*** The 2013 Gym Rats Thread ***

[tom_e]

I've never been able to get on with straps for deads just doesn't feel right to me.

 

[Begbie]

I've never been able to get on with straps for deads just doesn't feel right to me.

Same, I struggle to even get them tight enough to benefit out of them anyway. I just stick to my barehands, chalk normally but I seem to have left that in some box somewhere..

 

[grudas]

Did you not try mixed grip first? Or hook?

I used mixed grip when I got to around 120kg, hook never worked for w/e reason

 

[Delvis]

You clearly wasn't hooking enough then

So at 120kg you're grip is failing on Mixed?

 

[grudas]

You clearly wasn't hooking enough then

So at 120kg you're grip is failing on Mixed?

it isn't failing no some days I have problems with 160 other days I'm fine but I simply want to focus on my muscles/strength not my grip and if my grip is letting me down then I'll try to sort it out

 

[mrthingyx]

I read an article/watched a video by Christian Thibadeau many moons ago, obviously each to our own, but he was strapped up for snatches to save stressing his CNS unnecessarily.

I suppose reducing the central drive required of the CNS in relation to the hands (forearm muscles) by using straps would help this to a degree...

However, cranking the motor cortex up for a near-max snatch/CnJ will screw the lifter over regardless of straps/raw. Even doing so for a 70-85% drive is murder.

So I'm guessing our Canadian is doing so to continue/build his routine based on something like:

- Snatch (most complex movement first and all that...);
- Deadlift/RDL/whatever...

So doesn't want to exhaust his grip before going on to the exercises that will further isolate muscles for growth/strength.

I think. .

 

[Barks]

I used liquid chalk for the first time yesterday and it helped enormously on my deadlifts and BODRs.

 

[Disco Boy]

Why are people's grip struggling with BOR? Presumably you deadlift a lot more than you BOR, so surely that's when you are going to have grip issues...

... This is assuming that you aren't doing silly long sets.

 

[BennyC]

If you've done a shed load of other exercises prior to BOR's? more so fatigue than lack of strength.

For example I do 3 sets of rest-paused chins or pull ups to failure/just short of failure, followed by a 60-90 second +20KG static hang. Then I deadlift. Grip pls respond. Straps usually come out midway through my working set.

 

[Erich Kriegler]

 

[icecold]

lol, strong everything

 

[Barks]

Why are people's grip struggling with BOR? Presumably you deadlift a lot more than you BOR, so surely that's when you are going to have grip issues...

... This is assuming that you aren't doing silly long sets.

With dumbells it is a major issue, if not the only thing stopping me from lifting quite a bit more.

 

[iamtheoneneo]

If he was doing those squats in my gym he would be prometly asked to leave

 

[mrthingyx]

Maybe he's just doing jerk squats... /ntsrs.

 

[MoNkeE]

He's definitely a jerk.

 

[Fireskull]

Fag Video

FLOL stable base

Not so lol slight knee bends.

 

[Delvis]

Think they're about as high as Steedies 'Box' squats.

EDIT: I HATE power stations.

 

[mrthingyx]

FLOL stable base

Yeah... this seems to be popping up everywhere, now.

 

[Steedie]

Think they're about as high as Steedies 'Box' squats

Or as high as your pain threshold......




Notsrs

 

[Delvis]

Or as high as your pain threshold......




Notsrs

Bru, I challenge you to a pain threshold match