More Violent Variations

Just wondering if anybody out on T-Nation had some uncommon variations on exercises or set/rep schemes that have yielded good results? This is Sort of inspired by Ct’s old article.

The question came to me when I tried something a little new in the Gym. I had seen a lot of people talking about one arm barbell rows, so I decided to use them in my training, albeit a little differently.

The Gym I go to has these premolded bars, about the size of an Ez bar. I decided to try rowing these and found that they surprisingly hit my lats a lot harder while also minimizing the amount of body English I could use to get the bar up.

For my final set, I decided to do a drop set of sorts:

First I repped out with the short bar.
Then I switched to a dumbbell of the same weight.
Finally I finished off by rowing the bar with both arms.

This made me wonder if anyone else had anything they’ve done in the gym to add a little difficulty to their workouts that hasn’t been seen before.

There was a good post a while ago on “unorthidox and unusual” exercises that I found quite useful in order to shock my body, and it yielded good breakthrough results. Ill see if I cant scare it up…

I found these on another board, but they were linked to good ole T-Nation… Much props to the OP who put this list together – I’m just reposting. These helped me big-time - spiced up my routine, and helped me break through plats. Enjoi.

One Arm BB Curls

http://www.T-Nation.com/readTopic.do?id=459589

Cuban Press

http://www.T-Nation.com/readTopic.do?id=459683

Saxon Side Bend

http://www.T-Nation.com/readTopic.do?id=459681


Dragon Flags

http://www.T-Nation.com/readTopic.do?id=459312

Side DeadLift

http://www.T-Nation.com/readTopic.do?id=459667

Glute Ham Raise

http://www.T-Nation.com/readTopic.do?id=459875

BB Hack Squat

http://www.T-Nation.com/readTopic.do?id=459865

One Legged GM’s

http://www.T-Nation.com/readTopic.do?id=459667

Waiters Bow

http://www.T-Nation.com/readTopic.do?id=459683

Towell Pull Ups

http://www.T-Nation.com/readTopic.do?id=459798

Renegade Rows

http://www.T-Nation.com/readTopic.do?id=459258

Good Morning Squat

http://www.T-Nation.com/readTopic.do?id=676927

T-Stabilization Push Ups w/ DB’s

http://www.T-Nation.com/readTopic.do?id=459295