Let's settle this once and for all. Give me your best definition of ego lifting that isn't just "lifting more than me"
Let's settle this once and for all.
Let's settle this once and for all. Give me your best definition of ego lifting that isn't just "lifting more than me"
Doing olympic lifts without any need outside of posting on social media. If you were actually good at it, you would be on a team or competing. Anything else is just snap city waiting to happen.
>competitive olympic lifters just do elite level lifts on their first try.
Everyone starts somewhere you fanny
I agree with this. I was talking more about regular strength training though. People always say someone's ego lifting when they're doing 40 lb flies or big dumbell sets.
>People always say
Dyels always say, you mean
If someone can do 40 pound flies with good form then their pecs are strong as fuck. They're not egolifting
When you compromise your form completely, usually applied to range of motion or using momentum, to lift a weight that you wouldn't normally be able to handle. Like the guy who's doing cheat curls and just let's the weight fall back down without controlling it or the guy doing 1/3 rep squats and pretends they're full reps
snatches and cleans are magnificent lifts
ego lifting is doing 90% and up without being on a program
snatching light weight while being strict in your form is the opposite of ego lifting because you’ll look like a silly pussy with the weight needed to make a snatch look smooth and perfect
People should mind their business as long as the "ego-lifter" isn't actively damaging gym equipment.
I don't know what this means nor do I care. I am also borderline retarded. But I'm wise. A wise man knows what he doesn't know. Anyway I hope you all lift more than you did last week, last month, whatever and continuously improve and have lots of sex since sex is good for yer mentals
All lifting is ego lifting but not all ego lifting is stupid
so I should just embrace the ego lifting label?
Yes, just don't be an idiot.
For basic bitches, it's hip thrusts.
>Let’s expose this mentally disabled girl with lust provoking clothing publicly
This shit is as bad as pedophilia
Would
lifting too heavy for you and having poor form, that being said you could have poor form with little weight too
Ego lifting is pretending you are progressing when you actually have to keep working on basics before trying to increase the weights. It has nothing to do with failing a set. Dyels will say otherwise because they don't understand failure is part of the workout
This.
I can bench 180 maybe 4 times while touching down on my chest. I could probably "bench" 200+ at a 3/4th rep and using hip thrust to get the bar moving back up. It's egolifting to say my 1rm is 200 and actively cheat-rep that number in the gym.
The main problem is, you can keep "progressing" that cheat rep to higher and higher numbers, but the chance of injury also becomes much higher over time. If I ever say, fucked up and went too deep (aka normal ROM) I'd fucking behead myself.
Im really happy that i actually have high standards for women and respect myself now that it didn’t even cross my mind whether i would fug
>I wouldn't fuck a literal slack jawed retard
>I actually have high standards
I'm chucklin at ya.
The actual definition of ego lifting is attempting to lift more weight than you're actually capable of lifting and sacrificing form in the process.
For example:
>Having to hitch the weight up on a deadlift.
>Unable to squat with full ROM because of how heavy the weight is.
>Having to use momentum to get the weight up on something like a lateral raise or bicep curl.
>attempting to lift more weight than you're actually capable of lifting
Wrong. Its alright to fail a set especially when you are trying to progress. What you meant to say is looking like you dont know how to actually lift and keep on adding weights
Are you actually retarded?
There's a difference between testing a max and failing and just arbitrarily loading up weight to use shit form and call it success
yea, thats why I said looking like you dont know how to lift in other words you have bad form. lets not get autistic here
t.dyel
If I get a creeping feeling of unease seeing them struggle through a movement then it's ego lifting
Grinding reps is not ego lifting
Sure, but seeing somebody grinding the last rep or failing safely doesn't put me in a state of alarm
That's fair. Sorry, king.
No problem and nice dubs
Ego lifting is when you purposefully load up on weight you know you can't manage with good posture but can quarter or half rep, just so you can impress either the people who are either completely new at the gym or inexperienced.
Strength is strength and compounds are best, all the rest is cope and seethe
All imma say is she had nice hair
Ego lifting is lifting because any part of what that lifting might bring you (the muscles themselves, the pictures for insta, etc.) will elevate any kind of status you have relative to other people (social, sexual, etc.).
With the most basic of basic bitches and normies, yes, but with people who can look at a deadlift and see a twink struggle with 315 while looking like a red quasimodo, the only thing they will feel is cringe at the retard pulling a disc for insta clout.
It ain't real lifting.
So downies don't have physical deformities to go with the facial ones? Interesting
its shopped
Compromising form and function to lift more nominal weight.
God I love butterfaces
No one can convince me they wouldn't give it to her from behind.
That semblance of feminine shape you see is just ATP and spandex. Her ass is still retarded and you are fucking desperate.
I am genuinely disgusted.
ego lifting is lifting your 1RM you retarded nagger
>?
So if I want to test my strength and form for one rep of, let's say a 225 bench press, to motivate myself, by showing myself, I've been progressing, I'm an ego lifter
>?
Lifting weight you can't do with perfect form because big number good.
"Ego lifting" is a pointless label that's been co-opted by anyone that wants to level a criticism against someone else in the gym. A good definition of ego-lifting should be as follows:
Executing (or attempting to) a lift that is weighted too heavily to fulfill the purpose of the lift.
For example, if your goal for a particular session is chest hypertrophy and the exercise you've selected is the bench press, don't hit three sets of doubles for weeks in a row because you don't want to lift less than 225 but you can't actually hit 5-8 reps of 225. Your ego is getting in the way of accomplishing the goal of your lift (growing your chest).
True, but we can also add that it comes from a need for validation from the other gym goers or social media, and the perceived reactions is what drives the lifter to disregard proper form and safety.
That's true. I don't have any social media and I'm a sperg so the social validation side didn't really occur to me.
I'm going to say deliberately using lighter plates to attempt to seem like you're lifting more is ego lifting. For instance, 5x25 and 1x10 bumper plates to fill up the bar instead of 3x45 for a sumo deadlift is something I see a lot on instagram. Bonus points if you're using the black rubber weights that don't change width depending on their weight.
That's not really ego-lifting, that's just social media deception. Lol. Nobody's getting an ego boost pretending to struggle with a 315lbs deadlift with huge ass rubber plates that fool normies.
1rmaxin
Sacrificing form and ROM for bigger numbers. Perhaps using momentum without intention.
Doing anything I don't like, I can't do or with weight I can't lift.
Is not ego lifting because I am lifting heavy to satisfy my ego, dyels call it ego lifting because it crushes their egos because is more weight that they can lift.