FOR F#$KS SAKE.
Why are there people doing less than 100kg squats, bench presses and deadlifts spending more time analysing their "form" then actually lifting?
IT'S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE
squat - put the weight on your back and sit down
bench - press the weight
deadlift - pick the weight up
I am so f'n sick of seeing skinny teens standing around the cable pulley station with the one instructing the others on correct "form" doing 7.5kg cable flies.
FOR F#$KS SAKE.
Here's some food for thought. When you first start training as a complete noob, you are using an empty bar, and as you get stronger you start adding weight to the bar. Doing the exercises wrongly can benefit you by progressively building up strength in those bad positions in a safe way, so in the future when you're doing a lift with real weight and you come out the groove you don't break in half.
As you grow more experienced you will learn yourself what corrections you need to make to make your lifting more efficient (i.e. correct FORM) - that's a given and comes with the territory. I just cannot get over how many people I see wasting so much time on the little things when they are insignificant. As you start to get stronger they become significant, but for a novice, in my opinion, the most important thing is time spent LIFTING.
/rant
/discuss
I see PT's getting paid *a lot* of cash money on the gym floor and the clients have done SFA, seriously, NOTHING, for the whole hour. I don't think it's fair on the clients.Why is it one or the other.
Learn good form and get stronger.
If you getting injured all the time because of shitty form your gonna have a tuff time getting stronger.
and why do you give a shit what everyone else is doing at your gym.
As TTT said, you're at Fitness First.I see PT's getting paid *a lot* of cash money on the gym floor and the clients have done SFA, seriously, NOTHING, for the whole hour. I don't think it's fair on the clients.
that doesn't make sense.It takes 200-300 practices of a movement or skill to learn to do it right. It takes 2,000-3,000 practices to unlearn an old movement pattern and learn a new one.
that doesn't make sense.
i don't believe that for a second. please provide references.Yeah it does.
New movement = 200 times to get it right
Change an old learnt movement to new movement = 2000 times to get it right
If you have perfect or even merely good form on every rep of 20 rep squats you can't be using much weight. More likely, you are using lots of weight, and your form degrades through the set.Nick you do 20 rep squats EVERYDAY and see how long your back holds up for. I did it for 2 weeks solid. My injury came from overtraining and never letting it heal, nothing to do with my squatting form
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