03-19-2016, 03:09 AM
A couple more variations for leg stuff to add to your arsenal mate.
Use the hip belt with the low pulley and put a couple of crates or boxes either side of the pulley and do hip belt squats using low pulley. You can really sit back powerlifter style this way and the pulley in front almost counterbalances you. Another one I've tried is box step ups using the hip belt attached to the low pulley it almost feels like increased resistance as you drive the leg to full hip extension.
By a couple of ankle straps and hook low pulley to these and do standing single leg curl and single leg extension.
Finally as you have d bells which sound like fixed ones (wouldn't work with powerblocks) stand a bell on its end at the end of a bench. Lay face down on bench and then hook your feet around the Db and lock it tight. Now do leg curls this way. I'm not sure if it's because you have to keep tension applied to the bell else you will drop it but I find these hit my hamstrings more so than machine leg curls.
Finally rig up some kind of natural GHR loads of vids on you tube and even do 45degree hypers using your incline bench and wrap a band around your feet to keep you pinned in place.
The joys of home training with limited kit means you keep coming up with and trying weird and wonderful exercises to see if it works.
Scott I'm yet to try the somersault and sissy on my smith yet. Im actually thinking of replicating a top squat by using a pair of mole grips adjustable wrench type things locked on.
Use the hip belt with the low pulley and put a couple of crates or boxes either side of the pulley and do hip belt squats using low pulley. You can really sit back powerlifter style this way and the pulley in front almost counterbalances you. Another one I've tried is box step ups using the hip belt attached to the low pulley it almost feels like increased resistance as you drive the leg to full hip extension.
By a couple of ankle straps and hook low pulley to these and do standing single leg curl and single leg extension.
Finally as you have d bells which sound like fixed ones (wouldn't work with powerblocks) stand a bell on its end at the end of a bench. Lay face down on bench and then hook your feet around the Db and lock it tight. Now do leg curls this way. I'm not sure if it's because you have to keep tension applied to the bell else you will drop it but I find these hit my hamstrings more so than machine leg curls.
Finally rig up some kind of natural GHR loads of vids on you tube and even do 45degree hypers using your incline bench and wrap a band around your feet to keep you pinned in place.
The joys of home training with limited kit means you keep coming up with and trying weird and wonderful exercises to see if it works.
Scott I'm yet to try the somersault and sissy on my smith yet. Im actually thinking of replicating a top squat by using a pair of mole grips adjustable wrench type things locked on.