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Re: Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie (2011)

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Post by mattdeboard » Tue, Jan 01, 2013, 9:56 PM UTC

psycr wrote: post #159

mattdeboard wrote: post #85

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I was a crossfitter for about 2 years at the South Bay Crossfit gym (Jason Khalipa's). My big takeaway from that was that olympic lifting is much more fun and rewarding than CF for me. (Note to HN pedants: for me .) The only problem is that it's hard to find a big box with a barbell, let alone two or three. This article has fired me up again.

Huh, that's interesting. I go to a CrossFit affiliate that actually focusses pretty intently on olympic lifts. Each one hour session includes 20 minutes of practicing a specific lift. The two - olympic lifting and CrossFit - have become so intertwined in my mind that it's difficult to imagine one without the other.

Yeah that's the point I was trying to make. CF turned me onto Olympic lifting and after awhile, I just really learned to love Oly lifting but lose my devotion to CF.

Re: Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie (2011)

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Post by eru » Wed, Jan 02, 2013, 3:18 PM UTC

rimantas wrote: post #215

eru wrote: post #189

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What do you need the bench for? If you only get one piece of equipment, make it a barbell (with some weights). (Next you buy a squat rack. Or skipping rope, or pull up bars, or olympic rings. If you feel you need to use your triceps, buy olympic rings and do dips on them.)

For a bench press?

Just don't bother with bench pressing, if you don't have a spotter or no bench. You can work on your pressing muscles in different, non-scary ways.

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Post by runamok » Wed, Jan 02, 2013, 5:39 PM UTC

analog wrote: post #49

kenjackson wrote: post #14

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That's an interesting paper. I'd like to see more research done on this as I think being able to minimize injuries (which I suspect are more common when you're lifting 80+% of your max) while still gaining muscle mass would be the holy grail for those of us in middle age. :-)

Focussing on good form and slowly increasing the weight are the ways to minimize injuries, whether you're young or old. Take a video with your phone and either check your form yourself or ask online for a form check.

Except many gyms have strict "no video" policies because of pervs. Quite frustrating to not be able to video yourself.

I requested an exception once at a 24 hour gym and they had the most inane excuse. They said "there may be witness protection people here that could be compromised". I really had no response to that one...