..EXACTLY what muscle group is worked while doing PULLOVERS?

[Remington]

I feel it in my tris---not too much in the lats though.
Any suggestions?
This is what Im talking about:
http://www.shapefit.com/chest-exerci...-pullovers.gif

[TADOLFI]

If you are using a dumbell you will automatically try to grip in a whole different way than if you use a straight or curl bar. You are setting yourself up to work the tricep more because of the natural path of movement.

If using a straight bar and you still feel it more in the tricep, lighten the weight and ask someone to watch your form to see if you are arching a lot or bending your elbows too much.
The position you are in on the bench can even mess this exercise up - too far over the edge...you don't get the stretch, too far the other way and you're using too much arm instead of incorporating your shoulders.

I recommend bent rows, pull-ups and some T-bar for basic lat exercises.

Just my 2 cents

[JAYROD]

i feel it in my tri's also. i go pretty heavy using 60's or 65's and i like the stretch i get. i almost always end my chest and back supersets with pullovers followed by cable cross-overs or peck-deck and love the pump i get.

[Timm1704]

i have never felt dumbbell pullovers in any other muscle group other than chest. niomechanically, i would assume it trains the lats, but from using this exercise many, many times, i class it as a chest exercise 100%. i often use it at the end of a chest workout, supersetted with a flying movement, that way im stretching the chest in both directions

[Myka]

tris = close grip bench

lats = chins or lat pulls

fin

[BOUNCER]

IMO pullovers are best done as a pre-exhaust exercise and done with very light weight and high reps. I found in the past the best way to isolate your lats was to do your pullovers standing at a lat pulldown machine. Step out from it, bend at the waist and with dead straigh arms pull the bar to your thigh. If you feel it on your shoulders or tri's drop the weight. but you will feel a stretch on your tri's.

-BOUNCER

[catabolic kid]

Pullovers on a nautilus machine really work your lats well....if anyone has seen blood and guts, you will see that Dorian does these in his routine. I never do pullovers iwth free weights, but withthe nautilus machine, pullovers are great for lats.

[DwinsChamps]

I do my pullovers on a flat benchwith two 45 lb plates stacked on top of each other....after the pullover try following it with what is essentially a close-grip bp, pushing the plate stack off of your chest and then following that with the next pullover rep.

I'm training for athletics, not bodybuilding/power lifting, so 2 sets of 25 reps (at a fast pace) really torches my triceps and serratus, and using the stacked 45's forces you to grip the weight differently than you're used to.

[taiboxa]

mostly lats and seratus as well as other stabilizers.

IMO its great to use to get a bigger rib cage and expand the torso .. but after 22-23 its realy hard to get that effect.

[*Narkissos*]

Chest; Lats; Seratus

I do pullovers on a decline bench for greater lat involvement.

I find that subtle positional changes can redirect the stress generated...

[taiboxa]

Chest; Lats; Seratus

I do pullovers on a decline bench for greater lat involvement.

I find that subtle positional changes can redirect the stress generated...

and and if u do them on a bench and drop ur ass way down it really smokes ur serratus/lats