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Arms Like Garth - a weight-training wire

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Homeless Kodo Feb 2024 3:00pm, 29 Feb 2024 2,587 posts	Quote Pin 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	Quote Pin lammo Nice, do you alternate which weights go on which side?
Homeless Kodo Feb 2024 4:07pm, 29 Feb 2024 2,588 posts	Quote Pin 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	Quote Pin 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	Quote Pin 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	Quote Pin 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	Quote Pin Nellers healthline.com
lammo Mar 2024 9:07am, 1 Mar 2024 12,561 posts	Quote Pin 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	Quote Pin 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	Quote Pin 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.