name some unorthodox or modified exercises you do

[PitbullTank]

Pitbull I had seen that Charles Glass video before and he does some great things with his athletes. I remember he done a reverse hack squat one for hams years ago too. I can't remember who Charles was making do it at the time but I started doing them myself (can't now ).

Anyway today was my first day back in the gym since my back injury. It's still a little sore so I trained calves, quads and chest. My gym has 3 hammer strength chest machines in a row and the gym was fairly empty so I used all 3 back to back. There is a chest press, wide grip chest press and incline chest press. I only went light so done 1 plate then 2 plates for each machine. I started with 1 plate would do 15 reps in a normal postion then go straight into Charles modified position and would do another 15 reps. I then done the same for 2 plates so 30 reps each set. I was short on the 2nd set of 15 reps 2 times as my reps were extra slow. I made sure to not lock out and I kept my shoulders down and my elbows out. So it was 12 sets total with minimal rest and my chest was destroyed. I finished with some db flyes and I was done for the day.

I done the seated calf raises in the smith machine you mentioned too for a change. I got up to 4 plates a side but didn't want to do more due to my back. Lifting it is fine but when I was finished getting it back on was alittle awkward (the smith machine is not the best and isn't very stable).

Yes the smith calf is a little tricky id imagine w the back as its basically a deadlift to rerack it lol...

I have only been doing incline chest work for the past ~4-6 months... my chest looks 10x better then when doing just dips and declines, it starts much higher up and has much better shape now... i use to preach declines and dips only, i was wrong ill def admit it... not that decline and dips didnt make my pecs bigger, but the look wasnt close to now hitting all incline...

 

[Elvia1023]

Yes the smith calf is a little tricky id imagine w the back as its basically a deadlift to rerack it lol...

I have only been doing incline chest work for the past ~4-6 months... my chest looks 10x better then when doing just dips and declines, it starts much higher up and has much better shape now... i use to preach declines and dips only, i was wrong ill def admit it... not that decline and dips didnt make my pecs bigger, but the look wasnt close to now hitting all incline...

I followed the same advice from a certain someone too. Dips and declines are great but I am the same. Common sense really... the more angles you hit it from the better it is likely to be. My chest is finally starting to actually grow alittle