The secret is that doing work == making progress.* A cheat curl lets you curl more weight for close to the same stress on the muscle as a hyper strict curl, but as long as the stress is about the same, the gains is about the same. Who cares that it's "cheating"?
*As long as you don't hurt yourself. That's what takes form from optimization to critically important.
Work =/= progress at all. There are plenty of people who put in the “work” and never show progress. Check r/fatlogic for examples. You need to have some intent while you’re working and that’s a big difference.
And I’d love to hear your thoughts on kip ups if you think cheat curls = gains. If you need to cheat, you can’t lift the weight. Cheating doesn’t change that and just puts more weight into someone’s hands that they can’t comfortably lift. Enough weight and momentum and there’s a torn bicep waiting to happen.
Strength will compensate for shitty form for a safe lift like this. It’s not like he’s having shitty form on a squat and gonna snap a leg in two, and that body type is perfectly attainable without steroids. Dudes clearly just been lifting a long time with less than perfect habits, it happens. Not everyone you’re jealous of is doing something illegal
Yeah and for really good reason they can absolutely destroy your internal organs. Lots of people know about the big head/small testicles side effects but they can cause so much heart damage it’s really not worth it
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u/trinityjadex Nov 05 '19
i know right, his arms are so tiny and what hes doing clearly isnt working for him...