Every unit is based on something completely arbitrary. An lbs was originally based on the weight of 6992 troy grains, and later rounded by Queen Elizabeth I to the weight of 7000 such grains. A kg is the weight of a litre (a cube of 10x10x10 cm or 100x100x100mm ) of pure water.
And by the way, a meter was defined as one ten-millionth the distance from the Earth's equator to the North Pole. A cm is a billionth (a hundredth of a meter) and a mm is a ten-billionth of that (a tenth of a cm). So basically a kg is what a cube of water with sides a 100-billionth the length from the equator to the North Pole weighs.
Women that develop cannonball shoulders like that are usually on performance enhancers. Guys and gals on performance enhancers can slop the weights around for gains early on. Eventually they will have to focus on form, negatives, etc to beat plateaus.
Cheat curls are fine to e.g. get through a plateau by pushing slightly further. Form is important but less so here. Also she's doing fine work controlling the negative and most importantly, she's doing something proper, instead of curling tiny 80s aerobics dumbbells for 65 reps.
she is impressive...but is it good to rock back and forth to keep the momentum or can that hurt your back- or is it an indication that the weights may be too heavy for the curls- or is that normal form- I don't know- I do not work out, but my son does- all the time, curling weights ,and pull ups in the house- so want to know.
She'd get more out of it if she wasn't swinging them, form matters for workouts but this isn't really a workout. I do my curls with a band and weights as i find it's actually hard just to engage my biceps with free weights, I find all the wrong muscles insist on getting involved otherwise.
Stricter form has its place, but when you plateau, or just want to increase your weights a bit of cheating initially is OK, you just want to get back to strict form after you can do a full couple of sets... And assuming she's healthy & injury free she'll be just fine like that.
Yeah, I hate being that guy but her feet aren’t squared up and that bugs me. One foot forward like that, the swinging, and about rep 8 you see she’s struggling.
Set your feet, don’t swing the weight, and use an appropriate weight that you can complete the full set with proper form. This was filmed for vanity, not to “check her form” or whatever the flimsy excuse usually is.
Its fine. There have been actual studies of this and it works just as well as strict form. And...the little bit of swaying she's doing is pretty far from cheating.
She's swinging the weights a bit and the whole movement lacks control. This is an Ego lift. Some amount of movement for a standing curl is acceptable, but she should lower the weight and reduce the speed of the movement to get an actual good contraction of both bicep heads. But I'm sure her videos aren't about proper form to begin with.
You're right, but preacher curls and standing curls are 2 different things. Pretty much everyone can do a heavier weight with standing curls than they can with preacher curls. That being said, yeah she could definitely have better form here.
he plays lacrosse and was into wrestling and boxing, bit isn't into that- he will do lacrosse and int he off season rugby 7s and cross country. He does a lot of curls, but mostly situps push ups and pull ups...
came here to say this too. bad form, doing it the easy way, super lame. It's like celebrating those wierd limp back pushups and being like "i am SUPER STRONG!!"
You could argue that the small forward momentum from the rocking is reducing stress at the joint from the locked down elbow position. A lot of gym technique is 1/3rd science, 1/3rd tea leaves and 1/3rd "yeah, that works for me.".
Muscles do not have the same strength over the entire ROM, so some people use a little bit of inertia to get over that initial bump and then lift normally from there, essentially allowing them to lift heavier weights.
It’s a good way to stimulate the muscle maximally in the strongest ROM and also a good way to make sure you don’t strengthen your weak spots and wind up injuring yourself down the line
Imo I always got as much out of light weight done with control as heavy weights
Only draw back with lifting lighter snd more controlled is you dont get as many injuries
Didgesteve
But why?
ilhares
Nothin' wrong with a powerful, sexy woman.
VerySunBurned
Looks like a good back workout.
ISofaKingWeeToddDid
Strong girl! Farm?
camn333
Think of all the farming she could do.
FelonyRaptor
Instead she's just curling all the time.
jjw9
To put in perspective, a person can usually curl a barbell at 2X + 20% what they can curl (strictly) with a dumbbell in one arm.
This means Emily can probably do close to 100 lbs. in barbell curls … for reps!
Donaldbain
So she like heavy dumbbells? hmmmm
rmichelsen480
Not you dumbbell.
Pistolstar86
Excuse me miss, do you have a license for those guns
AliceEnso
My lumbar spines hurts just watching.
TungstenOrbital
I need to work out
christheblizz
This is me writing
UnitConversionBot
40lbs ≈ 18 kilograms or 2 stone, 10 pounds
Zixtank
Question: how much is a stone in kg?
BeerCir
6.35kg
WhatD0thLife
Oh yeah because measuring weight in stones is so much more rational.
CallMeCourierSix
In the UK it is.
Gargwill
Only use Stone to talk about people's weight, really. Most everything else is Kilograms or occasionally, Pounds.
Pieccentric
Every unit is based on something completely arbitrary. An lbs was originally based on the weight of 6992 troy grains, and later rounded by Queen Elizabeth I to the weight of 7000 such grains. A kg is the weight of a litre (a cube of 10x10x10 cm or 100x100x100mm ) of pure water.
Pieccentric
And by the way, a meter was defined as one ten-millionth the distance from the Earth's equator to the North Pole. A cm is a billionth (a hundredth of a meter) and a mm is a ten-billionth of that (a tenth of a cm). So basically a kg is what a cube of water with sides a 100-billionth the length from the equator to the North Pole weighs.
ArdentNature
Don't mean to be rude but she's basically throwing them. Downvote me all you want.
ionlyregisteredtosavelinks
Yeah that's not the greatest form. But it's not nothing.
sadurdaynight
Women that develop cannonball shoulders like that are usually on performance enhancers. Guys and gals on performance enhancers can slop the weights around for gains early on. Eventually they will have to focus on form, negatives, etc to beat plateaus.
maqp3
Cheat curls are fine to e.g. get through a plateau by pushing slightly further. Form is important but less so here. Also she's doing fine work controlling the negative and most importantly, she's doing something proper, instead of curling tiny 80s aerobics dumbbells for 65 reps.
PushPullMagnet
Yolked dude here, yes it's really bad form whether for size or strength.
zHurk777
She's Not Curling 40 Pounds !!! Those Weights Are KILOGRAMS !!! So It's Less Than 40 Pounds !!! - magas.
ConfusedConda
If it was 40 kg, it would be MORE pounds, not less. 1kg is about 2.2 lbs. 40 kg is about 88 lbs. See pics posted below by @Sidewaysgts
Sidewaysgts
Fwiw this guy was basically making a joke at MAGAs expense.
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Sidewaysgts
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Sidewaysgts
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nowinsituation
she is impressive...but is it good to rock back and forth to keep the momentum or can that hurt your back- or is it an indication that the weights may be too heavy for the curls- or is that normal form- I don't know- I do not work out, but my son does- all the time, curling weights ,and pull ups in the house- so want to know.
zztophat1
She'd get more out of it if she wasn't swinging them, form matters for workouts but this isn't really a workout. I do my curls with a band and weights as i find it's actually hard just to engage my biceps with free weights, I find all the wrong muscles insist on getting involved otherwise.
punditzy
Stricter form has its place, but when you plateau, or just want to increase your weights a bit of cheating initially is OK, you just want to get back to strict form after you can do a full couple of sets... And assuming she's healthy & injury free she'll be just fine like that.
adamlstf9
Yeah, I hate being that guy but her feet aren’t squared up and that bugs me. One foot forward like that, the swinging, and about rep 8 you see she’s struggling.
Set your feet, don’t swing the weight, and use an appropriate weight that you can complete the full set with proper form. This was filmed for vanity, not to “check her form” or whatever the flimsy excuse usually is.
Miller16of16
Its fine. There have been actual studies of this and it works just as well as strict form. And...the little bit of swaying she's doing is pretty far from cheating.
ThanosDei
She’s swinging a bit but she’s keeping her back and everything else aligned so she’s definitely getting something out of it.
4etherling
No.
aerodynamit3
She's swinging the weights a bit and the whole movement lacks control. This is an Ego lift. Some amount of movement for a standing curl is acceptable, but she should lower the weight and reduce the speed of the movement to get an actual good contraction of both bicep heads. But I'm sure her videos aren't about proper form to begin with.
possumattack
Right, there's no way she could do that much weight on a preacher bench. That immobilizes everything else btw.
probablywontbearoundlong
You're right, but preacher curls and standing curls are 2 different things. Pretty much everyone can do a heavier weight with standing curls than they can with preacher curls. That being said, yeah she could definitely have better form here.
nowinsituation
thanks, that what I thought...I just do yard work and home repairs- no time for working out, but my son is into the stuff.
aerodynamit3
Just keep him off the gear (PEDs) and peptides and he'll be alright. Even what's shown here isn't egregious, but is definitely poor form.
nowinsituation
he plays lacrosse and was into wrestling and boxing, bit isn't into that- he will do lacrosse and int he off season rugby 7s and cross country. He does a lot of curls, but mostly situps push ups and pull ups...
CHARCHIMUS
came here to say this too. bad form, doing it the easy way, super lame. It's like celebrating those wierd limp back pushups and being like "i am SUPER STRONG!!"
MacEifer
You could argue that the small forward momentum from the rocking is reducing stress at the joint from the locked down elbow position. A lot of gym technique is 1/3rd science, 1/3rd tea leaves and 1/3rd "yeah, that works for me.".
LoftheDesert
I see a lot of really big people at the gym doing something similar. I'm guessing they're doing something right?
Personally, if I'm training biceps, I want to lift the weight using as much of "only bicep" as possible.
bawtzki
Muscles do not have the same strength over the entire ROM, so some people use a little bit of inertia to get over that initial bump and then lift normally from there, essentially allowing them to lift heavier weights.
yamsonyamsonyams
It’s a good way to stimulate the muscle maximally in the strongest ROM and also a good way to make sure you don’t strengthen your weak spots and wind up injuring yourself down the line
Imo I always got as much out of light weight done with control as heavy weights
Only draw back with lifting lighter snd more controlled is you dont get as many injuries
bawtzki
Agree 100%
Mistruths
not getting as many injuries doesn't seem like a drawback to me?
yamsonyamsonyams
Youre so close!
Sidewaysgts
Drawback?