Today I want to talk about, yet another thing I wish I had done earlier in my bodybuilding career.

Wide grip pull-ups.

Pull-ups are done with your palms facing away from you.

The reason I bring this up is because wide grip pull-ups do a wonderful job of stretching out the shoulders and widening you out.

I know, people will disagree with me on this one, but I am a firm believer in this, especially when you are young, wide grip pull-ups will really help to widen you out.

This helps in a number of ways.

First nobody ever said, you know, my shoulders are too wide, and you know I wish I was born with narrower shoulders.

Even a guy as gifted as Phil Heath, has a flaw, and it is that he is not as wide in the shoulders as some of the other top guys.

I am not saying that you will be able to widen your shoulders out to massive proportions, but when you are younger you can do more widening then when you are older.

Next up with have the fact the wide grip pull-ups work the back.

Alright wise guy, you might be saying, I know they work the back.

O.K.

But hold on.

The reason I bring this up is because of the past Mr. Olympia winners.

Lee Haney won because of his back, Dorian won because of his back,

And Ronnie’s back, in it’s hey day, is considered one of the best backs of all-time.

Starting to build your back with wide grip pull-ups would not be a bad way to begin.

Lastly, the reason this makes for a great beginning is because most people avoid this particular exercise, because it is so hard.

So by working it from the very beginning you will be used to it, and more importantly, be able to do tons of pull-ups.

Nice.

Of course wide grip pull-ups have another advantage as well; they will give your biceps a nice workout as well.

After all, nobody has ever complained about having biceps that were too big.

Until Next Time

KEEP WORKING

With Friday comes another random thoughts of the week post, where I am going to cover what has gone on this past week in bodybuilding.

Enjoy!

Up first I want to go back to something I touched on before, Dennis Wolf at the just past Mr. Olympia.

Reason being, is that, there is a big thread on what happened to Dennis at the Olympia, on one of the more popular bodybuilding sites on the web.

A Lot of people are saying that he should dump Chad Nicholas and switch to someone else.

Personally, I was not aware of all the people Chad has trained, but after reading the posts, I agree, I think he should get rid of Chad and try Pit Trenz or Charles Glass.

But again this is just my opinion.

Another thing that was pointed out on the thread was words to the effect that since he placed so low he will have less pressure, I agree with this, he can go back home, get his head together and just train and grow.

However, one point that Dennis needs to deal with now is qualifying for the Mr. O, as last year he was already in based on him placing in the top ten.

This means he will have to do at least one show, but maybe more, to qualify for the O.

But, in fairness to Dennis, this could be EXACLTY what he needs, because if something happens at the first show he enters, say he comes in flat, he can learn for this mistake and try and fix it for his next show.

Which can help him come prep time for the O.

I touched on this before, but Dennis has, according to what I’ve read, an extremely fast metabolism, so this can be a factor in why he just can’t get is condition spot on.

Another factor with Dennis, could be that his metabolism while still fast, it has started to slow, and since it was always very fast, he did not know how to deal with this.

Dennis is still young, as noted in a prior post I believe he is still in his twenties or just thirty, so he has plenty of time.

With another year of solid training under his belt Dennis can come back next year and really surprise a lot of people.

HANEY OR CUTLER

I saw this poll question and wanted to comment on it.

They are asking who has the better physique, Lee Haney or Jay Cutler

For those who don’t know Lee started his run of eight consecutive Olympia’s in nineteen eighty four.

To me it is no contest, Lee Haney all the way.

Better shape, small waist, to me he just looks better.

I realize Jay Cutler is big than Lee, but to me, again Lee just looks better.

O.K.

That’s all for this week.

HOPE YOUR WEEKEND GOES GREAT.

Until Next Week

WORK SMART