Quality of lifts, targeting specific muscle groups

[TheOtherOne55]

I love these threads because we NEED more training talk here on PM.

Scott S and Jordan Peters talk about this on the new Muscle Minds on Advice's Radio too. Jordan basically had pulled back on his extreme progressive overload programming for awhile—really trying to pick the righttt exercises and slowing down the lifts/fighting the weight more. I recently stopped my progressive overload program (Fortitude) because at a certain point I was getting sooo damn hyped up to lift the big weights and beat number, I wouldn't even feel what I was working. And when I backed down, left my ego at the door and used less weight but thought about each and every contraction—my body grows.

 

[maldorf]

partial agreement brotha... the problem is a lot of people don't pull far enough down..... or they lose their back arch positioning when pulling releasing tension from lats.... orrr they usually have some type of body english leaning back as they get to about the 3/4 point, then try to like bring their chest back up to the attachment piece in a quick move as it comes down further to make them feel like they have pulled it from the top of the movement to top of the chest...you need to be able to pull down( or pull yourself up on a pull up) far enough where you can fully contract... elbows have to come back/down as far as possible while keeping a locked back arch

Youll see guys doing that when they do pullups, swinging their legs to help them move back away from the bar and upward some as they pull up which makes it easier for them to get their chin up over the bar. I do think doing chins makes it much harder to cheat though, and always seemed more productive to me than pulldowns. Too much use of momentum in a lot of lifts.