Short1 - Bodybuilding Competition Log

[florencia]

Great Job!!!!
I almost died when I saw the weight on straight arm pulldowns...LOL...I do them with 30 lbs...booohooo (crying)...
I think you are doing great!

 

[The Shadow]

I'd have to say mostly lats.

What she said.


Pullovers are an interesting exercise......we are doing them for Lats as they are actualy a stretch position for that bodypart.

They also hit the pec minor to some extent.......


Depends on how you do them


Think of it like this

Somone is lying on their back....arems extended directly above their head.....arms slightly bent.......working the bottom position from the stretch through the arms being oulled just above the forehead


^^HITS MAINLY LATS



think about a position over the face(eyes) and then going back 2/3 of the way to the bottom.....more of a bent arm angle


^^Hits mainly chest




Its a very nuancey movement and when we switch Shorty's program....you will see pullovers as THE transition exercise between chest and lats



Interestingly - STIFF ARM PULLDOWNS on a lat pull machine is a contracted position exercise



The Pullover machine by Nautulus is the ONLY machine that works a muscle form its stretch through its contracted position


GOOD BANG FOR THE BUCK.....another angle we will be getting into.....as we crank up volume but reduce redundant movements

 

[superqt4u2nv]

*Shorty sorry to hijack*



I got me one of these deals at my gym.

How would I use it to work focuse on lats? How would it be used to focus on chest?

 

[The Shadow]

remember - the pec minor is a triangluar muscle group that lies deep within the "belly"....very small.


the ROM on the pec minor is tiny.....from the eye postion to just a few inches back.....even for attempting to hit chest - I open that range up a bit.

IMO - do FULL RANGE pullovers....from (below parallel) full extension through full contraction - as a BACK EXERCISE.........



if you do this and pull through to a position where the db is over the face....you will hit the pec minor WHEN you do back....and you arent wasting time and effort trying to hit that on chest day

 

[The Shadow]

Use that machine and go through a full ROM........whaever pec you can hit will be hit(that setup isnt THAT great for chest)

 

[superqt4u2nv]

if you do this and pull through to a position where the db is over the face....you will hit the pec minor WHEN you do back....and you arent wasting time and effort trying to hit that on chest day

Awesome thanks S

 

[the-short-one]

Great Job!!!!
I almost died when I saw the weight on straight arm pulldowns...LOL...I do them with 30 lbs...booohooo (crying)...
I think you are doing great!

i have my suspicions that this cable machine weight is off. i tried them at another gym and couldn't do that weight - I almost had to cut the weight in 1/2, so disregard that until I get a ruling on my gym's cable weights.

stop boohoohooing. i'm short and wide - easier for me to pull heavy weights. lolol

 

[the-short-one]

OK. soreness from chest day = 2. my chest is tender if I poke at it, but I don't feel it when I'm moving around during the course of the day.

 

[The Shadow]

i have my suspicions that this cable machine weight is off. i tried them at another gym and couldn't do that weight - I almost had to cut the weight in 1/2, so disregard that until I get a ruling on my gym's cable weights.

stop boohoohooing. i'm short and wide - easier for me to pull heavy weights. lolol

The key phrase is "1/2"


Look at the stack........


A single pulley = 2x as heavy as a double pulley...even on the same "weight"






LMAO @ short and wide


so not true.....but still funny

 

[the-short-one]

The key phrase is "1/2"


Look at the stack........


A single pulley = 2x as heavy as a double pulley...even on the same "weight"






LMAO @ short and wide


so not true.....but still funny

i am kinda sturdy.

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