bend over backwards about to snap in half shit like they're fucking Gumby. The rest of the lift I have absolutely no idea about. But if you can honestly tell me that them almost falling over with their back curved 30 degrees backwards is safe, or within miles of good form, I'll retract my earlier statement.
There's a video of a professional doing the lift. It looks like it's done more with the bar resting on your hips than your stomach, so since there's not actually any weight on your back, you can lean back as far as you want. The problem then with how people are doing it in the video would be how high they're resting it.
I've never actually done a continental clean though, all my experience with it is through videos, because I like watching strongman stuff, and because videos similar to that one have been posted in threads here a half dozen times. Sjarl has done them though, perhaps he could weigh in.
On November 17 2012 04:16 theJob wrote: What I'm seeing in the video is beautiful girls doing a lift that's ten times as manly than the exercises most of the curlmonkeys in my gym ever do.
Not perfect form, but still.
"Not perfect form" sounds like you think those girls are reading this and you want to get in their pants.
To be fair, I doubt it's their fault the form is shit, they were probably taught way wrong, since people were encouraging that shit.
But even then, you should be commenting on the horrible instructors, not calling it "not perfect form".
To be perfectly honest the continental clean is such of an oddity of a lift that I probably couldn't tell a well executed one from a bad one and I highly doubt that a fraction of the people on this forum would either. However, I would imagine that you or maybe others biggest grief with their execution would be the obviously odd "pause on the stomach"-part, when it in fact is supposed to be a clean in two separate stages with a pause on the stomach. So my guess is that while the lifts might seem comical to alot of people who haven't been exposed to this classic lift their form might actually not be as horrible as many thinks.
Actually, I'm judging purely off the part where most of them are doing the vastly exaggerated bend over backwards about to snap in half shit like they're fucking Gumby. The rest of the lift I have absolutely no idea about. But if you can honestly tell me that them almost falling over with their back curved 30 degrees backwards is safe, or within miles of good form, I'll retract my earlier statement.
There's a video of a professional doing the lift. It looks like it's done more with the bar resting on your hips than your stomach, so since there's not actually any weight on your back, you can lean back as far as you want. The problem then with how people are doing it in the video would be how high they're resting it.
I've never actually done a continental clean though, all my experience with it is through videos, because I like watching strongman stuff, and because videos similar to that one have been posted in threads here a half dozen times. Sjarl has done them though, perhaps he could weigh in.
That was kind of my concern. It's not like everyone in that video did it terrifying, but there were a couple in particular where I was torn between fear for their health and impressed they stayed on their feet.
101.3kg this morning. I will make sub 100kg by dec 10 when I head to Canada. photos etc incoming (though honestly I see little difference visually) my Pants hang off and feeling heaps better
Got out of the gym, did some errands, and got myself some chicken nuggets after fasting all day from McDonalds because I couldn't resist... Now I'm struggling to stay awake.. why do I do this to myself =_=.
Im done of 5/3/1 BBB all except the last deload week. I kinda wanna skip it cause its boring and jump into a new program. Is this bad? Should I not do this lol.
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