[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
rsg wrote:
You want to explain whats wrong with the straight bar curls and pulldowns?
I’ve always hated the EZ bar and use a straight bar when I can - although I’m not exactly curling 130lbs.
Straight bar curls kill my wrists!
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Well I usually have a shoulder width or slightly wider grip with curls, but I will keep this in mind when I start curling more weight.
WIth regards to upright rows - I would get this pain in my palm just above my wrist that would feel like a bone has splintered and is about to pop through - so I won’t be doing those again any time soon.
every exercise has certain amounts of risk and benefit. to say somone is doing a lat pull down wrong because it may be done behind the neck or that skuats are bad for the knees or dead lifts are bad for the back or even that anything is bad is tottaly obserd and more education of biomechanics is needed for the people who belive this. although one may do any of these things in a way that can place the client or athlete in unnessasary risk.
it all depends on the goals, the skill and control abilities of the individule or past injuries, somtimes even the demands of the activity that is trained for. the bottom line is , if the body moves that way then dont forget the use it or loose it rule. its our job to get the benifit with minimal risk , proper progression and as Charles Poliquin calls the form principal
DB Laterals with an extra pronated grip. I really feel these in my shoulders in a bad way.
I think these are what made my shoulder flare up a month or so ago. So much for being ‘the only correct way to do them’ as told to me by the guy I did work experience with.
Anyone who’s 200% certain of anything should be treated with wary respect.