Cable Push Pull

[Q.]

I was perusing ExRx just a while ago and came across the Cable Push Pull exercise. Looks pretty interesting... anybody use it?

[Newlife]

Very interesting.

No, I have never tried them. I have a high/low pulley at my house but only 1 station vs. a crossover.

BUMP! and thanks for providing a link.

[eastcoastsurfer]

The trainers at the gym I go too seem to love this exercise. Everyone new person I see them training ends up doing these. I've never done them though, since I would rather just do bench presses and rows.

[Q.]

I tried them today and the thing that struck me was that you have to stabilize from just about head to toe so it's really involving a lot more muscles than presses and rows. It's not a substitute for those, just something different to throw in once in a while. In fact, I did three sets and I was still unstable through most of the motion. I think that, if you could do it in a very controlled way, it would be a good exercise... just another tool in the toolbox!

On a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT topic, I was doing odd stuff today because I'm going on vacation and didn't play my usual Friday racquetball. One thing I was messing around with was the platform that allows you rack about midlevel... whatever that's called. I was doing RDL's (actually, trying to keep my legs as straight as I could) and going down until the bar touched my shoes. Since this is on a platform, you can get the weight lower than normal. I loved the pull in my hammies and I have to think that this greated range of motion would be preferred for RDL's of SLDL's.

[CAchief]

it just shows that when you think you have done it all, you haven't! Thanks for the link Q.

[bipennate]

In general, it's a 'piston style' technique, and you can do that with just about anything...bench, lat pulldowns (seperated pulleys, of course), even things like shrugs! You'd be surprised how difficult simply pistoning the motion makes an exercise!