When doing pullovers for the Teres major in the scapular plane, my triceps LH gets pumped & sore. When doing Overhead tricep extensions the next day, they dont perform as well What strategies are there to limit crossover fatigue for this specific situation😅

When doing shoulder ABduction in the scapular plane, the main movers are middle delts when the arm is by the side and the upper traps when the arms is overhead, due to scapulohumeral rhythm dynamics the arm moves relatively more during the first phase then the scapular moves more in the later phase If however we flip that to shoulder ADduction in the scapular plane, will the scapulohumeral rhythm be the exact reverse? When the arms are overhead, will the scapular move more first and then the arm moves relatively more in the next phase? So that would mean the Rhomboids are more active with the arm overhead and then the Teres major being more active when the arms starts to become more adducted?

Hey Ben, I’ve got a question and I’d really appreciate a detailed answer because I genuinely need your help. It’s about my lats. What you said about training the lower lats with more vertical pulls and a slight lean makes a lot of sense, and I’ve been getting a huge stretch there, sometimes it even feels like a deep “tearing” type of stretch (in a good way), which I never had before. So first of all, thanks for that. Where I’m confused is with my upper lats. Right now it feels like I’m just throwing darts in the dark. I’m not sure if I should be training them with a straight‑forward pull, or a horizontal pull that’s slightly angled upward. I don’t really know which line of pull I should be focusing on. I don’t get any joint pain or discomfort, but my mind–muscle connection with my upper lats is pretty weak, and I struggle to really feel them working. That’s why I’m asking you, I’d love your guidance on what angles and movements you’d recommend for targeting the upper lats more effectively. By the way, if I had to explain my current understanding, I’d say that a slightly upward horizontal pull feels best right now. But when I sit down to do single arms pulldowns, I keep catching myself thinking, “If I just go one notch higher, I’ll get an even deeper upper‑lat stretch.” That’s why I wanted to ask you specifically: what do you think is the best pulling angle for really stretching and targeting the upper lats? 1 vs 2(I'll guess it could be this one) vs 3 ?

Hey all!! I’ll be filming a bunch of content with Eric Helms tomorrow. Please submit any questions you want the two of us to tackle together! :)

I've noticed that a lot of hyperextensions on the internet have your feet close to the ground with your legs at around a 45 degree angle, so that when your back is parallel to the ground you still have some hip extension left. The one at my gym is built with the foot pad at the same height as the hip pad, so when your back is parallel to the ground, you are at the top of the movement. In my mind, the former variation would be more hamstring biased, as the movement is hardest when you are at 45 degrees of hip extension, before the glutes fully contract. The latter version would be more glute biased, as you reach full hip extension where the movement is hardest, and where the glutes have more leverage than the hamstrings. My question is this: is there any way to make the horizontal-leg hyperextension more hamstring biased? I vaguely remember Ben posting a video ages ago about putting dumbbells underneath the front feet of the machine to lift it up, but the dumbbells at my gym are round, not hexagonal, so they would roll away and leave me with a flattened face and terminated gym membership. I thought about using plates, but it would take a lot of work to stack enough plates to make a significant difference in hip pad height, which would affect how much effort I could put into the sets I do on the machine. Does anyone have any ideas?