ITT: exercises that scream "im new to the gym"

I have a bad back fuck you

What's wrong with db row

>>42795185
Db curl to press

>>42795185
there's nothing wrong with dumbbell tricep extensions

flat BB bench
BTN press
above parallel squats
cable chest flyes

the guys who do the above are either obviously on gear or dyel, there is no middle ground at any gym i've been to

>>42795205
nothing inherently wrong, but too many people do these with incredibly light weight and do millions of reps bc they don't know what else to do other than curls.

squats
bench press
OHP
pullups
rows
deadlift

>>42795237
>flat bb bench
Of course newbs are gonna do this one, but that doesnt make it bad bro


>>42795208
Sumo or just deadlifts in general?

>>42795261
obvi bait is obvi.

>>42795185

Latlet confirmed.

>>42795243
Oh yeah I hate that shit. These and various arm raises and extensions with 10 pound dbs that they could do standing up but take up a bench anyway. At least most are too self concious to do flies.

>>42795261
xDDDDDD

>>42795280
pullups/chinups >>>>>>>>>>>> dB rows for lats

>>42795209
Kek

Lat pulldown

>>42795297
>doing one exercise per muscle

i do db rows becaus op is faggot

>>42795291
and you just sit there and judge

>makingfun of people because they are new

and if i say im too afraid to go to the gym you guys call me a fag

>>42795237
i like cable chest flyes at the end of my workout to finish off

>DB flies
>machine chest press
>tricep kickbacks
>standing curls
>barbell rows on the deadlift platform
>tricep pulldowns with anything other than a rope
>any type of forearm isolation
>low weight DB shrugs for 500 reps as fast as they can
>anything involving a kettle bell
>anything involving a smith machine

DRINKING WATER XDDDD

What a fucking shit thread

>>42795395
/thread

>>42795207

Only good reply so far

>>42795363
Half the time it's at the behest of some garbage gym trainer. But what gets me isn't that they're being stupid and ineffective, no, god knows I did a lot of stupid shit and wasted my time early on too. But a lot of these people don't even fucking try. They use featherweights and wave them around, never breaking a sweat, going red in the face, breathing hard, or taking any set to failure. Even back when I didn't know shit I knew that it was supposed to be fucking hard, that the point was to force the muscles to overcome resistance.

>>42795237
>flat BB bench
?

>>42795237
>cable chest flyes
these are nice isolations after the big chest exercises

>>42795261
include me in the screencap

>>42795371
so try getting under the bar. Even if you start light and people hate (never to your face and then only recommendations on form or exercises) people will notice the dyel actually showing consistency and maybe even be happy for you when you finally squat 1pl8 for reps. We all start somewhere guy

>Super light half squats outside of rack
>Super light RDL
>Curl machine
>Weighted crunch machine
>Assisted pullup

>>42795371

>not wanting to get big to make fun of people who are making the same mistakes you did as a newbie.

Why even live?

>>42795371
We hate on clueless fags who do no research and then spend 45 minutes hogging a flat bench to make zero progress. Do regular fucking exercises for sets of 15 or less and nobody cares

>>42795237
>BTN press
>implying snatch grip btn isn't GOAT upper back/delt work with zero injury risk
stay dyel
also even standard grip btn are fine t b h.

>>42795261
This, only ever seen DYELs and people on gear do these

True lifters exclusively do calf raises, face pulls, wrist curls, and shoulder press.

deadlift
bench press
back squat

People only complain about their exercise when they can't do it properly, like squats. Instead of talking shit about what you can't do, work around it and learn it or do other exercises.

>>42795185
Doing the most effective exercise for back thickness is being "new to the gym" now? News to me.

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I went there.

>>42795185

ITT: posts that scream "I'm a raging faggot"

>>42795754
You made a post ITT...

>>42795636
this 100

>>42795261
MY FUCKING SIDES HAVE BEEN BLASTED INTO ORBIT PUT ME IN THE SCREENCAP KEK

>>42795371
bodyweight exercises at home to get your upper body numbers up
then act like a no-day-is-leg-day gymbro trying out SS
you'll blend in so hard

>>42795185
That faggot who puts their back into every exercise from curls to presses.

>>42796846
Holy shit seriously kill yourself

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>>42795371

>>42795535
Klokov press is the shit

Using machines.

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>>42795261
Fite me

>>42795371

You're a fag if you do and you're a fag if you don't, haven't you figured that out yet? So who fucking cares? Get hard.

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>>42797436
>tfw no velociraptor qt gf

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>>42795185
>doing anything but weight pull ups 3x8 at your house 3 times a week

>>42797591
Srs? Your lats look weak as shit. Also start training legs and chest asap then you'll look better

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>>42797609
no thanks, in 6 months from thinspo to a better body that 99% here, i certainly dont need advice from you

>>42795395
>DB flies

m8 wtf do you do for chest abduction? they are great done on the floor

>>42797620

>better body that 99% here

fuck off

>>42797649
its true and i only work out 15 mins a week (including rest), /fit/ is full of cucks

>>42797591
>>42797620
I think you look good my man. Nice genes amigo

>>42797667
thanks senpai

>>42795451
>assisted pullup machine
Actually makes me cringe everytime
I see someone do it. I get some people can't do pull ups, but is way better for them to do rows.

>>42797620
You look great except for your terrible legs. But what do you expect when you supposedly only do pull ups.

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Hijacking this thread 'cause it's kinda related: Usually I go as heavy as possible for 3x8-12 on DB rows but lift with a fair bit of momentum, like a real row in a kayak.

Yesterday I had to lower the DB row weight by ~10kg (worked extra hard on my main lifts) but my form was way better, it felt like I was getting more out of the exercise.

Should I always do this /fit/?

>>42797436
Thank you blessed bird of gains

>>42797712
the assisted pull-up machine is useful for women who cant do any pullups and are progressing to doing 1

>>42797436
Keep her away from the leg press machine.

>>42797574
kekd

>>42797591
>>42797620
>https://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/comments/2lkxuf/been_doing_nothing_but_chinspull_ups_for_years/
>it's actually over five years of progress with good diet and protein supplements
Understandable for a pullup-only routine. Now get the fuck out shitposter

>>42797301
cheat reps are valid! im doing it for the negative!

>>42798014
why are you rowing?

>>42798105
what weight or bodyfat is it reasonable not to be able to do a pullup?

>>42795511

>we

kill yourself faggot. You've probably been here less than a few months.

a beginner not being able to do a pull up is fine, but assisted pull ups are dumb because negatives are so much more effective for progression to just doing regular ones

I still don't know if I'm doing DB rows properly after years. It always feels like they work the rear delts instead of my lats.

>>42795395
I use kettlebells tied to a chain, when I do dips, because it is easier to fit two of those between my legs then getting two big o' plates.

>>42797712
Rows are on my other day, buddy. Assisted chins help my fatass work up to proper chins.

>>42797324
TIP TOP KEK HAVE A YOU MY FUCKING SIDES

>>42798347
To row away from the feels because lifting them seems impossible

>>42795636
what on earth is this diagram trying to convey

>>42795243
I actually am new to the gym, and was told to do 3x10 starting at 8kg. I'm up to 12kg now.

I'm actually feeling stronger from it, so I hope so. A trainer showed me after I mentioned I was worried my left side was weaker than my right.

>>42797629
you mean chest adduction?
ANd DB fliys are shit. The strength curve of the exercise is completely retarded. Cable flyes are a bit better, but not good.
The best way to do it is to use a machine. Youll have even intensity throughout the whole range of motion. Which is better for growth and strength,

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>>42797436
What doth life?

>>42795185
These are actually the goat exercise for a balanced physique since your other side can't do most of the work like it can in most of the barbell lifts

Nothing developed my back as much as db rows. I see you want all that back gains for yourself, op.

>>42798014
Using some momentum is beneficial in the row, but only if you focus on lowering it slowly.

DB rows are one of the few exercises were cheating is beneficial.

>>42799193
my nigga

>>42795185
I'm trying to figure out how this exercise is supposed to work my back - I do my best to keep right form, but I mostly feel my bicep and forearm as opposed to my lats/back even on heaviest weight I can hold, as opposed for example to things like lat pulldowns that burn my lats. Am I doing something wrong?

>>42799257
pull with your elbows. If you feel it in the biceps its becuase your cheating by curling it closer to your body, reducing the leverage, but also tires out the biceps before the muscle of the back.

>>42795297
Rows aren't just for lats retard also, you probably have a bitch grip and drop your deadlifts.

>>42797436
FRITTATA!

>>42799265
This, Rows work different different muscles than pull ups and chin ups. Thats why they say you do pull ups or chin ups for width and rows for thickness.

>>42799261
Maybe I'm missing something here, but how do you perform the exercise without curling the DB on its way up? in order for the elbow to go up you have to hinge the elbow, which means you have to use the bicep. I'm looking at the correct form and I don't see/feel myself doing anything different: http://www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/BackGeneral/DBBentOverRow.html

>>42799290
Yeah, there is flexion in the elbow, but excessive flexion(curling) will make you feel it in the biceps. Your forearms should almost be vertical.
The link you posted is a guy doing very low weight, and it seems like hes using too much of the biceps. That site isnt very good for technique, but its decent.


And on a different topic; There is a also a big difference of you keep your arm close to your body or further out from the body. Keeping it close tend to work more lats. Further out tend to work more mid-traps, rear delts and oter muscles.

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>>42799309
Thanks. Have a qt.

Everyone in my gym except like one guy does really shitty half-rep Yates rows from the squat rack that are obviously miles too heavy for them. Saw one dude doing them and his form was atrocious and he was cheating every rep pulling it to nowhere near his stomach and he just kept chucking more weight on and getting worse and worse. What is the deal with this?

I normally don't care but they take up the fucking rack every single time as well.

>>42795297
Just do both you fucking pussy

>>42799362
You mean have a whore

>>42798107
How do you think she got like that?

>>42797436
FRIITTATA

>>42795205
It's not manly like the barbell row. I also personally hate it and feel like a tremendous faggot waving my ass in the air Doggystyle at the gym. And I don't get near the full back activation I get with pullups/chinups/bb rows/ seated single arm cable rows/ or even cable lat pulldowns.

>>42797436
is that a fucking draenei

>>42800720

>it's not manly

kek, going to the gym could be one of the most effeminate things you can do

>>42795636
>hips above the knee
Absolutely disgusting

>>42800720

>and feel like a tremendous faggot waving my ass in the air Doggystyle at the gym

dude, half of the exercises bodybuilders do look gay as fuck, what are you on about? do you even do proper exercises if you are too afraid to look like a fag? seems to me as if you are insecure as fuck because normal people don't give a shit about mundane shit like that

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>tfw you've finally made it to doing 100lb DB rows for over 5 reps

>>42795208
>new people pulling sumo

Nobody new even deadlifts

>>42795261
These are literally the only lifts I do (plus dips)

>>42797620
>8 years of pullups

>>42799175
You can do more than that
I do 110lbs (50kg...? I think) and I'm barely intermediate

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>>42799257
>>42799261
>>42799290
It's like pinching your shoulderblades together, but you only do it on one side at a time (the side with the dumbbell obviously). Keep your forearm straight and push your chest out to make sure you aren't rounding your lower back. Don't flare your elbow, try to keep it close to your body.

Maybe imagine you are pulling a lever.

>>42799151
front squat, highbar back squat, lowbar back squat

>>42797591
>>42797620


>too short to leave the house

I wouldn't go to an actual gym either if I was 5'4

>>42797591

I mean, your knees don't even go past the first hinge on the door and the hinge is clearly like 6 inches off the ground

You're like 3'6 my dude

>>42795371
I used to always remind myself that this would be the weakest ill ever e again and im just as im even more pathetic if i don't go to the gym.
>Someone who started out doing 7.5kgs dumbell chest press

>>42795395
>"any type of forearm isolation"
>do deadlifts, rows, and pull-ups with no straps for years
>now have a 585 deadlift, 445 double overhand, Pendlay row 245 for reps, 115 lb weighted pull-up
>still have mediocre forearms
>start doing some forearm curls 2x per week on a cable in between my core work sets
>flexor compartment starts blowing up after 3-4 weeks

Some people can do nothing but deads and their forearms get huge. Other people need forearm work to get forearms at all. My upper traps almost nonexistent too, despite a fucking 6 plate pull.

>>42799257
You don't need to "feel it". If you the weight is coming up to your chest, you're using your lats.

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>>42795261

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>>42802001
>if you curl the dumbbell to your chest you're using your lats

>>42795237
>>42795264
Is this bait?

>>42798014
braaaaaaaaaaap

>>42795261
(You)

>>42795185
>not doing dumbbell rows out of the rack and blocking people from using the weights
do you even Chad?

>>42797620
>that chest

yeah man ill stick to going to the gym thanks

>>42795185
But candytoes swears by doing db rows

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>gif related

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>>42795297
>not doing both
>not doing as much as you can
>not doing whatever it takes

>>42795185
anything with a machine. nyrs and other such folk are often too scared to touch the dumbells, let alone the barbells.

>>42797574
new game when

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>>42795371
This shit happens everywhere in life
Im a mechanical engineering and when you start working you'll get shitty jokes from the supperiors when they're teaching you shit
>yo anon, go to the storage, get a kilogram of current for me would you
>hey I got to grind this, hold the bucket to collect the sparks (I though of this one when I was teaching a new kid)
doesnt help that the slang includes a shit ton of german words, hiding their confused faces because they want to prove themselves and act like they know what you're talking about, only to do the walk of shame and ask around what it means. Only then they find out that you made that word up on the spot

We all go trough it once, then we do it to the new guys. Nothing personal, tradition and fun

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>>42797574

>>42795395
I saw people actually bench pressing and overhead pressing with the smith machine god it hurts to watch

>>42797712
i'm too fat to pull up so i use assisted pull up machine

>>42797591
>he unironically enjoys having no legs

>>42795511
>we
Speak for yourself you massive faggot

>>42799362
Putting my thumb in a bitch's mouth while fucking her is my favorite thing in the world

>>42797591
Your lack of quads is upsetting

>>42801960
have fun with your elbow tendonitis

>>42801676
>tfw did that within 2 months of serious training.

>>42801916
im 6'2 175

>"im new to the gym and got meme'd starter pack"
>A
>3x5 squats
>3x5 Bp
>1x5 DL
>1x1 gallon of milk
>B
>3x5 squats
>3x5 ohp
>3x5 power clean
>1x1 gallon of milk
>AxBx
>x=1 gallon of milk

>>42799193
Yin (yang yang yang). Yang (yin yin yin)!

>>42795243
>tfw I do sets of 12 with 90 lbs because my gym doesn't have heavier dumbbells

I just wanna do sets of 5 like everything else

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>listening to dubstep on ma red beats
>got ma 4 scoops in my gym bag
>gym bag is next to ma bench
>cute hard body squatting near
>she mirin me when she looked over
>gave the bieber smile
>see noob at the rack
>doing shrugs
>I dont do shrugs
>what a loser
>gonna start thread
>pull out cracked iphone

>>42804401
Sup Brian alsruhe

>>42800720
BB rows are utter trash. with any meaningful weight, the lower back will tire before the lats/back. avoiding cheating is borderline impossible.

>>42797620
you look kind of ok. you are obviously fairly adept at taking good pics but a lack of mass is easily spotted.

you don't look as good as you think you do, just like every other mouthy little faggot that thinks he's big and strong.

>>42805038
t. Weak legs and core

>>42795209

it's clearly triceps kickbacks you degenerate

>>42795209
Is this the real Socko? The delusional DYEL SOCKO? If so, did you ever make any gains? Pic time, boy, or trip off and go home.

>>42800720
>I'm super duper gay but am bretty insecure about it so I cover it up by trying to copy what straight men do.

>>42797620
"better body"
Your arms look like 14'' twigs, barely see any shoulder muscles, shitty chest gap top kek
>also dat nipple placement

>>42795185
This activates my lats better than rows, for whatever reason.

>>42806835
>>42806835
post yourself faggot

>>42795207
Is actually a good exercise, noobies just don't know the proper application for it and have completely wrong rep/set ranges.

>>42795261
Literally all i do

>>42795261
You

>>42804401

reasons why homegym is better #253

get a length of 3/4" pipe
acquire a bunch of 10 or 12.5lb pancake plates (Walmart has these on sale every few months for less than 1 USD/lb)
acquire 2 pairs of 1.063" shaft collars
slap that shit together & row til you love it

An 18" length can easily take 150lbs, and 24" length of pipe or shaft are cheap enough to have one of those as well

>>42804136
t. lardass

Either that or by "Two months of serious training" you meant that you'd been working out for ages before that, but don't count it as serious for whatever reason.

>>42798014
> proud mother
> gag reflex as absent as my father figure
> downtown Toronto
L O N D O N
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D
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>>42807625

Every woman should aspire to no gag reflex and proper genital hygiene, just like every man should love eating pussy like and more than a inbred redneck loves a large plate of BBQ.

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>>42807874
>he doesnt know about tantalizing aroma an shaven bush acquires after weeks of not bathing
fucking pleb

>>42807946

There's a difference between healthy and the skank nasty odor some meth whore has out to a 20' radius

Enjoy your bouquet of STDs

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>>42807990
nice false equivalent, fag

>>42801705
This

>>42795243
Try them with a band attached to the dumbbell and attached to the rack in front of you, really forces that diagional pull of a dumbbell and you can feel it in your Lats more