Further from the body,
cable exercises such as woodchops make for good shoulder training.»
Not exact matches
If you want, you can do an isolation
exercise,
such as a reverse
cable fly, and then move on to working your middle and front deltoids.
After I'm confident that the trainee masters the hip hinge movement and knows how to engage his glutes / posterior chain, I'll have him gradually progress on
exercises such as the
cable pull - through, plank with glute squeeze, box squat, and / or other similar
exercises that put a lot of stress on the posterior chain.
In order to fully engage and work the wrist flexors, incorporate
exercises such as barbell wrist curls,
cable wrist curls, and dumbells wrist curls into your routine.
There are a ton of different flye
exercises you can choose from,
such as dumbbell flyes,
cable flyes and machine flyes, but as I discussed in my previous post (The Best Chest Fly Exercise),
cable flyes are definitely the superior choice.
Such machines are known to work for
cable donkey kick and donkey kickbacks
exercises.
For the back, I would recommend
exercises such as hyperextensions, deadlifts, seated
cable rows and bent - over rows.
There are also many arm raise
exercises such as standing or seated side lateral raises,
cable front or lateral raises, standing or seated front raises, standing or seated bent over dumbbell lateral, lying side laterals, and reverse pec.
While
cable face pull employ the horizontal plane of motion,
exercises such as shoulder shrugs and upright rows employ the vertical plane of motion.
There are many different
exercises for strengthening the rotator cuff and you can perform the
exercises with different types of equipment,
such as dumbbells,
cables, or tubing / resistance bands.
Studies investigating multi joint
exercises (
such as the bench press) and single joint
exercises (
such as the dumbbell fly, pec deck machine, and bent - forward
cable cross-over) have generally found similar levels of pectoralis major EMG amplitude across all
exercises, which suggests that either type of
exercise can be used to good effect (Welsch et al. 2005; Rocha - Junior 2007; Shanke 2012).
However, a safe, simple and effective way to for a beginner to started an abdominal program is to emphasize basic abdominal flexion
exercises such as crunches, stability ball crunches,
cable crunches, hip lifts, full range knee ups and reverse crunches.