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[TW]Sponge · 10 Dec 2016 at 20:56

Do any of you guys use wireless headphones in the gym?

I have a budget of around £150 to spend on a decent set. Not sure I fancy the popular 'Beats' headphones. What do you guys use, or recommend?

Sorry if in the wrong section but thought I would get better answers in here than anywhere else.

CaptainRAVE · 10 Dec 2016 at 21:14

[TW]Sponge;30298230 said:
Do any of you guys use wireless headphones in the gym?

I have a budget of around £150 to spend on a decent set. Not sure I fancy the popular 'Beats' headphones. What do you guys use, or recommend?

Sorry if in the wrong section but thought I would get better answers in here than anywhere else.

Taotronics Bluetooth earphones, best seller on amazon. Can't recommend them highly enough. Hours of battery life, great noise cancelling, decent sound. Not headphones though, but I would find those annoying for weightlifting.

Begbie · 10 Dec 2016 at 21:15

I sometimes use my Philips BT ones, not really designed for the job. But there more comfortable than IEMs and not having a phone in your pocket is nice.

Pigeon_Killer · 10 Dec 2016 at 21:19

What phone have you got TW? I'd love a decent pair but my phone doesn't support aptX

Kris_90 · 10 Dec 2016 at 21:41

I use 'Philips SHB3165 Wireless Headphones'. I think I paid about £30 for them last Christmas and can't fault them at all. I'm in the gym for 1.5-2hrs 5-6 days a week, as long I charge them for about 2 hours once a week then they are good to go

[TW]Sponge · 10 Dec 2016 at 21:47

CaptainRAVE said:
Taotronics Bluetooth earphones, best seller on amazon. Can't recommend them highly enough. Hours of battery life, great noise cancelling, decent sound. Not headphones though, but I would find those annoying for weightlifting.

Would rather headphones tbh, but I am open to earphones.

Pigeon_Killer said:
What phone have you got TW? I'd love a decent pair but my phone doesn't support aptX

Galaxy S6

[TW]Sponge · 10 Dec 2016 at 21:49

Kris_90 said:
I use 'Philips SHB3165 Wireless Headphones'. I think I paid about £30 for them last Christmas and can't fault them at all. I'm in the gym for 1.5-2hrs 5-6 days a week, as long I charge them for about 2 hours once a week then they are good to go

Those look great

GSVBagpuss · 11 Dec 2016 at 06:47

[TW]Sponge;30298230 said:
Do any of you guys use wireless headphones in the gym?

I have a budget of around £150 to spend on a decent set. Not sure I fancy the popular 'Beats' headphones. What do you guys use, or recommend?

Sorry if in the wrong section but thought I would get better answers in here than anywhere else.

I have some 7dayshop cheapies that been reliable, good battery life and sound quality is good. Although the aren't that tight fitting so will often slip a little during rows or exercises when my head is down. Were only £15 though!

tom_nieto · 15 Dec 2016 at 20:51

My local gym has just had a re-fit which has doubled the free weights area AND added 2 power racks! I thought it was a proper yummy mummy gym before.

Let the gains begin!

bakes0310 · 16 Dec 2016 at 08:44

Had a bit of confidence knock in the gym, basically there's a fun Xmas challenge of how many reps inhalf your body weight bench press you can do in a minute. I only managed 19 as I just couldn't lift the bar off me. I came into the gym today to see I'm last against about 20 odd people today. I have been beaten by two girls with their scores of 23 24. And everyone else averaged about 40, top getting 66.
Now I've been going to the gym for 7 years, the last 3 years I have been training for strength and done programmes like stronglifts, mad cow and German volume training.
I rarely miss a session and I love it, I'm not a competitive person really, but seeing my score against others knocked my confidence.
My bench is my weakest always have been with my 1rm at 75, but compare it to my deadlift of 180 and my squat at 145 it's a little annoying.

GSVBagpuss · 16 Dec 2016 at 10:55

What is your BW? And how often do you do high rep workouts? My bench to squat / deadlift ratio is similar to yours but who cares - bench is a rubbish exercise anyway

CaptainRAVE · 16 Dec 2016 at 19:14

I would rather be stronger with deadlift and squats tbh. My bench has gone down due to focussing on deadlifts and squats, but not fussed tbh.

neoboy · 16 Dec 2016 at 21:38

I have glass shoulders so my bench press has always been behind my squats and deadlifts as I just never want to force too much weight.

tom_e · 16 Dec 2016 at 22:16

I've got a bench 1rm of 120kg at 100kg bw would I be able to blast out more than about 25 reps at 50kg? Probably not, out and out strength and being able to rep until your arms fall off are 2 very different things.

bakes0310 · 17 Dec 2016 at 06:47

GSVBagpuss said:
What is your BW? And how often do you do high rep workouts? My bench to squat / deadlift ratio is similar to yours but who cares - bench is a rubbish exercise anyway

My bw is 86kg and I never do high rep work unless of course I do German volume training, which I haven't attempted again since late last year.

I've heard people on here say bench I a rubbish exercise before, what do you mean. Like squats, ohp and deadlift it's big compound exercise which is important and I do them every week without fail. What would be a better exercise to replace bench and not look back?

tom_e said:
I've got a bench 1rm of 120kg at 100kg bw would I be able to blast out more than about 25 reps at 50kg? Probably not, out and out strength and being able to rep until your arms fall off are 2 very different things.

That's a very impressive bench and it's good to hear from my point of view that you would struggle.
The 19 reps I got were to failure I literally couldn't pick the bar off my chest.

SixTwoSix · 17 Dec 2016 at 07:49

I hear GVT mentioned a lot around here, Martin Berkham posted this link the other day:

German Volume Training (GVT), or the 10 sets method, has been used for decades by weightlifters to increase muscle mass. To date, no study has directly examined the training adaptations following GVT.

It seems that the modified GVT program is no more effective than performing 5 sets per exercise for increasing muscle hypertrophy and strength.

I've never run the program, just thought it might be of interest to some of you.

http://journals.lww.com/nsca-jscr/A..._a_Modified_German_Volume_Training.96210.aspx

GSVBagpuss · 17 Dec 2016 at 10:14

bakes0310 said:
I've heard people on here say bench I a rubbish exercise before, what do you mean. Like squats, ohp and deadlift it's big compound exercise which is important and I do them every week without fail. What would be a better exercise to replace bench and not look back?

I'm being a little facetious - bench isn't great for shoulders but more importantly when did you last need to generate force when lying down as opposed to an OHP. I'm also a hypocrite as I bench more than I OHP!

Ayahuasca · 17 Dec 2016 at 10:45

Was everyone's form checked when they were doing those bench reps?

Being able to do loads of reps at half your bodyweight isn't a sign of strength, just endurance, you'll probably find most on the list do high reps workouts compared to you.

Kris_90 · 17 Dec 2016 at 12:09

bakes0310 said:
My bw is 86kg and I never do high rep work unless of course I do German volume training, which I haven't attempted again since late last year.

There's your answer. It was more likely lack of endurance than strength.

jernau_gergeh · 17 Dec 2016 at 12:29

bakes0310 said:
Had a bit of confidence knock in the gym, basically there's a fun Xmas challenge of how many reps inhalf your body weight bench press you can do in a minute. I only managed 19 as I just couldn't lift the bar off me. I came into the gym today to see I'm last against about 20 odd people today. I have been beaten by two girls with their scores of 23 24. And everyone else averaged about 40, top getting 66.
Now I've been going to the gym for 7 years, the last 3 years I have been training for strength and done programmes like stronglifts, mad cow and German volume training.
I rarely miss a session and I love it, I'm not a competitive person really, but seeing my score against others knocked my confidence.
My bench is my weakest always have been with my 1rm at 75, but compare it to my deadlift of 180 and my squat at 145 it's a little annoying.

So how much do you weigh then? Edit: scratch that I've just seen that you're 86kg.

I've just tried this out - I weigh 80kg's and used 2x20kg DB's and knocked out 32 decent reps in a minute - tough going I can tell you.

I have very little in the way of endurance and have spent most of my time doing lower volume higher intensity weights and BW gymnastic isometrics etc. Only recently have I done serious volume and am on week 5 of 6 of GVT so I think that's probably helped, otherwise I reckon I'd have done 20 or less.

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