Ugh I don't even know how to respond to this

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  • LiftAllThePizzas
    LiftAllThePizzas Posts: 17,857 Member
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    ana3067 wrote: »
    Or like when I saw some guy deadlifting a few hundred lbs and letting momentum do half the work (once he lifted the bar he'd just let it drop instead of actually lowering it, resulting in super loud clacks on the ground every. damn. rep.)
    That's not momentum, it's gravity. :P

    I do deadlifts that way too, at home, alone. I can't speak for others but I do that because the downhill requires an entirely different movement and screwing it up is an easy way to get injured, so I don't see the point in attempting to do it with heavy deadlifts.
  • usmcmp
    usmcmp Posts: 21,220 Member
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    AllanMisner wrote: »
    There are times when people will do things in the gym that are generally wrong, but fit their circumstances. Like dropping the bar on a deadlift, they want to work the concentric but not the eccentric. There are also good times when bodybuilders will do partials for specific porpoises. Lunks, muscle bound jocks, it is best to avoid judging either way.

    Good points! There are times where I do odd things, but they do have their purpose. Most of the lifting is the basics. There are exceptions.
  • DavPul
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  • LiftAllThePizzas
    LiftAllThePizzas Posts: 17,857 Member
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    ana3067 wrote: »
    I don't even know what a muscle bound jock is supposed to mean.... it just brings up porn when I google it.
    Muscle bound = "anyone with more muscles than I have"

    Jock = athlete.
  • DopeItUp
    DopeItUp Posts: 18,771 Member
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    ana3067 wrote: »
    3dogsrunning wrote: »
    Does anyone want to explain to me what ego lifting is?

    I wrote it above:
    someone who is lifting heavier than s/he should thus resulting in compromised form and partial (if that) reps
    At least this is what I refer to when I say ego lifting.

    So like, the person benching 200lbs and only lowering the bar about 2 inches from the starting position is ego lifting. Or like when I saw some guy deadlifting a few hundred lbs and letting momentum do half the work (once he lifted the bar he'd just let it drop instead of actually lowering it, resulting in super loud clacks on the ground every. damn. rep.)

    Who lowers the bar nicely after a deadlift?
  • Burt_Huttz
    Burt_Huttz Posts: 1,612 Member
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    Ego lifting is a new term to me. It's not just what you do and how you do it that will get you judged, but also your motives. Fun fun.
  • DopeItUp
    DopeItUp Posts: 18,771 Member
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    PS: I basically only lift for my ego. Who doesn't?
  • chrisdavey
    chrisdavey Posts: 9,835 Member
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    I do these fake deadlifts where you put the weights up about an inch or so so you don't have to pull them so far. It is fake but it feeds my ego.

    And to the poster above, it is called a deadlift not a dead lower.
  • Hendrix7
    Hendrix7 Posts: 1,903 Member
    edited March 2015
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    just LOL at this whole thread

  • WishesOnTheStar
    WishesOnTheStar Posts: 114 Member
    edited March 2015
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    Hendrix7 wrote: »
    just LOL at this whole thread

    this fkn lmao

    edit: also lets see a pic of the person who made the muscle bound jock comment
  • Kristina79Marie
    Kristina79Marie Posts: 580 Member
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    i see people power lifting...would that be the same thing? they make really funny faces and i think they might bust a vein in their forehead
  • ChicagOH
    ChicagOH Posts: 75 Member
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    for the record I want everyone in this thread to friend me. xoxo

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