Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 13:38:38 EST From: mortal13@aol.com Subject: Re: Re: Path of the bar during the BP In a message dated 1/20/01 7:33:24 PM Eastern Standard Time, Mindfunky1@hotmail.com writes: > Any lat excercise has or can have a static portion to it. Westside > suspends bands from the top of a rack, slides a bar, lies down on a > bench, and pulls the bar to the chest. Once there, they hold it > statically for a period of time until they cannot hold it in said > postion. I do static contraction work on the lat pulldown and the > supported T-bar row machine. Hold the portion of peak conctraction > for as long as possible with a given weight. You can either do it > during each repetition for a brief period or by itself. Give these a > try or use this principle with any back excercise of your choice. I posted on this as well. I hang the bar from the rack with my bands and basically do pull downs with a reverse bench grip and normal grip. To add tension you can either add bands or twist the bands (make sure to twist them both the same). Dave Tate says to train the lats in the same plane as the bench. This has helped me immensely with my bench as well as added some size to my otherwise puny lats :) Jim Williams Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 08:44:42 EST From: mortal13@aol.com Subject: Re: Re: Path of the bar during the BP In a message dated 1/24/01 5:34:07 PM Eastern Standard Time, tdoll@MPHI.org writes: > Jim, > > Do you strap yourself to the bench? If you don't doesn't your torso lift > off? Tagg, no, I don't seem to have any problem with being lifted off the bench(maybe because I weigh 245). I don't go nuts with twisting them or anything. Maybe you ought to put a couple of those 2.5 pound coasters off the top of the weight stand in your pockets..... :) Jim Williams