training fallacies that annoy me

[Your_Moms_Kneepads]

Beyond the obvious, iddiotic, newbie exercises,

These two get seem to be incorporated by many know-it-alls ...

They are:

1) behind the neck lat-pull downs-- I just cringe when I see this.. Imagine if the cable snapped.. Especially the way the idiots in my gym do the exercise-- with the entire stack, coming off the seat and then pulling down with their entire body weight.

But really, there is no difference between behind the neck pulldowns and infront of the neck.

2) Supinated (plams up) triceps pushdowns. Unlike the biceps, where this change of grip makes a difference, on tri's, it makes no difference at all... only you cannot lift as much weight with such an awkward hand position.

any more, guys?

Andy

Front barbell shoulder presses hit "my" front delts and behind the neck presses (moving all of 4 inches or ones when the guy touches the base of his traps) "hit more of my lateral and rear delts"-- Old School Gym Moron (anonomyus)

 

[RADAR]

I've been training 30+ years and some of the things i agree 100 per cent..i'm not gonna get into it because after reading this thread it would be like talking to a brick wall..TOTALLY USELESS!!!! RADAR

 

[STORM SHADOW]

RADAR lol.......no kidding

I think if anybody is doing specialized exercises during bulking is stupid anyway.

 

[ultragainz]

behind the neck bb press well hit more of yout traps then front bb press.....just letting you guys know.

 

[gtaman]

also the latest rage at the gym is for the 12 inch arm guys to remove the bar from the cable row, grasp the cable and do tricep kickbacks with just the top plate. I didn't think you could get a more retarded excercise than dumbell tri-kickbacks, but these guys managed to do it.

LOL!

There are a lot of things I hate, like 150-lb guys doing way too many cable flyes (taking up two weight stacks that others might want). But I've never heard the top-plate kickbacks thing.

Then there is the "chick who uses the hyperextension bench for hyperextensions, lateral side raises, and crunches... getting that full trunk workout on the one machine everyone else needs to work lower back-hams" (funny though I don't complain as much when a hot chick is doing something weird)

Last week I was waiting to do pulldowns with that triangle attachment, but this guy was doing light dumbbell exercises sitting under the pulldown cable. He explained that he wasn't trying to build muscle, he was rehabbing, and he needed the bench (with knees under the pad) "for support." That must have been some car accident if he couldn't rehab his shoulders standing up or sitting on a regular bench. The guy looked fine to me!

It's nice that people can achieve all their goals while the rest of us have our workouts interrupted by their self-indulgent crap!!!

 

[Behemoth]

i think i have you beat....

Ofcourse this would fall under the category of "absurd...and stupid stunts".

Here in smalltown arkansas where we have one gym to speak of ....we also have a karate class. In this karate class, there is a lady in here mid 40's that comes to the gym to workout. (Ofcourse she is in her karate get up.)

She puts 405 on the bar as if she was going to bench that much. Given the first time this happened I stepped back to watch....the she proceeded to roll the plates with her toes. Her face was one of utmost concentration as performed the now face "toe roll". After she performed one set, then she would walk over and strain at picking up one side of the bar. Then proceed to do another set of "toe rows".

The bad part was, is that there is only one good bench and she occupies it for 30 minutes of "toe rolls". I havent said anything yet because Im afraid if I were to mention it....SHE COULD PINCH YOUR LEG OFF WITH THEM TOES....