jamiebosco
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I found a 135cm EZ curl bar is easier and more comfortable to hold on your back than a 220cm Olympic bar (and probably safer for other people in the general area too)
Hypers are great for the lower back, hams and glutes. Do them.
You do not need to use a barbell. It might sound sexy but that's just stupid ego chit. All you need to do is hold a plate to your chest, edge of plate right up under your chin. Much less fuss, safer and you are not going to knock out the pink thing in yoga pants doing stretches next to you.
In fact, if you have never done them before, just go unweighted until you get the hang of it, then add small amounts of weight.
How not to do them: Fapping away like a door in a hurricane. You will see this, it looks like speed hypers with no control and no pausing. May as well do situps, which are the world's second most useless exercise.
How to do them: Do them like most bodybuilder exercises should be done, under control, with perfect form. Whether you are weighted or unweighted, bend at the waist so that you are forming a 90 degrees shape, head vertically down. Contract your back and glutes to bring yourself up to a horizontal plank position and hold it there, even if it's only half a second. Squeeze the bemohammad out of your glutes and back. Relax and bend back down under control, pause a half second, rinse and repeat.
Do 5 sets of ten. You should be walking around like a zombie after that, with a massive lower back pump. Its quite uncomfortable but will do your spine a world of good. Nothing like a mass of ropey muscle to keep the spine aligned plus it will rocket your deadlift and keep your squat safe.
Beast mode: engaged.
Awesomeness achieved.
Yep - do a lot of banded hypers
This, love banded hypers, good for rehabbing back also.
I just use a stronger band, hold a plate, kettle bell - even put a barbell behind your neck
Hopefully not all at once lol
Yeah, not sure what ya saying Silverback, the resistance is highest at extension, bands are wrapped around the base, and strung round my neck. Use different strength bands for different tension.
I thought they'd be in Flexion at the bottom position? Unless I'm misunderstanding?
cool, thanks for the explanation
Some may feel the need to use a barbell simply to increase the load beyond what a 25kg weight disk can offer. I can assure you no Olympic weightlifter I've ever trained with thought of it as been sexy to do so. We simply did what was necessary to achieve a desired result...period!Hypers are great for the lower back, hams and glutes. Do them.
You do not need to use a barbell. It might sound sexy but that's just stupid ego chit.
I like doing them single leg.
Some may feel the need to use a barbell simply to increase the load beyond what a 25kg weight disk can offer. I can assure you no Olympic weightlifter I've ever trained with thought of it as been sexy to do so. We simply did what was necessary to achieve a desired result...period!
Fadi.
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