04-20-2010, 03:02 PM | #451 |
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I'm doing this all at home (the only way to go!) with an Gold's Gym incline/decline bench (thrift store), an Exertec power station (got this for free), and a Marcy Platinum Corner Gym (got this for free--but it took a socket set, a U-Haul, and a very strong friend to move it). My week:
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I want to incorporate the Clean and Press, but I reluctant to begin while nursing a sprained wrist. I also might try Cleaning a bar and falling back on the bench to do barbell bench presses. Get some more "compound" in there. I'm loading up a Creatine Monohydrate cycle right now.
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04-20-2010, 03:11 PM | #452 |
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04-20-2010, 03:18 PM | #453 |
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Ah, shaddup. What can I do for hamstrings?
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04-20-2010, 03:43 PM | #454 |
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Try a glaze, it might hold them together.
Or, just make some kind of casserole that would require you to tear the ham into strings and chunks anyway.
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04-20-2010, 04:04 PM | #455 |
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STREEEEEEEEEEEEETTTTTTTTTTTTTTTCH THEM
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04-20-2010, 04:35 PM | #456 |
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Got that covered, stretch them every morning. I want to WORK them.
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04-20-2010, 04:46 PM | #457 |
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I'm saying stretch them specifically before you do leg curls. make them longer AND stronger.
glute bridge: http://www.coreperformance.com/knowl...-baseball.html hammy stretch: http://www.coreperformance.com/knowl...g-stretch.html also, you can lie on your back, and get a rope looped around your foot, and stretch your leg up and for the quad: http://www.coreperformance.com/knowl...-kneeling.html i have a few good emails from our trainer if you want, I'll forward to whoever wants them.
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04-21-2010, 09:21 AM | #458 |
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Get a hat and some cool shorts, then you can do these
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04-21-2010, 01:01 PM | #459 |
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Thanks, Spexx. I will try the dumbell variations for hamstring shown here, along with some stiff-legged deadlifts.
lumberjim, I would be interested in the emails from your trainer. I am private messaging you my gmail. Please...do not send naked pictures of your hot wife!
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04-21-2010, 01:43 PM | #460 |
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I like to do the things jim had illustrated here, with a ball. I put 12lb weights on my hips to make it more challenging. Doing the hip thrusts with a 16lb med ball on my hip also.
You should think about adding a ball to your equip list, you can do lots of (in)stability stuff that will work more muscles than the ones you are actually focusing on, kwim? Even just a standing on a little squishy mat while you do stuff, and/or balancing on one foot helps with this. Oh, another thing... try leaping several feet, from one foot to the other and holding for several seconds upon landing. Repeat.
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04-21-2010, 10:55 PM | #461 |
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Yup I need to do hamstrings for my knee pain
hang from a bar and do curls? i don't think so..... uh-oh, lower back issues rules out 3rd ex....
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04-22-2010, 03:42 AM | #462 |
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You could do like Steve Reeves:
Lie on the floor face down, have someone sit on your calves, then curl your own body weight up off the floor with your hamstrings.
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04-22-2010, 10:09 AM | #463 |
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There's a reverse crunch bench/roman chair thing for that at the gym. It's works your hamstrings but you're really supposed to concentrate on using your glutes.
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04-22-2010, 04:23 PM | #464 |
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Here is an excellent video of how to do the Clean and Press with dumbells.
This is a completely different movement than what I have been doing: dumbell squat + hammer curls + Arnold press (nice for a quick whole-body workout, but very different from the "power" movement show here). I wonder how heavy I can go doing it this way:
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04-23-2010, 08:24 AM | #465 |
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And the answer is: heavy enough to tweak my shoulder, which had been feeling so good, despite all the heavy lifting I've been doing, that I had forgotten how bad it was bothering me for the last few years.
Man, ƒuck a bunch of power-lifting bullcrap. Everything I have ever read about proper lifting says that jerking weights around is bad, and I don't understand how to do this "power" crap with swinging, jerking, and otherwise inviting an injury. But I think I will try this: jump-squat + cheating hammer curl + push press. Jump, bounce, bounce. Three distinct movements. I am determined to develop some heavy "whole body" things that I can do safely.
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