Posted on 03/14/2014 6:57:29 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I am a Bass Player.
My amp is about the size of a trash compactor.
I do this exercise every day! LOL!
Picking up heavy things decreases my MTBF, and voids my warranty. God made fork lifts for a reason.
/johnny
It’s also a great way to find the weak link between your hands and your feet.
Meaning, it is very easy to overwhelm any of the smaller connections in between.
You still need a total body workout to ensure you’re developing the more fragile connections.
Oh man, that hurts my back just thinking about it. To all you young lifters out there, seek out a genuine powerlifter and learn good form.
A couple of month's ago a very polite, fit looking guy asked me if I was done with the squat rack at my gym. When I finished I couldn't help but keep an eye on him because it looked like he was going to be squatting a lot of weight. Within minutes he had 405 lbs. on the bar and was doing squats almost all the way to the floor like it was a feather on his back.
A few weeks ago I was watching the Olympics and there he was, bronze medalist in the bobsled event from Melrose,Ma., Steve Langton.
I disagree with this completely. AFter squats, I see bad from on deadlifts more an any other exercise, even among relatively experienced weight trainers. And it's a dangerous exercise to do with bad form. Common errors are failure to maintain a straight back, slouchinig shoulders forward and overuse of butt and thighs to lift the weight at the end of the movement. These errors become magnified as the weight is increased. And too many lifters are using more weight than they can handle. (an ego thing.) Having said that, squats and deadlifts are probably the two best weight training exercies there are with pull ups coming in third. EAT-SLEEP-LIFT
It’s a great way to break the needed perfect form and really hurt yourself. Most people don’t do it right, and never will. Unless you are a competitive power lifter, there is no reason to do this exercise. The muscles involved can be trained more effectively and far more safely with alternative movements. If you are tall and lean, dead lift and squat are injuries just waiting to happen.
Bicycling your ass around *instead* of driving makes obesity impossible and accomplishes something for the time and effort.
Also do exercises to stretch your spine in both flexion and extension before and after. Not a bad idea to pay a professional trainer or physical therapist to show you how.
DON'T GET GREEDY.
I moving to a new house, hundreds of bends and lifts over a month, I lost ten pounds and feel great. No to mention hundreds of climbs up and down stairs.
Eat right and stay active and you can get into reasonable shape. Sit or lie around and over eat - gain weight.
It’s really that simple. I think the popularity of gyms isn’t about working out, they’re pick up joints for the youth.
Prefer curls (60% body weight max, 3 sets, 10 reps each), straight back an absolute must and push ups (50 to 100), lots safer on the back for geezers.
Throw in walking a mile or two a day and that will keep you in halfa$$ shape :)
Au contraire...After power walking for 20+ years I decided to join a gym..
My Pilates class means I no longer visit the chiropracter...The intervals I do on the treadmill means I have lost 9% in body fat (@6% more to go)..
I could not have done this on my own...altho I admit it is possible now to do many exercises at home...but less motivating
What about shoveling snow? Does that count? :)
Like a Freeper friend told me, shovel the driveway to go to work, shovel it again when you make it home, sounds like enough exercise to me.
Only if you use poor form. Done right they are the best exercise, bar none, for strenghening the back. With regard to curls, you are spending a lot of time working a single muscle the size of an orange. (biceps). Close grip chin ups will work your biceps every bit as much as curls as well as working your lats, shoulders, serratus and traps. I do only one or two sets of curls a week and think I'm probably overdoing it at that. Curls are probably the most overused exercise in the gym but everyone thinks that's the key to having big guns like Arnold.
"If you want to lift weights," he would say, "you can come to my barn and stack hay bales for free! Hell, if it was haying season and I had a load to put in the loft, I might even pay to have them stacked!"
"If you want to lift weights," he would say, "you can come to my barn and stack hay bales for free! Hell, if it was haying season and I had a load to put in the loft, I might even pay to have them stacked!"
The greatest piece of body building equipment ever invented can be had at any hardware store for about $40. They call it a “post-hole digger”.
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