form

[tgzerozone]

I was having a look-see on youtube the other day and checked out some training videos, specifically off Skip LaCour as he seems to be doing something right. After looking at some videos including this one:

I was thinking about form.

I don't know whether I have the wrong idea of form but it just looks to me like for instance with his bicep training he is putting too much of his back into it. Now admittedly, who am I to argue with him as he is obviously doing something right.

What would everyone think of the form on let's say that specific clip?

[Android]

I was having a look-see on youtube the other day and checked out some training videos, specifically off Skip LaCour as he seems to be doing something right. After looking at some videos including this one:

I was thinking about form.

I don't know whether I have the wrong idea of form but it just looks to me like for instance with his bicep training he is putting too much of his back into it. Now admittedly, who am I to argue with him as he is obviously doing something right.

What would everyone think of the form on let's say that specific clip?

If I didn't know any better I would agree with you. His elbows are movign forward and so going under the bar making it easier to lift at the bottom of the movement...

But it seems to me that:

1. He is squeezing the bicep at the top of the movement

2. After halfway up he is lifting it without the swinging momentum

3. He is not dropping the bar but controlling it down (not slowly, but still controlled).

When you get bigger and stronger than normal you find that you can curl and squeeze more weight than you can preacher curl.

The bicep contraction at the top is way more powerful than the initial lift, it's muscle and it's levers acting to make this so.

So if he was to do strict form as we imagine "strict form" to be...he would have to use a lighter weight...which means less stress on the bicep curl at the top. he is getting the lower portion of the bicep worked by the eccentric action (the stretch) to a degree so he's doing alright.

He could just as easily divide his Bicep training into Peak (concentration/ cable curls), Lower (preacher curls), and Outer (hammer curls) and do strict on each of those if he wanted.

Same reason big guys swing some weights or seem to do partial reps. They can do strict but it would have to be a lighter weight.

[tgzerozone]

Very well thought out approach then maybe. Thanks for the response, very informative. I'll have another look at the clip looking at your comments as well.

[Shutupandsquat]

He move his elbows forward so that he can get the bar all the way up. If he keeps his elbow back the bar comes about three quarters of the way up but no further. I don't really see anything wrong with it. He grows from it

Shall I refer you to Branch Warren?

[tgzerozone]

haha, he does indeed grow from it, as I said, who am I to argue with his technique.

[train hard]

he is using effective form you can,t overload the muscle with maximum weight and not expect a bit of body movement the weight is still hitting the bicep

[I Declare War]

He move his elbows forward so that he can get the bar all the way up. If he keeps his elbow back the bar comes about three quarters of the way up but no further. I don't really see anything wrong with it. He grows from it

Shall I refer you to Branch Warren?

Don't refer him to this vid then:

lol

[Shutupandsquat]

He move his elbows forward so that he can get the bar all the way up. If he keeps his elbow back the bar comes about three quarters of the way up but no further. I don't really see anything wrong with it. He grows from it

Shall I refer you to Branch Warren?

Don't refer him to this vid then:

lol

Exactly what I meant though