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Stumbled upon this essay/thesis/article about weight belts today: http://staff.washington.edu/griffin/belts_chek.txt
A long read, but interesting.![Smile :) :)](/styles/default/xenforo/vbSmilies/Normal/smile.gif)
A long read, but interesting.
![Smile :) :)](/styles/default/xenforo/vbSmilies/Normal/smile.gif)
also, wrist straps.. do you guys wrap them with the hand, or against the hand? (i.e. same 'direction' as your fingers, or opposite?) or does it not matter? I thought opposite would be better so your straps 'roll' the bar into your fingers, and vice-versa (same logic as over+under grip)
Stumbled upon this essay/thesis/article about weight belts today: http://staff.washington.edu/griffin/belts_chek.txt
A long read, but interesting.![]()
I never understand why people mix chest and tris and back and bis - you hit tris doing chest and you hit bis doing back, unless you're wanting to pre-exhaust. I seldom train arms anyway, however, if you are going to train arms properly, I'd say chest/bis and back tris a better combination.
I still can't do legs with anything else - it takes 90mins for a good leg work out and by then I'm dead. I like to do shoulders and then sometimes do an "arm" day with them. But hten I train 4x a week minimum.
I do like push pull splits they work well.
This confuses me.
That's basically it.. your tri's will be pushing for just about every routine on chest day. *any* form of pressing uses your tri's, and heavily at that if you are pushing enough.
Likewise for bi's on back day.. everything involves pulling so bi's get mullered.
It's not so much that you're wasting your time, but in practice you probably won't have the energy to work them much.
As for how much to push, as long as you have good form, and no joint pain, push as much as you want.![]()
Quick question - can anyone tell me what they normally shrug in comparison to their deadlift? I don't really shrug to be honest but in the gym there seems to be a massive range in weight, maybe just because some people cheat it more than others.
Do you have a link to share please? Have looked at a couple of screwless ones, just not sure how secure they would be.
Thanks
Quick question - can anyone tell me what they normally shrug in comparison to their deadlift? I don't really shrug to be honest but in the gym there seems to be a massive range in weight, maybe just because some people cheat it more than others.
I see guys who rack the bar right up when shrugging and then execute the move with really bad form that I doubt is really hitting the traps as intended.
As part of WSFB
Depends how skinny you are to begin with I guess....