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I never really had any hatred for the leg press before - it has its uses, most gyms I've been in have been well stocked weight-wise- but now that I'm lifting in a gym with a total of 800 pounds in plates (maybe a bit more, didn't calculate the small change), one skinny little kid can use up almost half the weights without even breaking a sweat. I don't mind having to share weights with someone benching 250# while I'm squatting or something, but gah just squat you skinny bastards.
An anomaly at a popular 24/7 gym: a trainer, teaching his client full depth goblet squats. Back straight, head neutral, hip below patella, even some hip drive.
I can do straight bar chin-ups and straight bar pull-ups and not have them bother my biceps. At home the angle for my pull-up bar is between 30-45 degrees which I'm not a fan of. It's not gay, but it's not straight.
Have you messed around with grip width for you chins? If I'm too narrow I can start to feel it in my elbows and shoulders.
Oh, so straight bar is fine, but the gay fucking angles bother your 'ceps?
I feel stronger with a narrower grip, so that's what I usually use. I'd say less than 12 inches of bar between the pinkies on chins. Maybe I'll try the wider grip next time and see how it feels.
I don't know if they're gay (I didn't ask), but yeah the angles bother my biceps. I find with my freakishly long arms that my ROM is cut off quite a bit when compared to straight bar. With a straight bar I can get the bar to touch a similar spot the bar would on a bench press. For chins I'm probably somewhere between 13-15" between pinkies, narrower than that and my tendons don't like it.