I’ve found a new lat exercise that I’ve only just started using but I can really feel it in the lats all the way through the movement and provides a very deep stretch as well
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Anyone who was this machine knows theres is an arch to the movement path which helps take the biceps out up it.
WHat you do is put the weights in the poles and then grab them at the closest possible grip using a palms up grip.
Then deadlift the bar up and walk back a bit. Then perform a stiffleg deadlift and get in a position that gives you a deep stretch in your lats and row, while maintaing that stiffleg position.
I’m not sure if it will be a very good option for those of you who are truely strong but for me at the moment it seems gd. You can always witch to a one handed grip if you max out 2hands.
If any of you have this leg press machine I advise you to try out that exercise on yor cruise and tell me how you feel.
Its the same movement Melvin Anthony shows here
but you use a palms up grip, hands closer together and bent over a bit more.
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
40 seconds seems like a long ass time to be under some heavy weight, or even rowing it…
(Going off what was said in that youtube)
How many of you guys really pay attention to your TUT per set?[/quote]
I only do if I bang out some partials in a semi-stretched position, only after a set of full rom, then try to hold the last partial for like 10 seconds.
Kinda like a full range bb bench, then like 5-8 partials in the middle 1/3 of the rom, then a static hold. But, I rarely do these.
Looks good to me. I’ve done something similar for a different group before and it worked well.
I’d first get a good set up before beginning the movement but you seem to have that worked out already.
Also I’d speculate you’ll be able to progress quickly with the movement.
One tip is that as you move up in weight, it will tend to pull you forward so I’d plant my thighs/hips against something and/or hold down my feet to hold myself back.
For those of you that don’t have access to an HS leg press, I highly recommend “duck pulldowns” on the typical lat pulldown cable station. I’ve already described them in an earlier thread, and they’re a similar width-thickness hybrid.
