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Tip: The Seated Cable Face Pull

Bronwen Blunt — Wed, 15 May 2019 11:00:00 +0000

If your anterior and medial deltoids are overpowering, try starting your next shoulder workout with this. Starting your workout with an exercise to target your weaknesses will help fix muscular imbalances and reduce your risk of injuries and chronic pain. The seated position helps isolate the rear delts and forces you to engage your core

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Tip: The Rope Pullover

Paul Carter — Sun, 12 May 2019 17:15:00 +0000

The key in doing these is really execution, but that's the case with most movements. You don't want to turn incline rope pullovers into a triceps pushdown, so the elbows need to stay slightly bent during the concentric/lifting portion of the movement. And the focus should be in bringing the elbows down and into the

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Tip: Chest-Supported Row Machine

Paul Carter — Sat, 11 May 2019 17:15:00 +0000

Choose exercises where you give the low back a break from loading while working the musculature around it so that it has a stronger support structure. That's where the chest-supported row comes in. There are countless variations of this machine, but virtually any of them can be a strength athlete's best friend. It allows you

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Tip: The Gorilla Burpee

Nick Tumminello — Thu, 09 May 2019 11:00:00 +0000

Start with your feet slightly farther apart than shoulder-width. This is different than the standard way with feet closer together. Then, you're lowering and raising your torso by mainly bending and extending from your knees and your hips, which places more emphasis on the lower body. Burpees are commonly performed by bending over mostly from

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Tip: Triceps Giant Set

Paul Carter — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 11:00:00 +0000

Supersets and giant sets work well for inducing metabolic stress, especially those that stress the muscle at different lengths. Try this giant set: 12 cross-body cable extensions, 12 dips, 12 seated dumbbell French presses. Do them all back to back, and repeat.

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Tip: Tricep 30's

Paul Carter — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 11:00:00 +0000

Supersets and giant sets work well for inducing metabolic stress, especially those that stress the muscle at different lengths. Here's a skull crusher variation where I lower the bar to my nose for 10 reps, then to my forehead for 10 reps, then behind the head for 10 reps. Try it!

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Tip: Reverse-Grip Pushdown

Paul Carter — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 11:00:00 +0000

If you're having trouble establishing a mind-muscle connection with your triceps then begin the workout with something that puts the muscle into a shortened position, and work isometrics (holding the contraction) to help with that. Try a pushdown variation. My favorite for this is the reverse-grip pushdown. Make a concerted effort to roll your knuckles

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Tip: The Overhead Shrug

Paul Carter — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 11:00:00 +0000

Proper scapula elevation is required to do an efficient overhead press, but the overhead press doesn't actually train that patterning. And most guys suffer from being too internally rotated while also having excessive scap depression. That's bad juju. Do 3 to 4 sets of 8-10 reps.

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Tip: A Giant Set for Giant Triceps

Paul Carter — Sun, 07 Apr 2019 17:15:00 +0000

This sweet metabolic-stress giant sets is a nice addition to your pressing work to bring your triceps up. Try this: A1. Rope Pushdown: 12 reps A2. Overhead Rope Triceps Extension: 12 reps A3. Bodyweight Bench Dip: 12 reps If you can get through this giant set four times, hitting sets of 12 reps all the way through, then

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Tip: Are Overhead Kettlebell Swings Worth It?

Christian Thibaudeau — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 17:15:00 +0000

Even if they've never given you shoulder problems, they're not the best unless you have to use them in a competitive setting. CrossFit uses overhead swings so that each rep can be counted. But if you're not a competitor who needs to use the overhead version, your posterior chain will get more out of the

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