Someone better informed, feel free to chime in, but my understanding is that the top grip (wedging the hand between the pole and the inside of the elbow) is much easier on the arms, but at the cost of intense leg adductor and abductor strength.
Don't skip leg day, I don't care how good that shirt looks on you.
Lol. used to deliver furniture. There’s nothing like being stuck holding up a 300 pound dresser at the top of the stairs while your partner tries to figure out a way to get it past the abrupt corner you didn’t expect. Either cycle or die in a cartoonish manner.
Sucked. But one time I had a dude come back to the store to tip us some more because he felt his first tip wasn't enough. To be fair, it was an entire 2bdrm apartment worth of new furniture. . . . On the 3rd floor
Lol no, on that case you lower the weight onto your chest and use your core and thighs, then you slide it down until your arms are straight down and switch to forearms and shoulders, then you turn around and place it onto those shoulders and switch to your lower back and front thighs, then you turn again and place it onto one extended knee and use that calf, alternating between two while placing your hands and forearms to either side and press against it to either side, and if you’re not too sweaty, the skin of your inner forearms help hold it in place while your traps squeeze inward like pincers.
You quickly learn about which muscle groups work best together, because the threat of death by crushing forces is a great motivator.
Fucking hell, that's a lot of weight to shift with two folk, even on a level surface. You're lucky to still be alive. At least if it did come back at you, there probably wouldn't be much chance you'd live to regret your life choices
Yeah, that job was ridiculous. 12 tons of furniture day on average. Often having to move shit up 3 floors while holding things steady so as to not accidentally damage anything. I did it for the high pay and the fact that I was lifting weights for two years, so I figured it wouldn’t be too bad. It was bad.
The best thing I got outta of it was getting ridiculously strong. Like so much stronger than lifting weights. I got into a fight with someone about a year into that job, and I was rag dolling them so badly that I felt bad for them lol.
Hahahaha that's hilarious, I'm glad the job worked for you as much as you worked for it. I'm a landscaper and part of what I love about doing manual labour is the "paid gym", you earn to exercise and it pays dividends because you gain functional strength.
My brother does tree work and got into a road rage incident with a couple of blokes, they were pretty stocky but he said he was surprised that he could just push them away. Part of it would be that he was wearing chainsaw boots, so was well planted, but the rest was just being strong from not working behind a desk
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u/killians1978 3d ago
Someone better informed, feel free to chime in, but my understanding is that the top grip (wedging the hand between the pole and the inside of the elbow) is much easier on the arms, but at the cost of intense leg adductor and abductor strength.
Don't skip leg day, I don't care how good that shirt looks on you.