
Originally Posted by
dooie
I also did this tonight, I have bought new supps and was thinking it may be them, but after every set of the cable curls over the chair, my arms were killing, the pump hurt!!! This is the first time I've had a pump in my bis without my forearms hurting! That is the greatest aspect of working with the cable machine. It allows you to isolate the muscle much more than free weight can offer, hence putting more stress on the targeted muscle group, allowing for more hypertrophy. I love how it simply leaves out your forearm and puts all the stress on your biceps, cable machine is indeed a great invention for those who precisely know how to utilize it...
Chest would be hard to isolate to do the huh rep! I would like to know what you did!! I'm doing legs tomorrow, trying it on the leg extensions, can't wait! As a matter of fact, chest is pretty easy to isolate when you do partial reps. Wide grip, all the way down (barbell should not touch the chest though) and up 2/4 of the entire range of motion, making sure triceps will be left out as much as possible. Try this out with your regular weight-rep-set format, your chest will be sour for days. Partial reps on the leg extension machine has NOT worked for me. It worked for hamstrings on isolation machines but not for quads for some reason, so I follow partial reps philosophy for hams only.