Name a lift that immediately signifies the lifter is either a noobie or an utter homosexual. For me it's cable flies. Especially in a crowded gym with one cable station. Not that there's anything necessarily wrong with cable flies, but every time the person I see doing these just sucks at life. Every single time.
Tricep kickbacks.
why?
Triceps kickbacks are literally the only freeweight exercise where the load is highest at the bottom of the motion. Unless your gym has a triceps extension machine, this is pretty much the ONLY exercise where your tris are doing the most work when your elbow is fully extended. With cg presses/dips/rope extensions/skullcrushers etc your tris are doing very little work in the second half of the extension and it's hard to overload them this way.
I've been seeing a ton of "fitness/lifting" accounts on social media passing around this advice against kickbacks in favor of low cable tri extensions, but it's clearly meme advice and they don't have their own critical understanding of what the exercise is doing
who cares, isolation exercises are fricking gay. do some chin ups if you want triceps.
>do some chin ups if you want triceps.
Chin ups. Triceps. You're trolling right?
>He doesn't know
chinups dont work triceps so I'm gonna disregard your entire post. However, isolation exercises are not memes and are great ways to complement compound exercises and round out your muscles through stressing them in different ranges of motion or different mechanical scenarios
Not that guy, but I've always seen them as a meme exercise as I've only ever seen complete DYELs doing them, or fat housewives with 0.5kg dumbbells trying to "tone" their arms.
sure, I've seen plenty of DYELs doing them but they are the real fricking deal. I can closegrip press 225 and do dips with 80lb dumbbells between my legs--- both of them for reps to 10--- but i do triceps kickbacks with a 10lb dumbbell at the end of my workout using slow-ass timing and really milking the eccentric, and it fricking destroys my tris
for me, it's people doing pull-ups or curls in the power rack.
The squat rack is the only machine with close grip pullups
Leg extension machine pushing 30 lbs with cell phone in hand.
I only see middle-aged women or women who go to the gym once every year do these.
Bench press
Squat
Deadlift
I dropped bench press and dips since I find that it works the chest better. As for squats and deadlifts, I switched it over to hack squats and RDLs
Good job you're a dyel
keep seething little girl
smith machine
Smith close grip bench press is way underrated for triceps
side raises, just do some OHP
How bout both? Though that lateral raise machine with the pads is pretty cringe
I tried those for the first time the other day. I always do DB or plate lat raises. imo the lat raise machine probably works well assuming it fits your anatomy which it doesn’t for me. I think that’s the problem with a lot of machines. Work great for some people. For others it doesn’t work at all and is asking for an injury for no reason
My shoulders only started growing when I did lateral raises
Your shoulders got a pump, they didn't get any more muscle
They definitely got a lot bigger
OHP does little for side delts
moron
Leg Press
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Leg press where the seat moves rather than the foot pad
I think people use improper form on that one. I put the seat as close as possible so I can get 90 degrees and it hits my glutes nicely. I’m at 330 for 10 now and I’m hoping for 400 for reps soon
yeah, a lot of people dont put it as close and dont place their feet right, at that point it's an ego lift because you can lift more but youre not really doing it right
Kek moron. Dorian Yates used to love cable flies and pec deck. They work your chest much better than bench press does. The only homosexuals I see are homosexuals like OP that load up the bench press with more weight than they can lift with good form and then quickly do 8 half reps and then look around the gym as if everyone is supposed to be impressed
>telling me how I lift
You must be 18 to post here
Dorian didn't build his chest with cables, just like he (and Mentzer) didn't do "1 set hit" to build their physiques from scratch. And cables are an accessory to the bb bench press for a reason. You have a lot of learning to do homosexual.
Cope, bench press is absolute shit for growing chest.
floor assisted pullups off a barbell set in a power rack
why is everyone suddenly doing this fricking thing
which fricking tiktokker made this shit up
any woman who turns any gym equipment into an ass exercise
>Not that there's anything necessarily wrong with cable flies, but every time the person I see doing these just sucks at life.
you have ass burgers, anon
Anything I do. I'm working on it being better though
I do one arm cable press/flye combos at the end of my workout and bench 4pl8 for reps
Tell me more please OP
>I do one arm cable press/flye combos
lol what a dyel gay
>bench 4pl8 for reps
No you don’t
Db flyes, lurching cheat curls, sumo DL
imagine focusing on anything else than your own workout. giving a shit about other peoples routines is the biggest sign of a total n00b and utter homosexual.
When their homosexualry is taking up equipment that I need it does affect me you mouthbreather
I dropped this mindset after lifting for a few years and started thinking everyone was gay as frick in the gym
Yep, I actually had the same thought last week. Funny thing is you actually get a far better contraction with these of your pecs than benching but DYELs don't train with any intensity so resistance is futile at any rate.
Yeah same, not everyone's gonna make it and that's okay. Live laugh my homie.
For me, every LARPer that comes in with hecking based chucks on and does bb movements hasn't moved any weight.
this is the dyel that barely benches over lmao2pl8 and is telling you benches don't make your chest grow and other people aren't moving weight
he has NEVER posted body or lifts
I bench 140kg tyvm. Why does westside emphasise triceps training to increase bench? Wider grip benching increases pec activation but also can frick your shoulders up
Any decline bench movement.
How anyone still thinks this is a good movement is beyond saving.
The fastest way to getting gorilla breasts.
this. i only agree with this - literally the only exercise that when i see it makes my skull invert
ohp
bench
backsquat
dumbbell lunge/curl/press combos
name one exercise that hits glutes better than dumbbell lunges gayot
The bootyblaster machine or hip thrusts. I'll happily be a homosexual according to this board if it gives me a fat ass
Bootyblaster machine? Don’t make me google this gay shit bro
step ups
hex bar deadlift
hip thrusts
Idk brah I finally started incorporating cable Flys into my routine after years of lifting and it definitely activates more of the muscle in comparison to DB Flys. Just my experience, though, I do see lots of dyels doing 10lb cable flys so maybe your onto something
Cable flies are superior to DB flies, seated cable flies especially.
DB flies are garbage tier lift in general and bad for activation and feeling the muscle.
Pretty much anything with bands involved unless you’re rehabbing an injury or doing some super specialized eccentric/concentric work
>(insert OP's favorite lift here)
that's not a cable fly tho, this cable crossover machine is too small for it to be a fly.
this image is shit
a 6 inch penis isn't even a small
to make this choice actually difficult you would need to give the guy on the right like a 2 incher or something.
Cable machines in general. It's the only thing where you see men and women go at the same intensity. Like running too now that I think about it.
generally agreed, but I do really like cable machines for seated rows and cable pulldowns because unlike machines you have lateral movement/stabilization freedom and unlike dumbells you have a much fuller, less restricted range of movement. with dumbbells typically the bench or the dbs themselves can get in the way of doing a really deep pull, and with the cable seated row you can set yourself up for whatever positioning works; torso upright, leaning back, leaning forward
also for seated cable rows--- unlike a bench where you can do seal rows or incline rows and your chest is pinned/immobilized against the bench, with cable rows you have total freedom to retract scapula/expand chest uninhibited, which is key to a good back exercise
Do people actually care what others do in the gym? I do whatever the frick I want. I do hip thrusts and grunt loudly during it. I'm here to exercise so chill the frick out.
Overhead Press, Sumo deadlifts, Zercher squats, anything on the Smith Machine.
Everything except for ohp
DYEL is an appearance not a behaviour. If you are benching more than 2 plates but you look small and unmuscular, then you are DYEL. If you are doing some 4 plate deadlifts but you look like a stickman then you are DYEL. That's how it works. Ironically OP is probably DYEL