Hacksquater
Trained and Educated
So I finally got a iPhone and the main difference in my life is that I am watching YouTube training vids all day long now (Geeze Ronnie is earth shaking!)! Everything and everyone! The first thing that really stands out to me is how bad the form, the top pros are using these days!
I basically have degrees in exercise physiology/science (and I know that only goes so far) and IMHO there is no benefits to throwing around the weights and using momentum; the general direction some are going these days.
After watching everyone I am thinking this new in-vogue training style (and I see it more and more in the gyms) might have come about by Ronnie C? He is a genetic freak and for a long while everyone was looking to him to figure out his secrets to such mass. His form is a little sloppy sometimes. But he could look at a weight and grow! Then I think maybe people just started to mimic him more and more, shifting the popular approach to training away from what it was in, say, the 90's...
I love Branch W, but I just can not believe his form! Many of his entire reps are in a second! It is my humble opinion that if he (especially on BACK) slowed his exercise speed way down, used way less leverage, and got way more out of the negative (and had been for years) and more out of the contraction, he would be farther along than he is now (maybe significantly farther) and he might not have had the injuries. Again, I love the man and respect him highly and his awesome work ethic, but even pros are not perfect.
I know some may vehemently disagree, but I just thought I'd get it off my mind here...
I basically have degrees in exercise physiology/science (and I know that only goes so far) and IMHO there is no benefits to throwing around the weights and using momentum; the general direction some are going these days.
After watching everyone I am thinking this new in-vogue training style (and I see it more and more in the gyms) might have come about by Ronnie C? He is a genetic freak and for a long while everyone was looking to him to figure out his secrets to such mass. His form is a little sloppy sometimes. But he could look at a weight and grow! Then I think maybe people just started to mimic him more and more, shifting the popular approach to training away from what it was in, say, the 90's...
I love Branch W, but I just can not believe his form! Many of his entire reps are in a second! It is my humble opinion that if he (especially on BACK) slowed his exercise speed way down, used way less leverage, and got way more out of the negative (and had been for years) and more out of the contraction, he would be farther along than he is now (maybe significantly farther) and he might not have had the injuries. Again, I love the man and respect him highly and his awesome work ethic, but even pros are not perfect.
I know some may vehemently disagree, but I just thought I'd get it off my mind here...
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