Of course these might be rated by You Tube nerds as low-tier exercises “cuz stimulus-to-fatigue ratio and not optimal cuz the coordination and whole-body engagement and limited load”.
Range of Motion progression, specifically on the deadlift. I’m a one-trick pony, but it’s a good trick. Every time I move away from this and I come back to it, I wonder why I ever left it.
Do it in place of deadlifts in your regular training. Don’t train deadlifts as a movement in general: they suck.
Outstanding callback! Haha. I use the Bob People’s/Paul Anderson approach. Rather than dig a hole, I use rubber patio pavers to elevate the bar, and remove a paver each week.
I love weighted dips. I do them regularly and have worked up to a weight I think is respectable. I use dip bars but in the past did them on rings or blast straps.
Eccentric Overload for strength. Not an exercise, but I guess a “method” that I got from one of Poliquin’s arm books.
Anyway, you do DB tricep extensions or skullcrushers for awhile (1 month or 6 workouts) with strict technique and moderate reps. Upper arms stay perpendicular to the floor, bar/DBs lowered to forehead.
Then when progress slows down and it’s hard to add weight you switch to Rolling DB Extensions or California Press, moves where your triceps get a little “help” from momentum on the “Up” portion of the lift. For lower reps. And on the “down” you really make an effort to control the weight and keep tension in the target muscle.
More weight in the same pattern, so you get stronger Immediately, with the opportunity to progress on a “new” move for awhile.
The next month, you go back to the strict technique and higher reps, but now with higher weights.
You can do the same thing with Lateral Raises and then Eccentric Lateral Raises.
The first few years I lifted weights one of my staple exercises was the heavy bent arm pullovers. We never pressed to bar after the pullover, just let the bar back down. You needed to have some control, so the negative got some involvement before negatives were considered a training strategy. We considered the pullover a chest exercise.
Once the Nautilus Pullover got to our gym, the barbell pullover was dropped.
I could see that. Weirdly enough it helps my bicep pain from my torn labrum because it uses the coracobrachialis in a certain way. It also seems to help loosen all the smaller muscles in the chest and upper back for me
I also think the press part loosens up my shoulders because the close grip forces me into some deep shoulder extension when I go to my chest
I have only ever seen and used one pull over machine in my life. I’m not sure if it was Nautilus (this gym has a bunch of older equipment) but it was awesome