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the shizzle => diet, training and injuries => Topic started by: Oldmanmatt on November 16, 2015, 11:02:56 am
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In homage to our worshipful Lady Cyrus, we have just installed a Wrecking Ball (though not really for those of a swinging naturist bent, unless rather attractive).
Now, I've been known to do a pull up (or two) and even the addition of 35/40kg does no more than limit me to 5 or so...
But that fricken Deathstar is bloody hard to pull on!
I was not expecting the pain in the Triceps.
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5 pull ups are too many anyway. Show us a pic please
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I'll be in to train tonight.
No one ever takes pictures of me.
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Three members of staff have tried this thing now, one good pull up and an inability to lock off seems the norm...
I'd just never seen it as significantly different to pulling on the slopers of the BM, for instance, so had never bothered. Polly bought one on a whim and I just hung it, grabbed it and was instantly shocked at how hard it is.
(http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/11/16/bdc398e5396ed54a6f19980c98080696.jpg)
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It looks like a black buoy. Font regulars would crush it I'd imagine whilst dartmoor crystal pullers will be understandably quizzical
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I'll be in to train tonight.
No one ever takes pictures of me.
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Isn't your avatar a picture of you training? ;)
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Is that thing fucking huge or just close to the camera?
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I'll be in to train tonight.
No one ever takes pictures of me.
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Isn't your avatar a picture of you training? ;)
Ummm, yeah, uh, guilty.
It was such a rare thing and I liked it (even more rare) so used it and forgot...
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Is that thing fucking huge or just close to the camera?
Big.
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More importantly why have you got a pair of smurf bollocks and a red raw smurf hard on directly above it?
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More importantly why have you got a pair of smurf bollocks and a red raw smurf hard on directly above it?
We hunt Smurfs here.
With Oggies and blunt teaspoons...
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'kinell - thats some pair of nuts that smurf had. Last time I saw some plumbs that big was on a prize hog...
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'kinell - thats some pair of nuts that smurf had. Last time I saw some plumbs that big was on a prize hog...
Cue anecdote regarding your restraining order from petting zoos and abattoirs?
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More importantly why have you got a pair of smurf bollocks and a red raw smurf hard on directly above it?
We hunt Smurfs here.
With Oggies and blunt teaspoons...
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Blunt teaspoons? What are the sharp ones for?
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More importantly why have you got a pair of smurf bollocks and a red raw smurf hard on directly above it?
We hunt Smurfs here.
With Oggies and blunt teaspoons...
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Blunt teaspoons? What are the sharp ones for?
Foreigners.
(Anyone from north of Bristol)
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More importantly why have you got a pair of smurf bollocks and a red raw smurf hard on directly above it?
We hunt Smurfs here.
With Oggies and blunt teaspoons...
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Blunt teaspoons? What are the sharp ones for?
Foreigners.
(Anyone from north of Bristol)
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Plimuff mate. :smartass:
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35kg.
40 was too much for 5 reps today, only managed 4...
https://vimeo.com/146001900 (https://vimeo.com/146001900)
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I was hoping to see some wrecking ball action. Preferably clothed.
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Fark no.
Still one rep and a frenchie lower off, with no weight. Then my hands slide off.
The compression required is nuts.
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Were you taking the weight off yourself there at the end for dramatic effect. I enjoyed that very much. Like a singer dropping the mic before walking off stage.
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I was hoping to see some wrecking ball action. Preferably clothed.
+1 for some wrecking ball action :). Clothed, obviously.
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I'm pretty sure that was only 2 pullups, and then a few failed reps :tease:
The balls are funny. They certainly showcase if you have the tight compression thing down. You should see if a few of your strong kids can do levers on it :)
I can easily hang and do pullups if a bowling ball, the large atomik ball, or a few others which have been made locally if it is over or by my head, but in front of my chest and I'm a pathetic tool.
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Yep, I can hang on it forever.
The younger (smaller) kids had no trouble with it (8-11 years), some of the stronger 14/15 yr olds struggled like all the adults (even the strongest).
So it must also be a relative size issue.
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Is that thing fucking huge or just close to the camera?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS12p0Zqlt0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS12p0Zqlt0)
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How do you hold the big black ball, OMM??
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How do you hold the big black ball, OMM??
At the moment, with my fingers almost touching at the top, for a pull up.
By the time I've reached the zenith of the move, my hands are well on their way to the 10 to 2 position and from there I cannot initiate the next pull up.
I can hang it fairly well with hands at 10 to 2 (if you get what I mean, a bit more than half way to the equator?).
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I can hang it fairly well with hands at 10 to 2 (if you get what I mean, a bit more than half way to the equator?).
Tropic of Cancer?
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Hands forward or facing in from the sides? Do you chalk up? What's the humidity? Can you calculate the coefficient of friction?
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1: from the sides.
2: yes, like Steve Davis in a world cup final.
3: ~80%
4: ~ Shit off a shiny shovel, approaching David Cameron admitting responsibility.
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