Secret Training Tip #242 - Be 10% Stronger in Leg Curls Instantly!Written by Nick Nilsson
This is a trick to be done on a leg curl machine. By simply changing where you grip your hands on machine, you can increase your strength in movement by as much as 10% instantly! Lie face down on bench as you normally would when doing exercise. Instead of gripping machine on handles below bench with your arms bent, extend your arms straight overhead in front and grab on to whatever is there. This is generally frame on either side of weight stack. Be aware that this trick will not work if there is nothing there to grab - some machines just end at bench and have weights stack to side or behind. Do your leg curls as you usually would but using this different grip. You should feel stronger when doing them.
| | One Simple Movement Can Double the Effectiveness of PulldownsWritten by Nick Nilsson
The Pulldown is an excellent exercise for working Latissimus Dorsi muscles of back (also known as lats). It is a little known fact but there is a way you can dramatically improve effectiveness of this exercise by performing one simple movement before each rep. Many people have a hard time feeling their lats working when they do pulldowns. The biceps may have a tendency to take over movement. Some people just don’t feel anything in their back at all. This little movement trick can change all of that. The movement is simply a shoulder drop and even though it may seem like a SMALL thing, it can have a HUGE impact on your back workout. To demonstrate this movement, start by sitting in a pulldown machine with a moderate weight on stack. Take a close grip on bar with your palms facing you (known as a reverse grip). Do a few reps using your normal technique so you have a gauge to measure against. Now we will add shoulder drop. Let your arms go straight and let your shoulder girdle rise up as though shrugging. Your shoulders should be up by your ears. Now drop your shoulder girdle down in opposite movement to shrug, pulling weight down as you do so. The range of motion is small, being only a matter of a few inches. Repeat this drop and raise several times to get feel for movement. You should feel your entire shoulder girdle moving up and down.
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