04-04-2019, 08:26 PM
I'm talking about this nonsense advice that people should be doing 2 (or even 3) times more sets of pulling exercises than pushing exercises, usually to improve posture or to avoid shoulder injuries.
-If your shoulders are taking a beating from too much pressing, you need to do less pressing, switch to exercises easier on the shoulder joint, use better form... trying to "unhurt" your shoulder doing an excessive amount pullups and rows is more likely to giving pain on your elbows than curing the pain in your shoulder.
-You have bad posture because you developed a habit of bad posture,. If you spend 50 hours a week on the computer sitting in bad position, increasing your sets on pullups won't solve the problem. If you already training your back with weights, your muscles are already strong enough to put your shoulders in good posture.
-To do 2 or 3x the amount of pulling to pushing, you need either reduce the amount of pushing to the point not doing enough or increasing the amount of pulling to the point of doing too much. Both scenarios would make training unproductive.
-Nobody got time for this. If you did fullbody workout where you have 3 sets of bench and 3 sets of military, you'd have to fit 12 to 18 sets of pullups and rows to make it "balanced".
A better alternative would be: don't neglect anything, don't overdo anything, pay atention to your posture in everyday life and use corrective exercises if needed and with a logical reason.
-If your shoulders are taking a beating from too much pressing, you need to do less pressing, switch to exercises easier on the shoulder joint, use better form... trying to "unhurt" your shoulder doing an excessive amount pullups and rows is more likely to giving pain on your elbows than curing the pain in your shoulder.
-You have bad posture because you developed a habit of bad posture,. If you spend 50 hours a week on the computer sitting in bad position, increasing your sets on pullups won't solve the problem. If you already training your back with weights, your muscles are already strong enough to put your shoulders in good posture.
-To do 2 or 3x the amount of pulling to pushing, you need either reduce the amount of pushing to the point not doing enough or increasing the amount of pulling to the point of doing too much. Both scenarios would make training unproductive.
-Nobody got time for this. If you did fullbody workout where you have 3 sets of bench and 3 sets of military, you'd have to fit 12 to 18 sets of pullups and rows to make it "balanced".
A better alternative would be: don't neglect anything, don't overdo anything, pay atention to your posture in everyday life and use corrective exercises if needed and with a logical reason.