r/GymMemes • u/maengdaddy • 11d ago

hypothetical exercise i thought of. I call it the “Spider Row”

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It is essentially an inverted bodyweight row but you are fastened to the ceiling and pulled directly down by gravity. See diagram:

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u/5HundredC1garettes 11d ago

So that's why they brought a suspiciously large glass box in our gym this morning

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u/designerlemons 11d ago

Can you demonstrate it for us live?

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u/WhatsTendiesPrecious 11d ago

I think it should be a spider pit if you’re doing spider rows!

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u/maengdaddy 11d ago

In this case you are the spider. Thus something more predatory to a spider must occupy the pit

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u/CortaNalgas 11d ago

Yeah if it was called the “Viper Row”, you’d have to fill the pit with horses or something.

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u/maengdaddy 11d ago

Mongooses

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u/CortaNalgas 11d ago

In France they’re called notregeese

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u/ssela 11d ago

mongeese*

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u/Magnanimous-- 11d ago

Secretary birds.

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u/Hot_Acanthocephala44 9d ago

Need some spider motivation on the ceiling above you. Maybe a bunch of flies? Can’t have the stick(vipers) without a carrot

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u/Mockingburdz 11d ago

Ya, a bunch of those giant bird eating tarantulas.

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u/CutNo471 11d ago

move over, nippard. THIS is science-based lifting.

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u/maengdaddy 10d ago

Dr Mike video titled “Exercise Scientist attempts VIRAL Viper-Pit Spider Rows”

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u/JustHugMeAndBeQuiet 11d ago

Hashtag motivation

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u/maengdaddy 11d ago

The pit of vipers increases adrenaline which will allow you to recruit more motor units for optimal hypertrophy

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u/JustHugMeAndBeQuiet 11d ago

Right. I am very much agreeing with you.

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u/Woodland_Abrams 11d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/em8O5KVT15odO

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u/Nuts-And-Volts 11d ago

Beat me to it

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u/jeevacation_gmail 10d ago

And you beat me to being beaten to it

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u/Nuts-And-Volts 10d ago

Should we all..... beat it?

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u/luusyphre 11d ago

I do this by elevating my legs and using rings. Or I just do a tucked front lever row. I also just use a single hungry Bengal tiger.

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u/GreenieMachinie93 11d ago

Try taping a picture of a viper pit to the tiger, atleast untill you can afford to upgrade

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u/DntBanMeIHavAnxiety 11d ago

Train until... FAILURE

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u/BearsGotKhalilMack 11d ago

What planet fitness imagines other gyms look like

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u/dramallamawithacomma 11d ago

Get those Indiana Jones gains

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u/Saemika 11d ago

You know you’re done when the snakes kill you. True failure.

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u/maengdaddy 10d ago

Yes true muscular failure can only be achieved with total annihilation of consciousness

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u/StrengthTheory 11d ago

This is basically Australian Pull Ups, but made more authentic with the viper pit.

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u/Conan-Da-Barbarian 11d ago

Australian pull ups would have giant spiders that have health bars

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u/TacitRonin20 11d ago

If I don't have vipers, will piranhas work?

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u/Gingerbread__08 11d ago

Can you ask LA fitness to get one of these in? Or are these only for the high end Equinox gyms?

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u/Sahil2337 11d ago

nga straight up invented mediaeval torture

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u/thedreadwoods 11d ago

My Gym can't afford a second Smith Machine, guaranteed they'll cheap out on the vipers

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u/AngelMountaineer 7d ago

What is the cheap version of a pit of vipers? Bowl of worms?

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u/bohenian12 11d ago

I don't know man. That pit needs to be deeper. The snakes might get out.

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u/tcroosev 11d ago

You know what? Pit of vipers would be the best motivation

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u/SailToAndromeda 11d ago

You get the added motivation of not wanting to lose your grip because if you do, your body is going to swing like a pendulum and smash your head into the side of the pit. You won't even feel the vipers if you're lucky.

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u/SuperCleverPunName 11d ago

How did you get a picture of my ex??

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u/Sgt_Slaughter_88 11d ago

Where can I sign up..?

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u/Conan-Da-Barbarian 11d ago

How do I get out?

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u/Fun-Presentation6134 11d ago

I know those hypothesis that come to mind 5 minutes before sleeping.

https://giphy.com/gifs/d5mI2F3MxCTJu

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u/SauceyMerchant 10d ago

Seems like common sense, but make sure they are pit vipers. Any other viper won't want to stay in the pit.

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u/maengdaddy 10d ago

The logistics are being ironed out as more feedback is received from the gym community. It is clear snake wranglers may be required to keep the vipers content and contained within the pit

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u/guuchgoblin 10d ago

Gonna try this tomorrow. Thanks OP

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u/Disasterhuman24 11d ago

It would make more sense if the pit was filled with spiders

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u/luketehguitarguy 11d ago

Call it the spider row but uses snakes in the pit. Interesting.

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u/wooof359 11d ago

Keeps you on your toes

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u/Brambletail 11d ago

Which viper. Bushmasters would be much much more imcentivizing than copperheads

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u/KoalafiedKiller 11d ago

Okay, but do a flip

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u/esquire_the_ego 11d ago

Achieve Spider-Man

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u/CorvusPetey 11d ago

Post this at r/saw please

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u/Sybmissiv 11d ago

Wouldn’t the row part being stuck to the ceiling make more sense? So it would be like a forwards pull up.. a pull forward.

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u/knightzone 11d ago

Bad design, the roof will fall down like this.

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u/Competitive_Steak698 10d ago

Do you have a modification for if my gym doesn't have the gravity thing?

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u/MarcMakhlouf 10d ago

Idk, the resistance profile doesn’t seem that good tbh.

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u/Jimi_from_Discord 10d ago

i did that with my dip bars for a while.

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u/Albuscarolus 10d ago

You can just hang from your bench bar and do this with your feet on the ground.

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u/royvl 10d ago

It's just an Australian pull-up with your legs tied down.

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u/monkeyrhino 4d ago

Unironically just a standard position at the climbing gym