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jenscats5
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So since Treil said arm circles aren't good enough of a warmup to do upper body lifting, what is??
Just bustin' on ya Treil!!
Just bustin' on ya Treil!!
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jenscats5
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treilin said:That's Hillarious.... 'Cuz I saw this post and was just going to type huge arm circles seem to work for Eastern European's. The trick is you have to go both forwards AND backwards... That is KEY!!
Or just try the old traditional push ups that will get the blood a movin
Tell SBT to stop being a smarty!!
I usually do 1 of my exercises at lighter weight & just consider that my warmup & don't really count it as one of my lifts......
Guess pushups would work too....or arm circles.....
dutch diva
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I learned in one of my courses that you should not be doing arm circles.......its not that bad, it just are u going to be lifting in circles. I understand the whole mentality of warming up the delts and supporting muscles, but I was told to perform the mov'ts you plan on doing in your workout, in those specific planes.
dutch diva said:
depends upon your school of learning... where you come from... there are many opinions out there, but no right and no real wrong-to a degree. It really depends to what degree you are educated, if you understand how the body moves, mechanics, kinesiology, then you can even make your own shit up... I love using modifications and twists on the old "same old same old"
but anywho, as an athlete that uses/used a whole heckalotta delts, I do/did.......a vbr's w/u: 90 degree bent arm swings... (like your running w/o legs, only arms slowly pumpin away) then front lateral arm swings, side later arm swings.... then into alternating BIG, WIDE, full ROM, forward and reverse arm swings (circles) then a series of 8 shoulder specific exercises w/ 2lb weights. all in all takes about 20 minutes, with perfect technique of course. It works, I do this before I lift shoulders, chest and back. 20 years of playing HARD and 17 years of lifting HARD and HEAVY... my shoulders are A+++++++... TREIL, if you come to the Olympia, I'll show you how.
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But its what I do BEST!!! dutch diva
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That would be honors Kinesiology, Masters Physical Therapy................
Never said I was right or wrong I was offering the knowledge I had on the subject, and I don't think the $120,000 I've spent on my education is made up BS. Usually when someone posts a question on a forum it is to receive different options, no?
Never said I was right or wrong I was offering the knowledge I had on the subject, and I don't think the $120,000 I've spent on my education is made up BS. Usually when someone posts a question on a forum it is to receive different options, no?
This thread was started pretty much kind of as a joke off a post in my thread.
Dutch I don't think Cali was knocking your degree. I'm sure your education and knowledge you obtained was worth every penny you paid. Yes we all value your opinion. I think Cali was just just stating that just because one person does a certain exercise (like me who laughs at arm circles) is not necessarily wrong depending on what they are warming up for. If you watch swimmers they always warm up with arm circles. I just was laughing because people were warming with arm circles to do like legs... Some of us I guess know each others sense of humor, and you won't be the first to fall victim to kind of an inside joke.. but we are all open for suggestions. So just laugh.
Dutch I don't think Cali was knocking your degree. I'm sure your education and knowledge you obtained was worth every penny you paid. Yes we all value your opinion. I think Cali was just just stating that just because one person does a certain exercise (like me who laughs at arm circles) is not necessarily wrong depending on what they are warming up for. If you watch swimmers they always warm up with arm circles. I just was laughing because people were warming with arm circles to do like legs... Some of us I guess know each others sense of humor, and you won't be the first to fall victim to kind of an inside joke.. but we are all open for suggestions. So just laugh.
O.k. totally forgot to to add this.. Just after I was making fun of the arm circles guess what happened to me?!?!
In the gym on monday doing vacuums probably about ohhh 12 ft from the clock on the wall, where you stand and just hold your stomach in as tight as you can learning to breathe through just the upper portion of the lungs. Well I'm sitting there 30 seconds of holding and some guy it almost seemed like a joke... Like he knew this thread existed... came into my peripheal view and guess what he was doing? AND walked in between me and the clock. So he was walking and doing huge arm circles getting ready for his aerobics class... I'm sitting there dying trying to hold this contraction and breathe right and not bust up laughing.
In the gym on monday doing vacuums probably about ohhh 12 ft from the clock on the wall, where you stand and just hold your stomach in as tight as you can learning to breathe through just the upper portion of the lungs. Well I'm sitting there 30 seconds of holding and some guy it almost seemed like a joke... Like he knew this thread existed... came into my peripheal view and guess what he was doing? AND walked in between me and the clock. So he was walking and doing huge arm circles getting ready for his aerobics class... I'm sitting there dying trying to hold this contraction and breathe right and not bust up laughing.
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