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phyre112
United States3090 Posts
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Ehzera
Singapore212 Posts
@Gotunk it's my stance that's wide | ||
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GoTuNk!
Chile4591 Posts
PM: Back Squat double PR,now as a crossfiter. | ||
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decafchicken
United States20164 Posts
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GoTuNk!
Chile4591 Posts
On September 14 2016 13:18 decafchicken wrote: that was ugly. i miss strong gotunk my heavy squats are always ugly lol | ||
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sung_moon
United States10110 Posts
I don't plan on switching over at all, I'm just curious. There's seem to be an air of arrogance from people I know who Crossfit, while my other gym friends look at it in suspicion. | ||
tofucake
Hyrule19216 Posts
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Garbels
Austria653 Posts
The company with their suing and intimidation tactics and general greediness seems shady at best. The constant search for new workouts leads to very silly exercises. The general competitiveness can lead to many problems (mostly injury due to pushing with bad form). The community seems very cultish. If you can remove yourself from all that crossfit, with a good coach, seems to be the best(of the mainstream stuff) at producing 'complete' athletes. Also despite all that crossfit has a tremendously positive impact on the fitness industry and the fitness of humans worldwide. Direct and indirect. | ||
zatic
Zurich15365 Posts
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decafchicken
United States20164 Posts
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tofucake
Hyrule19216 Posts
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farvacola
United States18858 Posts
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IgnE
United States7681 Posts
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farvacola
United States18858 Posts
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Philozovic
France1677 Posts
June was another meuh month I was so pissed at myself for 2 years of plateau (blablabla excuse excuse, no sport budy stronger and fitter than everyone that I know, work, I like the way I look in the miror blablabla I'm shit) I subscribe to the perfect gym (open 7/7 compatible with work hours squat rack and oly platform both rare where I live) 3 months 5-6 times a week Mobility wayyy better (Snatch is still hard) Squat : 110kg PR (102.5 for 5*3 this week) Bench : 5x5 75kg PR Deadlift : 4x3 105kg (far from PR) Pull up weighted with 10kg : 4x6 BW up at 70kg  First meet 5/11 u74kg qualification for regional is 327.5kg I'm hopping for 350kg then I will switch to a more crossfit oriented program. | ||
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y0su
Finland7871 Posts
I don't do curls often. I've usually just let my arms get worked with compound movements (pull-ups, pull-downs, various rows for biceps). Now that I've started going to the gym seriously again my wife is requesting I try to see what kind of arm candy I can produce. I'm aware that triceps are key to arm size and that's not an issue. The issue is when I try to do curls my arms just DIE. Weight feels fine for the first set and then my arms will just refuse to bend mid set. Even something that feels easy the first set or two will lead to stalling. I'm probably just weak but I'm really not sure how to fix this. Just start with a really low weight and slowly work up? Do some kind of variations? I don't feel like my biceps have had a negative affect on my compound pulls, but I am curious to see if maybe those would jump. Also, anyone have tips for building big biceps? | ||
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IgnE
United States7681 Posts
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IgnE
United States7681 Posts
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decafchicken
United States20164 Posts
On September 18 2016 07:30 y0su wrote: odd question I'll ask here before turning to google... I don't do curls often. I've usually just let my arms get worked with compound movements (pull-ups, pull-downs, various rows for biceps). Now that I've started going to the gym seriously again my wife is requesting I try to see what kind of arm candy I can produce. I'm aware that triceps are key to arm size and that's not an issue. The issue is when I try to do curls my arms just DIE. Weight feels fine for the first set and then my arms will just refuse to bend mid set. Even something that feels easy the first set or two will lead to stalling. I'm probably just weak but I'm really not sure how to fix this. Just start with a really low weight and slowly work up? Do some kind of variations? I don't feel like my biceps have had a negative affect on my compound pulls, but I am curious to see if maybe those would jump. Also, anyone have tips for building big biceps? I had this same issue after my pinched nerves in my neck from rugby. Muscle would either cramp/seize up or just not work. Shit like brushing my teeth or holding on to the standing rail on the train would murder my bicep. Doing isolation work was pretty much impossible, I literally just couldn't curl weights that should have been light or my muscles would tire out very quickly. Took lots of time and soft tissue work to get the muscles working right again, and then slow, linear progression. The way my massage therapist explained is like this. Say you have a 100 muscle fibers in your bicep (these numbers are purely for illustration) and 40 of mine tightened up to protect the nerve after I got my pinched nerve from rugby. If they are never fixed via massage, rehab, etc. then they are just constantly being worked. This only leaves the other 60 to do 'work' when i'm exercising at the gym or whatever. And on the flipside, my tricep is now constantly working against those tight bicep muscles so there's further inefficiency. No idea if there's scientific basis but yeah. Anyways, TLDR: Either your biceps are super weak and you just need to put in a lot of consistent work in them, or maybe somethings fucked up, i.e. muscles are tight, or nerve impingement, thoracic outlet syndrome, etc. | ||
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farvacola
United States18858 Posts
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