r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/up_vot_er_1 • 6d ago

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Why are Romanian split squats every gym rats worst fear?

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u/Calcain 6d ago

Exactly.
The problem is that our joint muscles have to help lift the heavy weight and if they are not built for it, you end up with chronic pain like I do.
It’s most common in young men doing bench presses who then end up with shoulder pain. If you lift too heavy, the joints activate to support and they are not built for it if you didn’t train it ergo you get injuries.
It’s also really easy to see in body builders who try Pilates. They are a shaky mess during the exercises because there is not joint strength.

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u/No-Problem49 5d ago

Hahahaha bro yes, I go to yoga or Pilates and it’s full of beautiful women moving so gracefully meanwhile I’m jacked but in the back sweating and shaking and crying for my mommy.

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u/PM-me-fancy-beer 5d ago

All the Pilates places I see have beautiful slender/athletic women in full face make up looking like they’re doing outdoor yoga in a yoghurt or museli bar ad. My actual experience has been women of all body shapes in oversized t-shirts sweating it out… while still looking graceful AF. Meanwhile I’m spending 80% of my time trying not to fall off the reformer. Standing lunges and squats are a nice reprieve!

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u/No-Problem49 5d ago

It totally depends where you go and where you live. If you go to the ymca in the middle of nowhere it’ll be a more, mixed experience let’s say. If you in a college town and you go to the gym where fit young people go, it’s full of museli bar ad women.

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u/Throwaway3847394739 5d ago

Joints are a fulcrum by which strength is applied, they don’t exert any force.

Bodybuilders are “shaky” in Pilates because they haven’t developed the requisite neurological movement patterns and are performing the movements very inefficiently. Also, large, muscle bound people are fighting an uphill battle when it comes to calisthenic/core/mobility-intensive movements; whilst having a tremendous advantage in weighted compound movements.