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2008/03/25, 05:46 PM
I have never been blessed in my shoulder, pec strength and have always struggled with both of these, but completly with chinups.
I have not worked out moderately in nearly 5 years since graduating high school. After stumbling upon this website, I have committed myself to re-starting as of today. today was day one in the program, and I have been eating better (mainly chicken breast in a salad) the last 3-4 days.
My question is for help with alternatives or ideas. The program Im using from the site includes "close grip chins" and I was not able to even one.
I didn't have a partner so was unable to do negatives until fatal. So, I moved across to the dip bar and did as many as I could for 3 sets (1 x 7, 1 x 5, 1 x2). The gym even had a neat machine to help with "negative" dips or chinups called a gravitron. doing a military grip style chinup with 100lbs added i struggled to do 5, adding 140 i was still barely able to do 5. That shows how weak my shoulder and upper back is i believe.
I just wanted to get some input into alternative exercises for this group of muscles in my program.
I understand the pro version of membership allows you to select other exercises but at this time in college i cant afford it.
Thanks everyone everything else went great (seated cable rows and calf raises on leg press) with an additional 7:30 of cardio on an elliptical machine burning 100calories thrown in.
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