Re: ( skwigg) I need your help on some exercises.

[Guest guest]

Here's the weird chest exercise:

Incline Intercostal Thingies (I don't know what the hell they're called...)

Lie on an incline bench with light weights. I can only use 5-8 lbs. Let your

arms hang down at your sides, palms forward like you were planning to do a bicep

curl. Only instead of bending at the elbow, raise your arm from the shoulder,

keeping it totally straight. When you get the dumbbells up parallel to the

floor (about eye level, keeping your palms up, arms straight), slowly move the

dumbbells together and touch them over the center of your body. It pinches the

bejeezes out of where your pecs connect to your breast bone. Now slowly move

them back out to either side of the bench, still keeping the movement parallel

to the floor. Slowly lower them down and back to the starting position. Arms

straight. This has ripped actual cleavage onto my otherwise flat chest.

Change your grip and incline/decline frequently on chest presses. I also do all

manner of push-ups: decline with toes on a bench, decline with legs on a

stability ball, medicine ball under each hand, both hands on a centered medicine

ball.

One killer variation is to put a medicine ball center, do one push-up with both

hands on the ball, move your left hand wide to the floor (right still on the

ball) and do one push-up, come back to the center and do one push-up with both

hands on the ball, move your right hand wide to the floor (left still on the

ball) and do one push-up. You just keep alternating between the three positions

until you're shot.

Another fun upper body wrecker is a push-up on dumbbells and you alternate

rowing them at the top. So you put a couple of 20 pound hexes down parallel to

your body (thumbs will face each other), drop into a full push-up with one hand

on each dumbbell, press back up to the top of the movement, and then row your

right arm (like a bent-over row). Place the dumbbell back down, drop into a full

push up, press back up to the top, and row with your other arm. Keep alternating

until you're Jello. It's a killer push/pull exercise for your upper body. It

clobbers all your stabilizing muscles and is really challenging. You'd probably

want to do it from your knees or use lighter weights until you get the hang of

it and know you're not going to tip over and knock your teeth out. :-) Do it on

a mat or carpeting so you don't dent your floors.

( skwigg) I need your help on some

exercises.

I am getting bored with the same old chest exercises. I work out at

home and only have access to free weights.

What are some variations on the standards I can do? I know there is

something you can do when doing flys but I dont remember. I has been

so long.

Any ideas?

Shonda

[Guest guest]

" Incline Intercostal Thingies "

LOL. Bingo. Thats the one I was thinking of!

Will try that on my next chest workout! Thanks renee.

Shonda

> Here's the weird chest exercise:

>

> Incline Intercostal Thingies (I don't know what the hell they're

called...)

> Lie on an incline bench with light weights. I can only use 5-8

lbs. Let your

> arms hang down at your sides, palms forward like you were planning

to do a bicep

> curl. Only instead of bending at the elbow, raise your arm from

the shoulder,

> keeping it totally straight. When you get the dumbbells up

parallel to the

> floor (about eye level, keeping your palms up, arms straight),

slowly move the

> dumbbells together and touch them over the center of your body. It

pinches the

> bejeezes out of where your pecs connect to your breast bone. Now

slowly move

> them back out to either side of the bench, still keeping the

movement parallel

> to the floor. Slowly lower them down and back to the starting

position. Arms

> straight. This has ripped actual cleavage onto my otherwise flat

chest.

>

> Change your grip and incline/decline frequently on chest presses.

I also do all manner of push-ups: decline with toes on a bench,

decline with legs on a stability ball, medicine ball under each

hand, both hands on a centered medicine ball.

>

> One killer variation is to put a medicine ball center, do one push-

up with both hands on the ball, move your left hand wide to the

floor (right still on the ball) and do one push-up, come back to the

center and do one push-up with both hands on the ball, move your

right hand wide to the floor (left still on the ball) and do one

push-up. You just keep alternating between the three positions until

you're shot.

>

> Another fun upper body wrecker is a push-up on dumbbells and you

alternate rowing them at the top. So you put a couple of 20 pound

hexes down parallel to your body (thumbs will face each other), drop

into a full push-up with one hand on each dumbbell, press back up to

the top of the movement, and then row your right arm (like a bent-

over row). Place the dumbbell back down, drop into a full push up,

press back up to the top, and row with your other arm. Keep

alternating until you're Jello. It's a killer push/pull exercise for

your upper body. It clobbers all your stabilizing muscles and is

really challenging. You'd probably want to do it from your knees or

use lighter weights until you get the hang of it and know you're not

going to tip over and knock your teeth out. :-) Do it on a mat or

carpeting so you don't dent your floors.

>

>

>

> ( skwigg) I need

your help on some exercises.

>

>

> I am getting bored with the same old chest exercises. I work out

at

> home and only have access to free weights.

>

> What are some variations on the standards I can do? I know there

is

> something you can do when doing flys but I dont remember. I has

been

> so long.

>

> Any ideas?

>

> Shonda

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Um, yeah. I've long suspected that Evil Trainer reads all kinds of torture

manuals. :-)

Re: ( skwigg) I need your help on

some exercises.

It's like you ripped a page out of my physical therapist's shoulder

torture manual...