pigeononpolice

pigeononpolice OP t1_j989aag wrote

I'm doing cable flies, and honestly they're my favourite exercise. This whole ordeal isn't as much about me being unable to exercise body parts as much as it is about being creative in finding ways to do things I normally wouldn't be able to. It kind of sucks ass when my friends want to do dumbbell press but I have to stick to the bench press you know

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pigeononpolice OP t1_j96g0kc wrote

I'll take a look at some of these straps for sure!

Yeah, some tend to fall off. The ones that don't and aren't really high quality tend to cause some trouble, because once I pull something with them, I'm basically only relying on them to pull it (if it bend down to try and catch the bar with my left hand, I'm out of balance and bent to the side since my right arm is longer than the left one due to the presence of a palm) and what ends up happening is the strap buries itself into my skin, causing nasty cuts

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pigeononpolice OP t1_j96eur2 wrote

I have used regular lifting straps to deadlift before, but there are some issues there.
Using the straps, you lift literally only using the strap. What that means is when I deadlift 100kg, the strap rubs against/pushes into my skin with so much force that it really hurts, especially for reps.

Using them for pullups is something that I've also tried, but the issue is that even though the strap is hanging from a lower height than the bar so that when i catch it my elbows are aligned, once I start doing a pullup, I get to a point where I have reached the height of the strap, but not the height of the bar. To go further up, the only thing I can do is just pull with my right hand that's on the bar. In a nutshell, my left arm does the whole motion, but my right arm is just half way there, if that makes sense.

Thanks for your answer though! I can 99% of things with no difficulty. Dips, rowing, bench and most of the other stuff are of no concern and I have found a way to do them, but admittedly there are some exercises that are really good for certain muscles and that I haven't found a workaround for.

I'll look into inventing something myself for sure lol. If someone comes up with a genius idea down here, I'll put you on my patent.

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