![]() Ronnie Coleman used pullovers in all his back training and Frank Zane credited pullovers with his intensely developed serratus muscles. Dorian Yates and Mike Mentzer used to pullover in all of their lat work. Reg Park thought pullovers were the king of chest exercises. Arnold says his chest development was in large part created by dumbbell pull overs. Now, the expertise of these “fitness gurus” that started springing up in the 90’s aside, let’s take a look at what some people did say about the pullover. Experts started claiming that the pullover was not effective, that it would hurt the shoulders, and in time, the lift slowly vanished. So called “functional training” started to get popular and gyms became more and more wussy. In the 1990’s two things happened in fitness which, amongst other things, chased the dumbbell pullover out of the gym. The association with squats is a great one and the supersetting of high repetition squats and chest pullovers in a classic (subtle hint about this coming Friday challenge) superset, which is, in itself, an intense full body workout. Just how pivotal was the pullover? Alan Calvert, the founder of Milo Barbell Company and of Strength Magazine, said that the pullover was “the best exercise known for developing the chest.” What we refer to today as “squats and milk” was originally “squats and pullovers and milk.” It is high time we bring this lift back into our routines and reap the benefits it offers. In the golden age of bodybuilding, the chest pullover was listed with the squat in terms of importance. The dumbbell pullover creates a huge chest pump, gives the lats a good stretch and builds the serratus up. Necessary lift for everyone (keep in mind that if you have serious shoulder injuries you should not do this, or any other, lift without first consulting with your doctor). ![]() If you go to a gym you should know who Alan Calvert is. I am going to skip a bunch of the controversy and just say out front that the dumbbell pull over is both an incredibly effective chest and back exercise. It is in this spirit that I am beginning a new series on forgotten lifts and to begin the series I want to start with the most unfairly maligned lift of all, the dumbbell pullover. I do not want to say that there has been no progress because that would be wrong, but much of what has come along is worth ignoring and much of what has disappeared is worth rediscovering. Because the industry has become so large (and so lucrative), there is a new gimmick every day. The small underground demographic that was the fitness world in the early and mid-part of the 20 th century became big business starting in the 1990’s and continues to grow until this day. Old wisdom often becomes obsolete and new theories emerge.īodybuilding, however, poses a unique problem here. People try new things, some succeed and some fail. We learn more about diet, muscle and motion. FITNESS Forgotten Lifts Part 1: Dumbbell PulloverĪs in all things, as the years pass bodybuilding evolves.
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