Plateauing occurs way too soon on free weights, and you won't be able to cross the incremental valleys between gains as easily.Maybe use free weights initially, and then switch at around 50 lbs for reps on curls for example.
>>77001232I full stack the cables on 90% of exercises now but my bench and skullcrusher/french press are still poverty. Cables should mainly be for warmup
>>77001241Are you lateral raising 80lbs or some shit? What's your db shoulder press then fuckin 200s? Yes I know it's good to cheat reps sometimes.
>>77001289I said 90%My lateral raise like 44lbs
>>77001301I feel slower gains doing supplementary lifts lately. That's insane. I'm trying to get to 40lbs on the dumbbells without cheating.
Everyone so strong here. I can barely lift 7kg with lateral raises with cables xD
>>77001232this nigga just discovered what a fulcrum is
>>77001314I'll do 10lbs cables sometimes and also do 30ishlb working sets of db laterals not cheating a ton or weird angle, it's kind of necessary to progress the fastest. Also a lot of people on cables are basically moving it side to side instead of pulling the cable. You should not for example be doing basically a lu raise kind of thing with heavy for you weight, finding muscular failure based rom and how to angle and shift your shoulder joint is going to get you the furthest.
>>77001314I use 5lb dumbbells, anything heavier makes my shoulders go ouchie
>>77001314I do 40lbs DB Lateral Raises 3x12. But only because I was autistic about Shoulders when I was a skinny DYEL in high school.
>>77001301Zero point in doing more than 20 lbs when lateral razing. The muscle responds very poorly to big weights, its wasted.
>>77001232to diminish long head abuse and place the load on lateral and medial head do it to the side with full internal shoulder rotation and shoulder dropped down and protracted - unilaterally, cable/rubber at an angle not straight down doing it like this loads LATS, and long head which both adduce and extend shoulder doing it like this promotes forward shoulder roll and flexed thoracic spine - that's the reason seemingly full stack flies with the power of "triceps" - it's mostly not triceps
