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Morba · 10 Jun 2011 at 19:36

Barbell curls kill my wrist. I need to invest in an ez bar for home!

Morba · 10 Jun 2011 at 20:09

Even your top potential finish weights are fantastic fella

Morba · 11 Jun 2011 at 09:43

That rocks! I'm gonna have to try it

Morba · 11 Jun 2011 at 19:37

Psycho Sonny said:
exact opposite for me.

EZ bar kills my wrist, dumbells and normal olympic barbell are fine

Then you are odd tbh

Morba · 11 Jun 2011 at 19:57

Yeah, apparently it does work better

Morba · 11 Jun 2011 at 23:49

Odd that you are more interested in protecting the skin on your hands than anything else that could really be damaged.

Never intending to is a silly thing to say given you are still training and progressing.

Morba · 12 Jun 2011 at 00:21

Lol, awesome. So 1rm are stupid?
To get the most out of a belt you must lift with bad technique?

"Guy goes to a gym and injures back doing curls, gym people recommend using a belt"

Jesus wtf? To even talk about crap like that is stupid.

Yes, it means stabilisers are used a little less. Is this really a bad thing? Not if you have a decent routine.

I guess you NEVER use a machine or anything either?

Morba · 12 Jun 2011 at 00:44

Psycho Sonny said:
i dont see why i should do a 1 rep max? what does it achieve? please do inform us how by doing 1 rep, it helps?

I never said you should. read my post again.

Morba · 12 Jun 2011 at 00:48

Psycho Sonny said:
http://stronglifts.com/gain-strength-weight-lifting-belts/

Have you actually read that link?

Morba · 12 Jun 2011 at 00:52

Psycho Sonny said:
so can you tell me why 1 rep maxes arent stupid?

all i can see is the high risk of injury by pushing your body to its limit.

i would much rather do 8 reps at say 100kg than a 1 rep max of 110kg. that 1 rep isnt going to make any difference to my strength or muscle mass. but it is going to push me to a limit where i am at high risk of injury.

the only use for them is competitions or showing off. personally i think showing off is stupid, because somewhere out there someone is warming up with my 1 rep max. therefore competitions are the only feasible place i see 1 rep maxes having a place.

people who do 1 rep maxes regularly are idiots tbh, unless they are in a competition.

thats my opinion on the matter of 1 rep maxes.

Lol, you come out with some crap fella. Do you really not understand why people do very low rep sets?

Morba · 12 Jun 2011 at 00:54

Psycho Sonny said:
yeah he basically says, you should only use a belt when pushing yourself to your limit.

thats what i get from it anyway.

No he doesn't. He says that noobs shouldnt use them, which is fair.
He also says that good form is crucial.
Another thing he mentions is.... ah I wont bother tbh. Read your own links before using them as an argument for why belts shouldn't be used lol. He even RECOMMENDS a belt for people!

Morba · 13 Jun 2011 at 12:57

Yeah thats always a funny one if you are in a gym with limited weight plates

Morba · 13 Jun 2011 at 13:23

Psycho Sonny said:
LMAO

you call zyzz not natty then talk about naturalgraham, i think its time you were told the truth

He didnt say that NG isnt natty? You read a lot into things I think.....

Morba · 13 Jun 2011 at 15:16

Freefaller said:
Yes but you're not doing it naturally either from what I recall.

Did I miss something or have I forgotten? Or is that where all of this comes from for PS?

Morba · 13 Jun 2011 at 15:22

lol, ok PS

Morba · 15 Jun 2011 at 11:08

Kai Green looking rather fantastic a few months out from Mr O!!

Morba · 15 Jun 2011 at 11:38

He's just done the NY comp, which he won. But that stands him in good shape for the O already

Morba · 15 Jun 2011 at 12:58

regulus said:
Haha. Reminds me of this baby dwarf with the attitude of a big dwarf that was repping MONSTROUS 24kg dumbells of the incline bench on Monday. He squeezed out 3 reps before failing and then proceeded to try and throw the weights halfway across the gym rather than putting it down. All for the attention. I was training shoulders next to him with 42kg dumbells for the shoulder presses. I threw my bench on incline and smashed out 15 reps and said to my buddy 'I wonder when weaklings are going to start lifting real weights instead of children's weights' and pointed to the 24's. Baby Dwarf just looked away, refusing eye contact. He didn't drop any more weights as he left after that.

Ok ok, maybe I came across as a bit of a **** but this idiot was soooo freaking annoying and attention seeking. It seems like the only good time to train is around 5am as most weirdos and scum is still in a slumber.

Did you actually really do that?

Morba · 15 Jun 2011 at 13:28

dod said:
I actually had something similar done to me a couple of nights ago, even though I keep myself to myself and certainly don't dump weights all over the place.

Nothing overly aggressive, just comments about lifting "real" weight from a trio of 20 somethings lifting about 30 kilo more than I was. Not particularly nice but my day will come

Muppets

Morba · 15 Jun 2011 at 14:21

Psycho Sonny said:
this is the problem in the UK especially, people who own gyms have zero knowledge on weights, its all cardio orientated. they would rather have 1000 cardio machines than a decent weights area. thats the way i see it.

It's a small hotel gym. Their target market is not heavy weights users.

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