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02-25-2008, 12:03 AM
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5 Things You Need To Know About Every Exercise
The questions below will be answered in the article as well with all the exercises for all the muscles with the answers to each question. Good to know, especially for beginners.
TESTOSTERONE NATION - 5 Things You Need to Know About Every Exercise=
by Tim Henriques
What's the name of the exercise?
What's the agonist in the exercise?
What are the synergists in the exercise?
What movements are occurring during the exercise?
What plane does the exercise take place in? |
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02-25-2008, 12:12 AM
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You forgot the 6th question
What's the purpose of this article?
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02-25-2008, 01:04 AM
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I just thought it was an important article for beginners to know and help with exercise selection, so I posted it. Plus it's T-Nation, so I thought it would be a good source for beginners to have. I don't know anything about the author of the article though except that the "about area" at the end of the article says that he is the Director of the National Personal Training Institute of VA.
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02-25-2008, 03:02 PM
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I'm not so sure about the content of this article. First, it over-complicates things for a beginning lifter. It doesn't clarify information. It makes it impossible to get your mind around. Second, I'm pretty sure several of the items are actually incorrect information.
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02-25-2008, 03:11 PM
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Thanks for the update Lisa. Thought it might be some good info in that article, but as always you have to read everything with caution from T-nation.
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02-25-2008, 04:53 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Lisa~
I'm not so sure about the content of this article. First, it over-complicates things for a beginning lifter. It doesn't clarify information. It makes it impossible to get your mind around. Second, I'm pretty sure several of the items are actually incorrect information.
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Lisa>t-nation articles 
I was actually thinking the same thing. Kinda a weird article, the average trainee doesn't need to memorize all the syngergists of all the hamstring/tricep movements.
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02-25-2008, 04:55 PM
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T-nation hasn't released many good articles for a while now...
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02-25-2008, 05:16 PM
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T-nation hasn't released many good articles for a while now...
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There's only so many ways you can say "lift heavy/hard, eat well, and get enough rest" before it gets repetitive. They run about 260 articles a year, not that much new info out there.
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Audentes Fortunas Juvat
"Focus on making the 5 lifts stronger and getting enough food. There will be plenty of time to worry about glycemic indexes, PERs, and Bulgarian Split squats later. Much later."-Mark Rippetoe
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02-25-2008, 05:26 PM
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Originally Posted by ParanoidAndroid
There's only so many ways you can say "lift heavy/hard, eat well, and get enough rest" before it gets repetitive. They run about 260 articles a year, not that much new info out there.
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Good point, but I still think their articles have been going wayyy down in quality lately.
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Powerlifting Training Log
5'10
18yo!
Best Lifts in IPF competition:
@ 81.10kg BW
Squat: 205kg
Bench: 120kg
Deadlift: 215kg
Goal: 213.5kg/143.5kg/241kg total 598kg @ 82.5kg in a 2008 PL meet!
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02-25-2008, 07:45 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Lisa~
I'm not so sure about the content of this article. First, it over-complicates things for a beginning lifter. It doesn't clarify information. It makes it impossible to get your mind around. Second, I'm pretty sure several of the items are actually incorrect information.
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Oh okay. Thanks for letting me know that the information is not correct. Next time I will not trust any training article unless its from someone like robertson, boyle, cressey, cosgrave, always, hartman, and thats probably about it. I thought just because this was posted on T-Nation, I thought it was good information. I guess I cannot trust everything posted at T-Nation and especially by authors I have no idea about. |
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