Unusual weight exercises?

Al said:

I'm looking for some less-common exercises one can at the gym.
Can anyone point me to a website with such content?

Thanks

Al

There're a lot of different exercises depicted here (most shown with
improper form):

http://www.exrx.net/Lists/Directory.html

Is that what you mean, or are you talking about oddball/old time lifts?

Cheers,

Ari

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(Al) said:

I'm looking for some less-common exercises one can at the gym.
Can anyone point me to a website with such content?

I'm offering up the Farmer Burns courses. Several of the lessons have
some different dumbbell exercises.

I kinda laughed when I saw this. Matt Furey is marketing the Farmer
Burns courses and here are the originals from 1912 scanned and offered
for free on the net.

http://www.sandowplus.co.uk/Competition/Burns/burnsindex.htm

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Al said:

I'm looking for some less-common exercises one can at the gym.
Can anyone point me to a website with such content?

Thanks

Al

http://www.usawa.com/rules.html

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I'm looking for some less-common exercises one can at the gym.
Can anyone point me to a website with such content?

No, but I'll mention a few. One-legged squats and one-legged deadlifts.
Rollouts with an ab wheel. Barbell bent and side presses. The "full
contact twist" from Pavel's ab book. All great stuff. Pullup
variations - hold a dumbbell between your feet, use fewer than 10
fingers, etc.

Hey, deadlifts are "less-common" at most gyms - just deadlift!

-S-
http://www.kbnj.com

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Al said:

I'm looking for some less-common exercises one can at the gym.
Can anyone point me to a website with such content?

Thanks

Al

There're a lot of different exercises depicted here (most shown with
improper form):

http://www.exrx.net/Lists/Directory.html

Improper form you say? Such as?

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I'm looking for some less-common exercises one can at the gym.
Can anyone point me to a website with such content?

Thanks

Al

May I ask why?

Bob Garrison said:

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Quoted message said:

Al said:

I'm looking for some less-common exercises one can at the gym.
Can anyone point me to a website with such content?

Thanks

Al

There're a lot of different exercises depicted here (most shown with
improper form):

http://www.exrx.net/Lists/Directory.html

Improper form you say? Such as?

Pick one! All the dipping movements are done far too low, the
pulldown/pullup movements look like a ballistic drop on the negative and
relaxing the shoulders to throw the stress onto the joint and supporting
small muscles (this is different than getting a full ROM), upright rows
(to be avoided altogether IMO) are shown pulling way too high, and these
are not the only ones. In addition a newbie should be careful of some of
the rather harmful exercises depicted there which aren't safe regardless
of form, such as the numeroud behind the neck movements and smith
machine exercises. I really shouldn't have said "most", though, that
isn't accurate.

Ari

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spammage trappage: replace fishies_ with yahoo

I'm going to die rather sooner than I'd like. I tried to protect my
neighbours from crime, and became the victim of it. Complications in
hospital following this resulted in a serious illness. I now need a bone
marrow transplant. Many people around the world are waiting for a marrow
transplant, too. Please volunteer to be a marrow donor:
http://www.abmdr.org.au/
http://www.marrow.org/

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Al wrote:

>I'm looking for some less-common exercises one can at the gym.
>Can anyone point me to a website with such content?
>
>Thanks
>
>Al

There're a lot of different exercises depicted here (most shown with
improper form):

http://www.exrx.net/Lists/Directory.html

Improper form you say? Such as?

Pick one! All the dipping movements are done far too low, the
pulldown/pullup movements look like a ballistic drop on the negative and
relaxing the shoulders to throw the stress onto the joint and supporting
small muscles (this is different than getting a full ROM), upright rows
(to be avoided altogether IMO) are shown pulling way too high, and these
are not the only ones. In addition a newbie should be careful of some of
the rather harmful exercises depicted there which aren't safe regardless
of form, such as the numeroud behind the neck movements and smith machine
exercises. I really shouldn't have said "most", though, that isn't
accurate.

Ari

Ok so it's not "most". It's some...maybe.

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Quoted message said:

Al said:

I'm looking for some less-common exercises one can at the gym.
Can anyone point me to a website with such content?

Thanks

Al

There're a lot of different exercises depicted here (most shown with
improper form):

http://www.exrx.net/Lists/Directory.html

Improper form you say? Such as?

Accordion full squats, blech.

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Al wrote:

>I'm looking for some less-common exercises one can at the gym.
>Can anyone point me to a website with such content?
>
>Thanks
>
>Al

There're a lot of different exercises depicted here (most shown with
improper form):

http://www.exrx.net/Lists/Directory.html

Improper form you say? Such as?

Accordion full squats, blech.

You are referring to this?
http://www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/Quadriceps/BBFullSquat.html

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

> www.exrx.net/Lists/Directory.html

Improper form you say? Such as?

Accordion full squats, blech.

You are referring to this?
www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/Quadriceps/BBFullSquat.html

Yep.

Read this:
www.danjohn.org/bp.pdf

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T said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

>> www.exrx.net/Lists/Directory.html
>
>Improper form you say? Such as?

Accordion full squats, blech.

You are referring to this?
www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/Quadriceps/BBFullSquat.html

Yep.

Read this:
www.danjohn.org/bp.pdf

So...

Exactly what do you refer to as a 365 ATTG squat if it is not a full
squat?

--
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Hobbes said:

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T said:

Quoted message said:

>>>www.exrx.net/Lists/Directory.html
>>
>>Improper form you say? Such as?
>
>Accordion full squats, blech.

You are referring to this?
www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/Quadriceps/BBFullSquat.html

Yep.

Read this:
www.danjohn.org/bp.pdf

So...

Exactly what do you refer to as a 365 ATTG squat if it is not a full
squat?

Well, it is a full squat, ass to grass, but I sit between my legs, not on top of
them. Like this:

www6.mailordercentral.com/ironmind/prodinfo.asp?number=PH-ICTR

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T said:

Hobbes said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

T said:

>>>>www.exrx.net/Lists/Directory.html
>>>
>>>Improper form you say? Such as?
>>
>>Accordion full squats, blech.
>
>You are referring to this?
>www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/Quadriceps/BBFullSquat.html

Yep.

Read this:
www.danjohn.org/bp.pdf

So...

Exactly what do you refer to as a 365 ATTG squat if it is not a full
squat?

Well, it is a full squat, ass to grass, but I sit between my legs, not on top
of
them. Like this:

www6.mailordercentral.com/ironmind/prodinfo.asp?number=PH-ICTR

Ahh...

I thought you were talking about the depth thing. So basically you
follow DJ's excellent advice to keep the shins back and drop between the
legs.

Gotcha.

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Keith

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Quoted message said:

I'm looking for some less-common exercises one can at the gym.
Can anyone point me to a website with such content?

Thanks

Al

May I ask why?

Thanks for all the replies. I just wanted to find ways to add some
variation to my very standard-style workouts.

Al

Al said:

I'm looking for some less-common exercises one can at the gym.
Can anyone point me to a website with such content?

Plenty here:
http://jva.ontariostrongman.ca/

spodosaurus said:

Bob Garrison said:

spodosaurus wrote

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

There're a lot of different exercises depicted here (most shown with
improper form):

http://www.exrx.net/Lists/Directory.html

Improper form you say? Such as?

Pick one! All the dipping movements are done far too low, the
pulldown/pullup movements look like a ballistic drop on the negative and
relaxing the shoulders to throw the stress onto the joint and supporting
small muscles (this is different than getting a full ROM), upright rows
(to be avoided altogether IMO) are shown pulling way too high, and these
are not the only ones. In addition a newbie should be careful of some of
the rather harmful exercises depicted there which aren't safe regardless
of form, such as the numeroud behins the neck movements and smith
machine exercises. I really shouldn't have said "most", though, that
isn't accurate.
Ari

"A lot" or "several" is fair imo.