bob44
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Jan 10, 2020 23:01:21 GMT
Post by bob44 on Jan 10, 2020 23:01:21 GMT
I do the chin-up hang hold at the top one or twice a week for a minute. Every time I think I forgot to set the timer. When I do it my chin is right above the bar. I can see where twisting your knuckles toward your face would be a killer.
Make sure when you do your head bangers you make a video. I love to watch slap stick.
One of my favorites bicep exercise when I had an incline bench was to do partial bicep dumbbell curls for only a third of the motion, then go into the next third and then the last third. I always had trouble getting through the second set. But this is coming from a long arm guy with no guns.
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Jan 10, 2020 23:21:01 GMT
Post by Deuce Gunner on Jan 10, 2020 23:21:01 GMT
One of my favorites bicep exercise when I had an incline bench was to do partial bicep dumbbell curls for only a third of the motion, then go into the next third and then the last third. I always had trouble getting through the second set. But this is coming from a long arm guy with no guns. Those are called fifteens or twenty ones depending on whether you are doing 5 or 7 reps for each of the 1/3 of the rep range. Or they can be done for the bottom ROM, then the top of the ROM, then full ROM. They can create quite a pump. The same technique works great with skull crushers. BTW I think curls are fine to do simply if you like the movement if nothing else.
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Michael
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Jan 11, 2020 0:40:59 GMT
Post by Michael on Jan 11, 2020 0:40:59 GMT
Pierini, Thanks for posting those videos. I may try those bent arm chin holds after my regular workout. , never tried headbangers, they look like they would hurt the elbows.
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Post by billfish on Jan 11, 2020 20:00:41 GMT
Not dumbbells but....... pulling on a chainfall will build big powerful arms.....while working construction as a young guy we used chainfalls every work day for the first 3 or 4 months The chainfall shown here is much lower than what we worked with raising escalator trusses into place in a postal facility that had 20 foot high ceilings Killer arm and core workout !
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Post by Bruce Tackett on Jan 11, 2020 20:56:52 GMT
Not dumbbells but....... pulling on a chainfall will build big powerful arms..... I worked with a guy who once had a job hoisting something heavy. Can't remember what it was. He and his fellow employees did this numerous times per day. He said they'd sometimes have races. When I first met him, one thing I noticed about him was his exceptionally broad back. I have a cable pulley system set up across my ceiling, directly above my incline bench. I reach up and take hold of the handles, sit down, and go back and forth between wide lat pulldowns and close grip pulldowns with each rep, and then, without pausing, I lean back on my bench and do rows.
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Michael
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Post by Michael on Jan 11, 2020 21:25:03 GMT
Billfish, You made me remember something. Definitely see this building arm and core strength. Although I'm not a tree climber, using a rope to climb a tree can build some strong arms. I have done it a couple of times and You definitely need arm endurance. Depending on how the person is built that climbs they do eventually end up with elbow, shoulder, or hands challenges. This doesn't happen to everyone but the repetitive motion can take a toll. If someone was to rope climb for exercise it would be much safer because You could control the volume.
We use a lot of ropes when we lower limbs, logs, and pull trunks over. Similar motions to the chainfall.
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Jan 11, 2020 21:34:55 GMT
Post by Bruce Tackett on Jan 11, 2020 21:34:55 GMT
BTW, Michael, I don't recall this ever coming up. Maybe it has. Do you own your own business?
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Michael
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Jan 11, 2020 23:35:26 GMT
Post by Michael on Jan 11, 2020 23:35:26 GMT
Bruce, I work for people. New Jersey is a mess to have a business in.
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Post by Bruce Tackett on Jan 12, 2020 4:39:21 GMT
Really? You work for people??
You don't see that anymore.
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Post by Deuce Gunner on Jan 12, 2020 9:56:49 GMT
Deez people, doze people, or dem people?
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Michael
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Jan 12, 2020 14:17:11 GMT
Post by Michael on Jan 12, 2020 14:17:11 GMT
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Post by billfish on Jan 12, 2020 19:10:25 GMT
Billfish, You made me remember something. Definitely see this building arm and core strength. Although I'm not a tree climber, using a rope to climb a tree can build some strong arms. I have done it a couple of times and You definitely need arm endurance. Depending on how the person is built that climbs they do eventually end up with elbow, shoulder, or hands challenges. This doesn't happen to everyone but the repetitive motion can take a toll. If someone was to rope climb for exercise it would be much safer because You could control the volume. We use a lot of ropes when we lower limbs, logs, and pull trunks over. Similar motions to the chainfall. Tree work is tough work Michael My brother was also working elevator construction back when I was and he was "stacking rails" then The standard elevator rail that the car runs along is 16 feet long and the ones he was working with were 16 lbs per foot ( they go up to 30lbs per foot ! ) You would use a hook to drag the rail to the base of the shaft and hook it up to be hoisted Built some really killer biceps
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Michael
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Jan 12, 2020 20:49:26 GMT
Post by Michael on Jan 12, 2020 20:49:26 GMT
That sounds like tough work. Sounds like it would work the legs and lower back too. I have much respect for any kind of physical job. They are all hard in their own way. When You do a hard job Your body adapts to it the same as exercise.
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Post by Michael on Jan 11, 2022 19:50:17 GMT
Bruce and Michael were right after all, . I think it was Stuke who posted a video of Ken Leistners in another thread. I've heard of him but don't know much about him. So this video came up on my feed and I listened to the whole thing. , but I couldn't help but think how Bruce talked me into keeping direct arm work in my training when I listen to one part of this video. From 11:29 to 12:26 he explains why You should do bicep curls. After he talks about tricep work also.
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Post by Magnus on Jan 11, 2022 22:36:25 GMT
The way I feel about it Michael is like this:
Try both ways. If you've been doing direct arm work for a long period then stop for awhile...If your strength, performance and development doesn't suffer then carry on...
*I personally tried it and determined that direct arm work is very much needed in my own particular case.
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