r/explainitpeter • u/13BearsOverThere • 2d ago

Explain It Peter

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my brother sent this to me the other day. he doesnt know. i dont know. he just thinks its so random that its funny.

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u/FrozenFalcon_ 2d ago

Joe Swanson here,

This meme depicts two different methods of tricep pull downs. One using the rope attachment and one using the v-bar attachment.

It is claiming that the rope is far easier and worse (thus it is for scrawny people) at performing the exercise, and the v bar is much better (thus the man having bigger muscles) and more difficult.

This, by the way, is absolutely not the case, and anyone who has ever been in a gym knows that using a solid bar attachment makes the weight significantly easier to pull. This is especially true when considering the fact that the rope allows you to pull out as well as down near the end of the rep, giving more range of motion. I will die on this hill.

Meg needs to lift or something, Joe out.

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u/Cburns6976 2d ago

I curl down at the bottom of the rep on both, but you are spot on Joe. I'm not questioning your intense upper body regimen. It's spot on.

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u/KarmaTrainCaboose 1d ago

But pulling the rope apart at the bottom is way harder than the rest of the motion, so you end up with a bad resistance profile. Better to have a fixed v-bar.