While at the gym today I noticed something that I talk about in The Fat Trainer. A man was doing a lat pulldown exercise and was using such poor form. For starters, he had too much weight on the weight stack. Because of this excess weight, he used jerking motions to pull the weight down. He was pulling the bar down in front of his face, but could barely reach the top of his head.

Proper form for a lat pulldown:

• Sit tall and align your neck with your spine. You may lean back slightly.
• Grasp the bar just past shoulder width apart.
• While keeping your body steady, lower the weight from full extension to just below the level of your chin.
• Return the weight at a controlled rate to the starting position.
• Avoid rocking, jerking or bouncing the weight.

You can apply most of these suggestions to most of your exercises. Get with a trainer for best results.

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To get over a plateau or to just change things up in the weight-room, try a SuperSet. Instead of resting in-between each set of your work-out, perform your repetitions for the set of one lift then move straightaway into the repetitions of another lift. The two most common ways to perform this is by either working the same muscle group back-to-back or by working opposing groups back-to-back. E.g. perform a set of bench press, then move right into a pec fly or to a bench press and move right into a row.

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