V V Brown - Shark in the Water
Everything about this song is awesome (and V V is not hard to look at)
Posted 9 hours ago
Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.
Posted 10 hours ago
Should You Bench Press?
This article is geared more toward fighters, but I think it has good applicability for bodybuilders and general fitness enthusiasts as well. I haven’t done the flat bench barbell bench press for a long time; it doesn’t give me much bang for my buck, it’s not optimal for my shoulders, and my anthropometry (long arms) make it not the best exercise for me. I still occasionally do decline BB bench presses, and more often flat and incline DB bench presses, which allow for a more natural movement pattern, but I like Waterbury’s idea of viewing the pectoral and scapular area as a system designed to move together. I think by training them in the way they were meant to operate we can achieve our physique and strength goals without compromising our long term health (because, after all, what is fitness without longevity?). Aside from the pressing movements I mentioned I only do ring work (and lots of it), push up variations, and angled barbell presses for chest work now. It’s gotten me plenty strong and, by adjusting intensity and overall volume, has allowed me to pack on some appreciable size as well.
Posted 10 hours ago
June 3, 2012 Training
The first part of what would up being a two-a-day:
- Ab Wheel (kneeling):
- 8 reps (+14 pts)
- 6 reps (+10 pts)
- 6 reps (+10 pts)
- Standing Barbell Shoulder Press:
- 125 lb x 10 reps (+100 pts)
- 125 lb x 10 reps (+100 pts)
- 125 lb x 8 reps (+96 pts)
- Front Dumbbell Raise:
- 20 lb x 12 reps (+18 pts)
- 20 lb x 12 reps (+18 pts)
- 20 lb x 12 reps (+18 pts)
- Dumbbell Side Lateral Raise:
- 20 lb x 10 reps (+35 pts)
- 15 lb x 15 reps (+36 pts)
- 15 lb x 12 reps (+35 pts)
You’ll notice I dropped the weight on that side lateral raise; I realized my form wasn’t very good at the end of that last set. Drop the ego, drop the weight, preserve the form, preserve your body; thus is the Tao of Lifting :P
Then I realized I was reaaaally close to leveling up on Fitocracy, so later that day round two began:
- Ring Pull-Up:
- 11 reps (+111 pts)
- 7 reps (+62 pts)
- Body Weight Ring Row:
- 13 reps (+28 pts)
- 11 reps (+24 pts)
- Assisted One-Arm Pull-Up:
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- 3 reps (+28 pts)
- 3 reps (+28 pts)
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- EZ-Bar Curl:
- 95 lb x 13 reps (+23 pts)
- Handstand Push-Up:
- 6 reps (+36 pts)
- 6 reps (+36 pts)
Also did some comically half assed jump roping. But it got the job done so, yay me!
Posted 11 hours ago
Balance Your Shoulder Strength and Build Power
Much of biology can be thought of as a system of trade-offs: to gain one advantage we must give up on another. The shoulder joint is a prime example: it’s enormously mobile, one of the most mobile in the human body, but that mobility comes at the cost of a certain amount of strength and stability, meaning shoulder training must be done intelligently to allow us to have shoulders that perform well for us all throughout our lives. This article addresses that issue and shows us how we can train to achieve just that.
Posted 11 hours ago
Reblogging myself because this is such a useful exercise.
The lumberjack/corner barbell press I referred to in my previous post. If you have the leg opposite your pressing arm back then press almost like you’re throwing a somewhat upward jab; if you have the leg opposite your pressing arm forward then press as if you’re throwing a slightly upward directed cross. If your stance is square to the bar then lift with the form shown in the video.
Posted 11 hours ago
Wu Jingbiao - 56kg Weightlifting World Champion 2011
Posted 13 hours ago
The awesome echoofmydreams suggested this to me: plain Greek yogurt with honey, strawberries and walnuts (you can replace any of these with the fruit and nut of your choice). So incredibly good. The girl knows her stuff when it comes to food!
Posted 1 day ago
A friend of mine posted a recipe from My Soul Is The Sky which led me to this recipe for peanut butter Nutella cookies. I made them with all organic ingredients (except for the Nutella) and with buckwheat flour, so they’re gluten free (though a bit crumbly as you might expect). They are abso-fracking-lutely amazing.
A blog with odd ends of thoughts about fitness, politics, society and pop culture. -- Un blogue avec un monceau des pensées sur la musculation, la politique, la société et la culture populaire.
