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If you look at https://exrx.net/Lists/ExList/ArmWt when it comes to single-joint open-chained freeweight movements, they show both a 2-arm variation and a 1-arm variation of tricep/bicep movements: *https://exrx.net/WeightExercises/Triceps/DBTriExt / https://exrx.net/WeightExercises/Triceps/DBOneArm...

It's not a myth that you can divide abs into upper and lower in terms of looking at the tendinous intersections as a guideline, but I haven't really found claims that you can emphasize one over the other as being detailed enough to convince. Reason being, if tension is put through one, it seems like...

Can use isolation movements to pre-exhaust or post-exhaust the lats. Or alternate back and forth as needs dictate. If biceps are getting tired, could give them a rest doing pullovers or straight-arm pulldowns which, if they exhaust any elbow-crossing muscles, it would be the triceps.

Could there be a thread about terminology specificity in relation to some adjectives here? For example with the term 'lying' In many cases "lying" is used in different contexts. It doesn't specify whether one is lying on one's back or one's chest or even the side. This is a suggestion I am wondering...

Al Qaeda. What do you think their motive is? Perhaps they seek to confuse the issue of chins vs pull ups to a degree so severe that the exercise will be abandoned completely, leading to a generation with no lat or biceps development, thus allowing them to be conquered more easily. Those sneaky bast...

Anybody reading the lats section nowadays will see "chinup" and be linked to a plethora of conformism-labelled exercises where the hand will only be in a supinated position. As those who have read past rants: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 , you will be familiar with the changes in the site which have been docum...

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It does make a difference but not so much to the rear delts. The difference has to do with internal vs external rotation which changes the contribution from certain rotator cuff muscles. I don't agree, rotation does affect the rotor cuff muscles but it also does affect how the deltoid is recruited....

Check out some before/after images. The first links on the left are no longer listed on the 'back' pages at BackGeneral aka General Back but are luckily still in the database. These are for LV Rows, rows done with levers (a hinge on the ground for half the bar). It appears that "bent over" got chang...

Yeah but I wish I knew why it's supposed to do that... I mean supination/pronation is just movement of the radius and the ulna stays fixed right? So how does it affect the triceps?

This thread is not about the long head, because unlike the other 2, it's a bi-axial muscle that crosses the sholder joint so obviously changing shoulder position alters it's length and recruitment. But the medial and lateral heads are different. They cross a single joint, the elbow. They attach to t...

The best stretch is to do a loaded movement through the full range of motion. Increasing the frequency of RDLs and squats would work best in this case. Even doing some lightly weighted ones between your heavy workouts might help. Maybe for the hamstrings, but neither of those movements will stretch...

I approve of the use of the most excellent word "picayune" You know, people sometimes say "my two cents" when relaying their opinion, and this currency is apparently worth over double the amount. So I say we should take it back. Much like 'trivial' (listed as a synonym). Trivial Pursuit is awesome,...

The lower abdominal EMG and posterior pelvic tilt phenomenon was demonstrated by Sarti et. al. (1996) with the reverse crunch over fifteen years ago. Willet et al. (2001) demonstrated the same thing five years later, also with the reverse crunch, and Duncan (2009) showed the same with a Swiss ball ...

rectus abdominis is innervated by the lower 6 or 7 thoracic nerve-root segments. So since it has multiple nerves, it makes physiologic sense that regions of the muscle could be more or less active than others. If T6 is firing, the more superior fibers of rectus will contract. If T12 is not firing a...