When should I increase the weight?
Also, if someone says that they're lifting a certain weight at the cable machine, does that person refer to weight per arm, or weight overall?
Like, if someone says that their 1 RM at cable fly is 50 lbs, does it mean that he uses 50 lbs weights for every arm, meaning that he lifts 100 lbs total, or that the total weight he lifts is 50 lbs, meaning that he uses 25 lbs weights for every arm?
That shit hurts my shoulder, Id rather do pendlays
I can feel my lower back cringing just from reading this.
You just have a bad form.
Pendlay rows absolutely do not frick your lower back dyel brainlet
No, pendlay rows do require a significant isometric contraction. The lower back doesn't move the weight, but it's responsible for essentially every single bit of stabilization and positioning.
Pendlay rows have a lower back recovery cost that is entirely non-negligible and which is considerable relative to all other rowing movements.
it doesn’t matter because only a 14 year old kid would brag about his fricking cable fly 1 rep max
I'm trying to understand the terminology.
1. Increase the weight when you get over 15 - 20 reps taken to muscular failure.
2. Only a moron cares about what he or other people can cable fly.
3.
>not posting the superior red man
Cringe
>1. Increase the weight when you get over 15 - 20 reps taken to muscular failure.
ok. By how much though?
>2. Only a moron cares about what he or other people can cable fly.
I'm trying to understand the terminology, and it has nothing to do with comparing to other people. For example, you said "increase the weight". I asked by how much. And you'll say a number. Is that per arm? Is that overall? I don't fricking know, because apparently everyone went straight for "ooooh it must be a bragging thing".
>Cringe
Blue is cooler than red.
1. ~10%, or a weight you can do 8 reps with
2. Doesn't matter because of the distributive property of multiplication
>1. ~10%, or a weight you can do 8 reps with
ok
>2. Doesn't matter because of the distributive property of multiplication
Just admit that you don't know.
>muscular failure
What other kind is there in this situation. Go back
Volitional and technical to name a couple off the top of my head.
This board is so fricking gay
>asks question
>gets honest true answer
>bitches about it
What are you, a woman?
Who gives a shit
Idk, good question.
You should increase the weight when it becomes easy. So when you can do 12 good reps and you feel like you can do even more, then you know you can raise the weight by at least 10 lbs.
If you do sets of 10 reps, and you can push to 12 reps in your last sets and still have 2 reps in the tank then you should increase the weight in the last set next time you do flys. When you start feeling you can go more than 10 reps with the new weight in your last set, next time you do flys you will do this new heavy weight for last 2 sets now. And like this increase it gradually just don't ego-lift and injure yourself, it's so easy to injure yourself in flys
I assume that's the same for dumbbell flies?
Who in the actual frick tries to max a cable anything? Figure out your rep scheme, if you hit your number and you can do more go up in weight. Cable movements are accessory, they should be in a high rep range 12-20.
>When should I increase the weight?
When you can do more reps. I like to do double progression where I first go up in reps(say 10-15 or 10-20)
Once my reps are like 20, 19, 18 or something I would go up in weight by whatever low increment I can.
Doing 8-12 would be viable too, I wouldn't do like a 3x3 on cable fly's.......
>Also, if someone says that they're lifting a certain weight at the cable machine, does that person refer to weight per arm, or weight overall?
They need to clarify. Or you could interpret it at each gym. A cable stack on a functional trainer could be say.... 5-50lbs with a 1 to 1 ratio. If someone said they are doing 100lbs then it's 50 on each stack.
Some stack are a 2 to 1 ratio so it might say 300lbs but you are only lifting 150lbs of resistance due to the mechanical advantage.
No on cares, just lift hard and get stronger. If you can do like 75lb+ db flys then you can brag I guess.
Fricking hate it when people monopolise 2 cable pulleys for this absolute DYEL exercise. I have never EVER seen a jacked dude doing cable flies, only shrimpy little dudes.
Just do dumbbell flies and pec deck you absolute c**ts, I need those cables for tricep pulldowns you c**ts.