The Basic Exercises for strength and muscle
August 21st, 2008 by admin
the basic exercises for building strength and muscle. squat, deadlift, bench press, power clean, pull ups.
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25 Responses to “The Basic Exercises for strength and muscle”
August 2nd, 2008 at 10:00 pm
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August 2nd, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Absolutely agree. Two years into dedicated body building suffering from a broken wrist straight bar bench was impossible. Switching to dumbbell press saw immense strength control and endurance increase. Holding 120lb dumbbells over your face makes you focus a hell of a lot more than a bar ever did for me. All ABOUT THE FREE WEIGHTS!
August 2nd, 2008 at 10:00 pm
whats the exercise where youre squatting and also doing a reverse curl type thing with a dumbbell?
August 2nd, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Try bottom position thick bar floor press on a power rack. This is the unbeatable chest exercise
August 2nd, 2008 at 10:00 pm
eating a little bit of ice cream after chest/bicep workout and interval training won’t make you fat right????? sorry im just looking for reassuring
August 2nd, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Don’t agree with bench press, i don’t feel it’s cruicial, yeh it’s a compound, but for chest dumbell press and chest dips are far superior.
August 2nd, 2008 at 10:00 pm
did I miss it in the video or are dips not a basic exercise anymore?
August 2nd, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Are you retarded or something? He was just demonstrating the movement. He wasn’t showing off how many times he can fucking do the exercise. He also demonstrated the bench press by benching 65 pounds, but we can guess that’s not his normal weight. I hope you were being sarcastic (but if you were, you’re still retarded).
August 2nd, 2008 at 10:00 pm
About 30 degrees out according to Rippetoe.
August 2nd, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Quote: I wouldn’t say the power clean is very basic.
Why would you say that?
August 2nd, 2008 at 10:00 pm
I wouldn’t say the power clean is very basic
August 2nd, 2008 at 10:00 pm
The guy who we see doing the Military press first..green shirt and white cap?? i thought that was pretty awful form. his elbows look like they are behind the bar..take a look elsewhere..perhaps the master himself..mark rippetoe on here instructing on the military/barbell press ..and you can see the elbows should be in front of the bar..take a look.
August 2nd, 2008 at 10:00 pm
you must do the basic but no one like it
August 2nd, 2008 at 10:00 pm
lolol
August 2nd, 2008 at 10:00 pm
he didnt have it in him to do a 4th pullup.. coward.. i will definately not be going to his website..
August 2nd, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Proper form is for your toes to be pointing slightly outwards. It’s not good to have your pointing perfectly straight ahead. If you ask me he’s got his feet pointing a little bit too outward, but really not much more than they should be.
August 2nd, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Dude if you think about it his legs are pointed outwards also so in reality his feet were in the right position, unless you are supposed to squat pigeon toed..
August 2nd, 2008 at 10:00 pm
btw people shuldn’t jus go by what they see on youtube iv spotted a few mistakes in there techniques already and i know hardly nothng, for example when ur squatin your feet must be pointing forward because of the joints in your knee, his feet where pointing outwards
August 2nd, 2008 at 10:00 pm
because when your tryin to improve strength and power u use a heavy weight and do say 5 sets of 3 reps, or you can do 3 sets of 5 reps, wen improvin strength and power u just owrk at a heavy weight even if its one rep or 4 or 3, its different to body building
August 2nd, 2008 at 10:00 pm
There are two types of training, one for sarcoplasmic hyperthrophy (what’s mainly for bodybuilding at high reps) and myofibrillar hyperthrophy (strenght/powerlifting training which is mainly done with reps lower than 5.)
Powerlifters train mainly with reps as low as 3 to 1, training their ligaments and central nervous system for handling maximal and near maximal loads.
I suggest you read Westside Barbel protocols (or similar powerlifting/olympic methods) instead of reading Flex magazine.
August 2nd, 2008 at 10:00 pm
why, what do u mean? u’ll suffer from weigh less muscle strain, lower ur chance of getting ur muscles fucked and u can get more work done
August 2nd, 2008 at 10:00 pm
WRONG. DEAD FUCKING WRONG.
August 2nd, 2008 at 10:00 pm
yea 100 years ago, that was true.
i think as long as you are standing, you can call it a military press
I but sitting in those benches doing shoulder presses to me isn’t a military press
August 2nd, 2008 at 10:00 pm
man this guy is crazy why bother with 3 reps of unbearable weights if u can get way more effect from lower weights more reps and more sets
August 2nd, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Nice vid. Just one correction: that military press is not a military press, it´s a standing barbell press. The military press is done with the feet together, in a “military stance”.