My favourite has always been the assisted upright row:

This is where a bloke lays down on a bench holds a barbell with the heaviest weight he can possibly hold and steadies this for his mate who rows the weight up and down, with the bloke below supporting it.

I also like the lying dumb bell elbow flex. The fella lying down has huge dumb bells and to strengthen his elbow tendons he barely flexes his elbows so the DB's are a good foot away from his chest. When he finished his set he drops the weights as loudly as possible and sits bolt upright looking "well 'ard"

Have you any other moves you love???

Power shrugs when the person doing them does no kind of explosive work what so ever, so power shrugs have no relevance to anything they do!

The weighted curtsy seems to be gaining popularity in my gym; the acid test seems to be how far over your toes you can shoot your knees, on no account must your hips move backwards.

simon m wrote:My favourite has always been the assisted upright row:

This is where a bloke lays down on a bench holds a barbell with the heaviest weight he can possibly hold and steadies this for his mate who rows the weight up and down, with the bloke below supporting it.

I also like the lying dumb bell elbow flex. The fella lying down has huge dumb bells and to strengthen his elbow tendons he barely flexes his elbows so the DB's are a good foot away from his chest. When he finished his set he drops the weights as loudly as possible and sits bolt upright looking "well 'ard"

Have you any other moves you love???

I saw a guy doing this the other day, the dumbbells weren't even huge, I think 34kg. The ROM was about about 2 inches and that's not an exaggeration. I'd love to get a video of this guy and get it up on youtube... He trains with the worst form I have ever seen.

Tricep DB PRess - Like a shoulder db press but the dobber brings the weight down to above thir head and then pushes back up 4 inch to lock out thus only workign the triceps really

Flat bench using the incline bench, this is a tough exersize and you seem to have to arch your back to level out the incline.

simon m wrote:My favourite has always been the assisted upright row:

This is where a bloke lays down on a bench holds a barbell with the heaviest weight he can possibly hold and steadies this for his mate who rows the weight up and down, with the bloke below supporting it.

I also like the lying dumb bell elbow flex. The fella lying down has huge dumb bells and to strengthen his elbow tendons he barely flexes his elbows so the DB's are a good foot away from his chest. When he finished his set he drops the weights as loudly as possible and sits bolt upright looking "well 'ard"

Have you any other moves you love???

yes you have to spot from the very first rep as its assisted.

Craig has started a new trend: to demonstrate that he has explosive power he loves to show everybody (including the gym owner) that he can jump and punch the ceiling, moving the ceiling panels and having to do it again to try and move the panel back where it belongs.
soon to be perfectioned and become the "behead the threadmill people" game.
update: Crag says that "he doesn't punch the ceiling, he touches it".

I don't know what it's called but I like the exercise where you hold onto a pullup bar and practise kicking your legs like for swimming as you pullup about two inches. Most people add in the side to side motion of swimming too.

Have also seen a variation of this with added weight on the belt, although this normally involves a reduction in the range of upward motion to only one inch.

It seems important for both variations that the chin comes nowhere near the pullup bar.

I saw an even better version on an assisted Pull Up Machine.

From hang position bring Legs up about way and with the platform in this new, higher position perform the assisted Pull Up using the momentum gained from the moving platform.

I found this truely amazing.

Alex wrote:I saw an even better version on an assisted Pull Up Machine.

From hang position bring Legs up about way and with the platform in this new, higher position perform the assisted Pull Up using the momentum gained from the moving platform.

I found this truely amazing.

That sounds like a very productive movement.

Woudl you call that a Super Assisted, Assisted Pullup?

I think many of us here aren't advanced enough to understand the subtle workings of these clever exercise variants.... after all, the guys that do them are huge and super strong, right?

Dtlv74 wrote:I think many of us here aren't advanced enough to understand the subtle workings of these clever exercise variants.... after all, the guys that do them are huge and super strong, right?

I'm going to film some variations tonight with Alex, perhaps this will help you understand the complexities of these advanced techniques

simon m wrote:

Dtlv74 wrote:I think many of us here aren't advanced enough to understand the subtle workings of these clever exercise variants.... after all, the guys that do them are huge and super strong, right?

I'm going to film some variations tonight with Alex, perhaps this will help you understand the complexities of these advanced techniques

That would be great. Can you please do running commentary so we can try and grasp the ideas behind such advanced training techniques, otherwise I simply won't understand what's going on.

roadz wrote:

simon m wrote:

Dtlv74 wrote:I think many of us here aren't advanced enough to understand the subtle workings of these clever exercise variants.... after all, the guys that do them are huge and super strong, right?

I'm going to film some variations tonight with Alex, perhaps this will help you understand the complexities of these advanced techniques

That would be great. Can you please do running commentary so we can try and grasp the ideas behind such advanced training techniques, otherwise I simply won't understand what's going on.

Consider it done!

roadz wrote:

simon m wrote:

Dtlv74 wrote:I think many of us here aren't advanced enough to understand the subtle workings of these clever exercise variants.... after all, the guys that do them are huge and super strong, right?

I'm going to film some variations tonight with Alex, perhaps this will help you understand the complexities of these advanced techniques

That would be great. Can you please do running commentary so we can try and grasp the ideas behind such advanced training techniques, otherwise I simply won't understand what's going on.

Brilliant idea - will be looking forward to this and learning something new.

Must admit to having enjoyed the Stability Ball Inspirational Training Video series immensely

Saw this tonight couldn't quite believe it. The FOUR MAN LAT PULDOWN. To preform this feat of strength take a technogym lat pull down machine (not the cable one the fixed motion one), sit yourself down, put the full stack on, get one mate to hold you down to the chair, then get a mate on each of the arms of the machine and all three of you pulldown. But not even full rom, oh no i'm talking 2 maybe 3 inches. To complete this epic feat of strength simple smash the weight down so that everyone in the gym looks at you then walk around like a hardman carrying carpets (despite being 9st wet through)>

simon m wrote:I also like the lying dumb bell elbow flex. The fella lying down has huge dumb bells and to strengthen his elbow tendons he barely flexes his elbows so the DB's are a good foot away from his chest. When he finished his set he drops the weights as loudly as possible and sits bolt upright looking "well 'ard"

I like the standing reverse elbow flex - very similar ROM but you stand upright with a heavy DB in each hand. Then flex the elbow and lean forward at the same time, so the DB moves maybe 1/2" - This is excellent for strengthening the bicep tendons.

Less advanced trainees get this wrong and use too light a weight, thus enabling them to move the DB to their shoulder as they dip forward before standing upright with the DB still at shoulder level

simon m wrote:

Ahh now I get it - wasn't quite sure what you meant.

We don't have an 'assistance' machine at my gym So I won't beable to give it a go

Howlong did you's think it would take?

I'll get a vid of that, so you can see for the full ROM

Has anyone seen the running cable crossover. It's where an experienced trainer loads up each cable pulley station with as much weight as possible. Then they grasp the handles and then run forward so momentum moves the cables. On no account should the cables actually be brought into the chest. Arms must remain in a 'locked' position at all times.

i saw the strangest exercise ever today... i just really couldn't work it out. It was a hybrid incline bb press and wierd row. Basically the bloke did the negative down to his chest, then he flung the bar foreward onto his knees then rowed it back to his chest, controlling it all the way, and then finished the press off. I could not for the life of me work out what he was trying to do.

Some great examples in here: