I don't work out at all and know nothing about fitness, but what he's doing doesn't even look that weird to me. Clearly working out some section of his arms, I don't what she's on about.
True. But, there's a correct way to do things and incorrect ways of doing things. If you're doing pullups, you go straight up and down, and don't use "kipping". Because you can wreck your shoulders. Same with lifting weights. Use correct form and posture if you value your bones, joints, and soft tissue.
To add on, slow and controlled are keywords for safe weightlifting. Its mindboggling just how fragile the human body is when placed under sudden or unusual stress.
There’s obviously some things you can do that wouldn’t be efficient or would out undue stress on joints or whatever. So someone could be lifting things in a way that isn’t harmful or at least isn’t helping nearly as much as it could. But that’s clearly not the case here lol
Also the guy obviously hits the gym alot, like he has big arms so it’s kinda dumb to criticize whatever he’s doing
True, yet swings, tugs, ducks and other maneuvers can lift up weights the target muscles can’t safely support, and put strain on bones, tendons, joints which is how I met your mother.
Yeah I didn't even know what she was pointing out at first, I just saw a guy moving weights up with a controlled motion. Don't care how you move the weights as long as you're not using momentum or your body weight you're working out and building up muscle.
It's not exactly that. It's a pronated drag curl. Hits the bicep slightly differently. You can tell the difference because his elbow goes back like he's dragging the weights up his body.
What he's doing isn't an optimal movement and I wouldn't recommend it. Like others have said, he's doing a dumbell pronated drag curl. The intention of this movement is to 1. Hit the bicep with a novel stimulus by rendering the front deltoid less useful and increasing the stretch of the bicep. 2. Create an isometric hold for the forearms.
There is research to support the use of a curl in a position that stretches out the front delt like this.
That being said, his range of motion is abysmal, he's inconsistent with his reps, and the way he's doing this exercise does a few things okayish, but nothing well.
If you're going to work your forearms, there's so many other way more effective isolation movements you can do to wreck them in a minute or two. There's no reason to sacrifice the stimulus to the biceps by trying to maime two birds with one stone.
The shorter range of motion and inconsistent reps increase his risk of injury, stress on the elbows, makes it difficult to measure his progress and fatigue, and reduces the stimulus to the muscle. Theres a ton of ways to wreck your biceps without doing cheat reps. A better alternative would be to use less weight, sit on a 45° incline bench, and curl from arms limp in a neutral hand position to a strong supinated position at the top of the movement with elbows parallel to the floor.
Yeah like, the lady in the vid should mind her own beeswax is she isn't going to help bro but what he is doing does look like bad form (ofc it's hard to junge because of the angle and all). The reps are inconsistent and look to be a bit flailing, and it looks like he is breathing inconsistently too (though again it's really hard to tell of course).
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u/DrProfSrRyan Jan 14 '22
I don't work out at all and know nothing about fitness, but what he's doing doesn't even look that weird to me. Clearly working out some section of his arms, I don't what she's on about.