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Aug. 17th, 2012 07:53 amAnyone want to hear about my Diablo items?
Yesterday in the gym (my only other topic)
Huge guy (6'9"? and very muscular) was with almost-as-huge-guy friend. He does a lot of "big muscle" bodybuilder type work, but uses good form and is a fuck-ton stronger than me, typically doing reps with more than my max (though not real freeweight work).
Near the end of my workout he was doing shoulder shrugs in the rack next to me, with about 100 lbs more. However, he did it hunched over - it looked wrong to me, but he was doing big weight so...I asked him if he minded a dumb question (I seem to speak in caveats) and asked if he got the twingy thing I did when he did them. I have recently learned to puff my chest out and look forward to keep from getting that shoulder twinge...but the downside is the bar then rubs on my front which means I'm not lifting it as much.
He said it may actually be the neck, and asked if my chin was up or down. I had to think about it, and noted it was up - ah-ha, he pointed out that when your chin is up it puts pressure on the top of your spine! Ah-ha I said, thanked him for the idea, and did my last set with my chin down.
BLAMMO - that was the problem. Chin down, there was no twinge or hint it was coming, the bar could hang free from my body, and I was better isolating the shoulders as I wanted. All this time I've been doing it wrong, yeesh. I told Mr. Big Guy thanks - he just helped me diagnose something.
His friend then said my t-shirt was cool, leading to a conversation about metalocalypse between us smaller guys to explain it to Mr. Big...
As usual, big guys are generally nice - or I wish I had learned 20 years ago to be nice myself and smile more, rather than being paranoid because if you're always trying to look badass and/or scowl, people don't react to you as well. Who whuddah thunk it.
I'm also getting close to washboardy again, only now with more meaty muscles. Neato.
Yesterday in the gym (my only other topic)
Huge guy (6'9"? and very muscular) was with almost-as-huge-guy friend. He does a lot of "big muscle" bodybuilder type work, but uses good form and is a fuck-ton stronger than me, typically doing reps with more than my max (though not real freeweight work).
Near the end of my workout he was doing shoulder shrugs in the rack next to me, with about 100 lbs more. However, he did it hunched over - it looked wrong to me, but he was doing big weight so...I asked him if he minded a dumb question (I seem to speak in caveats) and asked if he got the twingy thing I did when he did them. I have recently learned to puff my chest out and look forward to keep from getting that shoulder twinge...but the downside is the bar then rubs on my front which means I'm not lifting it as much.
He said it may actually be the neck, and asked if my chin was up or down. I had to think about it, and noted it was up - ah-ha, he pointed out that when your chin is up it puts pressure on the top of your spine! Ah-ha I said, thanked him for the idea, and did my last set with my chin down.
BLAMMO - that was the problem. Chin down, there was no twinge or hint it was coming, the bar could hang free from my body, and I was better isolating the shoulders as I wanted. All this time I've been doing it wrong, yeesh. I told Mr. Big Guy thanks - he just helped me diagnose something.
His friend then said my t-shirt was cool, leading to a conversation about metalocalypse between us smaller guys to explain it to Mr. Big...
As usual, big guys are generally nice - or I wish I had learned 20 years ago to be nice myself and smile more, rather than being paranoid because if you're always trying to look badass and/or scowl, people don't react to you as well. Who whuddah thunk it.
I'm also getting close to washboardy again, only now with more meaty muscles. Neato.
