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  1. RyanF

    What is the stupidest thing you've seen a PT doing with their client in the gym?

    Kyle says yes, apparently. I'm fine with that, but I don't see how you get GP (specifically) out of moving someone from their current context to their intended context. I would have called that "doing what someone has paid you to do," but okay.
  2. RyanF

    What is the stupidest thing you've seen a PT doing with their client in the gym?

    To train people in a way that's relevant to their needs and abilities. When a PT isn't doing that, it's pretty silly.
  3. RyanF

    the what u saw at the gym TODAY thread

    Today at Masterpiece, I met a new guy learning to squat and deadlift. Got him squatting safely very quickly after seeing him tip forward and lose tightness quite a bit at first. Plenty to work on with his technique, but saw some dramatic improvements right away. Deadlift showed even bigger...
  4. RyanF

    What is the stupidest thing you've seen a PT doing with their client in the gym?

    True. More often than not, a technique tweak will necessitate a short-term decrease in load so that you can actually use the new technique. This wasn't one of those moments. In this instance, every one of his tweaks decreased tightness/stability and worsened the leverage. There are valid reasons...
  5. RyanF

    What is the stupidest thing you've seen a PT doing with their client in the gym?

    Ah yes, the PT's "version" of an exercise. When a PT tries to recreate an exercise and says "this is my version of ______," it almost always ends up inferior to the original exercise. That's what happens when you innovate for the sake of looking impressive rather than to actually solve a problem...
  6. RyanF

    Bodybuilding for beginners

    It's honestly not a high priority for me. Opportunity's never far out of reach and sometimes I have some very hot opportunities throwing themselves at me; I have my reasons for not taking up the opportunity.
  7. RyanF

    Bodybuilding for beginners

    No. Why?
  8. RyanF

    Bodybuilding for beginners

    I guess it is to a certain degree. That would be where some actual programming advice comes in, which is beyond the scope of a few brief dot points. For building strength across the whole body, that comes down to balancing a routine. Do to your back as you do to your front; do to your bottom as...
  9. RyanF

    Bodybuilding for beginners

    True, it doesn't. However, if you practice training in a variety of rep ranges across the entire body and keep working at getting better in all of those contexts, it will promote hypertrophy more than, say, a max strength program will (which, for some reason, the internet loves prescribing to...
  10. RyanF

    Bodybuilding for beginners

    Always work on technique. Get stronger in a variety of rep ranges. Get stronger in all parts of the body. Bulk on as few calories as possible, cut on as many calories as possible.
  11. RyanF

    Online Personal Training

    Yo, I've been training people face-to-face since 2008 and have been setting myself up recently to start taking on online clients. If you're keen, I would be providing you with video coaching (you video your lifts and send them to me -- I'll let you know something you're doing right and...
  12. RyanF

    The PB Thread

    It's been years since I've done a 1RM DBBP, but last time I did it, it was 30kg. Today I incline DBBP'd 5x30kg. Solid grind on the last rep. Good job. That's pretty dang impressive.
  13. RyanF

    Full range exercise versus partial

    Well, I'd agree with that entirely. Only reason I don't use machines more is I don't have more machines to use.
  14. RyanF

    Full range exercise versus partial

    Could've made that a lot clearer. It looks like literally everyone who isn't you took "partial rep" and "full range" to be the way that literally everyone uses these terms -- as a reference to ROM. I'm still unclear on what the results are supposed to be saying.
  15. RyanF

    Full range exercise versus partial

    ^ Because the ROM police are the most important authorities in society. If your hips don't dip below your knees, it's not good enough that you'll get red lights in a competition -- you're actually a moral deviant who deserves to be cut off from society until you've learned your lesson.
  16. RyanF

    Full range exercise versus partial

    Partials definitely have their use. You can use them to build up weak points or as an overload device. When partials allow you to use markedly more weight (not always the case, BTW) they can also provide more stimulus to the skeleton, which is beneficial in improving BMD, and they can help...
  17. RyanF

    Real Ass to Grass squat

    Not a blade of grass in that video anywhere :'(
  18. RyanF

    the what u saw at the gym TODAY thread

    That squat pic makes me want to vomit. Yesterday, an old member from back before I joined Masterpiece rocked up for our deadlift party, didn't actually deadlift (well, he did one novelty deadlift at 160kg), but did bench press 171kg. Not too shabby.
  19. RyanF

    How many of you record your lifting progress and how many go by "feel"?

    I record and I go by feel. The two aren't mutually exclusive.
  20. RyanF

    Weekly Discussion Thread #13

    8/8 for averting any actual engagement with my post. "thats ok." This is the first time in this thread you've indicated that preferring not to squat is not some kind of deficit to being a full=fledged human being. As for me personally, this is from my first comment in this thread, which is...
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