5'9'' 165 lbs. shoulder shrug 475x2 no lifting straps no steroids no protein supplements
Saturday, January 29, 2011
shoulder shrug 475x2-Joe Webb
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Friday, January 21, 2011
Forklift Attachments - Essential For Lifting and Shifting
Many people make use of a forklift around the home, also. Farmers find them invaluable for moving bags of feed, and large hay bales. A bale spear can take the heavy work and make it look easy. There are many forklift attachments available that will enable you to get more value and use from one piece of equipment.
Bale clamps are hydraulic forklift attachments that allow a pallet-less bale to be lifted and stacked out of the way in a warehouse setting. Bar arm clamps can be used to lift and move cylindrical products. There is also a round tipped attachment that can be used to squeeze compressed materials and make them free flowing when the bag is opened.
A boom attachment can turn that forklift into a mobile crane. Unstable, awkward loads are best handled this way. The boom can be fork mounted, fixed, carriage mounted, and telescopic. Carton clamps are perhaps the most versatile forklift attachments. They can handle many products that come without a pallet such as bulky furniture and appliances.
A drum clamp can be used for transporting single or multiple drums without using a pallet to do so. The operator can remain seated during the operation. A scoop bucket can transform the standard forklift into a hydraulically powerful front-end loader. This can be used to move sand, soil, snow, gravel and other material. Any kind of light to medium weight duty can be done with the scoop bucket.
There are also snowplow forklift attachments available. They perform well in the removal of snow and sleet. The plow can also be mounted to the side for snow removal on sidewalks on either side. Pallet crane forks allow pallets to be picked up and moved by using an overhead mounted crane. This is especially good in smaller areas where there is little maneuvering room.
Package lifting clamp attachments make pallet lifting easy and quick. A block handler attachment allows the forklift operator to lift two pallet-less cubes side by side. A car carrier allows for the lifting of extremely heavy objects that are generally too unstable to lift by normal methods. Forklift mounted hoppers make the handling of materials and debris easier. The self-dumping models automatically dump the load when the bumper is released.
Forklift mounted platforms make transporting of personnel from one area of the warehouse to another quick and easy. There are dual mounted entry doors attached and make reaching products that are stored in hard to reach or out of the way areas easier to get to. There are forklift-mounted brooms and mop forklift attachments to make cleaning a large area such as a warehouse floor or garage simple and fast.
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Monday, January 17, 2011
Weight Lifting Straps - Best Ways To Use Them
What are weightlifting straps used for?
Use weight lifting straps to maintain going when your progress starts to stall; they strengthen your grip for the duration of pulling movements like deadlifts, pull-ups, and rows. You'll be in a position to add reps or weight to your routines, or lift a lot more frequently. Attempt them sometime; the big difference is like night and day.
Making use of them increases your successful strength. Until you are injured, your grip is almost certainly the weak website link in the course of compound pulling movements. When you take your grip out of the equation, the progress you make seems to go on and on devoid of stalling.
Grip strength takes an enormous hit throughout major deadlifts. With the exception of the lower back, the forearms take the longest out of any of the muscle groups to recover from a max-power workout. Grip fatigue limits your other pulling actions, even after a number of days' relaxation. This is doubly true for older lifters who will need additional recovery time among routines.
Unless of course you use weight lifting straps, you don't recognize how critical your grip energy is. A strong, reliable grip nets you much more reps throughout your pull-up units and lets you add significantly far more weight to the deadlift bar. Until you're injured, your grip is the weak link in your pulling actions.
In short, you get 3 rewards from weightlifting straps:
-- Much more frequent workouts thanks to the grip assistance.
-- Heavier weight in the course of deadlifts, rows, and weighted pull-ups.
-- More reps for the duration of units of un-weighted pull-ups.
The downside of using weightlifting straps
Clearly, if you never train your grip, it will stay weak. Don't use weightlifting straps every time you work out. They can assist you attain your goals if you use them strategically, but don't use them as a crutch or they'll hamper your progress.
Weightlifting straps really should only be utilized for specific issues:
--Recovery from damage. When your hands, fingers, or wrists are injured, weight lifting straps mean the difference among working out and vegetating on the couch.
-- Absolute max effort lifts. Your grip will by no means manage as considerably weight as your back and legs. Without having weight lifting straps, you have to use an alternate grip and threat pulling one thing out of whack, or a hook grip and danger wrecking your thumbs.
-- High-rep units of pull-ups. Lifting straps get you an additional rep or two. You'd be shocked.
-- Holding a large dumbbell for the duration of calf-raises.
-- Heavy shrugs. Your traps can handle a lot a lot more weight than your grip. To develop your traps without affecting the rest of your pulling workout, use straps.
Weightlifting straps: assessment of diverse varieties and brands
No weight lifting strap evaluate can be complete devoid of mentioning the basic, time-tested model. It is absolutely nothing much more than a flat length of large cotton, approximately a foot in size, with a loop in 1 finish. For most purposes, this inexpensive style is perfectly fine.
You can locate padded lifting straps which put a layer of neoprene foam involving the cloth and your skin. If comfort is your factor, go for it; the extra price is negligible. Valeo padded lifting straps are heavily-advertised and properly-regarded amongst trainees, but the truth is that this kind of a easy item varies really little involving producers. Schiek straps seem almost identical in design.
Leather weight lifting straps look very good, but the additional expense is hard to justify. There is no benefit to having leather-based instead of cotton lifting straps.
Some makers offer you fancy padded wristbands or gloves with straps or hooks developed in. These may well be useful if you are suffering a chronic harm, but I have by no means noticed a weight lifter use them regularly. Consider to steer clear of wrist and hand injury and you ought to have no use for physical exercise hooks, power hooks, or any other new variation on a proven theme.
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Thursday, January 13, 2011
Precast Concrete Walls
Precast concrete walls come in many different designs and cover a variety of uses. Units can be made from precast or prestressed elements, and how they are installed and constructed will generally be determined by the purpose for which they were made.
The most simple form of a concrete wall would be a prestressed or precast concrete panel which is placed between steel supports. In this scenario a prestressed panel will perform a lot more effectively than a simple precast panel (because of the strength gained during the prestressing process). If the wall is being designed to retain, then the panel will normally be 150mm thick or more, and can span up to 6000mm between the steels. Depending on what pressures are being placed on the wall, will determine; the types of steels, the foundation required, the thickness of the panel, and the span between the steels.
Prestressed concrete panels can also be used for creating cantilever walls. This requires the panel to be used vertically and sunk into a concrete foundation. The panel will generally be embedded by 500mm into a concrete foundation and tied in with reinforcement. Again the panels will normally be 150mm thick or more.
Another option for precast concrete walls is to use L shape units which can be bolted down or cast into a concrete foundation. Depending on the design, these units can be used for many different applications and specialist walls can be made to offer retention up to 6000 mm and higher.
Precast concrete blocks offer a variety of solutions for constructing concrete walls. Interlocking units allow 'gravity' type retaining walls to be constructed. There are many different units in the market but the basic principle is that the units lock together and the mass of the combined units gives the wall its retaining ability.
Precast concrete walls come in many different guises. The main thing to consider is the purpose of the wall and the environment surrounding it. Make sure you have a good look around the market at the different products and consider which one will suit your needs most effectively. It is also advisable to consult a structural engineer if you are in any doubt about the requirements for a retaining wall.
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Upper Body Workout Exercises : Neck Upper Body Workouts
Neck muscles are an important area to workout because if they are weak no other area in the upper body can function well. Learn a few exercises to workout this muscle and tone and strengthen it from afitness expert in this free video clip. Expert: Noah Steinberg Bio: Noah Steinberg is a Certified Personal Trainer who has an active personal training practice in the western Massachusetts area. Filmmaker: David Pakman
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Saturday, January 1, 2011
Steve's Boat Goes In The Water (7 of 8)
Here the crane is driven into position over the water so the boat can be lowered. The boat is allowed to drift away from the now slack lifting straps and the boat is floating on its own. The craft looks ready for another summer of fun and frolic after Steve and Bob performed a lot of work on the out-drive over the last few weeks.
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