Another one of the bicep’s function is supination. If you’re gonna use dumbbells, I generally recommend supinating as you curl since you won’t have the opportunity to do so on a lot of other curl variations with different equipment. #fyp #Fitness #gym #bodybuilding
The bayesian cable curl has been getting a lot of popularity recently because it’s a lengthened focused bicep exercise that is NOT a preacher curl. However, the setup on this exercise truly matters — here’s how to make sure you’re actually making the exercise lengthened focused #fyp #Fitness #gym #bodybuilding #TikTokTaughtMe
The skullcrusher should be thought of something like an overhead tricep extension done while laying down. Meaning, instead of the bar actually hitting your forehead, I would bring my shoulders higher and aim to arc the bar around my head. #fyp #Fitness #gym #bodybuilding
This goes for pretty much any tricep exercise, you generally want to limit shoulder movement so that you can better focus on biasing the triceps and minimize the lats getting involved. Why are the lats more involved with shoulder movement on a tricep pushdown? Well if we think about the act of bringing our shoulder down, this closely resembles a lat pullover. In other words, shoulder extension = more lat involvement. #fyp #Fitness #gym #bodybuilding
If you’re relying on static stretching alone when you warmup, you might actually be hindering your performance and thus your gains. Instead, the best warmup is simply scaling up in weight on whatever exercise you do. Be liberal with the amount of warmup sets you do, conservative with the amount of reps you do in a warmup #fyp #Fitness #gym #bodybuilding
If you tend to feel it in your arms when you’re doing lat pulldown, here is some advice that will surely help you better bias the lats. #fyp #Fitness #gym #bodybuilding #TikTokTaughtMe
For those that tend to cheat on hammer curls, a dumbbell cross body hammer curl is a more stable way to perform the hammer curl. But, it forces you to alternate each arm since the dumbbells would get in the way. Thus, a way to still be able to perform the movement bilaterally is on a set of dual cables. One thing, I recommend facing the cables in order to get a morr shortened resistance profile which matches where the target muscle has the best leverage. #fyp #Fitness #gym #bodybuilding #TikTokTaughtMe
If you’re doing overhead tricep extension with the rope and you’re not really feeling it in your triceps, it could be that you’re allowing your shoulders to drop and raise bringing in the front delts. Instead, you want to keep the shoulders high so that the only movement is coming from the extension of your elbows #fyp #Fitness #gym #bodybuilding #TikTokTaughtMe
One the key things to understand on bench press is using your lats to stabilize the shoulder joint. A very intuitive cue to engage this (that’s not bending the bar) is up, back, down #fyp #Fitness #gym #bodybuilding
Many people struggle to perform the leg raise correctly. With that said, a knee tuck is a more accessible variation that also naturally encourages the spinal flexion necessary to engage the abs #fyp #Fitness #gym #bodybuilding
Leg extensions is surprisingly one of the most common exercises I see people egolifting on… and there is a decent chance they’re not even aware of doing so. #fyp #Fitness #gym #bodybuilding #TikTokTaughtMe
Lets say you’re trying to train your “upper back”… which I assume most of us would consider any back muscle above the lats excluding the rear delts — and namely the traps. If this is true, it would not be much different than when you’re training the mid back. Thus, if you’re limited to dumbbells I recommend performing a chest supported row with your elbows flared / wrists pronated #fyp #Fitness #gym #bodybuilding #TikTokTaughtMe
Some of you are afraid of fully straightening your elbow on a preacher curl so here are my thoughts :) Tried out a new location at @FitnessFirstThailand during my month out here in Bangkok. #fyp #Fitness #gym #bodybuilding #gofurther #fitnessfirstthailand
There hasn’t really been a tutorial I’ve seen on how to find the proper seat height on an incline hammer strength press. The key is finding the height where your elbows are roughly tucked 45-60 degrees. #fyp #Fitness #gym #bodybuilding #TikTokTaughtMe
If you’re doing a cable lat pullover for the lats, you wanna avoid 2 big things that tend to come up: 1) having your arms drift above roughly eye level (the lats lose leverage in those high degrees of shoulder flexion) 2) bending and then extending your elbow to get the cable down — which brings in the triceps #fyp #Fitness #gym #bodybuilding
The biggest mistake I see people make on the seated cable rowis simply using too much momentum on the movement. Now i’m aware it requires effort to avoid swinging back and forth, thats exactly why I’d opt to do a chest supported row as opposed to this exercise. Nonetheless, if you were forced to do this exercise, think about pulling yourself towards the cable rather than pulling the cables back #fyp #Fitness #gym #bodybuilding
The one thing that ruins an Incline dumbbell curl is excessive shoulder flexion. It starts with the bench angle you’re using. If the angle is too low, it’s almost impossible not to have your shoulders come forward. Thus I recommend a minimum bench angle of 45 degrees (but ideally 60 imho). #fyp #Fitness #gym #bodybuilding
Something that will certainly help you increase your bench press is leg drive. But how do we go about using leg drive? Lets talk about that. #fyp #Fitness #gym #bodybuildibg #TikTokTaughtMe
The zottman curls look like one of those exercises that seem clever but in practicality, offer no benefit from a hypertrophy perspective compared to their counterparts. With that said, there is one somewhat practical use case I can see. #fyp #Fitness #gym #bodybuilding #TikTokTaughtMe
If you tend to feel it more in your arms when you do lat pulldown, here’s the solution: 1) focus on driving your elbows down to the side of your body. 2) consider taking a thumbless grip if you tend to find your forearms fatiguing. #fyp #Fitness #gym #bodybuilding