In general I don't see anyone doing pullovers, a shame really

I mainly use dumbbells, but the resistance isn't as focused as with cables.

Because there's something called cable pullovers

@@carnivorous_vegan - What’s cable pullovers? I’ve been lifting for over 20 years I’ve never heard of that machine. What is it?

@@MrChuckwagon55 there's also something called Google

You’re very welcome. Thanks for your post.

@@HEAVYDUTYCOLLEGE Hey John, have you ever thought of doing a video with John Heart? He's one of Mikes students.

Another outstanding exercise 👏

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... and i have access to the whole nautilus center in a small city in Finland.

It is possible, use less weight.

The two are not mutually exclusive; that is, you can use strict form and still train as hard as you can within that confine.

Here are Mike’s thoughts on this: “it's imperative that we pass through the "break-over" point in intensity by carrying each set to a point of momentary failure. This is impossible, however, on exercises involving two or more muscles when one of these is a so-called weak link. Most conventional weight exercises for the chest, for example, involve the triceps. The triceps, being a smaller and, therefore, weaker muscle, will prevent you from working the pectorals to a point of failure. If you can incline 200 pounds for six reps, it's not the pectorals that are preventing you from lifting more weight or doing more reps, it's the weaker triceps giving out first. A similar situation exists when we work the lats with conventional rowing, chinning or pulldown movements. The biceps are unavoidably involved in these exercises because the upper arms must bend. Since the biceps are smaller and weaker than the much larger latissimus muscles, they will give out first, preventing the lats from being worked to the maximum and receiving full growth stimulation. This situation can be remedied by first performing an exercise that isolates and tires the primary muscle group. For example, Cable Crossovers, Dumbbell Flyes and Nautilus Flyes serve to Isolate the pecs. By carrying one of these exercises to a point of failure and then proceeding immediately to an exercise that involves the pecs along with a secondary muscle - say, the triceps, in the case of the chest - the triceps will have, a temporary strength advantage over the "pre-fatigued" pectoral muscles. This will serve to enhance your chest work, rather than hinder it. This will only be the case, however, as long as there is zero rest between the first isolation exercise and the second compound exercise (a compound exercise is one in which more than one muscle group is used to move the resistance). Taking any more rest than the time it takes to move from one piece of equipment to the other will seriously compromise the effectiveness of this method as the pre-fatigued muscle will regain up to 50% of its strength within 3-5 seconds of completion of the set!”

@@HEAVYDUTYCOLLEGE - Perfectly explained & 100% true.

Can't that same goal of fatiguing the pecs happen if you do compound first then immediately do flyes/pecs dek?

@@strengthequals5336 I was wondering the same, that was my main question.

​​​@@strengthequals5336I think he want to say the energy that you have at fist set and on next sets are different when it come to super set(for example if you want to work on your chest but if you do the compound workout on the first set you use more than one muscle group which make is not effective as isolatied workout to target the musle that you want work on and then if you do the isolated on superset you can't do the required reps that needed (as on the first set) so you shoud use fresh energy on the isolated one then superset on compound to targe thew working muscle... This is how i understood it

straight arm pulldowns or dumbbell pullovers

@@cesarrubio6847 thnx bro

Or rather, what’s right? Is just doing the pull-down apart of the ideal routine?

the ideal routine is designed with machines found in most gyms. Nautilus machines were praised by Mentzer for being exceptionally good at stressing the desired muscle. So, they are better, but seeing as how it's a rare thing to have in your everyday gym, they can be replaced with pull downs

I think that somewhere Mike said that biceps tend to get overtrained. For example in the pull down they are also stimulated.

You can do either Dumbbell pullover laying on a bench, or use a tricep machine but doing the pullover movement. It's a little difficult so you can watch videos for the technique.

Straight bar push downs on a upper pulley

I lay on a bench with my head towards the cable and pull the bar towards my legs, dumbbell doesn’t give you resistance when it reaches the perpendicular to the floor

@@elsanto8879 Thankyou

@@_antonhit 👍

Yes, Mike did train 3 days a week when competing. However, when he began training natural trainees as a profession throughout the 1990s, he quickly discovered that the majority of them could not recover from training three days per week. He began to insert rest days and some made better progress. He inserted additional rest days and he discovered that the majority made better progress still. Finally he recognized that high-intensity training takes a toll on a person’s recovery ability that was far greater than he initially believed. That’s when he substantially reduce the volume of of his clients’ training to one set per exercise and no more than two sets per muscle group and told them to carefully monitor their progress charts. When progress slowed down, he counselled that they should reduce the volume if possible, and add an additional day to assist in recovery and overcompensation. Once he saw the progress his clients were making, he made the statement “back when I was competing, even though I was the arch-advocate of lesser training, I was still overtraining.”

He transformed from Markus to Markus Ruhl

I started my own channel @highintensitylife thanks for asking!

Buy the book he finished just before he died.

@@CurtisMoe Is it 3 pages long? Honestly. Can’t imagine getting anything done in 20 min

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