Gym and fitness (40 Viewers)

[Zacheryah]

He looks like he's 5ft5.

It is much easier for short guys to do a squat than for tall guys.

Malanichev and Carl Yngvar are the two best squatters in the world (raw vs equipped), and they arent exactly short


It all depends on weight. In lower weight class short guys got the advantage cause they can carry more muscle while making the weight class.

However, the "open weight" class is all over 6foot easely.


The disadvantage offcourse, is that beeing taller means you'll need to build substantionally more muscle to finish the frame. I'm 191cm widebody skelet build. I should compete in the -125 or -140 class. My fatfree mass is 95-98kg, long way to go

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ok. Just wondering because I remember you saying high squats aren't ideal.

I'm impressed by the explosiveness

They arent ideal if you want to set a new world squat record.


I let my girlfriend to high bar wide stance squats. And you bloody know why

 

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[Maddy]

 

[ALC]

This isn't post your pictureski thread.

 

[Zacheryah]

more like a new boizband


Maddy n the niggaz

 

[GordoDeCentral]

Excellent highbar squats, as to be expected from a former world record holder in olymoic lifting


The odd thing is that those red plates, arent "red plates", cause the final weight was 280kg, and if all those red ones are 25's he's doing more


Regardless, this is textbook highbar squat

count again

 

[Post Ironic]

Lu Xiaojun with a 220 KG Overhead Squat as a 77kg lifter. Ridiculous.


Or Galabin Boevski highbar ATG squatting 250kg as a 69kg lifter.

 

[Seven]

He looks like he's 5ft5.

It is much easier for short guys to do a squat than for tall guys.

I think that in a lot of cases people cannot squat because of mobility or stability deficits. Sure, there are people who are better off not squatting. But I also think most people should at least look into whether or not they are flexible and strong enough as a squat is still a pretty fundamental movement pattern. I know that when squatting comes easy to me, I am also at my most explosive and strongest.

 

[GordoDeCentral]

old vid but still awesome

 

[Zacheryah]

Considering WILKS coefficient, wich greatly favors low bodyweight athletes, these squats are standing out the most

With a single ply suit



Raw without a suit




Considering how the bodywight to squatweight ratio goes down over 105kg, these two are the best performed squats today.

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Malanichev can do a 420 without wraps or anything. Ygnvar can squat pretty high without wraps, but never does cause he has some condition with his quadriceps and patella tendons that make them hurt ALOT if he squats high without high pressure on the knee joint.

 

[Post Ironic]

The Sinclair coefficients in O-lifting do a really good job of making weight classes quite equivalent...

The top 10 scores of all time are from:

1 x 60 kg lifter
1 x 75 kg lifter
2 x 82.5 kg lifter
4 x 90 kg lifter
1 x 100 kg lifter
1 x 110 kg lifter

 

[Nicholas]

Hey guy.

I need some help, I'm starting my fasted cardio again and want to start to develop my abb's, do you have any recommended workouts? My diet is clean I just need to get back on my running and start to train them in the gym.

I'm probably at around 12/13% body fat at the moment, I train six times a week.... I tend to do back, shoulders, two legs, two chest and an arms.

Any idea's on some new arm workouts too as mine are quite poor at the moment.

 

[Seven]

Frankly, my ab development has never been better than when I sprinted a lot.. Ab exercises tend to make my stomach look bloated and if anything they actually hurt me.

 

[Nicholas]

So you'd do sprints more so than distance?

 

[Dostoevsky]

Hey guy.

I need some help, I'm starting my fasted cardio again and want to start to develop my abb's, do you have any recommended workouts? My diet is clean I just need to get back on my running and start to train them in the gym.

I'm probably at around 12/13% body fat at the moment, I train six times a week.... I tend to do back, shoulders, two legs, two chest and an arms.

Any idea's on some new arm workouts too as mine are quite poor at the moment.

- stop doing arm exercises, rather go big on compound movements
- start doing skip rope

 

[Nicholas]

You think arm day is a waste?

 

[Ford Prefect]

You think arm day is a waste?

Everything I've read contests that an arm day is an exercise in futility. Just chuck some curls or pull downs on you back/chest day and do two back days. I do cardio/core, chest, back, legs, chest, back, rest and my arms are developing fine.

Bit happy with my squats today, I stopped progressing my 5x5s and have been focusing on form and changing to 3/4x8-10, managed to squat 100kgs 3x9 today hoping to start deadlifts this week, what do you guys recon I should start at 5x5 or 3x10? And what weight?

 

[Maddy]

You think arm day is a waste?

Depends on your goals, really.

And perhaps that's where you need to start. This is a decent faq: http://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/wiki/faq

But seriously.. just hit the gym with a good programme/routine. Fitness - unless competing - isn't that complicated. Eat enough, sleep enough and hit the gym, and results that most people are satisfied with shall arrive.

I personally run a Pull/Push/Leg-split and I freaking love it.

 

[Dostoevsky]

You think arm day is a waste?

I do, actually.

Just have a couple of exercises to kill the muscle during the week. Dedicating a whole day for arms is a huge waste of time, regardless of goals.

 

[JuveJay]

I agree, although I have fairly weak triceps right now, so I make an effort on targeting them a couple of times a week (diamond press ups and the like).

Spot training abs also seems a bit odd to me, unless you are getting really big then a lot is down to body fat percentage.

 

[ALC]

I feel like bench, overhead press and dips hit my triceps pretty hard. Some rope pulldowns afterwards and I'm good.