Arms Like Garth - a weight-training wire

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Homeless Kodo Feb 2024 3:00pm, 29 Feb 2024 2,587 posts	0 Homeless Kodo You can see the difference in how much space the different types of plates take up. On the big, front pin, the two bottom plates are steel & weigh 25kg each. The next 3 plates are rubber, bumper plates that weigh 25, 20 & 5kg.
lammo Feb 2024 3:46pm, 29 Feb 2024 12,559 posts	0 lammo Nice, do you alternate which weights go on which side?
Homeless Kodo Feb 2024 4:07pm, 29 Feb 2024 2,588 posts	0 Homeless Kodo You can do that, it makes sense to do it so you don’t get too imbalanced side to side. I do the lift straddle style so always have the big pin at the front & the small at the back. On sets of 5 at 80% 1 rep max I alternate which hand goes at the front. Above 80% it’s always R hand at the front. That’ll become exclusively R hand from the closer I get to goal.
Gobi Feb 2024 4:10pm, 29 Feb 2024 81,062 posts	0 Gobi That's hard-core I'm currently in a GVM phase. Means I do a lot of reps and spent a solid chunk of time at the gym. However, still failing to get twice a week consistency in.
Homeless Kodo Mar 2024 8:48am, 1 Mar 2024 2,594 posts	0 Homeless Kodo What’s the GVM mean, Gobi? I’ve not come across that before.
Ness Mar 2024 8:54am, 1 Mar 2024 38,937 posts	0 Ness GVM? Is that something to do with off season training? I think I've heard of it in the past. Mr Ness has often muttered stuff about me not reducing the intensity of my running to give me time to recover after a race. As you can tell, I took a lot of notice of what he was saying! 😉😂
Nellers Mar 2024 9:05am, 1 Mar 2024 42,289 posts	0 Nellers healthline.com
lammo Mar 2024 9:07am, 1 Mar 2024 12,561 posts	0 lammo Morning all, i did make it to the gym last night and am very pleased I did, felt better for going and slept well subsequently as usual, although it was shorter than i would have liked due to circumstances. That said i did also squeeze in an easy hour on the bike (zwift, not outdoors obvs).
Homeless Kodo Mar 2024 11:59am, 1 Mar 2024 2,602 posts	0 Homeless Kodo A right, just German Volume Training then. Never heard it called GVM. Cool, I’ll remember that for the future.
Nellers Mar 2024 7:10pm, 11 Mar 2024 42,382 posts	0 Nellers I think I've just about topped out my back squat this evening after upping the weight a bit every time I've squatted this year. I've hit 63.5kg (it's an 8.5kg 1 inch bar that I'm using in my shed) and it was a real struggle so I think I'm going to stick at that until it starts to move a bit more easily.