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Mr. America’s Top-8 “Danger Zone” Exercises, Part 2

Arnold doing behind-the-neck pulldowns

Yesterday we had the first four of Mr. America and 2019 Drug-Free Mr. Universe Doug Brignole’s “Exercises that Cause the Most Injuries.”

If you missed it, they are [Read more…]

Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: behind-the-neck pulldowns, bench dips, dangerous, dips, drug-free, Mr. America, mr. universe, squats, T-bar rows

Mr. America’s Top-8 “Danger Zone” Exercises, Part 1

Jonathan doing one-arm preacher curls

With the sequel to “Top Gun” taking off at the box office, I thought I’d work in the signature song title from the original: “Danger Zone” by Kenny Loggins.

It fits with Mr. America and 2019 Drug-Free Mr. Universe Doug Brignole’s “Exercises that Cause the Most Injuries.” He lists eight, and I’ve done all of them at one point or another—and been injured by at least half of them. Even now, pain from some of those injuries prevents me from doing other sane exercises. Sucks.

Here are the first four; [Read more…]

Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: bench press, dangerous, deadlifts, Doug Brignole, Mr. America, mr. universe, overhead press, preacher curls

Press Here for Shoulder Size

Q: I’m using Jonathan’s 10-Week Size Surge Workout [in the 3D Muscle Building e-book], and for shoulders, it has dumbbell upright rows as the first exercise for midrange work; then I do incline one-arm laterals for stretch, and then standing laterals [contracted]. I added two sets of dumbbell presses after that for more shoulder size, as you’ve suggested, for some overhead shoulder work. My question is, Why do you sometimes recommend presses first? Aren’t those dangerous for your shoulder joints?

A: We only do behind-the-neck presses first if we use a technique that allows lighter weight, such as negative-accentuated (six-second lowering), 4X, 10×10, TORQ, etc. As you said, in the quest for shoulder size, heavy weights on behind-the-neck exercises can wreck your rotator cuffs.

For heavy pressing at the start of a shoulder workout, we use either Smith machine military presses (to the front) or dumbbell presses…

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Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: 10-week Size Surge, 10x10, 3d muscle building, 4X, behind-the-neck presses, dangerous, mike westerdal, negative-accentuated, protect your family, rotator cuffs, shoulder joints, shoulder presses, shoulder size, shoulder workout, TORQ, variation

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