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Post by BigBruvOfEnglandUK on Oct 23, 2017 19:20:51 GMT
Here's an example of some plain English. A guy using the name Dr. Crunch turned up on the forums some years ago and told us about the "isometric pullup" He said you don't pull yourself up. All you do is pull on the bar enough to make your muscles shake a little. Keep that up for about a minute. That's it. His posts were always fairly brief. There was no "percieved effort 50%" or 75%. No studies. No made up phrases trying to sound like a scientist. My ex girlfriend did the isometric pullup as described by Dr. Crunch, every day for two weeks and went form 0 pullups to two consecutive pullups (or they may have been chins). I think she only performed the isometric exercise once per day. She didn't try doing pullups at any time during that two weeks. OK, there's an actual example of something that actually happened. Not some theory from the boffins at Lionmetrics or Transforquest. Maybe it's not written very well but it's in simple language that we can all understand and it gets to the point. Try it if you want.
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Post by mr potatohead on Oct 23, 2017 19:29:29 GMT
Thanks Bruv. In the future, I do want to try to write in simple language that we can all understand and gets to the point.
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Post by Bruce Tackett on Oct 23, 2017 19:29:51 GMT
Here's an example of some plain English. A guy using the name Dr. Crunch turned up on the forums some years ago and told us about the "isometric pullup" He said you don't pull yourself up. All you do is pull on the bar enough to make your muscles shake a little. Keep that up for about a minute. That's it. His posts were always fairly brief. There was no "percieved effort 50%" or 75%. No studies. No made up phrases trying to sound like a scientist. My ex girlfriend did the isometric pullup as described by Dr. Crunch, every day for two weeks and went form 0 pullups to two consecutive pullups (or they may have been chins). I think she only performed the isometric exercise once per day. She didn't try doing pullups at any time during that two weeks. OK, there's an actual example of something that actually happened. Not some theory from the boffins at Lionmetrics or Transforquest. Maybe it's not written very well but it's in simple language that we can all understand and it gets to the point. Try it of you want. The last word from Dr. Crunch: sierraexercise.proboards.com/thread/57/enigmatic-dr-crunch
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Post by BigBruvOfEnglandUK on Oct 24, 2017 7:10:35 GMT
Thanks Bruv. In the future, I do want to try to write in simple language that we can all understand and gets to the point. You always do, m8
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Post by Alan OldStudent on Oct 24, 2017 8:09:37 GMT
Maybe it's not written very well but it's in simple language that we can all understand and it gets to the point. Try it if you want. Hey m8, I think that I will endeavor to express my thought processes in a style of English that's easily approachable, elegant, and uncluttered with a lot of excess and unnecessary verbiage without engaging in erudite, difficult-to-follow linguistic symbiotic constructions. Screedsters of the world unite! We have nothing to lose other than our heavy-gauge isometric reinforced Zass-style chains.
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Post by mr potatohead on Oct 24, 2017 12:21:53 GMT
Maybe it's not written very well but it's in simple language that we can all understand and it gets to the point. Try it if you want. Hey m8, I think that I will endeavor to express my thought processes in a style of English that's easily approachable, elegant, and uncluttered with a lot of excess and unnecessary verbiage without engaging in erudite, difficult-to-follow linguistic symbiotic constructions. Screedsters of the world unite! We have nothing to lose other than our heavy-gauge isometric reinforced Zass-style chains. AOS: Good for you! Nearly all of that comment is simple and easy to understand for anyone w/ an English composition Phd .... however, since I don't have a Phd, WTF are "Screedsters"?
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Post by Bruce Tackett on Oct 24, 2017 17:13:41 GMT
.... however, since I don't have a Phd, WTF are "Screedsters"?
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Post by Mr Average on Oct 24, 2017 17:53:55 GMT
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Post by Alan OldStudent on Oct 26, 2017 9:46:33 GMT
Hey m8, I think that I will endeavor to express my thought processes in a style of English that's easily approachable, elegant, and uncluttered with a lot of excess and unnecessary verbiage without engaging in erudite, difficult-to-follow linguistic symbiotic constructions. Screedsters of the world unite! We have nothing to lose other than our heavy-gauge isometric reinforced Zass-style chains. AOS: Good for you! Nearly all of that comment is simple and easy to understand for anyone w/ an English composition Phd .... however, since I don't have a Phd, WTF are "Screedsters"?
Well m8. Vocabulary.com dictionary defines screed like this:
So a "screedster" is one who rants, harangues, and who exhibits bad attitude in the screed.
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Post by mr potatohead on Oct 26, 2017 16:48:44 GMT
OK, thanks for the info. I really don't know anyone like that on this forum, though.
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Post by Alan OldStudent on Oct 26, 2017 20:09:46 GMT
OK, thanks for the info. I really don't know anyone like that on this forum, though. You're welcome, m8.
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Post by BigBruvOfEnglandUK on Oct 28, 2017 20:27:25 GMT
In my quest to find out for myself what long duration iso holds do, I suddenly realized it might be a good idea to find out what they are supposed to do... Contractions of longer than 1 minute serve no useful purpose for strength or hypertrophy stimulation, except for perhaps increasing mental toughness. www.higher-faster-sports.com/isometrics.htmI was inspired by our Italian m8, Kamp to try very long isometric holds with the plank exercise (Remember his isometric videos?). It didn't take long before I was doing several minute holds. I built up to about 9 minutes but a couple of times I had a headache when I finished the exercise. I'm one of those lucky people that never gets a headache so I knew it had to be the very long duration plank. I stopped doing them. They were boring anyway. Yielding isometrics, in the stretch range, shorter than 10 seconds with heavy loads, are wonderful for strength and carry over well into full range strength. In other words, if you increase the weight you can lift at the bottom of a squat, you will increase the weight you can lift at the top of a squat. If you increase the weight you lift at the bottom of a bench press, you'll also increase the weight at the top. www.higher-faster-sports.com/isometrics.htmI used isometrics off and on for a number of years. I found them useful when I was working a lot of hours when I lived in Ibiza. I was building (still am). It was hard work and I was usually working so many hours that I often felt over trained even if I didn't do any workouts so I stopped doing workouts with reps and just concentrated on isometrics because I found them less taxing and the method I used was also good for training flexibility at the same time. I only trained the muscles in their stretched positions. I'm not a fan of regular stretching. I'm no physiotherapist but I don't believe in stretching without strengthening the muscle. What use is flexibility if your muscles are weak in the stretched position? If the joints are very flexible but the muscles are not strong in a stretched position, there is a very good chance of you injuring yourself. Make sure to ease into these exercises. Don't just launch into them full steam and then try to blame me that you inured yourself. Warm up the muscles by doing the same exercise two or three times but without exerting yourself too much and then you should be ready to use maximum power. Several stretching exercises can be turned into an isometric exercise. Get into a standing quad stretch position but now try to straighten your leg while resisting with your hand. Doorway hamstring stretch. While doing this stretch you need to push hard into the door frame with the heel of your foot. It's called "Isometric stretching". Look it up. A full body workout will only take a few minutes. You probably won't become massive doing this but it will make you more flexible and stronger in stretched positions. You can also use external resistance such as weights, exercise machines, bands, walls, cars, pipes etc etc. For example, a biceps exercise I came up with (I'm not saying that nobody has ever done this before me). I would stand with my arms straight and hanging down but slightly behind me while holding a metal pipe in both hands against the back of my legs. I would then try to curl the pipe up as in a biceps curl but this would be impossible because my legs would be in the way. Trying to curl for up to 10 seconds as hard as I could. I have also done this with the Sierra Hook handles with bands or just the bands alone. The bands are across the back of your legs. Load the handles up with a lot of bands so that when you try to curl, the bands don't stretch more than a very few centimetres and then just keep trying to curl from that position. Without the handles I would put my wrists through the loop of the bands so as to take my hands out of the exercise. Your biceps will soon become very hard and stay that way with regular use of this exercise. Impress the girls! Several strand pulling exercises can be used. Simply put one too many bands or springs on the handles so that you can't push or pull the resistance more than 2 or 3 centimtres (an inch) no matter how hard you try. Now keep pushing or pulling while making sure the resistance does not go back to being slack. It's too easy to kid yourself you are pushing or pulling as hard as you can against an immovable object but when you are using something that is trying to resist you, you know you are working hard. Edit: I've just realised this is a long duration iso hold thread and my last paragraph is about short duration isometrics. Anyway, somebody might find it useful.
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Post by BigBruvOfEnglandUK on Oct 28, 2017 20:36:34 GMT
A guy using the name Dr. Crunch turned up on the forums some years ago and told us about the "isometric pullup" He said you don't pull yourself up. All you do is pull on the bar enough to make your muscles shake a little. Keep that up for about a minute. That's it. His posts were always fairly brief. There was no "percieved effort 50%" or 75%. No studies. No made up phrases trying to sound like a scientist. My ex girlfriend did the isometric pullup as described by Dr. Crunch, every day for two weeks and went form 0 pullups to two consecutive pullups (or they may have been chins). I think she only performed the isometric exercise once per day. She didn't try doing pullups at any time during that two weeks. BTW, we did these using a pullup bar that could be reached while standing on the floor (A stool or something could be used for a higher bar). They were not a hanging exercise.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2017 21:44:56 GMT
Is Kamp still in cyberworld or has he moved on to real life stuff only?
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Post by Bruce Tackett on Oct 28, 2017 22:05:24 GMT
I was inspired by our Italian m8, Kamp to try very long isometric holds with the plank exercise (Remember his isometric videos?). It didn't take long before I was doing several minute holds. I built up to about 9 minutes but a couple of times I had a headache when I finished the exercise. I'm one of those lucky people that never gets a headache so I knew it had to be the very long duration plank. I stopped doing them. They were boring anyway. I don't know if I copy/pasted this into the original thread or not, but one of the things I read was that it is recommended that a long duration iso hold be held between 30-60 seconds, that anything beyond that serves no purpose. I only trained the muscles in their stretched positions. Make sure to ease into these exercises. Don't just launch into them full steam and then try to blame me that you inured yourself. Warm up the muscles by doing the same exercise two or three times but without exerting yourself too much and then you should be ready to use maximum power. For example, a biceps exercise I came up with (I'm not saying that nobody has ever done this before me). I would stand with my arms straight and hanging down but slightly behind me while holding a metal pipe in both hands against the back of my legs. I would then try to curl the pipe up as in a biceps curl but this would be impossible because my legs would be in the way. Trying to curl for up to 10 seconds as hard as I could. I have also done this with the Sierra Hook handles with bands or just the bands alone. The bands are across the back of your legs. Load the handles up with a lot of bands so that when you try to curl, the bands don't stretch more than a very few centimetres and then just keep trying to curl from that position. Thanks for that little goody, Bruvvies. I have been doing 3-point biceps iso holds using my Sierra strap with a curling bar. The first position is down low, but there is still a bit of a bend in my elbows. I am now going to make this a 4-point iso starting with the curling bar behind my legs. I am doing one 60 second iso hold for each muscle group; shoulders, back, chest and arms, and then I'm also doing a bunch of 10 second, to the max, holds for each muscle group. Obviously, the 3-point isos I'm doing for triceps and biceps (now 4-point for biceps) are more than one hold, but they are all part of one exercise.
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