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Weight Loss Thread
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Cad
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I mean, if you want to ignore your back/lats I guess don't worry about it. You can do rows with a bench, but thats about it. You need some kind of bar to pull up on if you want to do more than chest/arms/shoulder.
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So what did the guy do wrong in the video? Too high?
Cad, I don't want to ignore a muscle group specifically. Just RvR I guess. I'll admit I lean towards safety. It doesn't take much injury for me to stop doing something completely. I used to play pickup basketball a lot. Received an elbow a half inch below my eye. Just wasn't worth playing after that. I'd rather not learn the way that guy in the video could have that pullups are dangerous(if not correctly? no idea if he made an amateur mistake).
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The guy in the video told me he created that bar out of something he found in his house and fastened it by another home made invention. He said instead of testing his weight he just jumped up and held on......
Cad
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If I was going to try to do a home gym I'd get something like this.
Stamina 1700 Power Tower - Marine Style Fitness
I have one of the door bars and its fine and all, but I didn't trust it that much either.
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Noodleface
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There's literally no way you could ever injure yourself doing chin ups or pull ups, provided you aren't a complete idiot like the guy in the video.
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McCheese
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In a way I agree with him. The chances of your injuring yourself doing pull ups is pretty damn miniscule, even if you're using a bar at home. Obviously don't build something yourself; instead, buy a good, high-rated bar to fasten in a doorway. Even if for some bizarre reason you install it poorly or your house is weak and it falls, at worst you'll just drop half a foot onto your floor.
The guy in that video jumped up with a lot of force and grabbed the bar. You don't need to do pull ups that way. Install a bar in a door way, walk up to it, reach up, grab the bar, lift up your legs/knees so you're not touching the ground (i.e., hanging from the bar with bent knees), and pull up.
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That assumes you never try to do weighted pull-ups and can keep perfect form every single time. You never try to push yourself for that one last pull up and make sure if you think you might fail you ALWAYS put your legs back into position first.
In other words, you can say that about pretty much any exercise. So while it's harder to injure yourself doing an unweighted pullup than say, squatting, it's certainly not "fool proof" or "risk free". Not even close.
In other words, you can say that about pretty much any exercise. So while it's harder to injure yourself doing an unweighted pullup than say, squatting, it's certainly not "fool proof" or "risk free". Not even close.
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That's true, but the discussion was regarding Deathwing's worry about injuring himself, and he didn't mention anything about doing weighted pull ups, and he said he's not trying to push himself or get crazy strong, but just some general health benefits. Doing a couple sets of pull ups every few days on a properly mounted doorframe bar (which is what Deathwing would be doing) is virtually injury free.
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I wish I had a nice place to do pull-ups in my house, If you're concerned about space, you can do dumbbell exercises for most anything you can do with a barbell. I bought a set of 5-25 lbs (included a nice rack) when they were on clearance at a sporting good store and I've since moved up to 30 and 35 mostly. But Dumbbells do start to get expensive at bigger weights. I'd like to start doing 40 lbs for my presses and curls, but I'll just start doing higher reps with 35s until I can do 4x15
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You could eat 1300 calories of cane sugar a day and lose weight. That's very, very low calorie. Like 12 year old girl calories. Generally that sort of diet is going to catch up to you.
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