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fatigue in rear delt area while holding load
Checking to see if @Ben Yanes or anyone has experience with working through fatigue associated with your arms holding the load while doing a free weight rdl/sldl? I'm in this pocket of loading where if I go to heavy, I incur some lower back pain (harder to keep the spine fixed in a comfortable position), but if I go too light, the climbing reps cause some muscles on the back of my shoulders to fatigue from the weight dangling from them via my hands+wrist wraps. Grip muscles are fine, hamstrings are the prime mover, but this ping pong of either lower back or shoulder fatigue is slowing me down. What workarounds could come into play?
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@Ben Yanes appreciate your time on this. Thanks. And you're right, that's about 80% of the weight I'd worked up to but was straining my lower back. Letting the weight hang straight down and not drawing it near my shins... I'll try it out. It seems like that might involve more glute and knee flexion... Will that be at the peril of trying to iso the hamstrings, as is my goal with this movement?
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@Ben Yanes that's a funny thing about my knee anatomy. It's always been tough to fully straighten them. What you see in the video feels almost locked out. Can someone be the opposite of double jointed? Half jointed? 😂
Tricep LH activity in pullovers
When doing pullovers for the Teres major in the scapular plane, my triceps LH gets pumped & sore. When doing Overhead tricep extensions the next day, they dont perform as well What strategies are there to limit crossover fatigue for this specific situation😅
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I'd have to see it but it sounds like you should try to tether the implement to your lower humerus rather above the elbow rather than hold it with your hand/below the elbow. Might mean you gotta execute unilaterally though.
Unilateral Training a Must for Muscle Imbalance?
Hello again everyone! I just had another question that I began to ponder regarding my training as well as training for clients that I thought I would share here. Is unilateral training a non-negotiable if there are muscle imbalances between limbs? (i.e. One bicep is bigger than the other, so we work each to correct the imbalance) At the commercial gym I train at, we use an InBody BIA scanner to help clients with goal and program decisions (Yes, I do know InBody scans can be super inconsistent when it comes to reliability but I digress lol). However, it is still a tool to help clients see if they have differences between limbs in terms of muscle mass. Now, common logic would have us think that imbalances mean we should work to balance out each limb, thus using unilateral exercises. But I wanted to see if this was the case amongst you all and if using bilateral training has reaped similar balance results among each limb as well. Overall, I do not see it as bad using unilateral, bilateral, or both in my programs. I just wanted to see what opinions are out there on muscle imbalances and how to go about training with them. Thanks again!
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You can perform bilateral movements with independent implements/loads in each hand/appendage relative to the respective goal of a given side in many cases. It's particularly easy in the example of bicep training to hold two different weights in your hands and flex the elbows simultaneously, weaker side is just torqued with more weight. But overall, unilateral seems like the best way to tackle this. I don't deal much with this, but instead of using different weights for either side, I'd use the same weight and just take the smaller/weaker side closer to, or to, failure first, then take the stronger side just inside of the other side's rep range to stimulate it a little less.
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