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Squats the story - the Off Topic Thread...

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    #692
    itsallaboutheL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,333 ✭✭✭✭itsallaboutheL


    Hanley how are you doing this its annoying me!!
    Your logged in but your not logged in!


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    #693
    Hanley
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,981 ✭✭✭✭Hanley


    itsallaboutheL wrote: »
    Hanley how are you doing this its annoying me!!
    Your logged in but your not logged in!

    :confused:


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    #694
    tribulus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,635 ✭✭✭tribulus


    Possibly referring to the lack of a greenlight under peoples usernames.
    Go into boards.ie -> user settings -> user control panel and then change the "invisible mode" option.


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    #695
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,316 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    Hanley wrote: »
    I didn't see anything wrong with it tbh. Pulls just like this guy; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lyHcYKehWg

    'cept he doesn't cheat by bouncing it off the floor from the top.

    I think it was an upper back mobilisation exercise anyway.

    Yeah thought it might've been something about the lower back, couldn't much else that didn't look good.

    Anyway, slight fitness question, I'll be hitting the gym within an hour of the LC finishing, first time hitting stuff properly. Anyway, just wondering what the conventional wisdom is about starting weights. I know I can squat 75kg easily from dicking around at parties and so on, so should I start with that straight off or just go from an empty bar and work up to it over a couple of weeks?


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    #696
    itsallaboutheL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,333 ✭✭✭✭itsallaboutheL


    Start a thread altogether man..


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    #697
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,316 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    itsallaboutheL wrote: »
    Start a thread altogether man..

    Nah started one before with other stuff if in but didn't really get an answer to that bit. :P


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    #698
    Hanley
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,981 ✭✭✭✭Hanley


    amacachi wrote: »
    Yeah thought it might've been something about the lower back, couldn't much else that didn't look good.

    Anyway, slight fitness question, I'll be hitting the gym within an hour of the LC finishing, first time hitting stuff properly. Anyway, just wondering what the conventional wisdom is about starting weights. I know I can squat 75kg easily from dicking around at parties and so on, so should I start with that straight off or just go from an empty bar and work up to it over a couple of weeks?

    I should really clarify, you don't want to deadlift like that. Seriously.

    I'll have to let someone else handle your question tho cos I'm in the middle of doing a consolidated income stmt and balance sheet!


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    #699
    itsallaboutheL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,333 ✭✭✭✭itsallaboutheL


    UUUUUUGGGGHHH On Topic is sooo passé:D

    Have you never really lifted before??


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    #700
    brianthebard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,165 ✭✭✭✭brianthebard


    When you say you can squat 75kg do you mean you lifted a person or something? That's what it sounds like.


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    #701
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,316 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    Hanley wrote: »
    I should really clarify, you don't want to deadlift like that. Seriously.

    I'll have to let someone else handle your question tho cos I'm in the middle of doing a consolidated income stmt and balance sheet!

    Ugh, meant upper back. ****ing need sleep.

    Also, I'm so jealous of what you're doing right now. :P


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    #702
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,316 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    brianthebard wrote: »
    When you say you can squat 75kg do you mean you lifted a person or something? That's what it sounds like.

    Picked up a bar on my back from a cheap bench, probably not the best idea, and threw out 5 reps handy enough.


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    #703
    itsallaboutheL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,333 ✭✭✭✭itsallaboutheL


    amacachi wrote: »
    Picked up a bar on my back from a cheap bench, probably not the best idea, and threw out 5 reps handy enough.

    Not being smart but could it have been pounds??


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    #704
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,316 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    itsallaboutheL wrote: »
    Not being smart but could it have been pounds??

    No it was kg. The guy whose house it was was benching 40kg, and my mate stacked it with the rest of the weights til it was a little over 70kg plus the bar and he benched it.


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    #705
    the drifter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,348 ✭✭✭the drifter


    itsallaboutheL wrote: »
    He looks a little like Drifter!! any more scea from them veggies? maybe we should send Cardio to spy on 'em :cool: (Incognito Smilie)

    pfft....my legs are bigger than that...

    on antoher note.....

    must buy gum shield.......ouch!...


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    #706
    itsallaboutheL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,333 ✭✭✭✭itsallaboutheL


    the drifter wrote: »
    pfft....my legs are bigger than that...

    on antoher note.....

    must buy gum shield.......ouch!...

    Get one made, well worth the expense and last for years

    Theres a place down by TRooms that does 'em


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    #707
    cardio,shoot me
    Registered Users Posts: 3,462 ✭✭✭cardio,shoot me


    send me as a spy? pfft. Im tiny compared to all of you but compared to other teenagers im like the green giant dude.


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    #708
    itsallaboutheL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,333 ✭✭✭✭itsallaboutheL


    cardio,shoot me wrote: »
    send me as a spy? pfft. Im tiny compared to all of you but compared to other teenagers im like the green giant dude.

    Because ur a veggie not because ur "small"!!:rolleyes:


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    #709
    brianthebard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,165 ✭✭✭✭brianthebard


    amacachi wrote: »
    Picked up a bar on my back from a cheap bench, probably not the best idea, and threw out 5 reps handy enough.

    Ok fair enough, I just wondered cause I have a habit of lifting people while drunk :o but that's generally more of a quarter squat. Do you know anyone who lifts? Imo the best thing you can do is go lift with someone who's been at it a while if that's possible. You've been on here a while so I guess you know what the proper depth is and have an idea about form, but its good to have someone watch if you can.
    Regards what weight to start with, something simple like moving up 10kg every set then picking a heavy enough weight (say 60-65) for 3-5 sets should be enough. Open to corrections if anyone has anything to add to that.


    Edit; another video for funsies.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSvaUTOTdc4


    I was actually still half impressed before I saw him lift the weight, cause in fairness its more than I can handle. But after watching it I was no longer feeling that way.


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    #710
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,316 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    brianthebard wrote: »
    Ok fair enough, I just wondered cause I have a habit of lifting people while drunk :o but that's generally more of a quarter squat. Do you know anyone who lifts? Imo the best thing you can do is go lift with someone who's been at it a while if that's possible. You've been on here a while so I guess you know what the proper depth is and have an idea about form, but its good to have someone watch if you can.
    Regards what weight to start with, something simple like moving up 10kg every set then picking a heavy enough weight (say 60-65) for 3-5 sets should be enough. Open to corrections if anyone has anything to add to that.

    Aye I'm always lifting people when I'm drunk. Last 18th I was at had a big bouncy slide so there were a lot of people gettin suplexed and electric chaired onto that. :P

    Right so, I'll give that a try. Probably shouldn't push it after popping my knee a few months ago, but it's not like I'd be missing work or anything. :P

    I have a mate who hits the gym a few times a week but he does mostly arm stuff and tries to keep his back vertical when squatting...

    I suppose starting a log and tryin to get vids in wouldn't be a bad thing. Have a fair idea of form and that but I'll play it safe and make use of the guys working in the gym, few of them are fairly massive. Thanks for the tips. :)

    I should probably try and quit smoking too. :P


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    #711
    itsallaboutheL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,333 ✭✭✭✭itsallaboutheL


    SWEET JESUS and he's in a suit FFS!!


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    #712
    brianthebard
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    lol yeah that's what I thought to myself.


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    #713
    itsallaboutheL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,333 ✭✭✭✭itsallaboutheL


    amacachi wrote: »

    I should probably try and quit smoking too. :P

    Many a day?? What brand


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    #714
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,316 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    itsallaboutheL wrote: »
    Many a day?? What brand

    I'd say I'm on 15-20 a day since the leaving cert started, usually 10 a day and 20 if I'm on the piss. I smoke Carroll's. Only started smoking because the factory was in the town here, supporting local industry and that. :P


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    #715
    itsallaboutheL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,333 ✭✭✭✭itsallaboutheL


    amacachi wrote: »
    I'd say I'm on 15-20 a day since the leaving cert started, usually 10 a day and 20 if I'm on the piss. I smoke Carroll's. Only started smoking because the factory was in the town here, supporting local industry and that. :P

    Ugh


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    #716
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,316 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    itsallaboutheL wrote: »
    Ugh

    What answer were you hoping for? :P


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    #717
    Baldie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭Baldie


    brianthebard wrote: »


    Edit; another video for funsies.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSvaUTOTdc4


    I was actually still half impressed before I saw him lift the weight, cause in fairness its more than I can handle. But after watching it I was no longer feeling that way.

    Ha ha i was waiting for him to **** himself on the deadlift!! :D


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    #718
    WolfForager
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    brianthebard wrote: »

    Edit; another video for funsies.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSvaUTOTdc4


    I was actually still half impressed before I saw him lift the weight, cause in fairness its more than I can handle. But after watching it I was no longer feeling that way.

    Talking about testing your limits :pac:

    Was waiting for him to fall backwards...


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    #719
    Hanley
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,981 ✭✭✭✭Hanley


    It's funny how he's now pulling 500+ with good form and people here are still laughing at him...

    EDIT: For any one who cares - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoyvuwIrHKk


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    #720
    qt9ukbg60ivjrn
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    Hanley wrote: »
    It's funny how he's now pulling 500+ with good form and people here are still laughing at him...

    EDIT: For any one who cares - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoyvuwIrHKk


    his feet are really close together in that video, much more so than the first one, i don't think i'd feel i'd have enough balance or stability dead lifting like that


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    #721
    kevpants
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    In fairness it's a gym lift, he just wasn't giving up. If you're training and you're perilously close to completing a rep you're gonna hitch. Why wouldn't ya? Nice grip strength he has.
    Brenna Long Arch wrote: »
    his feet are really close together in that video, much more so than the first one, i don't think i'd feel i'd have enough balance or stability dead lifting like that

    It's actually highly recommended by a lot of guys, I was gonna try it before I switched to sumo. I needed to change something about my technique and I considered close stance.

    Here's Mr Wendler, who's an advocate

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFs9em8h8ZE


    He gives some great technique advice in the video description.


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