The ugliest GM you have ever seen

[TheProject]

Here's a video clip of me doing a set of 3 bent over chain suspended good mornings, with the safety squat bar, 329 lbs:

http://www.asylum-strength.com/videos/proj329gm.mpg

I'll warn you now, it's 5.8MB.

There's no audio on the vid, but after I got done, spatts said, "that was fucking ugly.", and she had her hands covering her face.

 

[spatts]

It's not as bad without the sound.

 

[b fold the truth]

Were they supposed to be rounded back? Just look way too deep to me... I just don't go that deep on mine and really can't see the point...but our goals are different too.

Either way...heck of a job on the PR!!

B True

 

[TheProject]

Were they supposed to be rounded back? Just look way too deep to me... I just don't go that deep on mine and really can't see the point...but our goals are different too.

Either way...heck of a job on the PR!!

B True

yeah, it was rounded back, which is pretty much the norm for me anyway.

I think the chains were at 36", not sure. Hannibal knows for sure.

I got 329 for 3 this week, and 351 for 1 last week, so a little backwards movement, but not much.

Really, the point was to try and beat him.

 

[spatts]

I hear what you're saying B. I wasn't gettin any carry over out of these. They were only serving to fatigue my lower back, in conjunction with using my back too much to squat and dead. I couldn't hold my arch on other movements because it was always wasted from these. What good is a strong back if you're too overtrained to use it? And I doubt I am ever going to need chaos recovery from 36 inches...maybe a new neck brace. If I get that far forward in a squat, I'm through.

Generally, while Project and Hannibal are battling it out on these, I'm doing other back work that I think is more beneficial to me (like arch backs out of the rack). To me, these are chaos recovery. What they do is just torture.

I can see doing them lighter as accessory work. But 1RMing them is hell.

 

[TheProject]

The only true "benefit" I've gotten out of these is the tendency to good morning up my squat as opposed to actually squatting. I overcompensate on squats and deadlifts with my back now.

When we were doing these more often, my back was never really fried for any length of time, but I could feel it all week. We haven't done gm's for 3 weeks, and my back hasn't felt nearly as fatigued.

I did them this week to get in some good back work, because it does help that, and also to compete with Hannibal, because that's just fun.

 

[CrimsonKing]

WTF? Are you guys saying the GM's are not that good for building the sq/dl ???? You guys/girl just ragged on me to stop DL'ing and start doing GM's!... huh?

 

[spatts]

Calm down there big daddy...no one ragged on you. We told you that WE don't do them every week, and we don't.

 

[Deciever1]

ouches... looks painful... i've never seen a reverse arched back( arch facing wrong way) good morning before this..

 

[spatts]

Reverse arch back?