Are cables only for higher reps?

[SteelWeaver]

Sorry to hear about your partner - that's a pain.

OK, I'm not going to do chest more than once a week right now - but these contracting sets can be added into a normal workout, can't they? What do you think about doing them first on a light day, and last on a heavy day?

Do you aim for a deep stretch at the outside part of the move?

 

[MrStamina]

Thats exactly right..

 

[Robert Jan]

I should do that, shouldn't I? My old gym used to have the funny shaped extra plates - this one doesn't, but I guess I could hang a 1.25 kg weight on the pin itself and see how that goes - that's the lowest plate we have.

The really bad news is I had to give up pull-throughs when I came to this gym because, of the 2 low cable stacks they have, one is crowded into a tiny space where there isn't enough space for pull-thoughs, and the other has the lowest setting at about mid-shin height, which I found simply isn't low enough for pull-throughs. But I used to have a real problem balancing for heavier reps on those. Lowest I could go was about 6. Drop sets were pretty painfully fun though

you should use 2 pins. one where you want to the stack to be and another to hang the plate from