Straight Arm Pullover On Floor
Straight arm dumbbell pullover.
Straight arm pullover on floor. Place your feet flat on the floor. Straight arm dumbbell pullovers work your lats pecs and abs. This is one of the active level strength exercises in exercise for better bones. Hold the dumbbell over your chest with your arms fully extended.
Both exercises can be used to emphasize either your lats or chest. It is actually one of the most commonly incorrectly performed exercises. To perform the straight arm dumbbell pullover lie on your back on a flat bench and hold a single dumbbell with both hands. Contreras found that dumbbell pullovers incited more chest work than straight arm cable pulldowns or dumbbell pullovers incited lat work.
Place your hands approximately 10 to 14 inches apart on the barbell. This is similar to the straight arm pullover the only difference being that the trainee has his head extended off the end of the bench and his hand grip is at shoulder width. Second rib box exercise. Not keeping the core tight and locking the spine in.
They also hit other small muscles like the serratus anterior muscles which all tie together to give a great physique. The most common mistakes. Contreras has since added to this idea saying. In november 2011 a study came out in the journal of applied biomechanics that showed the barbell pullover worked much more pec than lat.
Keep your elbows in and bent at close to a 90 degree angle at all times. Add in the core work and thoracic spine mobility and this exercise is a one man band to swole city. Keeping an overly straight arm position. As in the straight arm pullover the bodybuilder lowers the barbell gently to the floor.
Bent arm barbell pullover on an exercise ball is the same movements as above plus with the advantage of core strengthening. There should be a focus on maintaining slight natural bend throughout. The following are the instructions to complete the straight arm dumbbell floor pullovers exercise. Straight arm dumbbell floor pullovers.
Unfortunately most lifters do pullovers incorrectly negating many of the benefits while simultaneously producing trauma to the joints and connective tissue. Note that i will demonstrate proper dumbbell pullover technique to avoid injury and increase the effectiveness of this exercise.