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FYG

Probably a silly question, but would I be able to get an accurate measure of my body fat percentage in my local gym?

Obviously you can't say for definite about my gym, but would most gyms be able to do this?

boomtown84

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boomtown84

FYG wrote: »

Probably a silly question, but would I be able to get an accurate measure of my body fat percentage in my local gym?

Obviously you can't say for definite about my gym, but would most gyms be able to do this?

Yeah just ask them if they have a body fat calipers. it'll look like this:

the electric handheld ones are very unreliable.

Brian?

Set of gymnast rings have appeared in my gym.

All I can think to do so far are inverted rows. Anyone else got any ideas. Bear in mind they'll be anchored to a squat rack.

Scuba Ste

Dips, pull ups and rows are all I ever use them for.

You can try gymnastic stuff too, skin the cat etc.

dave80

briankeating wrote: »

Set of gymnast rings have appeared in my gym.

All I can think to do so far are inverted rows. Anyone else got any ideas. Bear in mind they'll be anchored to a squat rack.

Dips, chins, pullups, facepulls

Hanley

briankeating wrote: »

Set of gymnast rings have appeared in my gym.

All I can think to do so far are inverted rows. Anyone else got any ideas. Bear in mind they'll be anchored to a squat rack.

Drop em down to ground level and to push ups - or put your feet on a bench and go to that level with the rings.

Stick your feet in them and do planks.

Put your feet in them and do alternate shoulder taps from a push up position (like a plank on 'roidzz basically)

Get into a push up position and extend your arms fowards like you're doing a superman.

Push up position and arms go sideways like a fly.

Ring dips/pull ups/rows.

Start working on one arm row variations - the higher the rings from the ground the easier that'll be.

That's off the top of my head. There's tonnes more!

Antisocialiser

Just got caught doing a goblet squat type stretch in the office in a full suit. Never has ATG looked so cool.

Dathai

Muscle-ups are worth trying too.

rubadub

Dathai wrote: »

Muscle-ups are worth trying too.

First time out you'd be lucky to be able to support yourself -seriously. Negative only dips would be a good start too, adjust the rings until they are at your sides, bend knees lower yourself, stand up and repeat. Full dips are very hard first time out but you will get used to the stability. The shorter the distance between rings and bar the easier it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjyRdlhc2bo

Brian?

rubadub wrote: »

First time out you'd be lucky to be able to support yourself -seriously. Negative only dips would be a good start too, adjust the rings until they are at your sides, bend knees lower yourself, stand up and repeat. Full dips are very hard first time out but you will get used to the stability. The shorter the distance between rings and bar the easier it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjyRdlhc2bo

Nice one. Cheers.

Mellor

Dathai wrote: »

Muscle-ups are worth trying too.

Has anybody seen a decent muscle up progression?
I jsut end up floping all over the palce when I try.

I seen a page with tips for doing it on a fixed bar, how to do a false grip on a bar. Couldn't even manage the grip.

squod

NSFW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veHKdKElZ3w

Dathai

Mellor wrote: »

Has anybody seen a decent muscle up progression?
I jsut end up floping all over the palce when I try.

I seen a page with tips for doing it on a fixed bar, how to do a false grip on a bar. Couldn't even manage the grip.

Fairly sure that gymnastics wod site had one.

Hanley

Mellor wrote: »

Has anybody seen a decent muscle up progression?
I jsut end up floping all over the palce when I try.

I seen a page with tips for doing it on a fixed bar, how to do a false grip on a bar. Couldn't even manage the grip.

Some good stuff on the crossfit journal too.

Mellor

thanks lads,
I've manage to do some sort of kipping pull-ups now, so want to progress to kipped MU,
Anytime I 've tried at the gym so far I reckon i've looked liek I was into some sort of Auto-erotic asphyxiatioa

Dathai

No shame in that, easily one of the most extreme sports out there Mellor.

Hanley

Mellor wrote: »

thanks lads,
I've manage to do some sort of kipping pull-ups now, so want to progress to kipped MU,
Anytime I 've tried at the gym so far I reckon i've looked liek I was into some sort of Auto-erotic asphyxiatioa

Then just do strict muscle ups

Seriously tho, the figure Jeff Tucker (CF gymnastics guy) gave when he was talking about MUs was that if you can do 5 dead hang ring pull ups and 5 ring dips, you should be able to do a strict muscle up. It really is a skill exercise - I genuinely find it quite easy to do a few now, that change happend in about 7-10 days. I didn't get stronger in that period, just understood the movement better.

I'm in no way qualified to teach the muscle up (not til after this weekend, wahey! ), but the things that got it for me were:
-lean slightly back as you pull the rings to the middle of your lower chest (keeping the hands close together)
-on the way up, with straight legs slightly elevate them like you're doing an L-sit
-once the rings are almost at your chest, push your head and chest thru like you're trying to touch your feet (go thru - not "up")
-keep the rings in close by your side and if you do it all properly you'll be in the bottom of a dip, so eh - just finish

I find MUs easier from full extension than half hang, and trying to kip throws me all over the place, tho that may just be an issue w/ tekkers.

Hanley

And whoops…. You said fixed bar.

Re: false grip - I know what you mean, I’ve never been able to do it comfortably, but can on rings. I’ve done MUs on a fixed bar before and never really felt the need to false grip. Most of the points still apply anyway.

rubadub

Dathai wrote: »

Fairly sure that gymnastics wod site had one.

not sure if you mean gymnasticbodies, but here is a page on them thread by the coach there. He calls them Chinese pullups.

http://gymnasticbodies.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1656

If you had resistance bands you might be able to practice the false grip a bit more, and negative muscleups. Or do body rows with the false grip.

I must have a go at them again myself. Just looking at that mango nutcase on youtube again, the yelp out of him at 25sec is priceless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGxbOFKvszY

Lots of other tutorials on youtube too.

Dathai

Nope, in fact, there's a massive series of videos on gymnasticswod about them.

http://gymnasticswod.com/progressions?field_tags_tid%5B%5D=35&field_tags_apparatus_tid%5B%5D=77&sort_by=title&sort_order=ASC&items_per_page=10

gymsoldier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAuW0vKGvh0

JJayoo

What an animal

jive

^ that was cat, the spotter was rowing the weight while your man benched it and danced around with his feet between sets.

(I'm aware it's impressive weight to be lifting... if you're lifting it yourself)

JJayoo

Thats about 250/260 kg :eek:

Barry.Oglesby

JJayoo wrote: »

Thats about 250/260 kg :eek:

200kg bench 50kg row . Still a big bench.

COH

Barry.Oglesby wrote: »

200kg bench 50kg row . Still a big bench.

That was totally all him bro.

EDIT: May also have been lightweight baby

rubadub

rubadub wrote: »

It was Janz gymnastics on 3 rock road
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Janz-Gymnastics-Club/209031475802724?sk=wall&filter=12


Has some pics, a proper high ring setup and trampoline.

open day tomorrow there

Zamboni

Not sure if this has been posted but...:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rIABdpb0KM

gymsoldier

^^^ Saw it on Rx Muscle last week, still hilarious though!

the drifter

anyone know what the gym is like in the crowne plaza in blanch?

the drifter

the drifter wrote: »

anyone know what the gym is like in the crowne plaza in blanch?

meh...ill make do with that...ill sneak in a 20kg KB as well :cool:

nbrady20009

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKp7fBtj81c

the drifter

nbrady20009 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKp7fBtj81c

im gonna save this video...and every **** day i have in work im going to watch it and remember.....this is why i build the internet...

token

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A special shout out to Hanley, enjoy.

dartstothesea

Somehow I didn't know 'til now she could do this, I'd obviously just spent too much time watching videos of her bending frying pans or something.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zyv2T8nnMd8

Is it generally reckoned she's not at all used steroids / hormones or whatever?
I certainly didn't get the impression she had... but I wouldn't have a clue.
Either way. All the

Mellor

Hanley wrote: »

And whoops…. You said fixed bar.

Re: false grip - I know what you mean, I’ve never been able to do it comfortably, but can on rings. I’ve done MUs on a fixed bar before and never really felt the need to false grip. Most of the points still apply anyway.

Only gettign back to this now

Your tips about L-Sit position maeks the msot sense. i've seen that mentioned before so i'll give it a shot.
I checked beast skills again and the false grip on a fixed bar is for slow muscle-ups, ie gymnast level. Dunno how I missed it, but glad I can ignore now.
I think if I work on getting the height.
My gym has a trx statino but no rings. So gonna have to wait to try them out.

Thanks for the help.

Scuba Ste

Article on Kendrick Farris

http://www.shreveporttimes.com/article/20111018/SPORTS/110180332/Kendrick-Farris-aims-second-U-S-Olympic-team-berth?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE%7Cp

Says he's jerked 225 in training, wonder if he's still squat jerking.

Pan Am's are next week with the World's in two weeks (they seem very close together tbh), should have a better idea of who goes to London then.

Edwardius

I think he experimented with what he calls a "kick jerk" for a while this year. He's not gonna win the olympics though. Entry totals for the worlds are out too. No sign of Tatiana Kasharina but Illyn seems to be finished whatever bender he was on after the olympics, same with Aramnau. Good to see Chigishev back on a list. Presume he'll blow his quad again though . Mendes is down for a 389 total.

Scuba Ste

Dead Ed wrote: »

I think he experimented with what he calls a "kick jerk" for a while this year. He's not gonna win the olympics though. Entry totals for the worlds are out too. No sign of Tatiana Kasharina but Illyn seems to be finished whatever bender he was on after the olympics, same with Aramnau. Good to see Chigishev back on a list. Presume he'll blow his quad again though . Mendes is down for a 389 total.

Cheers for that

He's no chance of a medal at all at the Olympics, presuming he gets there, maybe a c&J one at the worlds. I'm not too sure of the points system for the Olympic but I presume if the US get two spots himself and Vaughn will get them. Hard to see Mendes getting one unless he pulls out a big total tbh.

Yeah I'm really looking forward to seeing Aramnau and Klokov. Rybakov is back too. The Belorussians have fairly low openers though. Judging by Chigishev's last few comps I'd say he'll bomb out here too, don't think he even competed at the Russian nationals, although his openers are very high, something like 205/245.

Edwardius

Yeah he wasn't at the nationals. Such a shame though, it seemed like he could snatch 210 whenever he felt like it, this Chechen monster is in the supers, I think he weighs about 190kg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADQmQfQ7uXQ

I hope there's a massive scrap for the 105s too. Not sure I want to be within the blast radius on the off chance Klokov beats Aramnau.

Mellor

Scuba Ste wrote: »

Says he's jerked 225 in training, wonder if he's still squat jerking.

I imagine he is sticking with it, or a minor variation. On lots of his youtube vids (200+ lift), somebody often comments "you need to learn how to jerk dude". He replys something like "I hold the US record, maybe everyone else needs to learn to squat"

DeadEd wrote:

Mendes is down for a 389 total.

He got that at the nationals, "coming off an injury" - Broz quote

Scuba Ste

Mellor wrote: »

I imagine he is sticking with it, or a minor variation. On lots of his youtube vids (200+ lift), somebody often comments "you need to learn how to jerk dude". He replys something like "I hold the US record, maybe everyone else needs to learn to squat"

Like Ed says, Farris said he'll kick jerk at the Pan Am's. I'm not sure about the squat jerk, in competition he seems to miss more than he gets but he's not that far off the world record so..

Scuba Ste

Dead Ed wrote: »

Incidentally klokov has done 225 now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtxQFmRlKaY

Some lifts in that gym.

g'em

^^^ *happy place*

d'Oracle

Scuba Ste wrote: »

Incidentally klokov has done 225 now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtxQFmRlKaY

Some lifts in that gym.

The two in the back don't even bat an eyelid.

Hanley

WTF is a "kick jerk"?? (I can't watch the vid)

Edwardius

It's like a splot!

Hanley

Dead Ed wrote: »

It's like a splot!

Is that an art attack reference?

Edwardius

Hanley wrote: »

Is that an art attack reference?

Negatory! it's an actual word used to describe the half split/half squat thing.