There was some martial arts girl in the gym today doing an exercise with the cable machine.

Basically she was holding the cable and did about five really fast sidesteps against the resistance. Now, the cable machine is right next to the door, so she was running accross the doorway. She was also facing away from the doorway, since they were sidesteps. Getting into the gym was like playing Mario.

I like the curling bar hump...

Standing, keep arms locked with a 90 degree bend - NEVER straighten the arms! - as the weight is in the lowered postion near your pelvis and with arms locked and thus forcing your upper body forward... now proceed to hump the bar with explosive force and at the same time rock upper body backwards. This should throw the weight upwards and stop the biceps becoming invloved. For some reason I've seen people rolling their sleeves right up to the shoulders to show their skinny arms whilst doing this..?

Bison wrote:I like the curling bar hump...

Standing, keep arms locked with a 90 degree bend - NEVER straighten the arms! - as the weight is in the lowered postion near your pelvis and with arms locked and thus forcing your upper body forward... now proceed to hump the bar with explosive force and at the same time rock upper body backwards. This should throw the weight upwards and stop the biceps becoming invloved. For some reason I've seen people rolling their sleeves right up to the shoulders to show their skinny arms whilst doing this..?

The Powerbeck curl

For added effect it should be performed in the safety of the squat rack, don't want to waste energy having to deadlift the erm... "massif" weight into position.

T bar rows like they should be done ...

It's a head band and if you look carefully, you'll see my buddy is wearing one as well. It's a tribute to another buddy who made the video below.
The camera guy in the tabata vid is actually the guy I was trinign with on friday.

Ader wrote:T bar rows like they should be done ...

very bad form asking for serious trouble there

I have nothing to add except PMSL! This has got to be a fore runner for best thread of the month!

This has to take the biscuit

This was quite instructional I thought...

Ader wrote:This was quite instructional I thought...

arghh man.. love this girl! lol, her vids are always class! lollllll. Bet she makes a few pennys out fo that youtube channel hahah

Ader wrote:This was quite instructional I thought...

Definitely educational.

Craig is eating tortillas in front of my nose when I have to cut badly for 15 more days (I have been cutting for 15 months in a row FFS!).
I think that it's the most idiotic exercise I have ever heard of.
I decided to make it a bit more challenging by stuffing his mouth full of the bloody things.
Next time I'm going to shove the whole dip down his throat, jar included

the_cheshirecat wrote:Craig is eating tortillas in front of my nose when I have to cut badly for 15 more days (I have been cutting for 15 months in a row FFS!).
I think that it's the most idiotic exercise I have ever heard of.
I decided to make it a bit more challenging by stuffing his mouth full of the bloody things.
Next time I'm going to shove the whole dip down his throat, jar included

Upend a jar of dried chillis over the chips?

simon m wrote:

Finally got around to listening to this excellent instructional.

Alex - that looked pretty exhausting, but great tips though - all in the kicking of the legs and clanging noise.

Did you follow up with the kicbacks? If so I trust you used the correct technique -

take a very heavy dumbell then bend over into the start position. Once initiating the movement, rather than make the common mistake most people make of straightening at the elbow and holding the body rigid, you keep the elbow almost completely locked at 90 degrees, only straightening the arm slightly by 5 or 10 degrees whilst swinging the whole arm back with aggresive momentum.

This technique takes the 'weak link' (triceps) out of this great triceps isolation exercise

GymBunny wrote:

the_cheshirecat wrote:Craig is eating tortillas in front of my nose when I have to cut badly for 15 more days (I have been cutting for 15 months in a row FFS!).
I think that it's the most idiotic exercise I have ever heard of.
I decided to make it a bit more challenging by stuffing his mouth full of the bloody things.
Next time I'm going to shove the whole dip down his throat, jar included

Upend a jar of dried chillis over the chips?

would that still make him snort tortillas bits for 5 mins?
14 days to go... I can do it...

of course I can't concentrate long enough to log Craig off...

Craig wrote:

GymBunny wrote:

the_cheshirecat wrote:Craig is eating tortillas in front of my nose when I have to cut badly for 15 more days (I have been cutting for 15 months in a row FFS!).
I think that it's the most idiotic exercise I have ever heard of.
I decided to make it a bit more challenging by stuffing his mouth full of the bloody things.
Next time I'm going to shove the whole dip down his throat, jar included

Upend a jar of dried chillis over the chips?

would that still make him snort tortillas bits for 5 mins?
14 days to go... I can do it...

of course I can't concentrate long enough to log Craig off...

If you mix proper wasabi in with the chilli it might make him puke.

GymBunny wrote:If you mix proper wasabi in with the chilli it might make him puke.

uhm... who would clean up afterwards?

the_cheshirecat wrote:

GymBunny wrote:If you mix proper wasabi in with the chilli it might make him puke.

uhm... who would clean up afterwards?

The dogs? Have a bowl handy.

GymBunny wrote:

the_cheshirecat wrote:

GymBunny wrote:If you mix proper wasabi in with the chilli it might make him puke.

uhm... who would clean up afterwards?

The dogs? Have a bowl handy.

the small one woul probably clean
the big one woul probably try to, but she's preggers and I wouln't let her!