A couple tricks i always do in the gym
1. in standing barbell presses it helps alot to have a staggered stance, also push pressing is a good way to get a little more oomph out of a workout
2. driving with your heels when squatting makes the quads work harder ( a good thing haha)
3.Pronating the wrist when curling with dumbells, basicly start in a hammer curl position then about half way up (90 degrees) start turning your wrist so your palm is pointing towards you
4. Using 21's with pretty much any excerise to finish off really seems get that final burn your looking for....
5. for 3 weeks i like to work upper pecs only, then 3 weeks middle pecs and 3 weeks lower/decline (although im beginning to find i dont need that much work for lower pecs) seems to be working very well for me,keeps the body guessing which in turn leads to growth.....also at the end of every chest workout i do some wide grips presses
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5 helpfull tricks ??
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1. If you want to get a serious neck work out (not just doing extensions with 10lbs) and don't want to pay for a machine, you can stick your head in the padding of the lying leg curl on a bench with a leg station and work the sides and back of your neck on that (I have yet to figure out a way to work the front)
I normally load it up with over 100lbs for the neck and it works fantastic, the padding makes it very comfortable.
2. A pretty obvious one but if you don't have the wrist flexibility for doing front squats tie a pair of straps around the bar and grab on to those instead... if your not an athlete that wrist flexibility isn't that big of a deal and you'll be able to handle the exercise much better.
3. Don't forget to do toe raises!!! They will add much more dimension and width to your calves from the front... this is, IMO, what a lot of people are missing in their calf training. Not doing toe raises is like just working out your triceps and not working out your biceps simply because they are the smaller part of the arm. Most people could use any bit of extra mass on their calves, and this is pretty much a bit of free mass just waiting to be developed.
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the best way to isolate the bicep in dumbbell curls is to not wrap your thumb around the bar and to push your elbow back and lean a little forward...awesome way to kill your bi's
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07-11-2007, 06:34 PM #15
This is basically cheating, the two functions of the biceps brachii is to flex the forearm at the wrist and supinate the forearm at the wrist. By pronating your forearm during curls, you take out the supinating motion and give a little extra stretch to the biceps. This increases the ease of the exercise, letting you do more work. It also cuts out 1/2 of what the biceps brachii was designed to do.
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8. If u want to increase your vert jump one of the biggest things to help is.... after squatting try jumping as high as you can for as long as you can this tricks the body into thinking it is lighter then it actually is
9. Vary your grip ! in most excerises such as barbell curls bench press lat pull down and many others you can change the tension on that part of the muscle
an example would be instead of the normal grip(for bench press)try using a wide grip and you will really feel your chest stretch and , for me it seems to put more time under tension even tho its a shorter range of motion. but thats just me
10. The easiest way that i have found to use weight while performing crunches is to rest a dumbell on your chest, a lot of people that i see in the gym put a big plate on there chest and it seems to shorten the range of motion.
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