In Fitness and in Health
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Nice! Looks like a complete set also. Now get a nice bar, if you are going to spend money spend it on the bar. A good bar vs a shitty bar have a day and night difference.
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@Giles I have similar weights, I remember during covid I was going to build a "home gym" and the prices were insane... I ended up just buying dumbbells and a bench, got weights like yours the next year for a lot cheaper...
I guess this could be in "rants" as it still pisses me off people taking advantage of covid lol
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@Giles. I have no experience with Mirafit. Do you know if its a bushings or bearings bar? If you want smooth fast rotation bearings are superior. If you dont aspire to do any of the fast lifts like clean power clean snatch or variations that require smooth, fast and precise turnover bushings are ok.
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I don't know if they are bearings or bushings, they have not arrived yet (and until you asked the question, I had no idea there were 2 different kinds
) . I suspect bushings, because the Mirafit ones I can find with bearings cost quite a lot more. But, for the time being, I will be restricting myself to deadlifts, Romanian deadlifst, barbell curls, pelvic thrusts and the like, none of which I will be doing fast or clean https://mirafit.co.uk/mirafit-2-olympic-barbell-weight-bar-4ft-5ft-6ft-7ft.html
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I think you might be selling yourself short on the pelvic thrusts…
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Mirafit are good quality for the money. All my bars are Rogue but I have quite a few other bits from Mirafit including dumbbells.
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For general weightlifting applications bushings bars will do the job, and require less maintenance. The only issue i usually see with low quality bars is that after a couple of months, the collars tend to get stiffer and stiffer and stiffer to the point that get almost locked up and refuse to rotate and thats not good. Also they tend to have inconsistent gnarling, meaning way too sharp or not enough.
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Anyone into training grip?
Recently bought a RGT handle from Grip Genie. The quality is far superior to the Rolling Thunder handles.
Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals... except the weasel.
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I like that.
Yeah, grip is important to me, because if I am playing a large fish, standing up, with just a fishing belt (no chest harness attachment to the rod or reel), the first thing to fail is my grip.
What my PT, Brett has me doing to improve my grip strength, is using these on barbells, dumbbells and kettle bells for some of my exercises. I will use them at home when I am not doing lighter weights, and do large weights without them, when Brett is standing over me.
At some point, I will get the even fatter ones too....
"OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011
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I've started conditioning hands and fingers again for bouldering:
Right now I am having difficulties with 60kg and would like to get up to my bodyweight of 80kg.
You're it.
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Sorry for the horrible quality ...
It's a still from a rainy day carport training session video. In order to train grip strength, I dead hang from a kitchen towel. I prefer to lock the shoulder but my arms give in after a few seconds and I just hang straight.
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@1WayTrip said in In Fitness and in Health:
Anyone into training grip?
My son and I use this. It’s essentially a portable version of a rice bucket. Every time I use it I end up feeling sore in hand and forearm muscles I didn’t know I had.
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That’s cool. I have a rice bucket but it is kept outside (with a sealed lid) so only gets use in summer really.
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said in In Fitness and in Health:
Deadlifts today - Did 90kg which is new PB.
Today, I did 100kg, felt pretty easy, but failed at 105. Never mind, a milestone reached.
I did 173-243kg sets of 12 on the leg press a couple of weeks ago, sure that had something to do with it
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Currently assisting my son in building a Mirafit power rack in the garage - it includes the M100 power rack itself, plus the cable system, adjustable weight bench, landmine, Olympic barbell and 100kg of bumper plates. Seems like decent value. He already has free weights up to 30kg.
I’m well into my 50’s, and have always been more into aerobic fitness than strength or conditioning training, but feeling that I would benefit from using the equipment…if he lets me loose on it!
Would appreciate some guidance on where to start…
That’s a stock photo, not my garage!
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@Giles. Loving the progress. 100kg down. Did you do a single with 100kg?
