Three Common Gym Errors

[djeclipse]

I have jus finished a fitness instructor course an the way the 'book' is teaching to do bench press is lower the bar until your elbos are inline with your shoulder blades, going past that an they say it recruits some shoulder etc. Although my personal experiance is that taking the bar about an inch above the chest seems to work the pecs alot harader.

Its down to personal preferences with what ever you do, my personal opinion is to take it down low an screw what the book says lol

I suggest you burn that book and teach people proper form, not the shi* ty form most personal instructors try and teach.

As far as bench depth goes, a major reason for going all the way till the bar touches (not bounces) the chest is if you stop anywhere before that you are not training and getting strong throughout the entire range of motion.

The first time you have heavy weight on the bar and go below the part of the lift you haven't trained (the part you are now weak at) you will be stuck at a weak spot and that is where injury occurs.

 

[dr.shavargo]

also controlled movements! i see a lot of very rapid movements on chest excersises as well with curls where people just drop the weight and twist their body every which way to push it back up.

 

[squatpuke]

I would argue that footwork/placement is extremely critical with many/most lifts....

 

[ExtraMile]

And also jerking the weight up on back movements, especially rows

 

[Big_BK]

I suggest you burn that book and teach people proper form, not the shi* ty form most personal instructors try and teach.

As far as bench depth goes, a major reason for going all the way till the bar touches (not bounces) the chest is if you stop anywhere before that you are not training and getting strong throughout the entire range of motion.

The first time you have heavy weight on the bar and go below the part of the lift you haven't trained (the part you are now weak at) you will be stuck at a weak spot and that is where injury occurs.

Totally agree. I just got certified under NFPT and let me tell you that test is the most useless shit you will ever find on a test.

 

[SpyWizard]

The issue with most pt's that i've observed is the will do a routine that will burn out the CNS, and no need or desire for the client to return or to continue to train..

Question #1 what do you want to accomplish?? #2 what did you eat for breakfast??

 

[timtim]

there are numerous ways to properly cheat through a rep and use momentum while keeping all the stress on the targeted muscle groups without risking injury.

 

[Synpax]

Totally agree. I just got certified under NFPT and let me tell you that test is the most useless shit you will ever find on a test.

CSCS is the only one worth jack, no offense.

 

[Synpax]

there are numerous ways to properly cheat through a rep and use momentum while keeping all the stress on the targeted muscle groups without risking injury.

Even if that's true..... why?

 

[timtim]

Even if that's true..... why?

to get more reps. push pass a plateau. its a pretty cut and dry answer: theres the right way to cheat and the wrong way to cheat. im not going to debate this as an all or nothing answer. to try and say there is no place for cheat reps in bbing is ridiculous.