[quote]minsarale wrote:
I have a question regarding traps, are traps composed of mainly slow twitch muscles or fast twitch? I mean the part of traps that is above the shoulders,which shrugs/armpit rows targets.[/quote]
Holy shit…
Its adorable
DB raises can also be done while laying on an incline bench. Fun little curve ball there…
[quote]Jab1 wrote:
Hold on to an upright on the cable machine or anything sturdy and put your feet by it… lean away from it. Do a side lateral.
Everybody do the dinosaur.[/quote]
Teach me how to lean away side lateral raise!
Teach me, teach me how to lean away side lateral raise!
You ain’t messin with my lean away side lateral raise!
[quote]Ripped Fury wrote:
I think it’s an amalgamation of side raises and lateral raises. It’s one of those common things like a lot of people who say bicepT and tricepT even though there’s no T in either of those words.[/quote]
There is no T in tricep?
[quote]Professor X wrote:
I have big shoulders. I never did a monkey. [/quote]
Not even at a fraternity party
[quote]BONEZ217 wrote:
Lean away cable side laterals provide resistance throughout the whole ROM[/quote]
These are quite humbling, especially after having moved quite a ways up the dumbbell rack. I mean like “WTF!” humbling. Good stuff.
I now almost exclusively use that lateral raise machine that I can add plates to the stack of. I guess it must also be written that I did NOT start out that way and relied on dumbbells for the majority of the base I built in size.
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
[quote]BONEZ217 wrote:
Lean away cable side laterals provide resistance throughout the whole ROM[/quote]
These are quite humbling, especially after having moved quite a ways up the dumbbell rack. I mean like “WTF!” humbling. Good stuff.[/quote]
Good stuff = the burning feeling that makes you want to punch a hole in the wall because that pain will be a welcomed distraction
[quote]minsarale wrote:
I have a question regarding traps, are traps composed of mainly slow twitch muscles or fast twitch? I mean the part of traps that is above the shoulders,which shrugs/armpit rows targets.[/quote]
Get them biopsied and report back to us ASAP
[quote]Ripped Fury wrote:
[quote]FattyFat wrote:
[quote]BONEZ217 wrote:
[quote]kingbeef323 wrote:
Form for lateral raises is simple. Start with your palms facing you and keep them facing down as you raise the dumbbells up to your shoulder level. At the end of the movement your elbow should be in line with your hand and you should be able to see a “top down” view of your biceps in the mirror. Basically don’t ever let your hand be higher than your elbow on this movement, slight bend in the elbow is OK.[/quote]
THis.
ALthough, side lateral raises with cables while leaning away from the weight stack is superior than laterals with a dumbell. Dumbells only provide so much resistance throughout the ROM. Lean away cable side laterals provide resistance throughout the whole ROM[/quote]
For those not (always) training in a gym: attach a resistance band to the db.
By the by, since I’ve been wondering for a long time and English isn’t my first language:
why do people refer to lateral raises as side laterals? Isn’t ‘side’ already implied by / semantically contained in ‘laterals’?
[/quote]
I think it’s an amalgamation of side raises and lateral raises. It’s one of those common things like a lot of people who say bicepT and tricepT even though there’s no T in either of those words.[/quote]
Thats the first time I’ve ever heard of anyone saying bicept or tricept. Who the hell talks like that?
[quote]Jab1 wrote:
Hold on to an upright on the cable machine or anything sturdy and put your feet by it… lean away from it. Do a side lateral.
Everybody do the dinosaur.[/quote]
There are hundreds of different ways I can do this and look like an idiot…It’s like saying to bench press go to the bench and hold the barbell and press…what???
There are many factors involving an exercise…Whether the cable is behind the back, in front, whether your standing, leaning, arms bent or not, how high to raise it, etc…
So can someone please tell me proper form for these?
Also bonez, my cable machine goes up in I believe 10 pound increments, is this too much for weight jumps? And do you recommend just this exercise? or dumbells in addition?
Watch the video of Jay Cutler doing it, then do that.
I did them like this EXCEPT I stood in front of the cable, so it was behind my back… And I leaned away a bit more.
…The weight stacks jump by ten I believe, so I literally had the pin on just the first plate… I did not know how many sets to do… I did 8 on the first one and it was a pretty good burn, then the second set I did 7 to failure… I mean how am I supposed to do three sets if I stay on the first pin?
3 sets to failure??? 8, 7, maybe 6? Thats three sets. Then do more reps next time.
Ok, so for this exercise I can just do three sets to failure? Since I can’t keep increasing the weight.
Depends on what your overall program is geared towards and what it looks like. I’m not going to O.K. you doing one exercise for three sets if thats all your doing!
Yeah everybody thinks they got big shoulders
In the 12 years since the post you replied to, maybe he has now?
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