Well, Old Fartbag, I don't do weights or press-ups any more, but back when i did i was never told how.
For a complete ignoramus I thought that video was brilliant.
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Good video, to spice things up a bit and raise ones core strength hold the body in the plank position holding the stomach muscles under tension, do the press up too make it harder raise one leg and then do the press up.
When that becomes easy,get an exercise bench with feet on the bench or say a Bosu ball making the body almost horizontal hold the stomach under tension and do the press up. Then raise one leg at the same time
This will definitely raise ones fitness to a new level.
@Jonpim, @Forst, Yes, I thought it was a good video - and the technique is grounded in the good form of a properly done Bench Press.
Like all exercises - it is dramatically more difficult if done without cheating.
As somebody who has mostly given up "proper" Free Weights (I only now use lighter dumbbells), due to back surgery - and prefer Body Weight exercises and Resistance Bands (sometimes combined with Body Weight).....I find I can keep strong enough for my purposes.
When I look around the Leisure Centre that I use - of the people I see doing Press-Ups - very few do them slowly, with full range of movement - and I don't think I've ever seen anyone incorporating all of the checklist mentioned above.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
@Old Fartbag, one in two sit-ups is being done incorrectly too - using 'bounce' and/or pelvic tilt to cheat.
@Old Fartbag, one in two sit-ups is being done incorrectly too - using 'bounce' and/or pelvic tilt to cheat.
I don't like "Sit-Ups" at all, as once you lift more than your shoulders off the ground, you are using the hip flexors to help. IMV The Trunk Curl is a much better exercise.
After Back Surgery - my Physio had me do them in a way that I believe is grounded in Pilates ie. Pull your belly button in to the spine (and hold it there) and push/round your back into the floor (which i believe engages the core like skiing) - and perform the trunk curls like this (very slowly, pausing at the top to give the Abs an extra squeeze).
Done in this way, they are very tough - and people who were doing 50 by quickly bouncing up and down - struggled to do 10. With muscles, it is "Time under tension" that is important- which is undermined by using momentum and gravity.
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@Old Fartbag, yes. I do Pilates, a lot, and we call them spine curls. I thought they were called sit-ups in 'common parlance', sorry. We tend not to repeat them, as such, in class, or maybe only a few times, then we settle into position (in a curl) and do fancy things with our legs! And sometimes our arms at the same time, though that can tend to be a bit 'necky' if one's not careful.
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Hurtle wrote:
@Old Fartbag, yes. I do Pilates, a lot, and we call them spine curls. I thought they were called sit-ups in 'common parlance', sorry. We tend not to repeat them, as such, in class, or maybe only a few times, then we settle into position (in a curl) and do fancy things with our legs! And sometimes our arms at the same time, though that can tend to be a bit 'necky' if one's not careful.
Well, in that case (if you forgive the expression), "I'm teaching my Granny to suck eggs" - as you have probably forgotten more about Pilates than I know.
Pilates is a wonderful thing to do as a skier - it's just I have to be very careful about not overloading my lower back muscles, which can't handle it - I suspect the weakness is due to fact they had to be cut through to allow the Surgeon access to L3/L4 - and then reattached.
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@Old Fartbag, yes, it's so very easy to fail to engage the abs enough to take the load off the lower back. I carelessly did that myself the other day and paid the price for a couple of days.
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Im not sure this video is the consensus but its mostly good. Training to be a weightlifter is not the same as a real athlete IMHO. I don't need to replicate a bench press, I need to have useful strength and I like to practice mechanical form and muscle isolation.
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You should vary hand width apart, hand angles and position of body above the hands for an better all round workout IMHO.
Press-up boards or even just hexagonal dumbbells are good for that.
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skithesteelstealtheski wrote:
Im not sure this video is the consensus but its mostly good. Training to be a weightlifter is not the same as a real athlete IMHO. I don't need to replicate a bench press, I need to have useful strength and I like to practice mechanical form and muscle isolation.
I would say that "Good Form" is good form and applies wherever you use it.
When I used free weights, I was not training to be a Weightlifter, but preferred them to machines. Now I prefer Callisthenics and Resistance Bands for strengthening, which suit me better for "real world" applications.
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And sometimes our arms at the same time, though that can tend to be a bit 'necky' if one's not careful.
