Getting Back to Weights...

[Hanz]

i did some early morning training today.. felt GREAT

Did you train while having your stroke LOK? Strokes are for bitches. I bet you didn't even notice you were having a stroke while putting up 400 on the bench!

[Roll With The Punches]

not really

this morning i went running outside, then back to the house for some ring work and pushups, then shower and came to work

some people would say that a real man would wake up and nail his wife for an hour..then shower and come to work

are they wrong lok???

[Punk]

Every time I finish an isolation exercise I feel a faint, still controllable, urge to find a nice boy to present to my sweet ass to.

I do to, as well as an urge to wax my ballsack and grow a fauxhawk.

[Buddy Rydell]

Isolation weight-training - well done.

Barbell Curls are an isolation exercise? Reverse curls? I've curled 175 or 185 in the past. It doesn't feel too isolated to me.

Ah well, I guess I'm a poof then.

[LOK]

A stroke couldn't even f with me

[Dark Magus]

Barbell Curls are an isolation exercise? Reverse curls? I've curled 175 or 185 in the past. It doesn't feel too isolated to me.

Ah well, I guess I'm a poof then.

Everyone does isolation curls, Buddy, everyone.

[Free Ike]

Just as a reference point how many reps should you do to consider being your base weight. 5? 10?

[Buddy Rydell]

Just as a reference point how many reps should you do to consider being your base weight. 5? 10?

Just about every fitness trainer and magazine article I ever came across would recommend 3 sets of 10 when starting out, and when you can do 12 reps, it's time to up the weight.

[Hut*Hut]

Just as a reference point how many reps should you do to consider being your base weight. 5? 10?

Lower reps get you strongest quickest. Higher reps give you more of a 'pump' and make you look better while you make progress but makes progress slower, if that makes sense. I'd just do whatever you enjoy, tbh, doesn't matter very much.

[loadedgloves]

Barbell Curls are an isolation exercise? Reverse curls? I've curled 175 or 185 in the past. It doesn't feel too isolated to me.

Ah well, I guess I'm a poof then.

Curls are an isolation exercise, yeah. But like Dark Magus says, pretty much everyone does them.

[Dark Magus]

Curls are an isolation exercise, yeah. But like Dark Magus says, pretty much everyone does them.

Of course they do.
Go to ANY gym, in ANY country and people are mainly doing isolation excersises.
All this talk of compound-movements is great, but how many people do you see exclusively doing these excersises in the gym?

How mnay fucking people do you see climbing up ropes with small children strapped to their backs?

[Buddy Rydell]

Of course they do.
Go to ANY gym, in ANY country and people are mainly doing isolation excersises.
All this talk of compound-movements is great, but how many people do you see exclusively doing these excersises in the gym?

How mnay fucking people do you see climbing up ropes with small children strapped to their backs?

???

[Dark Magus]

???

[Buddy Rydell]

Can't see the picture at work.

[Hut*Hut]

All this talk of compound-movements is great, but how many people do you see exclusively doing these excersises in the gym?

Probably fewer than you see doing wrist curls in the squat rack, wearing lifting belts to bench press 150lb, squatting on bosu balls, benching with 'spotters' who upright raise half the weight, hammer curling with wrist straps, informing people who squat that they're gonna 'hurt their knees' before doing leg extensions.

What's your point caller?