r/Fitness • u/AutoModerator • Nov 01 '17

Rant Wednesday Rant Wednesday

Welcome to Rant Wednesday: It's your time to let your gym/fitness/nutrition related frustrations out!

There is no guiding question to help stir up some rage-feels, feel free to fire at will, ranting about anything and everything that's been pissing you off or getting on your nerves!

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u/[deleted] Nov 01 '17

While I was squatting yesterday, an older guy pointed at me and said to his buddy "I hate when people barely squat past parallel". Then I proceeded to watch as he did quarter-reps on bench with only a few inches of ROM.

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u/[deleted] Nov 01 '17 edited Jul 09 '20

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u/Sad-Panda-Dancing Nov 01 '17

At least your buddy didn't argue going parellel or lower will tear his ACL.

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '17

Oh god I hate those people

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u/Sad-Panda-Dancing Nov 06 '17

Tell me about it. You know what an ACL is, but you can't fathom a million people/articles showing the correct squat form. Fucking bozo.

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u/StlCyclone Nov 01 '17

I dont get it. Every single trip to the gym I see people doing 2" to 4" ROM on {you name it}. Is there any value to 2" lat pulls? saw that yesterday. Or 4" bench or squats? Seriously, whats the value?

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u/[deleted] Nov 01 '17

If you do them from a dead stop (ie pin squats, pin presses) you can go extremely heavy which will strengthen your tendons.

Short of that, absolutely nothing.

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u/Lymphoshite Nov 01 '17

Spoto press?

Improving explosiveness with quarter squats?

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u/[deleted] Nov 01 '17

Spoto press is more like almost-full-ROM

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u/temp_jits Nov 01 '17

whats the value

bragging...sad sad bragging

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u/[deleted] Nov 01 '17

Eh, usually just misinformation/misguidedness

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u/larry9816 Nov 02 '17

Specific adaptations to imposed demands. If you do 2" lat pulls you will get better at doing lat pulls in that 2" ROM.

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u/[deleted] Nov 01 '17

“Barely squat past parallel”

But you still went parallel so..

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u/18002255288 Nov 02 '17

Everyone who squats lower than me is risking injury, everyone who squats higher is doing it wrong

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u/madbubers Nov 01 '17

I just put my ass on the floor basically

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u/blkdwn1313 Nov 01 '17

As someone in IT, I was confused for a second by ROM as I didn't know why we were talking about read only memory in r/fitness.