Not at all. We used as much weight as possible, and the barbell pullover was secondary only to the barbell bench press for mass in the chest.
I was doing heavy barbell pullovers, before I knew anything about Arnold. It was one of the recommended exercises from the chart on the wall of the weightroom in my college. (My initial workout was taken from that chart.) I saw that the first day I entered the weightroom in March of 1968. I have no idea long that chart had been on the wall.
Hey man these are legit. I do a ton of rear delt work to compensate for the amount of OHP work i do. Itās very good for injury prevention.
I have never heard of these before. I might give them a try. I have been doing landmine rotations for months.
Is anyone else here big on plyometrics? I used to do them here and there in the past but they are now staples in my routine, along with lateral lunges, and some landmine exercises, as muscle building isnāt my only aim anymore and I donāt want to move like a tin man in my middle and older ages.
You can also do it with a cable or kb. Using a bench for stabilization. They feel better than the landmine for the glutes.
Funny you say this but I seem to see a lot of people doing these now with cables but very few with dumbells. Funny that is seems like the ones doing it with cables could do with actually building some shoulders first.
As someone terrible at deadlifting, reading this from someone good at it warms my heart.
I do a few exercises that most other people in my commercial gym donāt do, but you might.
These are great and I recently started doing them.
Hey thanks man! It was when I stopped training the deadlift so damn much that my deadlift took off.
I have a leg exercise that I believe significantly improved my thighs, yet I am the only one that I have seen actually do it.
I got the exercise from Jeff King in either 1983 or 1984. He was doing a seminar at our gym and I asked if he did any specific exercise that he thought made his inner thigh so thick. He described the exercise. I never saw him do it.
It is ultra wide leg press, where my toes point 180 degrees apart. I never had seen separation of my sartorius muscle until I had done those a few years. I did them every leg workout after I had done traditional width leg presses (wide enough to allow my thighs to drop to the sides of my torso).
There isnāt any adductor machine that can remotely substitute for the compound movement of the ultra wide leg press.
BTW, it almost completely removes glute involvement to do the movement.
This is what makes this site so special, thanks for sharing.
Iāve started to use cables instead of dumbbells on the basis that it maintains constant tension throughout the movement.
I bend forward at about 45 degrees because Iām trying to emphasize the rear delts more.
No idea whether either of those choices actually pay off!
Iāve read it is helpful to bend forward 5-20 degrees. I seem to feel this in the right places during overhead presses or shoulder snatches. You can kind of justify it by the direction of muscle fibres, though these might vary between people, and big muscles have fibres in several directions.
Barbell hack squats.
Usually I do them first or second in my routine (before or after squats), mostly low reps, 3-4 x 2-6ish.
Anyone still use the sled every week. This is definitely something I would benefit from using more than I actually do. Itās hard to include everything you want to include, and generally unwise.
This is a nice time of year for it, I should drag mine out of storage.