Your favourite "weird" or uncommon lift?
singingflutelady
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I am loving Zercher squats at the moment. Ouchy but love them lol
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Peterson Step Ups
Scotts Press0 -
Oh I also love Jeffersons. They look odd though0
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Lifting myself out of the recliner0
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Arnold Press. Not that weird, but no one does it in our gym.0
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singingflutelady wrote: »Oh I also love Jeffersons. They look odd though
Do these move you on up? To the east side?0 -
Haha lol. If you are not careful they can
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singingflutelady wrote: »I am loving Zercher squats at the moment. Ouchy but love them lol
OH! I recently started doing them! I really think it is my favorite squat variation so far!0 -
Pistol squats0
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Old school barbell hack squats0
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I love side split squats. I have never seen anyone do them in person and whenever I do them people stop and look at me like I'm a weirdo. lol.0
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Kneeing squats!0
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Svend Press0
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Good mornings.0
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I suppose "weird" or "unusual" is a matter of perception, but I've never seen anyone at my gym doing most of the lifts that I do. Probably my 'favorite' is: Arm Dips followed by One Arm T's0
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Turkish get ups0
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donut curls0
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Floor presses, pin presses, Rack Pull to Clean Shrug, Dimmel Deadlifts... those count?0
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nakedraygun wrote: »Floor presses, pin presses, Rack Pull to Clean Shrug, Dimmel Deadlifts... those count?
Just looked up what those are, that sounds brutal.
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I don't know if brutal, but awesome - being able to break down the deadlift into phases of the lift. I don't have them currently programed, but will probably bring them back next cycle. The Rack Pull to Clean Shrug I really like a lot because its an athletic exercise (which you can overload on) with lots of crossover to the deadlift and other lifts and who doesn't want large trap muscles?nakedraygun wrote: »Floor presses, pin presses, Rack Pull to Clean Shrug, Dimmel Deadlifts... those count?
Just looked up what those are, that sounds brutal.0 -
nakedraygun wrote: »
I don't know if brutal, but awesome - being able to break down the deadlift into phases of the lift. I don't have them currently programed, but will probably bring them back next cycle. The Rack Pull to Clean Shrug I really like a lot because its an athletic exercise (which you can overload on) with lots of crossover to the deadlift and other lifts and who doesn't want large trap muscles?nakedraygun wrote: »Floor presses, pin presses, Rack Pull to Clean Shrug, Dimmel Deadlifts... those count?
Just looked up what those are, that sounds brutal.
Always looking for new DL variations to add as an auxiliary. The RPtCS sounds interesting too. I want to add some more athletic lifts because well, I'm not athletic or overly mobile, but I always hold because of those facts. lol0 -
Not really a "lift" but some things i like to do that always get odd looks from people....
Lemon Squeezers
Candle Sticks
Genie Sits
Skin the Cats (or german hangs)
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Hot potatoes.
It's where a group of people stand in a circle each holding kettlebells of varying weights. There's a short countdown and then everyone continuously tosses the kettlebells to the person on their right as quickly as possible.
...okay maybe that's not a real thing...
...I hope... you never know with crossfit...0 -
Hot potatoes.
It's where a group of people stand in a circle each holding kettlebells of varying weights. There's a short countdown and then everyone continuously tosses the kettlebells to the person on their right as quickly as possible.
...okay maybe that's not a real thing...
...I hope... you never know with crossfit...
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Log Press, but I haven't done them in several months.... maybe I'll start again.
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LolBroScience wrote: »Log Press, but I haven't done them in several months.... maybe I'll start again.
Your gym has all the fun toys. Strongman stones? Thinking about making these for the garage gym of mine.0 -
nakedraygun wrote: »LolBroScience wrote: »Log Press, but I haven't done them in several months.... maybe I'll start again.
Your gym has all the fun toys. Strongman stones? Thinking about making these for the garage gym of mine.
Allegedly we have Atlas stones, but I've never seen them. We have log, yoke, sleds, tires, farmers, hammers though.
There aren't too many strongmen at our gym... Mostly bodybuilders/physique and a large amount of powerlifters.
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Good stuff in here. I don't do anything "different or weird" I guess, although I think I'm considered weird around some of fellow gym members. I squat to parallel, the bar touches my chest with a short pause when I bench, and I fully extend my arms on chin-ups; unfortunately that's weird for some people. LOL0
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Snatches and Cleans and Jerks...not really unusual or weird, but when I belonged to open to the public gyms, I rarely saw anyone doing them except for me. I belong to a private gym now that is run by my trainer and since he uses Olympic lifts with everyone he trains, everyone there does them...but they seem to be exceedingly rare in your average gym.0
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I rarely saw anyone doing them except for me.
When you did see them it was probably even more rare to see them done correctly I bet.0
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