I’m not strong enough to stack that much on the thing, but I do love when people use it for the first time, and toss a couple plates on, just to have their egos shattered by the 3rd rep.
I’m not strong enough to stack that much on the thing, but I do love when people use it for the first time, and toss a couple plates on, just to have their egos shattered by the 3rd rep.
Many will debate that the deadlift is the king of all back exercises. As for myself the chin and all its variations have served me well in the past. I know this is going to sound blasphamis but I actually gave up traditional deadlifting very early in my bodybuilding career. I stuck mainly with hyper extensions to work my lower back, but for total lat development chins reigned supreme! So much so that I started every back workout with 100 chins! Valuable advice my old pal Jesse "ROCK" Stonewall passed on to me way back when I was knee high to a pregnant ant.
Pull ups are just SO MUCH better than pull downs in my opinion.
I do love pullovers but machine pullovers. Could never get into the DB pullover. Just could not get a good connection.
Ah, the DB pullover. We did these across a bench with our asses low to the ground and with relatively straight arms. The key is keeping your hips down lower than your torso. Once your hips start riding up you lose that all important stretch. Negating the purpose of the movement. But I'm sure you already knew that. LOL!
Ah, the DB pullover. We did these across a bench with our asses low to the ground and with relatively straight arms. The key is keeping your hips down lower than your torso. Once your hips start riding up you lose that all important stretch. Negating the purpose of the movement. But I'm sure you already knew that. LOL!
For me it is more of the narrow grip to the DB that feels very strange in my shoulders. A wider grip with say a EZ bar is better but I just dislike how the movement goes from easy to very hard based on gravity within the angle of the movement.
I’ve tried the pullovers across a bench, and never been a fan. I will do them occasionally laying on a bench, but even then they don’t seem all that effective. I prefer to mimic the motion doing front pulldowns with cables - step back a ways, and lean forward so that you get a good lat stretch at the top, then contract into the waist.
I’ve tried the pullovers across a bench, and never been a fan. I will do them occasionally laying on a bench, but even then they don’t seem all that effective. I prefer to mimic the motion doing front pulldowns with cables - step back a ways, and lean forward so that you get a good lat stretch at the top, then contract into the waist.
I agree totally! Cable in my opinion are best for that.
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