Wow, never saw this thread, I should chime in...
No, I don't want to help him.
No, I don't want to help him.
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Anyone want to Help Kenwood?
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This is BY FAR the funniest shit I've read on the internet all day.
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Ok kenwood, I have a reading comprehention problem as well, so try to use my method of correcting the problem. If it is the case, it should work.
When you read, dont just let it go in and out of your head. Rather than trying to remember the words, try to put yourself into whatever it is that you're reading. In this case we're talking about weightlifting, so try to imagine yourself actually doing the excercises. Ex. benchpress is when you lie down on the bench(imagine yourself lying down on the bench) , lower the bar(imagine yourself doing this) , push the bar up(imagine yourself doing this).
The whole push, pull concept isnt that hard. When you walk into a gas station, you read the door handle right? It either says push, or pull. Now, if it says push, you position your hands in front of you and move them foward. The bodybuilding concept of push, pull is the same exact thing. Take your body when you come up to a push door, and imagine yourself lying down on a bench below a bar. Now when you have the bar near your chest when doing the bench press, you move your hands away from you, thus, your pushing the bar away from yourself. Same thing with the pulling excercises. Either you're moving your hands away from you, pushing, or your moving your hands toward you, pulling.
Now, as far as the horizontal and vertical thing goes, if you stand up, and do the body movements that you would do during the workout, you look at how you're moving your body to figure out if its horizontal or vertical. Bench for example, its a horizontal movement. Confusing I know, because when you're on the bench and doing it, you're moving the bar up and down, not side to side. However, if you think about it, you're doing the same movements, just lying down. DB shoulder press is the same way only you're already upright. You move your hands up and down right? So thats a verticle movement. Dips is a little bit harder, but the same concept. Only this time, you're elbows are in a weird position. If you pulled your elbows down by your sides, rather than behind you in the air, you're actually moving your hands foward and backward in front of you. Thus, horizontal movement. Now if you think about all of this together after reading what I just explained to you, what do we know about all of these excercises? In all of these, in every one, you're pushing the weight away from your body. So what type of excercises are these? Pushing
You can figure out which ones are pulling excercises by using the same gas station door trick. Just put yourself in that place.
Now no offense to P-funk, but I think it might be easier to think of leg excercises in terms of front of legs, and back of legs. As opposed to quad and hips.
When we talk about doing quad dominant or ham dominant excercises, we're basically talking about doing excercises that either work the front of your legs, or the back of your legs. Ex. leg extentions work the quads, hamstring curls work the hamstrings.
However, when thinking about leg excercises, you have to think about how the leg is built, and how it works. When you want to do leg extentions for example, you're basically doing what? Just moving your feet up and down. Now in order to get your feet to lift up, you have to tighten the front part of your thigh. This muscle is called the quad. The quad pulls tendons in the front of your knee that run to the shins. When those tendons are pulled, the feet are lifted up, and you've just extended your leg. So what would leg extentions be? A quad dominant excercise, or in other words, front of leg excercise(because the quad is on the front part of the thigh).
Ok that took me like an hour to type so if you have any questions, please keep asking. I would HATE for that hour of sleep I lost to go to waste. Can anybody give us the website that has the human phisique completely mapped out, along with excercises for each muscle? Its not shapefit, its like expx or something like that, I dont remember. I actually want it as well.
Anywho I really hope this helps because I sympathise with you. . .even if I cant spell it.
Graham
When you read, dont just let it go in and out of your head. Rather than trying to remember the words, try to put yourself into whatever it is that you're reading. In this case we're talking about weightlifting, so try to imagine yourself actually doing the excercises. Ex. benchpress is when you lie down on the bench(imagine yourself lying down on the bench) , lower the bar(imagine yourself doing this) , push the bar up(imagine yourself doing this).
The whole push, pull concept isnt that hard. When you walk into a gas station, you read the door handle right? It either says push, or pull. Now, if it says push, you position your hands in front of you and move them foward. The bodybuilding concept of push, pull is the same exact thing. Take your body when you come up to a push door, and imagine yourself lying down on a bench below a bar. Now when you have the bar near your chest when doing the bench press, you move your hands away from you, thus, your pushing the bar away from yourself. Same thing with the pulling excercises. Either you're moving your hands away from you, pushing, or your moving your hands toward you, pulling.
Now, as far as the horizontal and vertical thing goes, if you stand up, and do the body movements that you would do during the workout, you look at how you're moving your body to figure out if its horizontal or vertical. Bench for example, its a horizontal movement. Confusing I know, because when you're on the bench and doing it, you're moving the bar up and down, not side to side. However, if you think about it, you're doing the same movements, just lying down. DB shoulder press is the same way only you're already upright. You move your hands up and down right? So thats a verticle movement. Dips is a little bit harder, but the same concept. Only this time, you're elbows are in a weird position. If you pulled your elbows down by your sides, rather than behind you in the air, you're actually moving your hands foward and backward in front of you. Thus, horizontal movement. Now if you think about all of this together after reading what I just explained to you, what do we know about all of these excercises? In all of these, in every one, you're pushing the weight away from your body. So what type of excercises are these? Pushing
You can figure out which ones are pulling excercises by using the same gas station door trick. Just put yourself in that place.
Now no offense to P-funk, but I think it might be easier to think of leg excercises in terms of front of legs, and back of legs. As opposed to quad and hips.
When we talk about doing quad dominant or ham dominant excercises, we're basically talking about doing excercises that either work the front of your legs, or the back of your legs. Ex. leg extentions work the quads, hamstring curls work the hamstrings.
However, when thinking about leg excercises, you have to think about how the leg is built, and how it works. When you want to do leg extentions for example, you're basically doing what? Just moving your feet up and down. Now in order to get your feet to lift up, you have to tighten the front part of your thigh. This muscle is called the quad. The quad pulls tendons in the front of your knee that run to the shins. When those tendons are pulled, the feet are lifted up, and you've just extended your leg. So what would leg extentions be? A quad dominant excercise, or in other words, front of leg excercise(because the quad is on the front part of the thigh).
Ok that took me like an hour to type so if you have any questions, please keep asking. I would HATE for that hour of sleep I lost to go to waste. Can anybody give us the website that has the human phisique completely mapped out, along with excercises for each muscle? Its not shapefit, its like expx or something like that, I dont remember. I actually want it as well.
Anywho I really hope this helps because I sympathise with you. . .even if I cant spell it.
Graham
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Gracias! I needed that.
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Thats a good question. Kenwood how you doin bro?
Graham
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