February 6, 2006
The Best and the Worst Biceps Exercises
The Worst Biceps Exercise: the Zottman Curl
The Z curl calls for curling a dumbbell with a regular palm up grip, then pronating the wrist and doing a reverse curl negative. Unless you are very in tune with your body your smaller flexors on the top of the forearm will be a hurting units for weeks; those negatives creep up without warning.
The Best Biceps Exercise: the One-Arm Dumbell Curl
It is hard to beat this classic provided you curl strict and slow and employ every high-tension technique in the book.
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January 30, 2006
The Best and the Worst Shoulders Exercises
The Worst Shoulders Exercise: the Seated Barbell Military Press
Do this one long enough and heavy enough and you can kiss your back goodbye. Get off your butt, you big sissy!
The Best Shoulders Exercise: the Arnold Press
Let’s face it, the big guy knew what he was doing. Even though there are other shoulder drills at least as effective as this one, say the clean-and-press, the Arnold press is a lot more user friendly.
Press two dumbbells from your chest starting with a curl grip. Not straight up though, but back and to the sides in an arc. It helps to bring your elbows as low as possible between reps; you will get a greater deltoid stretch and your shoulder joints will appreciate it.
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January 23, 2006
The Best and the Worst Chest Exercises
The Worst Chest Exercise: the Cable Cross-Over
The pec was designed for power and teasing it with this silly move is a waste of your time. If you want to bring out the ‘cuts’ you will be much better off etching them in with some old-fashioned iron bending. Go to IronMind.com for nails and instructions. Take a seminar with Senior RKC Brett Jones of BreakingStrength.com. Brett is the eleventh person to bend Iron Mind’s famous Red Nail TM, the second fellow under two hundred pounds.
The Best Chest Exercise: the Legal Powerlifting Bench Press
No need to reinvent the wheel here. You will not find a better chest builder than the barbell bench press. However, to get the most out, of it you had better lose some of your bad bodybuilding habits – such as putting your feet up on the bench and bouncing the bar off your chest. Drive your feet into the floor and pause on your chest for a second without relaxing, as you would in a power meet.
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