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This is the guy I want spotting me... :o ::)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSJCDcAKShA&mode=related&search=Crazy%20Weight%20Lifter (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSJCDcAKShA&mode=related&search=Crazy%20Weight%20Lifter)
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lol,......that guy will never be the same again
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they're both douchebags.
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How many of you know people who know how to spot correctly?
When I ask somebody in the gym to spot me while max benching it's only because I need somebody to lift the weigt of my chest when I maxed out... I have no faith in anybody "catching" the weight if it slips.
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It's called a suicide grip for a reason! It'll make your nuts shake everytime going thumbless! I've seen a few near misses in my local gym already. Guys see me using it so they try it and bounce the bar around all in the cage and shit. I tell them to either use their thumbs because their lil bitch hands are too small to do it well enough or chalk up and ignore the no chalk sign if they think it's more comfortable.
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that turd looks like he would have trouble pushing 115lbs
and he's using a thumbless grip thinking he's arnold or dorian..hahahaha...what a toolbag
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How many of you know people who know how to spot correctly?
When I ask somebody in the gym to spot me while max benching it's only because I need somebody to lift the weigt of my chest when I maxed out... I have no faith in anybody "catching" the weight if it slips.
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They make the cage and the smith machine for this very reason. You can go balls out without worrying about a spotter.
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It's called a suicide grip for a reason! It'll make your nuts shake everytime going thumbless! I've seen a few near misses in my local gym already. Guys see me using it so they try it and bounce the bar around all in the cage and shit. I tell them to either use their thumbs because their lil bitch hands are too small to do it well enough or chalk up and ignore the no chalk sign if they think it's more comfortable.
i'm so used to going thumbless that i wouldn't know how to train wrapping my thumbs around.
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imo,,,doin it thumbless takes some of the load and stress from ur wrists and shoulders and put it on ur chest which is an advantage,,,......ive seen some guys use straps if doin it thumbless with heavy weights
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i'm so used to going thumbless that i wouldn't know how to train wrapping my thumbs around.
YEAH I'M SO USED TO THUMBLESS THAT IT'S JUST SECOND NATURE!
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damn that is nasty.
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death.
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i'm so used to going thumbless that i wouldn't know how to train wrapping my thumbs around.
same here.
bench
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They make the cage and the smith machine for this very reason. You can go balls out without worrying about a spotter.
Don't like the Smith I don't get the same kinda workout it feals like cheating
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It wasn't the spotters fault AT ALL. What could he do? Nothing.
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The spotter was totally cool. The lifter is the idiot. No spotter in the world could have caught that bar.
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First thing like all of you have already said Thumbless is very very dangerous. So why use it when doing that kind of weight. My guesstimation is that was around 300 pounds, my God you know that hurt!!! But the blame is not all on the kid, the spotter was fucking pathetic!!! The first thing he does on the first hand off is throw his damn hands in the air. WTF is that about???? And then on the second the stupid fuck does it again, looks like a highschool gym and he is prolly there strength coach, NICE real FUKK'n Nice!!! Stupid fukks like him piss me off badly!!!!
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First thing like all of you have already said Thumbless is very very dangerous. So why use it when doing that kind of weight. My guesstimation is that was around 300 pounds, my God you know that hurt!!! But the blame is not all on the kid, the spotter was fucking pathetic!!! The first thing he does on the first hand off is throw his damn hands in the air. WTF is that about???? And then on the second the stupid fuck does it again, looks like a highschool gym and he is prolly there strength coach, NICE real FUKK'n Nice!!! Stupid fukks like him piss me off badly!!!!
i would have thought you were a thumbless grip guy, Mike.
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i'm so used to going thumbless that i wouldn't know how to train wrapping my thumbs around.
ditto. when i saw the arnold pics in the encylopedia looong ass time ago i was just learning and i was like.. oh.. his thumb is outside.. thats how you do it lol and i just learned how to lift w/o thumbs.
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i'm so used to going thumbless that i wouldn't know how to train wrapping my thumbs around.
I used to be until I dropped one and bounced 3 plates off my chest. Luckily I was doing close grips and had a pad on my chest.
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i would have thought you were a thumbless grip guy, Mike.
Hell no!!! I did that one time in Chicago casue I was having trouble with my shirt touching so I switched to se if it would help. Shit aint nothing like having 800 plus dangling in the air with out that thumb wrapped. NEVER AGAIN for me!!!!
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I prefer the "thumb's up" grip where you keep the thumbs running along the bar
I think I saw Ronnie doing it once . . .
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The spotter should never have taken his hands away after the kid pushed it into the rack the first time. Sure, I don't think the kid should have been using a thumbless grip, but this "accident" is clearly the fault of the spotter. Also the fact that he is older, you would think he would know better??? ::)
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they're both douchebags.
agreed....
spotters are there so the weight doesnt get stuck AFTER lifting it.......or helping you rack/ unrack the weight if you need help...
no spotter on the planet could of helped that shitstain....
a spotter isnt supposed to be able to catch hundreds of pounds falling at the speed of gravity...
douchebags X 2
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I prefer the "thumb's up" grip where you keep the thumbs running along the bar
I think I saw Ronnie doing it once . . .
Hah weird i do the same thing! I never noticed ronnie do it, but if i wrap my thumb around like normal, i get a peircing pain in my left hand, but im also affraid of the bar slippin, so this method kinda helps with both.
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Hah weird i do the same thing! I never noticed ronnie do it, but if i wrap my thumb around like normal, i get a peircing pain in my left hand, but im also affraid of the bar slippin, so this method kinda helps with both.
ugh . . . that sounds concerning, Beener
might want to get that checked out
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The spotter should never have taken his hands away after the kid pushed it into the rack the first time. Sure, I don't think the kid should have been using a thumbless grip, but this "accident" is clearly the fault of the spotter. Also the fact that he is older, you would think he would know better??? ::)
1. You can't blame the spotter if the lifter is complete idiot.
2. Monkey- grip is like any other thing in this world. You have to know how to do it before you can do it.
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First thing like all of you have already said Thumbless is very very dangerous. So why use it when doing that kind of weight. My guesstimation is that was around 300 pounds, my God you know that hurt!!! But the blame is not all on the kid, the spotter was fucking pathetic!!! The first thing he does on the first hand off is throw his damn hands in the air. WTF is that about???? And then on the second the stupid fuck does it again, looks like a highschool gym and he is prolly there strength coach, NICE real FUKK'n Nice!!! Stupid fukks like him piss me off badly!!!!
I gotta agree with you...
Whether you wanna blame the spotter or not, there is no reason to release the bar the way he did, if you watch it again, you'll see that the bar comes off the guy's hands at the EXACT moment that spotter RIPS his hands off the bar!
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ugh . . . that sounds concerning, Beener
might want to get that checked out
rather, for a period of time i had a peircing pain, primarely doing incline presses. I find i lift better with my thumbs running along the bar.
Too many poeple dont know how to spot. Personally i dont like getting a spot because once i have somenoe standing over me i seem to try less hard because i know if i cant quite get it they'l help me. Too many poeple though think when you're spotting you gotta help them on every set.
So last week some dude asks me to spot him and when he coudn't get it up much i'd baaaaaarely help so its pretty much just him slowely getting it up. He wasnt too pleased, he expected me to do most of the work. needless to say i explained my reasoning but he got someone else to spot next time, works good for me, i hate spotting people.
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1. You can't blame the spotter if the lifter is complete idiot.
2. Monkey- grip is like any other thing in this world. You have to know how to do it before you can do it.
yeah....i like how people blame the spotter...wtf? like anyone could have caught 300lbs when falling with an underhand grip....i would rather
the guy crush his ribcage than me rip both bicep tendons from my arms....it is never a spotters fault that someone drops the weight
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yeah....i like how people blame the spotter...wtf? like anyone could have caught 300lbs when falling with an underhand grip....i would rather
the guy crush his ribcage than me rip both bicep tendons from my arms....it is never a spotters fault that someone drops the weight
Exactly
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You can get so much more power round the weight when your thumbs are over the bar - it's almost like making a fist through the bar. Thumbless grips are for trainers with bad habits copying bodybuilders they've seen doing light weights in photoshoots in Flex magazine.
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You can get so much more power round the weight when your thumbs are over the bar - it's almost like making a fist through the bar. Thumbless grips are for trainers with bad habits copying bodybuilders they've seen doing light weights in photoshoots in Flex magazine.
lmao
ronnie coleman uses a thumbless with 495lbs
dorian used it for 405lbs
arnold used it for 365lb inclines
thats not exactly light weight...its a matter of preference.
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yeah....i like how people blame the spotter...wtf?
I do agree, but at the same time the spotter really did suck, i mean he basically tried to throw the weight..sorta..who knows still looks like a retard
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Massive quads on the benchpresser lol ;D
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imo,,,doin it thumbless takes some of the load and stress from ur wrists and shoulders and put it on ur chest which is an advantage,,,......ive seen some guys use straps if doin it thumbless with heavy weights
i agree, that is the reason i use thumbless sometimes...it puts some stress in my wrists (in incline barbell press for example) and usually after that i feel somepain on them