Not exact matches
The
cable crossover unit requires a large area in the gym, and it's not usually selected by average trainees, as it's considered
more of an advanced
exercise.
You can always use
more weight on compound movements and with that you stimulate
more muscle fibers and send signals for
more growth hormone production.What do you think, which
exercise will target
more muscle fibers — a dumbbell bench press or
cable crossover?
Every one of the
exercises below builds
more back muscle than the
cable pull - downs done religiously by trainees.
Although
cable and machine training might seem as
more fun, it is the heavy lifting
exercising that has the best results in this respect.
Your main task is to lift
more weight, allowing you to perform repetitions in the range of 5 - 8 reps. Try cutting out the isolation
exercises (like triceps extensions, biceps curls,
cable flyes etc...).
This is one of my favorite beginner pull up
exercises because the instability of the
cables make you recruit
more of your stabilizer muscles.
I think the best
exercises are wood chopper and crunches with
cable, but there are several
more.
A few of the
exercises that utilize
cable resistance can be very easily done with a training band as well, opening even
MORE exercises to you!
If your
cable machine is not heavy enough to give you a challenge at 15 reps, try another trap
exercise that you can add
more weight to or do
cable shrugs as a finishing move after regular barbell or dumbbell shrugs.
You'll get
more muscle activation with free weights, but
cable exercises aren't entirely guided either, so there's still some stabilization occurring, not to mention an unlimited number of different angles to experiment with.
And of course, you will see how Ben will talk about certain things you can do to make regular
exercises like dumbbell curls,
cable curls and incline curls be 10 times
more effective!
(Who knew that not having
cable could lead to
more exercise?