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Luiz Freitas and lat shrugs
anybody remember this guy??...from Brazil I think...http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=51159.I remember reading an article in M & F back in the day on this "revolutionary" method he had developed to work his back and thereby making crazy improvement...if you're not familar with lat shrugs, you use your arms like hangers...the arms don't move during a row or pulldown...kinda like the traditional shoulder shrug...anybody make this method worth while or try it for an extended period of time say a few months or more??
sounds like a rhomboid exercise.
Like the "secret" by Samir Bannout??? People have been known to break mirrors using this exercise then put bandaids on the crack hoping it will heal.
Nautilus used to make a machine that did this movement perfectly, but with a much larger ROM. I doubt you'll find one in any modern gym, but you might be lucky somewhere. It was called the Nautilus Behind the Neck machine. Someplace huge like Gold's Venice or the Kolosseum might have one, but they are very rare. I'd love to be able to get on one regularly.
anybody remember this guy??...from Brazil I think...http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=51159.I remember reading an article in M & F back in the day on this "revolutionary" method he had developed to work his back and thereby making crazy improvement...if you're not familar with lat shrugs, you use your arms like hangers...the arms don't move during a row or pulldown...kinda like the traditional shoulder shrug...anybody make this method worth while or try it for an extended period of time say a few months or more?? I do them as a warm up without weight before heavy rows or weighted pullups..
Yeah I remember him. I used to see him work out. Something tells me he got busted for drugs way back and more recently I read he was in Chiropractic school. I could just have a bad memory though.
I use a variety perhaps of that movement. Almost a standing pullover, or triceps pushdown with straight arms. Standing at a lat pulldown machine, pushing the bar down with your arms straight bending at the hips.
Usually use to warm up or to hit the lats further in a superset after pulldowns.
Really works the tie in area of the lats and intercostals.
i too use something almost exactly like this for warming up. i hang from the power rack and pull up from my lats leaving my arms striaght... mainly before bent over rows and/or deads or cleans. i like it cause it gets my hands ready too holding my fata$$ off the ground really warms up the forearms
Yeah for a few months i've been doing horizontal BB shrugs lying on a bench. Really hits the upper middle back hard, great pump. Pullups and rows just don't hit that area of the back in the same way. I use plenty of weight, more than what i do with rows.
I make it my final exercise on back day.
Yeah I remember him. I used to see him work out. Something tells me he got busted for drugs way back and more recently I read he was in Chiropractic school. I could just have a bad memory though. Yeah,he was busted for gear a long time ago and gave-up a few people in the process to save his ass.Funny but I was just looking through an old Flex from '88 and it had an ad for some Weider packs with Freitas curling in the add and referred to him as a "natural" training bodybuilder-f'ing hilarious!
1 Attachment(s) Nautilus used to make a machine that did this movement perfectly, but with a much larger ROM. I doubt you'll find one in any modern gym, but you might be lucky somewhere. It was called the Nautilus Behind the Neck machine. Someplace huge like Gold's Venice or the Kolosseum might have one, but they are very rare. I'd love to be able to get on one regularly. you mean this one? it's a great machine, never knew what it was called
Yeah for a few months i've been doing horizontal BB shrugs lying on a bench. Really hits the upper middle back hard, great pump. Pullups and rows just don't hit that area of the back in the same way. I use plenty of weight, more than what i do with rows.
I make it my final exercise on back day. any pictures of these Exercises ??
Here's a truly unique exercise that hits the upper back muscles - the rhomboids and teres major and minors - like no other. These are the muscles that elicit gasps when properly developed in a rear double biceps pose. To do this exercise, lie facedown on an incline bench. Grab two dumbbells off the floor. Now, rather than shrug them, as the name implies, squeeze your shoulder blades together and hold the contraction for a full second.
It's nothing more than the reverse action of a hug, or trying to perform rear laterals as if you had no arms. The effect is an amazing pump, as this is probably the first time in your life these muscles will have received direct work. Pulldowns to the back of the neck hit this area, but the effect is blunted by the involvement of two weak links - your biceps and rear delts, which are far less powerful than the upper back.
You will be quite sore the next day the first two or three times you do lat shrugs. The reward, however, is striking development in a region of the back few people ever build to any degree.
You can also do them with a pulldown machine
any pictures of these Exercises ?? Paint will have to suffice, couldn't find a pic. At my gym there is a bench that is about 4 feet above the ground and it seems to be intended for lying BB rows. I jump on and try to lower the bar all the way down then pull it up as far as possible while keeping the arms straight at all times. A horizontal shrug. So just the shoulders/shoulder blades are moving pretty much.
I squeeze at the top for a second and try not to rest at the bottom. Down and straight back up. 2-3 sets of 10-12 reps.
anybody remember this guy??...from Brazil I think...http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=51159.I remember reading an article in M & F back in the day on this "revolutionary" method he had developed to work his back and thereby making crazy improvement...if you're not familar with lat shrugs, you use your arms like hangers...the arms don't move during a row or pulldown...kinda like the traditional shoulder shrug...anybody make this method worth while or try it for an extended period of time say a few months or more??
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sounds like a rhomboid exercise.
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Like the "secret" by Samir Bannout??? People have been known to break mirrors using this exercise then put bandaids on the crack hoping it will heal.
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Nautilus used to make a machine that did this movement perfectly, but with a much larger ROM. I doubt you'll find one in any modern gym, but you might be lucky somewhere. It was called the Nautilus Behind the Neck machine. Someplace huge like Gold's Venice or the Kolosseum might have one, but they are very rare. I'd love to be able to get on one regularly.
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anybody remember this guy??...from Brazil I think...http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=51159.I remember reading an article in M & F back in the day on this "revolutionary" method he had developed to work his back and thereby making crazy improvement...if you're not familar with lat shrugs, you use your arms like hangers...the arms don't move during a row or pulldown...kinda like the traditional shoulder shrug...anybody make this method worth while or try it for an extended period of time say a few months or more?? I do them as a warm up without weight before heavy rows or weighted pullups..
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Yeah I remember him. I used to see him work out. Something tells me he got busted for drugs way back and more recently I read he was in Chiropractic school. I could just have a bad memory though.
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I use a variety perhaps of that movement. Almost a standing pullover, or triceps pushdown with straight arms. Standing at a lat pulldown machine, pushing the bar down with your arms straight bending at the hips.
Usually use to warm up or to hit the lats further in a superset after pulldowns.
Really works the tie in area of the lats and intercostals.
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i too use something almost exactly like this for warming up. i hang from the power rack and pull up from my lats leaving my arms striaght... mainly before bent over rows and/or deads or cleans. i like it cause it gets my hands ready too holding my fata$$ off the ground really warms up the forearms
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Yeah for a few months i've been doing horizontal BB shrugs lying on a bench. Really hits the upper middle back hard, great pump. Pullups and rows just don't hit that area of the back in the same way. I use plenty of weight, more than what i do with rows.
I make it my final exercise on back day.
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Yeah I remember him. I used to see him work out. Something tells me he got busted for drugs way back and more recently I read he was in Chiropractic school. I could just have a bad memory though. Yeah,he was busted for gear a long time ago and gave-up a few people in the process to save his ass.Funny but I was just looking through an old Flex from '88 and it had an ad for some Weider packs with Freitas curling in the add and referred to him as a "natural" training bodybuilder-f'ing hilarious!
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1 Attachment(s) Nautilus used to make a machine that did this movement perfectly, but with a much larger ROM. I doubt you'll find one in any modern gym, but you might be lucky somewhere. It was called the Nautilus Behind the Neck machine. Someplace huge like Gold's Venice or the Kolosseum might have one, but they are very rare. I'd love to be able to get on one regularly. you mean this one? it's a great machine, never knew what it was called
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Yeah for a few months i've been doing horizontal BB shrugs lying on a bench. Really hits the upper middle back hard, great pump. Pullups and rows just don't hit that area of the back in the same way. I use plenty of weight, more than what i do with rows.
I make it my final exercise on back day. any pictures of these Exercises ??
Answer:
Here's a truly unique exercise that hits the upper back muscles - the rhomboids and teres major and minors - like no other. These are the muscles that elicit gasps when properly developed in a rear double biceps pose. To do this exercise, lie facedown on an incline bench. Grab two dumbbells off the floor. Now, rather than shrug them, as the name implies, squeeze your shoulder blades together and hold the contraction for a full second.
It's nothing more than the reverse action of a hug, or trying to perform rear laterals as if you had no arms. The effect is an amazing pump, as this is probably the first time in your life these muscles will have received direct work. Pulldowns to the back of the neck hit this area, but the effect is blunted by the involvement of two weak links - your biceps and rear delts, which are far less powerful than the upper back.
You will be quite sore the next day the first two or three times you do lat shrugs. The reward, however, is striking development in a region of the back few people ever build to any degree.
You can also do them with a pulldown machine
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any pictures of these Exercises ?? Paint will have to suffice, couldn't find a pic. At my gym there is a bench that is about 4 feet above the ground and it seems to be intended for lying BB rows. I jump on and try to lower the bar all the way down then pull it up as far as possible while keeping the arms straight at all times. A horizontal shrug. So just the shoulders/shoulder blades are moving pretty much.
I squeeze at the top for a second and try not to rest at the bottom. Down and straight back up. 2-3 sets of 10-12 reps.