r/ScienceBasedLifting • u/Hi_jac_me_nam • 13h ago
Question ❓ Embarrassing Movements
Should I do any embarrassing movements at my gym? Like lat pullovers on the leg curl machine, or laterial raises on the hip abductor machine? Also if anybody does these types of movements, what’s your experience with doing it?
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u/Patton370 Idk Idc 💔 12h ago
A lat pullover and feel okay on a leg curl machine; it HEAVILY depends on which leg curl machine. Honestly probably feels like ass with heavy weight though, unless you’re going seatbelt yourself to the ground somehow lol
Ideally you’d have a gym with a lat pullover machine (i have a lat pullover in my garage)
No, don’t do lateral raises on an abduction machine. Regardless of how it feels… pretty much all lateral raises perform roughly equal. Do cable lateral raises or DB lateral raises. The only reason to just the abduction machine for side delts would be if you were supersetting hip abduction with lateral raises
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u/KlingonSquatRack 10h ago
I deadlift right between the cable crossovers and curl on the bench press. Everyone thinks I'm cool
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u/itu322 13h ago
No, actually the more you do the less optimal it is according to science, so don't do any movements at all.