BigTomJ's Training and Everything Log

[BigTomJ]

My gym doesn't have a bench like that but instead been using an incline bench for those seal rows. Does that seal row bench have a hole for your face?

Yes

 

[iris]

My gym doesn't have a bench like that but instead been using an incline bench for those seal rows. Does that seal row bench have a hole for your face?

The only one I have seen didn't have it.
It was just an elevated straight bench

 

[MindlessWork]

The only one I have seen didn't have it.
It was just an elevated straight bench

I've seen people use some short lengths of 6x6 lumber to raise a regular bench off the floor.

 

[BigTomJ]

The only one I have seen didn't have it.
It was just an elevated straight bench

That's such a ripoff. It really makes no sense how rare they are

 

[iris]

That's such a ripoff. It really makes no sense how rare they are

Well, maybe in the States it's different or you use a gym with good, varied equipment, that is geared towards satisfying a crowd that is into bodybuilding.
One sees pictures of amazing gyms in America, with all sorts of machines.
However, in a commercial gym chain (at least where I am), one finds the usual, basic stuff that gym goers use.
Where I go now they even got rid of the seated leg curl and just put two lying ones.
That’s retarded, but that's what they do, provide just general things people use most.

As for the bench you use, it's a super strict movement, done like that, and one that is really hard to do, because of how you are positioned.
I have done it (trying to use what was available, like a tall box to lie on (wouldn't recommend that, lol) or raising a regular bench somehow) and I found that, to do it OK enough, I had to do it a lot lighter that I thought.
Not your problem, I know...
But I am not surprised people wouldn't really use it, even if they had the equipment.
It's tough stuff.
For someone that is used to demolishing partitioning walls at the weekend, though, it must be a walk in the park.

 

[BigTomJ]

Well, maybe in the States it's different or you use a gym with good, varied equipment, that is geared towards satisfying a crowd that is into bodybuilding.
One sees pictures of amazing gyms in America, with all sorts of machines.
However, in a commercial gym chain (at least where I am), one finds the usual, basic stuff that gym goers use.
Where I go now they even got rid of the seated leg curl and just put two lying ones.
That’s retarded, but that's what they do, provide just general things people use most.

As for the bench you use, it's a super strict movement, done like that, and one that is really hard to do, because of how you are positioned.
I have done it (trying to use what was available, like a tall box to lie on (wouldn't recommend that, lol) or raising a regular bench somehow) and I found that, to do it OK enough, I had to do it a lot lighter that I thought.
Not your problem, I know...
But I am not surprised people wouldn't really use it, even if they had the equipment.
It's tough stuff.
For someone that is used to demolishing partitioning walls at the weekend, though, it must be a walk in the park.

It's not that much different here. I've never seen another gym with one around me.

And even this one, I almost never see anyone using it. Probably for the exact reason you said, it's hard as shit

 

[Goingstronger]

Those bands make you lazy on the grip.

"But it's so I can lift heavier !!"

You shouldn't lift anything you cannot entirely grip by yourself.
Foremarms muscles are intertwined with the rest of the muscle architecture and it doesn't make sense to load one without loading the other.

Your log so far is comprised of people being socially acceptable and not enabling you to go further.

I am the one who knocks so you can make progress.

 

[BigTomJ]

Those bands make you lazy on the grip.

"But it's so I can lift heavier !!"

You shouldn't lift anything you cannot entirely grip by yourself.
Foremarms muscles are intertwined with the rest of the muscle architecture and it doesn't make sense to load one without loading the other.

Your log so far is comprised of people being socially acceptable and not enabling you to go further.

I am the one who knocks so you can make progress.

You're an idiot.
Stick to your threads about rubbing slime all over your balls little man.

 

[UncleBuns]

Those bands make you lazy on the grip.

"But it's so I can lift heavier !!"

You shouldn't lift anything you cannot entirely grip by yourself.
Foremarms muscles are intertwined with the rest of the muscle architecture and it doesn't make sense to load one without loading the other.

Your log so far is comprised of people being socially acceptable and not enabling you to go further.

I am the one who knocks so you can make progress.

Within the last week or two I saw you post that you don't go to the gym, don't lift, and haven't for years. What would you know about barbells then?

 

[DECLAN]

Within the last week or two I saw you post that you don't go to the gym, don't lift, and haven't for years. What would you know about barbells then?

But he injects for other purposes you know, just like those guys under the bridge lol.