Thread: What is this??????

some crap that he made up!

You may be right.

It was kind of funny though, I was asking a couple of other regulars at the gym, I had them trying different stuff with staight arms, people thought we were nuts.

is it that lat exercise?
if the one i am thinking of, I'm not liking it.

If its done with a cable its like a pullover. The exercise I do believe that he trying to tell you about works the lats.

The only thing I could come with was standing in front of the pulldown, arms straight up holding the bar then lowering the bar down to your legs keeping your arms straight, almost the same as a tri pushdown but with a straight arm.

something like a standing pullover with the cables.

That's exactly what it is...it is an exercise for the back and shoulders to a certain extent. It is similar biomechanically to a pullover.

It's a pressdown with your arms fully extended, hence the term straight arm pressdown.

He called it a pulldown though, not a pressdown. hahahahaha Maybe it was just a typo.
I guess if you did it with a underhand grip it would be a pulldown.

Here it is:
back REP RANGE
-cg T-bar row...3 x 6-8
-WG pulldown...2 x 8-10
-dumbell one arm row...2 x 10-12
-stiff arm pulldown...2 x 12-15

Sounds more like a pull-over, I thought you would be talking snow angel kind of movements with cables.

he probably said pulldown so you knew what machine to do them on. But yeah you got it right. I hate those things they put alot of stress on the elbows. But they do burn.

So we all figure its a standing cable pullover then?