So he says use your other arm to prop up your knee and have the bench at a height where the weight is slightly lower than your chest. So like an incline cable chest fly you are pulling slightly up but also with tension maintained on the pec muscle the whole time. If you keep it angled lower you focus on the pec major and if you angle it up you activate the upper pec minor. So the angle "almost perfectly replicates cable crossovers" or "incline fly"
Your chest will start growing when you thought it was not going to grow anymore
I am still not sure. I tried it out and it did seem to isolate the pecs better. But my Total Gym goes higher up - so I have less deltoid shoulder activation since I'm not trying to raise the weight up. If I sit lower with no middle cable - the resistance is more like a cable crossover. Well I've never done a "cable crossover" but I am using cables and crossing over if the weight is not below me - the pulleys are above me even slightly.
His point about the weight still being through the shoulders via the cables and arms and NOT straight behind you like with a dumb bell press - and hence the need for the 45 degree angle to maintain an even tension does make sense. But again if the pulleys are higher up and my arms are at 45 degree angles to the pulleys it seems to work. I never realized the XLS has a lower height to the tower! Wow. I'm gonna look this up.
43" height on Total Gym XLS
43" height on Total Gym Elite Plus
OK so - same height. Yeah if he just sat lower and didn't use the middle pulley then kept his arms at 45 degree angles then it should maintain constant tension for the cable crossover...
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