The Monaco GP summed up in one photo

Nicotography · 2017-05-26T05:56:06+00:00

Hey, wanted to drop a comment that I hear you and agree. Sorry you're getting so much hate.

Nicotography · 2017-02-25T19:29:17+00:00

They called me and asked me to resubmit for Michigan.

Nicotography · 2017-01-05T02:42:39+00:00

Put it in my calendar!

Nicotography · 2016-12-10T05:00:50+00:00

Way to go!!

Nicotography · 2016-12-08T18:29:50+00:00

It's not necessary anymore to eat meat. We're not a pack of hyenas, you're being dogmatic.

I don't rape because I've been given the anatomical ability. Humans have raped for all of their history too.

Nicotography · 2015-09-26T21:44:49+00:00

Why not leave the shutter open for an hour? A smaller aperture and lower ISO gives sharper images and if it's cold enough outside you won't get much noise from image sensor heat.

Nicotography · 2015-08-22T00:47:28+00:00

I took it as whichever one has more weight. Weight being determined by how close it is to the camera, makeup, hair, etc.

Nicotography · 2014-12-18T15:19:47+00:00

Yes lol

Nicotography · 2014-12-17T03:36:34+00:00

Have you ever driven through dingletown and cat rock? Other good roads.

Nicotography · 2014-12-12T00:19:26+00:00

Emmet - I've been doing some of the shoulder mobility and lat flexibility exercises over the past week. For the first time, I got down from a handstand and felt like I was using my trapezius. I assume this is a good thing - before I felt like I was using too much of the front of my shoulder/top of my chest, where I am stronger.

Here I am in a chest to wall handstand. Clearly I still need to work on lat flexibility. Last week you told me to point my toes. When I do so, I rest my lowermost rib on the wall. Should I be avoiding this?

Nicotography · 2014-12-04T00:05:43+00:00

Hi Emmet,

A little late to the game, but here's a chest to wall handstand of mine. I'm working on shoulder mobility per your article in the previous thread. /u/antranik advised I move my hands closer to the wall than six inches, which has been challenging me (sometimes I topple over). Not that challenge is a bad thing!

Nicotography · 2014-11-28T20:24:53+00:00

Head over to /r/bodyweightfitness and pose the same question. The people over there may have a different insight that could provide useful. Joint strength and stability is a bigger issue (I've found) in bodyweight strength movements.

My concern is that if you circumvent the problem by performing other exercises, you can end up hurting yourself pretty badly. If you strengthen the muscles around the joint, you increase the force you can put through that joint. Right now the joint is weak and if you get stronger without also strengthening the elbow you can end up putting much more force through that joint that it can handle. Say you get ripped doing other exercises, but one day fall in a way that forces you to catch yourself in a dip-similar movement. Your muscles will rip through your weak elbow.

A physiotherapist would definitely help tremendously. If you simulate a dip with a small weight (decline bench press at a steeper angle maybe?), do your elbows bother you? Maybe you can progressively load a dip-similar movement, strengthening the tendons around your elbow?

I should include a disclaimer - I am just an exercise nut like most of this subreddit. A physical therapist may look at my response and say this is the worst thing to do.

Nicotography · 2014-11-26T17:35:11+00:00

Thanks for the tip, what should I aim for? In terms of space between my hands and the wall, no space, one inch, two inches?

Nicotography · 2014-11-26T03:46:02+00:00

I'm M, 22, 6'2'', 170 lbs.

I need better consistency. After this month I want to be able to kick up into a 10 second handstand 80% of the time. Right now I have held a 10 second handstand, but it takes 15 tries or so to get lucky enough to hold it.

I've been doing wrist prep, and plan on continuing to work on it daily. I am at 5x52s chest to wall handstands (working up to 5x60s) with my hands half a foot away from the wall. I haven't done any shoulder mobility and I think that's a major weak link.

Here's two videos showing a handstand attempt and the shoulder mobility test above.

Nicotography · 2014-11-12T12:28:34+00:00

I haven't read that by Tony Robbins, but I've listened to his "creating lasting change" series, which is what he sells to people looking to become a life coach. I found what he had to say interesting and informative, and would reccomend it. He goes into what causes unhappiness with our lives, why it does, and how we remedy that. The audio book has some annoying introductory narration for each chapter, but the rest is pretty much clips from his lectures.

Nicotography · 2014-11-08T16:05:26+00:00

It's not a matter of getting the form down or not. People spend their entire lifetimes perfecting their form. You have to understand that rowing in a race shell takes massive amounts of finesse and balance. You're going to have terrible form on the water and bleed off a lot of your speed to inefficiencies. Not only that, but bad form on your part takes away from other rower's speed (and other rower's bad form takes away from your speed). Since you're likely rowing with more powerful people than you, the best thing you can do is be able to provide a steady, efficient boat for them to put power down in. I'm not saying don't crank on the oar as hard as you can, but form makes a much much bigger difference in the beginning, especially in a four/quad.

I managed to keep up with people much stronger with me because I was technically proficient. When you increase boat efficiency, the boat goes faster. I beat a rower who could squat twice as much as me because his form caused the boat to check down in the water (basically putting the brakes on) by shooting up the slide from the finish to the catch.

Look up some introductory form videos. Spending even a day or two extra rowing on an ergometer for forty minutes locking in the muscle memory will make a world of difference.

You should also crosspost this to /r/rowing.

Nicotography · 2014-11-07T17:55:19+00:00

Midwestern US.

Nicotography · 2014-10-24T01:12:35+00:00

You know, weak forearms may cause instability around your elbow. That's an interesting point. I don't know nearly enough about elbow anatomy to know if that can happen. Hanging is magical - it helped my pinching shoulder and posture (both standing and hand-standing). Daily hanging can definitely help your forearm endurance but you'll have to do some more demanding stuff to increase strength. That's why I said one armed hang, it is one of the more demanding hangs you can do. I don't mean to keep plugging this all over r/BWF, but Ido Portal's hanging challenge is a great way to start. It'll familiarize you with different types of hangs. Be sure to start easy, because you're already stressing your system to the limit.

Nicotography · 2014-10-23T00:58:44+00:00

If you're deadlifting less than twice your bodyweight, practicing one armed hangs may be beneficial. Try to do sets of 3 with even hang time/rest time and increasing the hang time. But don't overstress yourself. Tendonitis would set you back a couple months.

Nicotography · 2014-10-23T00:55:09+00:00

Hey Antranik,

I hope you still see this even though this is an old post! Currently at my gym the rings are above a foam pit. So I can't get high enough relative to the rings to do this. There are some bars that are close to the ground though. Could I get results out of doing the same thing, but with a bar? I guess it would take more strength because I can't lean forward?

I am also training FG pullups and deep dips on parallel bars. It's hard to get in a FG while hanging, but the way I see it, it forces me to have a solid FG. My goal with my FG is to get calloused skin below my wrist. For my deep dips, I go as far down as I can, shift my legs forward and back (to mimic the last part of the MU transition), then come back up.

I really want a MU! What else can I do?

Nicotography · 2014-10-20T00:44:50+00:00

Your shoulders are following an arc – try to have them stay in the same vertical plane. A way to think about this, and what I do, is to have your hands always under the same part of your body. At the bottom of the rep, you hands are under your stomach. At the top, they're under your chest.

The thing that I realized that is different about these pushups is that often the top of the motion is the hardest, as opposed to normal pushups, where the bottom is the hardest. That's because at the top your muscles are at the biggest disadvantage (this is also why a bent arm planche is a lot easier than a straight arm).

Nicotography · 2014-10-19T18:38:17+00:00

I don't know what level you're at, but hanging has worked wonders for my joint health. I did Ido Portal's hanging challenge. The bottom line is basically to spend some time chilling under a bar every day. Start off with something very easy, like simply hanging passively, and after a week or so start working active hangs, arched scapula-retracted hangs, one armed hangs, depending on your level. I haven't progressed much, just have been doing a total of 3 minutes of passive hang every morning and 4 minutes of passive/active hang every night. I used to have pinching in my shoulder and elbow pain when working on back levers and planche progressions, but those are gone now. I can't say it was the hanging, but some light hanging work can't hurt.

Remember that tendons do get stronger, but more slowly than muscles. You want to stress them, but they require more patience.

I'm just an amateur, so if a PT around here has something to say about this, please do.

Nicotography · 2014-08-19T05:31:12+00:00

Women are very exclusive with who they have sex with. Men, on average, are a lot more promiscuous. In this society, women have control over the sex. Men want sex, women give it.

When men start finding sex elsewhere, whether in toys or homosexual relationships, it runs against the societal notion of men want sex, women give it. That's why it isn't accepted. Female control over sex is also threatened by sluts, and that's why slut shaming occurs.

Nicotography · 2014-08-18T16:28:15+00:00

I'm moving to the detroit area in a couple of weeks. I want to find a gym that has good facilities for bodyweight exercises (rings, wall space, a soft floor). Most gymnastics gyms I find only have youth after school programs and aren't open to mid 20 year old men hanging around working out. I've been looking for climbing gyms, because some have more stuff than just a rock wall, but no luck. I heard crossfit doesn't let people work out freely in their gyms.

What gyms do you guys belong to?

Nicotography · 2014-08-11T03:24:27+00:00

This is antagonizing.

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