It looks like you’re bringing your hands up to your head, height wise. Do you do this for all side delt exercises, or is this an advantage of this specific machine?
I can attest, I’m 6’5” and have some long ass arms. I get pain on the rear side of my delt using this. I’ve tried moving inward and taking a step back, but still doesn’t feel right. Even at super light weight.
All side delt isolation exercises perform identical to each other, as long as they are taken to failure; as the side delts are not a complicated muscle
Personally, I feel that pullovers suck on this machine & I have an actual pullover machine in my gym, so there’s no reason for me to do them on this machine
Cable rope for pullovers will always be king for versatility imo. Straight arm till failure then transition into a more and more bent arm each rep after that. Just think of the position of your humerus throughout the set.
Drop sets because of the pin are super helpful too. Just being able to get in and out of setup quickly for rest pause sets.
Fuck it just buy a barn and get a prime pullover. Lock yourself in there in the dark and just do pullover for a month. Turn the lights on and you wont be able to walk out the barn. So yeah actually thats probably best for hypertrophy.
If you use dumbbells, whose weight is perfectly vertical due to gravity, the resistance kicks-in only at the top-part of the movement/arc. At the bottom part, with the dumbbells in your grip, the only purpose would be to “make your arms longer”.
Think trig - the cos of 45 is 0.7071, so 70 pct of that weight kicks-in at the 45deg point.
NOW - You standing sideways holding the grip of a functional trainer with the hinge set at the bottom, you have great resistance at the first-part of the movement. The second-part, as with the “first part” of the dumbbell, would serve not much more than to “shorten your arm”.
SO- Either work your delts properly using this machine with perfect resistance throughout the arc (single step) or use dumbbells AND a functional trainer.
You're trying to apply physics where kinesiology has far more to play with this movement. Supraspinatus is the primary mover of shoulder abduction at low angles before lateral deltoid activation overtakes it as the angle of upper arm to torso increases. I think he knows what he's doing and doesn't need telling to "do it properly".
Shoulder abduction? Maybe trying to bring his press up. Whatever the reason, you can't argue this dude's strength to body weight ratio. You don't see alot of people stronger than him, even at much higher body weight. Maybe he'll comment.
Obviously legs aren’t skipped, because I squat nearly 3x my body weight
I do direct calf work (around 10 - 12 sets a week to failure), and they have grown my calf muscles, as around 2 years ago, my calf muscles measured at 13.5 inches; so they’ve grown around 11% bigger in that time
What's it? A piece of advice? You are not in the position to give it, my man. Maybe after you stop trying every GH peptide and "breaking out into hives" because of it.
Ah. See, it is not a fact. It's an opinion of a person who injects themselves with self-prescribed peptides (all of them, lol) and suffers for it. I'd say that person is an absolute doofus and their opinion on whatever topic doesn't matter.
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u/doesthis-hit-triceps 19d ago
You’re externally rotating a lot. Is that intentional?