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[quote=Anonymous]Here a few more ideas.

For chest, you might want to try cable flies instead of DB flies sometimes. Personally, I prefer cable flies over DB flies. I'm not sure what kind of chest presses you do at home, but, maybe at the gym, you can change the angle of your chest presses and do incline chest presses if you are only able to to flat at home. There is also another exercise for chest that uses cables called a cable crossover. Nice exercise for you to try if available at the gym. You can look it up on YouTube as well.

For back, I'm not sure how long you will have access to the machines so, for your home, you may want to add a pull up bar that just locks into a door frame. I have one and it works great. It was like $25. I'm 6 foot, 205lbs and shows no signs of wear and tear. I also have two sons that use it. They are lighter than me but it gets a lot of use.
For rows, I normally do bent over rows or kneel on a bench and do DB rows but since you have access to a machine, you might want to try a 1/2 kneeling cable row. I like this exercise very much. Works your core too because you need to stabilize yourself as well.  Look it up on YouTube. But kneel on one knee. Cable at chest height. and with the arm that corresponds to the knee on the ground, do your one-arm row with a nice big stretch and pull.

For shoulders, I sometimes like lateral raises using cables more than DBs. Just a different feel. But DBs cover everything.

For triceps, you can do overhead tricep extensions (back to machine, hold rope above head, dip your head a bit, and straighten arms out in front of you). Tricep pushdowns. Seated skull crushers.

Biceps: You can do all sorts of curls with the cables as well.

Core: Look up pallof press on you tube. Nice core exercise using cables.

Good luck.
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