Weightlifting for Kiwis - Discussion and support regarding the art of swole

[Ahriman]

Are YOU getting your sleep in, frens?

What really brings my piss to a boil is when people slam weights when deadlifting. There was this kid deadlifting 215 slamming it down then did over 400 and slammed it down too? Just pure silliness. Did you really have to slam down the 215 buddy? I understand you can't avoid it at a heavy weight but 100-200's is just autism.

This. There's a gahdamn zoomer deadlifting around the same weight, and he keeps slamming the weights on the way down. I lift a bit more than he does and I make minimal noise, no huffing and puffing either, like he does.

"-HUUUUHHH"

*Slams weights*

"-AAAAHHH"

*Slams weights again*

Just use less weight if you can't handle it... what the fuck is wrong with these people?!

 

[KingCoomer]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=X7b03NAIf7c
Are YOU getting your sleep in, frens?


This. There's a gahdamn zoomer deadlifting around the same weight, and he keeps slamming the weights on the way down. I lift a bit more than he does and I make minimal noise, no huffing and puffing either, like he does.

"-HUUUUHHH"

*Slams weights*

"-AAAAHHH"

*Slams weights again*

Just use less weight if you can't handle it... what the fuck is wrong with these people?!

You aren't really required to control deadlift on the eccentric. You pass powerlifting rules in like 95 percent of organizations if you drop your deadlift except one which I am forgetting the name of right now. It quite literally is just personal preference.

 

[Ahriman]

You aren't really required to control deadlift on the eccentric. You pass powerlifting rules in like 95 percent of organizations if you drop your deadlift except one which I am forgetting the name of right now. It quite literally is just personal preference.

I could understand it if you're friggin' cbum, pulling some serious weight

But a zoomer has no business slamming weights like that, it's getting really annoying.

Especially because I can handle more weight than him without making a scene everytime I do another set, ffs.

 

[ITK]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=X7b03NAIf7c
Are YOU getting your sleep in, frens?


This. There's a gahdamn zoomer deadlifting around the same weight, and he keeps slamming the weights on the way down. I lift a bit more than he does and I make minimal noise, no huffing and puffing either, like he does.

"-HUUUUHHH"

*Slams weights*

"-AAAAHHH"

*Slams weights again*

Just use less weight if you can't handle it... what the fuck is wrong with these people?!

Listen here buddy. Not slamming weights? Alright, sure. That I get. It's not that heavy so he should stop egolifting and try to control the eccentric. However! There is an extremely satisfactory joy in huffing and puffing and grunting. Nothing feels as good, or as powerful. With my best sets I always grunt. The only thing stopping me from screaming at the top of my lungs with every rep is other people. Man I want a home gym so that I can scream while working out naked so much it's unreal.

 

[Vingle]

You aren't really required to control deadlift on the eccentric. You pass powerlifting rules in like 95 percent of organizations if you drop your deadlift except one which I am forgetting the name of right now. It quite literally is just personal preference.

The zoomers can train at the organisations then. Controlling the deadlift while lowering is a significant part of the exercise.
Just dropping is some crossfit shit.

 

[Bassomatic]

Listen here buddy. Not slamming weights? Alright, sure. That I get. It's not that heavy so he should stop egolifting and try to control the eccentric. However! There is an extremely satisfactory joy in huffing and puffing and grunting. Nothing feels as good, or as powerful. With my best sets I always grunt. The only thing stopping me from screaming at the top of my lungs with every rep is other people. Man I want a home gym so that I can scream while working out naked so much it's unreal.

Maybe it's a personality thing but, I don't make much noise in my home gym. I'm more the panting a lot and saying "fuck" like 7 times kinda person.

 

[MS Paint Gigachad]

Maybe it's a personality thing but, I don't make much noise in my home gym. I'm more the panting a lot and saying "fuck" like 7 times kinda person.

Same here, I dont feel like doing the stereotypical kyriakos grizzly screams after a hard set, I just grunt during the set and sit there breathing deep after

 

[ITK]

Maybe it's a personality thing but, I don't make much noise in my home gym. I'm more the panting a lot and saying "fuck" like 7 times kinda person.

I get the simplistic appeal to lifting quietly, and I often do so, but I find making noise allows for greater force output for me, as well as just generally making me pumped, so I sometimes do it intentionally. It helps with heavy squats for instance. It's a mindset thing.

 

[Tren Shapiro]

Maybe it's a personality thing but, I don't make much noise in my home gym. I'm more the panting a lot and saying "fuck" like 7 times kinda person.

I'm yelling the entire time like an episode of Dragon Ball Z. It works it in real life just as it does in anime which is why when Kyriakos steps on the power level scale it reads FULL.

 

[Jasper2K]

I get the simplistic appeal to lifting quietly, and I often do so, but I find making noise allows for greater force output for me, as well as just generally making me pumped, so I sometimes do it intentionally. It helps with heavy squats for instance. It's a mindset thing.

There's a difference making noise when your lifting near your 1RPM and being a disruptive, unmindful faggot huffing buffing banging around light weights.

 

[ITK]

Any of you guys into ribcage expantion? It is an arcane art of the Silver Era that the gainsgoblin labcoats wants you to think is impossible. I unironically believe this is totally possible. All of bodybuilding, including the well-documented ability to grow your muscles, was invented through anecdotal experience, after all, and Silver Era bodybuilder swore by this stuff. Further, if it really was the case that you can expand the ribcage, we should expect to find that represented in Silver Era physiques. This is exactly what we do. Golden Era Bookworm, who's a medical professional, also mentions a study on how the cartilage that connect the ribs to form a cage and thus allows your ribcage to expand and retract as you breathe does not calcify until you're 30, so from a biological perspective also it shouldn't be impossible. Tomorrow I will try out for the first time the 20 rep breathing squat supersetted with the breathing pullover. We'll see how it goes. Something that's really attractive to me about Silver Era bodybuilding is how it was viewed as a holistic art of sculpting the entire body, not reductively just your muscles, but also your ligaments, tendons, even organs, and, to some extent, your frame.

 

[VeteranOfTheRetardWars]

Any of you guys into ribcage expantion? It is an arcane art of the Silver Era that the gainsgoblin labcoats wants you to think is impossible. I unironically believe this is totally possible. All of bodybuilding, including the well-documented ability to grow your muscles, was invented through anecdotal experience, after all, and Silver Era bodybuilder swore by this stuff. Further, if it really was the case that you can expand the ribcage, we should expect to find that represented in Silver Era physiques. This is exactly what we do. Golden Era Bookworm, who's a medical professional, also mentions a study on how the cartilage that connect the ribs to form a cage and thus allows your ribcage to expand and retract as you breathe does not calcify until you're 30, so from a biological perspective also it shouldn't be impossible. Tomorrow I will try out for the first time the 20 rep breathing squat supersetted with the breathing pullover. We'll see how it goes. Something that's really attractive to me about Silver Era bodybuilding is how it was viewed as a holistic art of sculpting the entire body, not reductively just your muscles, but also your ligaments, tendons, even organs, and, to some extent, your frame.

I can go either way on actually expanding the ribcage, but if you at least want to develop an impressive barrel chest those exercises work. I have personally seen astonishing results from pullovers, and as the Silver Era look is my goal they are essential.
If you are a man, and you want to avoid being the Zoomer who says that leaner natties can’t look big in clothes need to one, get better clothes, and two, develop that ribcage area.

 

[ITK]

I can go either way on actually expanding the ribcage, but if you at least want to develop an impressive barrel chest those exercises work. I have personally seen astonishing results from pullovers, and as the Silver Era look is my goal they are essential.
If you are a man, and you want to avoid being the Zoomer who says that leaner natties can’t look big in clothes need to one, get better clothes, and two, develop that ribcage area.

Yeah I've already begun doing pullovers. I had heared about them before but after NH released his video on them I decided I couldn't wait anymore and added them in. Pretty light at first because I wanted to ease my joints into it, so the most I've felt atm is my neck and serratus. I'm very exited to begin increasing weight. And on the topic of looking big in clothes, I'm reminded of Alex Leonidas yoke training, that is neck, traps, shoulders and upper back. If you have the yoke of an ox you'll never look small in clothes.

 

[Ahriman]

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While on the topic of slamming weights down, I have noticed that usually my last two sets always suffer because my grip strength gives in before I could finish my set. My forearms feel like exploding and the bar slowly wants to slide off my hands. So I'll be investing in some straps.

 

[DyingStarsForever]

This is my routine and I love it.

4x8 bench
4x6 pullups
4x8 barbell OHP
4x8 barbell bent over rows
4x10 curls

Throw in squats or deadlift when you feel like it and I hop on the treadmill at the end. I try to do some variation of this every day and brother, let me tel you, I have put on some muscle. And I’m in and out in an hour or less.

I’ve been experimenting with different routines for a while and for the past week I tried yours. This might honestly be the simplicity that I need, I’ve added it to my regular swim-focused training and now I have a five day schedule that’s easy to keep. Thanks!

 

[ConspicuousArdiunoDue]

Hello KiwiBrothers, I am here to tell you that I finally hit a 410lb deadlift after starting the routine in July. Very proud moments in the gym lately!

I'll contribute to the weight slamming debate by saying this:
Especially while deadlifting and trying to improve my capacity, I will lose control of the eccentric towards the end, slamming 300-350lbs on the ground, and before that it was lower. IMO, if you're in a gym like mine, which is a gym with a dedicated free weight room, I believe it's okay to push yourself that little extra bit and make more noise. Wouldn't advocate for that in a corpo gym; which is why I specifically set out to find a nice warehouse gym with dedicated power lifters and bodybuilders.

But I would also give a little bit of allowance to those in corpo gyms, just remember, there are people out there who are like me when starting, no prior compound lifting experience. They'll probably fail the eccentrics while learning, and they need to be able to at least try, y'know?

If they're being a dick and slamming the dumbbells on the ground, that's just damaging equipment right there. I've really only come to know one good reason to be slamming weights, and that's compound movements on a bar; not really on dumbbells in front of the workout benches. Sometimes the noises do get to me too, but I just space out my sets to go between their rests, which usually works out pretty good from a focus standpoint.

 

[anustart76]

Any advice on upping my bicep curl weight? Been stuck at 30 lbs for too long.

 

[Hot Dog]

Any advice on upping my bicep curl weight? Been stuck at 30 lbs for too long.

Get micro plates and load up by 2.5lbs/1.7lbs instead of making 5lbs jumps. Upper body caps out way faster and you'll need more time to push your numbers up.

I stick with barbell curls (in my home gym, not at a commercial gym like an asshole) and it makes overloading take much longer. I tried regular dumbbell curls for fun last week and 65lbs was no issue for sets of 10. If you are using an EZ bar at the gym and your gym doesn't have the micro plates just buy some and bring them with you. Curling 135lbs on a barbell is retarded but also looks cool as fuck.

 

[CharcoalChkn]

Did a 50kg RDL this week, my hamstrings definitely felt that one.

Gripping that weight is hard but I managed to get out 12 reps before I totally lost control on my left hand. Pretty happy with that weight though.

 

[Barry McKockner]

Any advice on upping my bicep curl weight? Been stuck at 30 lbs for too long.

How many variances of bicep exercises do you do? If you're always doing the same type of curls, then maybe change it up. How many reps at 35 can you do on a normal dumbbell curl?