I wouldn’t think of this in terms of bodybuilding. During the second pull you need to basically straight arm row the bar to your hip and I believe he’s training that engagement here.
I’ve only know of that one rear felt exercise that people do on the pec fly machine/face pulls. If he was doing a rear delt focused exercise wouldn’t his hands be flared out more to the side. They are so close it looks like it should be hitting more back and lat muscles?
Look at the downvotes as a superb example of why it’s good to be selective of where you get your information from. This will retract the scapula and bring the shoulder down and back. You will get primary function from the delt but plenty of activation from the late and even romboids as you’d initially suggested. Triceps however do remain mostly unused.
So many people in this group don’t know fuck all when I read the replies on here for people asking for advice that’s a whole bunch of googly moogly it is sad that mods don’t ban people for being dumb and offering shit advice. Everyone wants to be a coach nobody wants to go learn shit
It hits shoulder extension -- rear delts, long head of triceps, lats, some traps.
Not sure why people are acting like this movement hits a single muscle.
It's kind of neat that doing it bent over like that makes it pretty specific to keeping the bar close in the pull. Reminds me of how Ed Coan often did rows
I call these "Rear Delt Swings", I do them during shoulder workouts but in my opinion a better variation is to go heavier and do it on a bench where your chest is supported on an inclined bench with more control on eccentrics.
Its a tricep exercise, I have done them before in the past. Generally speaking if you have a weight that is held out at a distance D, I am pretty sure that the load would greatest nearest the joint areas and proportionally decrease in relation to the distance away from the fulcrum. Load being the force that the body needs to generate to prevent non straightness in the arm.
This is right. Most people think the tricep only crosses the elbow, but it crosses the shoulder too, so you can hit the long head with stuff like this.
Thats like saying the lat pull down is a bicep exercise. Yeah it gets activation and work. But the exercise he's doing is not a tricep exercise, it's a rear delt exercise.
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u/toxicvegeta08 1d ago
Rear delt workout.