11-02-2017, 10:38 AM
(10-19-2017, 09:09 AM)Scott Stevenson Wrote: If you're creeping forward on reps and load, which adds up over time, that variability in rest interval will make a difference.
For Quads, a great ham iso. exercise that you can almost always get away with is a lying DB ham curl (on the floor). Just grab the DB's and commandeer near under the machine / rack you're using.
Lap squats can also be used with a barbell as a quad iso movement, i.e., as your last exercise after your (compound) BB squat loading sets are over. The same can be down with a smith machine, but there you've got smith sissy hacks and somersault squats to choose from.
LOL!!! I'm not like that at all in the gym, actually...
Just today, I had to grab a quick one (out of town traveling) and wanted to do a cable crossover pec fly. Another guy was doing pull-ups with the cross-bar of cross-cable machine and I went over to ask him if I could work in with the cross-cable. (He was bouncing around from machine to machine.) He was actually annoyed that I bothered him, which I suspected might happen.
IMO, No one has any more right to a machine really than another person, unless there's some common sense reason why someone should have priority. (E.g., if a monster is leg pressing 1000+lb and a 85yr woman wants to work in, it doesn't make sense for him to unload 20 plates each time she want to do a set when she could wait for him to finish.)
-S
you'll get a laugh out of this scott - so training has been going great, been able to move between sets with a good rest period and just borrow peoples equipment (e.g leg extension between squat loading) -if I cant use the intended piece of equipment I wanted to, I spend the 1.30 rest period thinking of an ingenious way to target the muscle lol - but last night I had someone formally complain about me to the gym because I had to do a set of Hacks between my thigh compound, so I asked the gentleman who was on there (actually he was txting for about 2 minutes straight) if I could jump on.
....apparently I had no right to ask him to jump on in between his important txt period, and therefore complained!
Sometimes I wish I trained in an oldschool gym, where everyone just shared everything, and work was done! Loving the program so far!