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Banter: Favourite Lifts

Kait_Dee
Kait_Dee Posts: 176 Member
in Goal: Gaining Weight and Body Building
I love training banter!! What’s your favourite movement for:

Legs:
- Hamstring isolation
- quad isolation
- squat type

Back:
- Thickness
- Width

Delts
- lateral
- Rear

Pecs
- upper
- Lower

Arms

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  • Kait_Dee
    Kait_Dee Posts: 176 Member
    Mine are:

    Legs:
    - Hamstring isolation: DB Curls
    - quad isolation: late loaded K21 extensions
    - squat type: Banded smith squats right now!

    Back:
    - Thickness: WG lat pull downs
    - Width: WG or CG TBar Rows

    Delts
    - lateral: Meadows Laterals
    - Rear: Reverse pec dec

    Pecs
    - upper: incline DB presses
    - Lower: Incline push ups
    - PEC DEC! :D

    Arms: Hammer curls and rope press downs (and reverse rope press downs!)
  • acpgee
    acpgee Posts: 8,089 Member
    I started lifting in the Franco and Arnie era and still love the dumbell pullover for chest. I think cable crossovers for chest are a fun move too.
  • Mellouk89
    Mellouk89 Posts: 469 Member
    The dumbbell pullover is probably my favorite exercise of all time, it is still debated as to what is the main muscle group that is involved in this exercise. I always thought it was chest, but some people say it's mainly a lat exercise.


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  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,438 MFP Moderator
    Mellouk89 wrote: »
    The dumbbell pullover is probably my favorite exercise of all time, it is still debated as to what is the main muscle group that is involved in this exercise. I always thought it was chest, but some people say it's mainly a lat exercise.


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    It depends on your grip. If you grip the weight where your fingers form a triangle, then it will work lat. If you turn your hands over where your knuckles are near touching, it will work the chest.
  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,438 MFP Moderator
    edited February 2021
    Overall favorite is deadlift, but i am very fond of hip thrust and front squats.

    For upper body, cable flye, no money curls, skull crusher and meadows rows.

    When i program, these all tend to make it.


    Spider curls are fun too.
  • SnifterPug
    SnifterPug Posts: 746 Member
    Push press
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    edited February 2021
    Cleans...all day
  • steveko89
    steveko89 Posts: 2,223 Member
    Legs:
    - Conventional Deadlift
    - Back Squat
    - Hip Thrust
    Haven't found the need to add anything else.

    Back:
    - Barbell Rows
    - Pull Ups
    - Landmine rows
    - Single arm cable rows - read an article about doing these with an almost exaggerated range of motion and they absolutely slap

    Delts
    - Lateral Raises
    - Face Pulls
    - Arnold Press or barbell OHP for fronts

    Pecs
    - Bench
    - Bench
    - Bench... love me some bench press
    - Incline bench

    Arms
    - Conc. curls + tricep cable pulldowns - only recently realized I what I was missing out on neglecting direct tricep work. Most of my shirts have gotten pleasantly snug in the sleeves and I look like I could summon Mjolnir in good lighting.
  • fitnessguy266
    fitnessguy266 Posts: 150 Member
    Standing Overhead Press
    Barbell Squats
    Incline Bench Press
    Bent Over Barbelll Rows

    Full Body Workout :)
  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    Favorite and what I have available at home with no cables.

    Legs:
    - Hamstring isolation - on break now due to my favorite straight-leg deadlifts causing proximal hamstring tendinopathy. not sure what I'll move to for avoiding re-injury.
    - quad isolation - forward knee squats, as much as hip clearance anatomy allows to break parallel.


    Back:
    - Thickness - bent-over rows
    - Width - pullups

    Delts -
    - front - OHP
    - lateral - db raises
    - Rear - bent-over rear-delt rows

    Pecs
    - upper - bench
    - Lower - decline bench

    Arms - nothing, extra time needed for shoulder rehab iso's, and now hamstring eccentric slides
  • GaryRuns
    GaryRuns Posts: 508 Member
    I hate big lower compounds, squats, DLs, etc., unless I PR on one that particular day, then it's my favorite! :D
    • Favorite upper:
      • pullups. It wasn't that long ago I couldn't do a single wide grip, unassisted pullup. Now I can crank out 10-12. Hardly earth shattering but it's encouraging when I think about my progress.
    • Favorite lower:
      • calf raises. Kind of a lame choice, but I had decent calf development before starting resistance training due to genetics and years of cycling and running. Raises have taken them to a new level.
  • Mellouk89
    Mellouk89 Posts: 469 Member
    psuLemon wrote: »
    Mellouk89 wrote: »
    The dumbbell pullover is probably my favorite exercise of all time, it is still debated as to what is the main muscle group that is involved in this exercise. I always thought it was chest, but some people say it's mainly a lat exercise.


    e992j1xiiiif.png

    It depends on your grip. If you grip the weight where your fingers form a triangle, then it will work lat. If you turn your hands over where your knuckles are near touching, it will work the chest.

    I always did it with the fingers forming a triangle. it seems I could lift more weights that way. At the end when it got really heavy I had to place something on my feet so I don't fall back with the dumbbell :D

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