If you're working out at your home, you can use resistance bands or exercise tubing to simulate the exercises
done of the cable machine.
Not exact matches
Like the name
of the workout suggests, you'll be
doing the whole workout on the
cable machine.
It can be
done with many types
of equipment, such as dumbbells, barbell, EZ - bar and even the
cable machine, all
of them providing equally amazing benefits.
You've probably tried to push your upper pecs to grow with the help
of incline barbell / dumbbell presses, incline
cable flies and similar
machine exercises, but since you're reading this article, we can assume that you're
doing some wrong.
Well, not unless they are
done in a certain way, in which they can engage the entire abdominal wall and fully stretch it, thus putting a great deal
of tension on the lower abs with weighted reps.. This exercise is a variation on the standard rope crunches, this time using a D - handle instead
of the rope on the
cable machine.
There's literally an infinite number
of exercises you can
do with free weights,
cables, and
machines, but nothing beats plain old heavy lifting.
If you don't have access to a
cable machine, try another exercise from the Picture Directory
of Abdominal Exercises, or visit the page on oblique exercises.
If you are the type
of weight trainer / bodybuilder that never
does pull - ups or chin - ups because you use
machine and
cables to attack those muscles groups, then you will know that moving a heavy weight on the lat.
The
cable kickback
machine also comes with weight and you can
do kickbacks with the weight
of your choice according to your strength.
The
cable of the kickback
machine makes you
do kickbacks more easily without causing any trouble to the muscle.
Out
of sheer curiosity: what
do you make
of cable machines?
Second, you're going to be holding two handles attach to the low pulleys
of a
cable cross-over
machine in your fists while you're
doing the push - up.
The
machine didn't have a seat, but had a place to anchor your heels while you kneeled in front
of the plates and
cable.
I am linking below to a post he
did recently reviewing a study which found a benefit to
cables over
machines in terms
of muscle recruitment.
Since I already have a good amount
of bodyweight work
done (was a few years ago though), perhaps I could get away with just
doing machine /
cable crunch,
machine oblique, and weighted captains (at least for now)?
Just get in the push - up position next to a wall or other solid flat object (I've also
done this on the upright post
of a
cable cross-over
machine).
You'll see people on the lat pull - down
machine,
doing cable rows and all kinds
of other
machine exercise just to avoid setting foot under the pull - up bar.
What you are basically
doing here is grabbing a rope
cable attachment and grabbing on to it facing the
cable machine just about near the bottom rear end
of your ears.
Also with
machines, the
cables are
doing most
of the lifting for you.
Indeed, Cacchio et al. (2008)
did note that training with the
cable machines led to beneficial alterations in the EMG amplitudes
of the stabilizers and
of the antagonist muscles, while training with the fixed bar path
machines did not.
It also reveals a rat's nest
of cabling for the power - supply which in a
machine with this sort
of pricetag I would expect to be much better hidden, but having said this considering there's no a clear panel for viewing the interior it doesn't matter too much.