Caporegime
Stretch and mobility, and obviously do as much as you can food wise for recovery.
Told you........log book
Told you........log book
William's Training Log (N00B Log)
- Thread starter WilliamC
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Ahah I just keep a little note so I shouldn't be loosing track anymore but the lifts are getting quite a bit harder each week and I'm worried I'm going to load my weights one week and It's just not going to work and I won't lift them???
A good tip for bench:
If you take the press up position and now pin your shoulderblades back you'll find as you lower yourself down your chest opens up and as such more chest muscle is recruited.
Now take the same position when benching with a slight arch in your back (just enough to help get your shoulderblades back, down and together).
That should give you a better and more stable position to bench from.
If you take the press up position and now pin your shoulderblades back you'll find as you lower yourself down your chest opens up and as such more chest muscle is recruited.
Now take the same position when benching with a slight arch in your back (just enough to help get your shoulderblades back, down and together).
That should give you a better and more stable position to bench from.
Alright man I'll try that out thanks for the advice!!
Same principle (only the other way around) applies to bent-over rowing, too. However, with those, you REALLY need to sort your core stability out first.
Thanks a lot guys! Ill try get some new videos up wednesday and friday and take one what you guys have said then see if there's anything else to improve! I still need to show my squats dead lifts and ohp my ohp.
What shoes you guys wearing to gym? I read on the form thread to wear good hard soled shoes and not trainers well I wear trainers? So what should I look at buying I don't want to risk injury??
Caporegime
Some cheap converse or something along those lines, long as the sole isn't massive. For the cheapest option, take your shoes off for squats and deadlifts.
Used to do this, still would if I didn't have Vibrams. Mind dropping any plates on your toes etc.
Man of Honour
Dude, i'm gonna type as sober as possible...
You're doing Stronglifts 5 x 5. Go to the Stronglifts 5 x 5 website! It explains everything you need to know there! Read the site. Read it!
You're doing Stronglifts 5 x 5. Go to the Stronglifts 5 x 5 website! It explains everything you need to know there! Read the site. Read it!
Caporegime
I'd love some vibrams, just dont have the spare cash at the moment.
Anyway, hardly any shoes will protect your feet from plates dropping on them
I read it I don't remember them talking about shoes but ah okay Ill go out and get something with a hard sole just look about.
Caporegime
My shoes cost me £7
Man of Honour
I'm not talking about shoes.. I'mon about your form! If you looked at the site properly you wouldn't be posting videos like that asking whether your form is good... because it's not
Give it a really thorough read and find the pages that teach you how to squat, row, deadlift, bench anf overhead press properly. He covers it all pretty well with explanations and videos
I watched all the videos and just because I have watched the videos doesn't mean I'm going to be perfect right away and people wanted to see my videos so they could help me so I uploaded them
Man of Honour
... but you can't have watched the videos and be doing rows like that still I think I'm missing a point somewhere so maybe just ignore me.
I think I'm missing a point somewhere so maybe just ignore me.
I obviously need to re visit the video before my workout so its fresh in my mind.
Caporegime
... but you can't have watched the videos and be doing rows like that still
Not hard to understand, everyone has different failing points during a movement, WillC's happens to be with keeping everything activated (core, back, lats) during the BORs and it's causing his back to round.
I'm pretty sure you can admit that you have read something that details a load of cues, then by the time you've got to the gym you've forgotten one of them.
Will, read the site again, read the exercise guide / form thread on here and ask questions, the more information you have now, the better.
Man of Honour
There's a big difference between not remembering to brace your core, and doing an upright row instead of a Pendlay row. Perpendicular to the ground just looks entirely different. It's like saying oh I know how to run but I keep cycling to work - the difference between the two are unmistakable, it's no where near the same as just forgetting to pin shoulders back on bench or to get your knees wide in a squat.
If you want to split hairs, there are three potential movements (even four, depending on your perspective):
1) Pendlay row (preferred option);
2) 'Standard' row (more inclined but I've never seen anybody do this without moving the torso as a 'double' shoulder dip);
3) Yates row (not quite vertical, but mostly trap from what I've seen);
4) Upright row (utterly pointless)
WilliamC would probably be looking for the Pendlay row, as such, which involves the horizontal torso as pointed out.