Afer some comments from a local gardener in my journal I'd like some input on my form in the following vid. I genuinely thought my form was decent but Percy Thrower * says it stinks ! Obviously his is an additional excuse to flaunt myself on the internet

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* remember him oldies ?

looked good to me,


good gibs from the guy doing the shrugs

looks not bad to me


do you deliberately not do a full range of motion? my only thing to say would be that all the reps should be the range of motion of the reps when you were getting a spot...well that's what I do anyway, all the way to lockout

do you deliberately not do a full range of motion?

TBH I've always focused on lowering the weight to chest, maybe I dont lockout fully looking at it now but then again I tend not to lockout fully on most things

Nothing wrong with your form. Especially considering the size of those dumbells, what 50kg each? They are unweildy.

Nothing wrong with using a mixture of 2/3 range, full range, etc.

fair enough, some people don't, I remember seeing ronnie coleman doing bench and he does a similar range to you

what was tony saying in your journal that was wrong with the form?

what was tony saying in your journal that was wrong with the form?

Percy wasn't specific , I did wonder if he was winding me up but I now assume it was the lockout.

assume it was the lockout.

Indeed the lockout Einstein.

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and LOL@Percy.

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and I haven't yet mentioned the gayness of getting your "partner" to pass you the Dbell.

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and I haven't yet mentioned the gayness of getting your "partner" to pass you the Dbell.

I normally use the force to get the second db into position but I thought it would freak people out

Was that the Redcar gym by the way, is it much cop?

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Was that the Redcar gym by the way, is it much cop?

No it was my normal gym. I visited the Redcar one yesterday though and while it was a bit rundown and messy it did have power racks , squat racks , a log and big old dumbells up to 75k

Worth a visit then?

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Worth a visit then?

I'll have a seshion or so to work out the lay of the land then I'll let you know

No bad at all.

Id still increase the ROM but what youve done there at that weight is cool. If I were to be really picky, when your spotter came in, he helped a bit too much to push the weight up, should have really let you struggled a bit more.

48kg incline is strong!

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The way I see it , you *must* know your body well enough to know your own effective range of motion (IMO , Judging by your pics ) If you are meting that range , then that's all that counts

OK so you may not be getting a 'Full' ROM in textbook terms ,But if you can honestly say they felt like you were using your full effective range - then what more can you ask, if you are happy with them , and you are getting bigger and stronger ... then thats all that counts !

The only thing that I would say , is that your spotter was a bit keen for my liking !

Cheers Stone , like I said to someone in my journal , we dont do forced reps as a rule these days so my partner was taken by suprise as you can see by his hestitation after my last unassisted rep

Cheers Dr Z , yeah I've been training for longer than I care to admit so I'm pretty much in a groove with my fav exercises but maybe I should try improving my rom now I've been exposed !

That would be a easy warm up weight for you though I bet

i do 50's for incline press and i use more range of movement, rock bottom so the db's touch the chest and straight up to lockout.

i agree with the spotter helping too much but he at least got you to do full range of movement lol

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