Jason demonstrates cable rear delt flyes with form cues to isolate the rear shoulders. Pull the handle to ear height, not lower, to avoid mid-back takeover. Keep your chest up and create distance from your body for maximum rear delt activation.
How to do cable rear delts and some variations to boot. So I've got Jason here, he's going to be demonstrating. He's going to grab the cables. Most people use this handle and extension as they do it. They're in this position, and you can already see Jason's very lean right now, so you can see that there's a lot of involvement through the back, which isn't really what we want, right? We don't want this back involvement. We really want there to be the rear delt. Okay, the rear delts are working, as you can see, but there is a lot of back involvement. Really, really protract. That's it. That protraction, just for the viewers at home, Imagine I put my— well, don't imagine, I'm putting my hand in the middle of Jason's chest and he's hollowing his chest out. So he's in this position here, right? And his lats are wrapping around his spine. People often come pretty low with their rear delts. We want you a little higher. So when people come low down to here, we start to use our back a lot more in our mid-back. With really with the rear delts, you want to either come just below ear height or on ear height. So I always get people to go a little higher. That way we're in the safe zone of really working those rear delts. So once— what I do with all the clients is I stand where I want their hand to, to be guided. So I'm standing here trying to kind of like whack me in the balls with your hands. There you go, perfect. That's it, create some distance with your chest up. That way you're not hitting the floor. Keep that lever arm long, chest up as you pull. Good. So you can see again, the mistake people make is as he does it He wants to go where he's strong. I'm trying to keep him out here. That's where I want him, in line with his ear. Really get that readout working. So hand in line with the ear. Up, up, up, up. Excellent.
