Monday, November 30, 2009

  • John Grimek


    • Here's the great John Grimek performing what is commonly known as "the overhead downward pull" with a chest expander. This is an excellent movement for broadening the back muscles, and one that you should be doing if you train at all with chest expanders.

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    Posted by John Wood @ Monday, November 30, 2009

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    Thursday, January 15, 2009

  • The Chest Expander One Leg Squat

    • Chest Expander One Leg SquatChest Expander One Leg SquatWeightlifting champ Dick Bachtell demonstrates an exercises that probably hasn't been seen for five or six decades: a One Leg Squat while holding a chest expander.

    Bachtell was a great all-around lifter so it's no surprise that he was able to accomplish this unique lift.

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    Posted by John Wood @ Thursday, January 15, 2009

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    Friday, December 19, 2008

  • Chest Expander Training - Earle E. Liederman


    • Earle E. Liederman was one of the many Oldtime Strongmem who were big proponents of Chest Expanders. Here he demonstrates the "front pull," a great exercise for building shoulder strength.

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    Posted by John Wood @ Friday, December 19, 2008

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    Sunday, October 05, 2008

  • John Grimek and Chest Expander Training


    • John Grimek was a fan of many different types of training but chest expanders were one of his favorite. Quick, portable and most importantly: effective.

    Here he is demonstrating a great shoulder exercise, the one-arm press with one of the old spring-type chest expanders... (if you're going to be using springs, I recommend wearing a shirt.)

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    Posted by John Wood @ Sunday, October 05, 2008

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    Tuesday, September 09, 2008

  • Liederman on Chest Expander Training


    • "I have spent considerable time in showing people how to get strength and development by using chest-expanders; a device consisting of two handles connected by steel springs, or rubber-cables.

    If a pupil asked me to give him an exercise that would develop only the triceps, I would have to tell him to proceed in this manner. To hold the expander loosely across his chest; hold the upper arms out horizontally to the sides so that the elbows pointed straight out; and then to stretch the expander by straightening his arms.

    Since the upper arms are held still, the cables are stretched by moving the forearms only; and practically all the work would be done by the triceps, which by their contraction would bring the forearms into line with the upper arms.

    But that would be a particularly poor exercise, for it would make the triceps work separately, instead of in conjunction with other muscles. So I prefer to hold the expander across the chest with the elbows close to the body, and the hands near the shoulders; and then to stretch the cables by pushing the hands out straight to the sides, and extending the arms as I straighten them.

    For that develops not only the triceps, but all the shoulder and upper-body muscles, which move the arm away from the body; the muscles you would use in "putting the shot," or in striking a hard blow with your fist."

    -- Earle E. Liederman, Secrets of Strength, 1930

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