Thread: Exercise Animations

That's a pretty awesome site, so thanks for posting it. I do have some questions though:

Why doesn't it show for deadlifts that it hits the back? Isn't that basically the main purpose of the exercise?

I've been doing deadlifts a different way. It's almost like squats but with holding the bar (curl bar in my case) in front of your body with your back slightly forward (and straight) while squatting down. I go up from the floor, then once my knees are locked I bring my back backwards. Then I bring it forwards and squat towards the floor. Is this completely wrong? It does work my back and arms and my back is very straight the entire time...

For hammer curls I've been keeping the top part of my arm straight and bringing the dumbbells up in a curve, rather than straight up and moving my whole arm. Is that wrong too?

Is it okay for dumbbell presses to have your hands twisted like you're benching, or does it actually make a difference to hold them like in the illustration?

Thanks BabsieGirl!


"Why doesn't it show for deadlifts that it hits the back?" - Squaggleboggin

That was the first exercise that I looked for.

thats pretty useful actually, thanks a lot!

no offense but that website is horrible. It will give noobs a rough idea of what exercises do what, but whoever made that doesn't seem to know the first thing about proper lifting form, or exercise names, or what exercises hit what muscle groups for that matter.

Does that mean I wasn't really doing the exercises incorrectly then?

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Originally Posted by Squaggleboggin

That's a pretty awesome site, so thanks for posting it. I do have some questions though:

Why doesn't it show for deadlifts that it hits the back? Isn't that basically the main purpose of the exercise?

I've been doing deadlifts a different way. It's almost like squats but with holding the bar (curl bar in my case) in front of your body with your back slightly forward (and straight) while squatting down. I go up from the floor, then once my knees are locked I bring my back backwards. Then I bring it forwards and squat towards the floor. Is this completely wrong? It does work my back and arms and my back is very straight the entire time...

For hammer curls I've been keeping the top part of my arm straight and bringing the dumbbells up in a curve, rather than straight up and moving my whole arm. Is that wrong too?

Is it okay for dumbbell presses to have your hands twisted like you're benching, or does it actually make a difference to hold them like in the illustration?

The primary muscles involved in the deadlifts consist of the gluts, hams, lower back, and erector spinae. Not necessarily in that order.

Check this out:
http://www.t-nation.com/findArticle.do?article=194dead

Dead lifts is a all over mass builder as you have to use most of your muscles to move the bar more muscles than any other exercise.
I us it to work my lower back upper back and trapezius and buttocks and legs. The Hammer curls that it shows is not a good technique to us the arm is to far back to put all the work on the biceps.

Yeah, the bench press form is all off too. Unless you like shoulder injuries later in life.

Originally Posted by CowPimp

Yeah, the bench press form is all off too. Unless you like shoulder injuries later in life.

That's the way I have been doing them for over 20 years and no problems....

deadlifts dont work your back and work your arms? interesting.

Originally Posted by soxmuscle

deadlifts dont work your back and work your arms? interesting.

I feel my whole body, even my toes.

Originally Posted by min0 lee

I feel my whole body, even my toes.

Oh of course, but I had never heard of doing deadlifts mainly as a bicep excercise.

The way they show hammer curls in there is pretty horrible... I tried doing a set like that, and I could've put twice as much weight up as I usually do. Why would you make an exercise that much easier on yourself? I only move from my elbows to my hand, keeping the upper part of my arm parallel to my body. This way really makes you work your biceps.

Originally Posted by Yanick

no offense but that website is horrible. It will give noobs a rough idea of what exercises do what, but whoever made that doesn't seem to know the first thing about proper lifting form, or exercise names, or what exercises hit what muscle groups for that matter.

hahahahahahhaha............Gotta love Yanick!!