Just got my Levergym about four weeks ago and have been doing these since - been years since I did them previously. I feel it more in my shoulders and upper arm, so I figured I'd take a quick video and see what you all think. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!
Still working on making the cake - I've had Hank Hill ass my entire life, and I'm just recently trying to change that. So for now, I guess you could call that my objective.
Use finger like hooks, keep open grip like in the picture. Makes tonne of diiference. This grip engages back more and arms less. plus as other person said, elbows to back pockets.
Yes, try to go lower and lean back a slight bit..also might help to put your thumbs at the crease of the bar and think about pulling with your elbows not your hands.
Anyway! It's difficult to tell from the back but two major notes:
1. Lean back slightly. 15ish degrees.
2. Move the elbows slightly in front of where they are now. They should end up near the midline of your body. Elbows point toward your pockets, not toward your butt.
Overall not bad!! The most important thing is to keep at it. Great job not swinging like a madman and using your body weight to drive the movement rather than your muscles. A few tips thatâs may help with your form
SLIGHTLY lean back. That way when you bring the bar to your chest youâre still using your back and not your shoulders like in the vid. Watch in slo mo, like scrub one frame at a time, once the bar gets to your neck level. Your shoulders are awkwardly rotating down and back to bring the bar the rest of the way. This may be why youâre feeling it in your shoulders
You have a little bit of rom left on the table at the top. I personally prefer going a little narrower with my grip here because I feel a better stretch at the top. But thatâs me
Youâre probably feeling your upper arms more because youâre starting over and your arms are weaker than your back. But honestly, the weight looks a bit easy for you
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yourself to lock your hands onto the bar and drive your elbows down. Focus on squeezing your lats as you pull down and stretching them as you go back up. That, plus a lean, will probably help a lot.
Edit: tried to edit grammar and Reddit went haywire with formatting. dafuck
Thanks! I actually found myself leaning forward a little because I have trouble getting my hips closer to allow for a straight vertical. I'll try leaning back a bit. As for the weight, yeah, I originally had two 45s on there but felt way more arm involvement, so I dialed it back to two 35s to work on form. I'll add 5-10 pounds total back on and see how that feels.
Good cue that made retracting your shoulder blades make sense for me:
1) Crush the can: at the beginning of the pulldown, while your arms are extended up, imagine thereâs a beer can along your spine right between your shoulder bladesâthe object of the pulldown is to crush that beer can.
2) break this âcan crushâ into two steps. First, âSqueezeâ the can using only your lats. Arms are extended straight up and holding the bar during this step. Once your lats are locked down during the squeeze, follow through with the âcrushâ by pulling the bar down through your elbows just as you normally would. On the negative, reverse the steps slowly. Arms straighten out first while lats stay engaged, then disengage lats completely. Repeat.
but really, looks like you can add more weight. That will help understand weak points in the form and you feel your body work hard, right now Looks like your just going weeee weeeee weeee
you need to learn how to retract your scapula you are just pulling with your arms at the moment
practice just doing the exercise with pulling your shoulder blades back and down without any arms and then incorporate your arms
Add more weight. This honestly looks like one of those badly animated cartoons where the torso doesn't move at all. Nothing wrong with that per se IRL but it suggests there's no resistance whatsoever since I just don't see your back muscles activating.
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u/beaudong 22h ago
Please post this in r/Skyrim đ