Squats the story - the Off Topic Thread...

JJayoo

What about a pair of tights?

JJayoo

Swipped this from another site
AWESOME

Scuba Ste

Chigishev is savage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w-hoNTAQlM

g'em

Did anyone else hear that Stoitsov is going to compete for Azerbaijan now!??!

SpookyBastard

Yeah. Read something about that. Apparently 5 Bulgarian lifters have been given Azerbaijani passports this year.

G86

Been reading up on intermittent fasting. And I just realised that my 'miraculous' loss of a few kg a while back may have been because I was doing this without even realising it.

Magic Eight Ball

brianthebard wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heath_bar

I read it as health bar first time too....

MEB where did you get that wonderous feed?

I didn't actually make/eat that myself.. I'm not a total scumbag. :pac:

It's from here..
http://www.thisiswhyyourefat.com/
Epic website!!

Orando Broom

May not be the place, but.... I want to incorporate the squat into my routine. I want to build power in the legs/lower body. I play soccer so I am not looking to get super big. advice please.

Secondly I read here that the smith machine is not good for squatting? Why? The reason I ask is there is no squat rack in my gym. If I want to use the free barbell I have to hoist it over my head. I can do this comfortably up to 30kg but due to a twice dislocated shoulder I am not too comfortable in lifting any higher weight over my head in such a fashion. Spotting is not an option as I don't like spotting others I don't ask for help. The gym for me is a solitary slog and I want to keep it that way, as I like it best.

Any advice is as always gratefully accepted. Please bear in mind I am not a huge gym enthusiast so if my questioning sounds basic it's because it is basic.

squod

Orando Broom wrote: »

no squat rack in my gym. .

Then it's not a gym. Anywho if you can clean the weight to chest height you could front squat. Or maybe lunges?

The range of movement in a smith machine is next to zero, you're natural movement in a full squat is like a long arc. The two aren't compatible .

JJayoo

Look up Crossack squats, weight can be added by simply holding a dumbbell/pate

Scuba Ste

Orando Broom wrote: »

May not be the place, but.... I want to incorporate the squat into my routine. I want to build power in the legs/lower body. I play soccer so I am not looking to get super big. advice please.

Secondly I read here that the smith machine is not good for squatting? Why? The reason I ask is there is no squat rack in my gym. If I want to use the free barbell I have to hoist it over my head. I can do this comfortably up to 30kg but due to a twice dislocated shoulder I am not too comfortable in lifting any higher weight over my head in such a fashion. Spotting is not an option as I don't like spotting others I don't ask for help. The gym for me is a solitary slog and I want to keep it that way, as I like it best.

Any advice is as always gratefully accepted. Please bear in mind I am not a huge gym enthusiast so if my questioning sounds basic it's because it is basic.

I'd just deadlift and leg press if was you. Not ideal but it's better than smith squats.

If you can learn to clean, clean and front squat would be great but realistically if you don't get coached your clean will limit your squat

brianthebard

Magic Eight Ball wrote: »

I didn't actually make/eat that myself.. I'm not a total scumbag. :pac:

That's no good!

Orando Broom

Scuba Ste wrote: »

I'd just deadlift and leg press if was you. Not ideal but it's better than smith squats.

If you can learn to clean, clean and front squat would be great but realistically if you don't get coached your clean will limit your squat

I am tall 6'4" I find the deadlift awful severe on the back. It may be technique (it probably is) but Deadlift's leave me in a hoop.

Hanley

I got told I've body dysmorphia tonight. They were probably right.

/V\etalfish

Hanley wrote: »

I got told I've body dysmorphia tonight. They were probably right.

"Bigorexia"

Hanley

Scuba Ste wrote: »

Chigishev is savage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w-hoNTAQlM

Even more awesome from the front view. Unreal save.

Remmy

Orando Broom wrote: »

I am tall 6'4" I find the deadlift awful severe on the back. It may be technique (it probably is) but Deadlift's leave me in a hoop.

I cant fcukin talk but height shouldn't be an issue for deadlift.Andy boltons 6:2 and konstinovs is 6:4.Having said that Im 6:2 and my dead sucks ass so Im not sure what point Im to make here..

Hanley

Remmy wrote: »

I cant fcukin talk but height shouldn't be an issue for deadlift.Andy boltons 6:2 and konstinovs is 6:4.Having said that Im 6:2 and my dead sucks ass so Im not sure what point Im to make here..

Height isn't the issue. It's proportion.

JJayoo

Flexibility can also be an issue. My left side is much tighter than my right. Last time deadlifting my left side felt as if i had sudden doms, and this was during the 60kg x 10 warm up. i stretched between each set, and by the time i had reached my max this stiffness had vanished. I have two stretches that seem to do the business.

Orando Broom

Hanley wrote: »

Height isn't the issue. It's proportion.

I'd be long in the leg.

Hanley

Orando Broom wrote: »

I'd be long in the leg.

That'd explain it. Pretty difficult to get into a good start position with long legs at that height.

itsallaboutheL

Hanley wrote: »

I got told I've body dysmorphia tonight. They were probably right.

LOL, i had written that earlier, decided it was too close to the truth and just ended up settling for sending a list of the crap i had eaten today.

Mellor

Ship the 100kg x8 squat @ 79kg, feel shorter today
Should be good for 1 rep of 1.5BW

rubadub

Body scans of various real athletes.

There's something stirring about an athlete in motion -- the ferocity of a wrestler shooting on his opponent, the grace of a guard dribbling in traffic, the bravado of a gymnast dismounting the beam. But an athlete in stillness can be just as moving. We took a 3-D scan machine to Penn State, one of the nation's largest (325-plus scholarship athletes) and smartest (82% graduation rate) athletics programs, to capture the forms of one Lion from each of the school's 29 varsity sports. What's the cut of a women's fencing champ? How does a women's All-Big Ten soccer star compare to a men's all-conference lacrosse attacker? And what does a 256-pound tackling machine look like stripped of his armor? All good questions, with awesome answers offered by the 29 athletes representing PSU's singular Student Body.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=5652746

Click on CHECK OUT THE PSU ATHLETES

G86

rubadub wrote: »

Body scans of various real athletes.



http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=5652746

Click on CHECK OUT THE PSU ATHLETES

Alot of male runners who look at that are gonna wonder why they didn't take up gymnastics...:P

Orando Broom

G86 wrote: »

Alot of male runners who look at that are gonna wonder why they didn't take up gymnastics...:P

Why?

G86

Orando Broom wrote: »

Why?

A picture tells a thousand words.

Orando Broom

G86 wrote: »

A picture tells a thousand words.

About what? You still havn't answered the question, why are ' Alot of male runners who look at that are gonna wonder why they didn't take up gymnastics'?

dartstothesea

G86 wrote:

A picture tells a thousand words.

No it doesn't. It's just 'cause then G86 would fancy them. And with good cause!

G86

dartstothesea wrote: »

No it doesn't. It's just 'cause then G86 would fancy them. And with good cause!

Well..if you wanna put it like that....:D

Khannie

They all look fairly similar. Why didn't they just take a flippin' picture? What's with the stupid looking scans? And look at their hands!!!

Orando Broom

Khannie wrote: »

They all look fairly similar. Why didn't they just take a flippin' picture? What's with the stupid looking scans? And look at their hands!!!

I thought the lineman in the football was carrying a few kg round the midriff.

d'Oracle

Orando Broom wrote: »

I thought the lineman in the football was carrying a few kg round the midriff.

Which helps with the not being moved or moving folk who don't move easily.

Depending on whether he was offensive or defensive.

squod

Sorry moderating people, but I have to post this. Maths isn't my strong point.
In a recently closed thread some bloke wanted to buy a squat rack instead of a power cage. Is it only me or is the powercage smaller?

Deadly Combination wrote: »

I cant buy a power cage as it wont fit

Anyone here has a rack like this one - http://www.donedeal.ie/for-sale/gym/1571410 is it any good ???

L108 x W158 x H190cm Rack

L106 X W123 X H209.6 cm heavy power cage

BobbyOLeary

squod wrote: »

L108 x W158 x H190cm Rack

L106 X W123 X H209.6 cm heavy power cage

The Rack is shorter which might be it though the last time I saw a room smaller than 2 metres high was when I broke into that dwarf's house. Snow White went mental.

Mellor

BobbyOLeary wrote: »

The Rack is shorter which might be it though the last time I saw a room smaller than 2 metres high was when I broke into that dwarf's house. Snow White went mental.

Even the diagonal of the cage is less than the min ceiling height. So you should be able to assemble lying down and roll into place

Mellor

Khannie wrote: »

They all look fairly similar. Why didn't they just take a flippin' picture? What's with the stupid looking scans? And look at their hands!!!

That's the problem, its a picture of a scan.
Trying to broadcast this info over the net is pointless, as the interesting part is the 3D element, rotating the bodies in different planes etc. Which we can't do with out the software, (will they open in CAD? )

d'Oracle

Sangre

Is Mick from Irish-lifting now 21inchguns? Just looking to contact him.

rubadub

Sangre wrote: »

Is Mick from Irish-lifting now 21inchguns? Just looking to contact him.

He was, and then I think I saw him post as Mickk again, I think he reregistered after the hacking and might have found his old login details again. You could always pm both names, and/or email irish lifting.

brianthebard

d'Oracle wrote: »

knees travelling too far forward!

d'Oracle

Form Nazi.

brianthebard

don't complain to me when his knees are ****ed so!!! :P

cardio,shoot me

hes an oly lifter, note the high bar and white ironworks hes rockin

Molly

Got my first muscle up this evening Twas dodgy but it counts!

Ciaran500

Molly wrote: »

Got my first muscle up this evening Twas dodgy but it counts!

Well done. Very slowly working towards doing one, it still feels a long way away.

g'em

1L low fat milk + 2 sachets of Cadburys Highlights = awesome make-shift chocolate milk.

itsallaboutheL

g'em wrote: »

1L low fat milk + 2 sachets of Cadburys Highlights = awesome make-shift chocolate milk.

Can't stomach whole food anymore granny?




/runs away

Hanley

Re-FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED time.

Sangre

Got in contact with him and was just up at his place in Sandyford. Turns out I recgonise him as a WW gym regular. Great service and gets a thumbs up from me!