Silverlooks
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Post by Silverlooks on Jun 10, 2019 13:09:11 GMT
Hi jonrock, I was referring to Maxwell's more recent yielding isometrics exclusive workout, I don't have the advanced isometrics video. My workout/diet is very basic, overcoming isometrics exclusively (with trials to some other methods, but not weight lifting), below are details: sierraexercise.proboards.com/thread/303/weeks-long-duration-isometrics-results?page=5I believe bodyweight yielding isos have great potential in hypertrophy as well if exercises are held till MMF. I tried many exercises and had a fantastic full body workout. It's highly probable i'll have an exclusive bodyweight yielding isos phase in the future. Long ago I read about a group of male Yogis with impressive body shape claiming they built it purely by holding strength yoga poses for long duration, like four-limbed staff pose, chair pose, bent-arm downdog (Pike) updog, dolphin, crow, airplane squat, full locust, L-sit, etc... (Henry can help us here). Holding these poses til MMF can be a great workout. Of course you still need vertical and horizontal bar (or ring) hangs as pulling exercises. I'm also very interested in Kin Shi-Hai Do, Bruce has a comprehensive and very well written course on KSHD which is oddly FREE too. Bruce, do you have extra exercises to update the course ? I think you or someone mentioned KSHD deadlifts (not in the course). Are they possible/effective ? Thanks for the answer. You seem bigger than in your previous photos, have you tested your strength? I just test if i'm still able to do one arm push-ups, one arm pull-ups, pistol squats, etc. They are becoming easier or the same, but never harder. BTW i don't think I'm much bigger I just have more definition. |
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Post by Bruce Tackett on Jun 10, 2019 14:11:15 GMT
By the way, I’m getting a DEXA-SCAN done on Wednesday because I can’t depend on my perception even though my mirror tells me I look MAH-VAH-LUSS.  And, Dahling, you look mahvelous! |
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Post by guyincognito on Jun 10, 2019 14:56:40 GMT
On the excellent Murakami thread there was this post where he uses a startup's isometric gadget called Activ5. It solves the isometric measurement problem, and apparently provides hard data that isometrics build strength. Not sure if that means building muscle.
I installed the device's app on my Android phone, and there are a lot of isometric exercises in it. Not sure if I need the device, but it seems pretty cool to me.
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Post by guyincognito on Jun 10, 2019 16:38:32 GMT
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Post by mr potatohead on Jun 12, 2019 16:40:16 GMT
"Do Isometrics Build Muscle?"
Has anyone seen Sliverlooks avatar?
If you have, and assuming he is being truthful, which I believe he is, that question is answered.
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Bob50
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Post by Bob50 on Jun 12, 2019 18:05:24 GMT
"Do Isometrics Build Muscle?" Has anyone seen Sliverlooks avatar? If you have, and assuming he is being truthful, which I believe he is, that question is answered. Why does he need a gym for pure isometrics? |
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Post by mr potatohead on Jun 12, 2019 18:44:25 GMT
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Silverlooks
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Post by Silverlooks on Jun 12, 2019 18:57:20 GMT
"Do Isometrics Build Muscle?" Has anyone seen Sliverlooks avatar? If you have, and assuming he is being truthful, which I believe he is, that question is answered. Why does he need a gym for pure isometrics? It was a favor for a colleague which has a skinny fat body and wanted to start training. I explained all about overcoming isometrics to him and got him a forearm forklift and even let him use my Hook/Strap for a workout. He simply couldn't grasp it. He was pussying out in the final stage, which is the most important, even when I reduced the 30-30-30 to 20-20-20. After a couple of workouts I gave up on him and advised him to join a gym. He did and asked me a favor to go with him for one time and check his form on a couple of exercises. it is a coach-less gym, and everyone there was slamming weights, grunting, jerking, and using bad form. When I arrived I saw the smith machine and couldn't resist doing a full body iso workout with it . It was sweet. Dead-lifts, squats, even laying on floor and doing bench press, shoulder press, biceps curls, triceps extensions, pullovers etc... Of course I turn around to see some guys confused as to what I was doing, why using a timer app on phone, (or they probably were waiting for their turn on the smith machine  ). But one young guy was really intrigued and asked me about and I explained. He did an iso deadlift set, was like "meh" and went away. I also realized there was no standard word for "isometrics" in Arabic, so i used what translates into the sentence: "non-moving obstacle-resisted tension"  |
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Post by stormshadow on Jun 12, 2019 20:15:01 GMT
Silverlooks great post. I also use a Smith machine exactly like you do. It is perfect for that. Another thing I like to do is go to outdoor playgrounds and use the different multilevel stations they have and try to pull or push them out or off of their concrete pillars. I try to go early or after dark because some mothers can scare easily. If during the day I would bring my kids so they do not think I am crazy.
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Post by stormshadow on Jun 12, 2019 20:19:32 GMT
This is a video showing some stuff you can do at playground. Not as much iso as I do. If you see those ladders I try to deadlift them out if the ground at various levels. Pull on them towards and push away from me
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Post by macky on Jun 12, 2019 21:40:26 GMT
This is a video showing some stuff you can do at playground. Not as much iso as I do. If you see those ladders I try to deadlift them out if the ground at various levels. Pull on them towards and push away from me One can use just about anything for isometrics. Playgrounds are a great venue and provide many opportunities, providing of course you don't frighten the natives.
Good stuff.
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Mr Average
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Post by Mr Average on Jun 12, 2019 22:14:45 GMT
"Do Isometrics Build Muscle?" Has anyone seen Sliverlooks avatar? If you have, and assuming he is being truthful, which I believe he is, that question is answered. Who is Sliverlooks?
Silverlooks is in great shape, but I do not think he has done Isometrics exclusively all of his working out life. I maybe wrong but, he does say this "Training with Overcoming Isometrics exclusively since Jan 2017 - Using Sierra Hook + Iso-Strap". Silvelooks can correct me if I am wrong, but my understanding is that he was working out before 2017 and it was not all Isometrics. Also I think he said he is Israeli, which means Military Service and unless Israel is different from any other country the physical training would involve more than Isometrics. |
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Post by Mr Average on Jun 12, 2019 22:40:31 GMT
"Do Isometrics Build Muscle?" Has anyone seen Sliverlooks avatar? If you have, and assuming he is being truthful, which I believe he is, that question is answered. Why does he need a gym for pure isometrics? When you say pure isometrics, do you mean taking a dump? |
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Post by stormshadow on Jun 12, 2019 23:28:08 GMT
Mr A has made a very good point. This is not directed to Silverlooks but I will direct it to myself to make a general point. Some people ask me what I am doing regarding training and this may be a period of my life when I am doing Isometrics, calisthenics, power crusher, the Hook, grip training etc and not using weights. They say I cannot believe you have gotten that strong or gained that size doing any one of the above. And my answer is I did not get it from those things. I lifted weights for over forty years and that is where my baseline comes from. It is easy to look at what I am doing for a short period of time and assign my gains to that.
It is like the old ads in Muscle and Fitness where Arnold was using a power twister or Zane was using that blue X shaped rubber expander with handles. My friends and I thought that was the secret they used to get those Olympia level physiques. No it was years of hard training, genetics and chemical enhancements. Not the implement of the month. That is why so many YouTube trainers do videos without shirts. They want you to jump to the immediate conclusion that they look like that because of what they are pitching to the public at that time. It gives them instant authority and credibility to many that do not know any different.
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Post by Bruce Tackett on Jun 12, 2019 23:50:18 GMT
I explained all about overcoming isometrics to him and got him a forearm forklift and even let him use my Hook/Strap for a workout. Tears. You've brought tears to my eyes. You're a Saint! A Saint!! |
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). But one young guy was really intrigued and asked me about and I explained. He did an iso deadlift set, was like "meh" and went away. I also realized there was no standard word for "isometrics" in Arabic, so i used what translates into the sentence: "non-moving obstacle-resisted tension" 
