Eric,
Hope everything’s out of the crapper again.
I’ve had a lot of success with your postural articles and they’ve carried over to the rest of my gym work. I work in an office, and probably will for the forseeable future, which means 9 hours a day sitting on my ass.
I recently had the revelation that I had to compensate for this 9 hours of postural “training” by fixing the other side of the chain. What would you recommend? Where do you see the obvious weak spots? And most importantly - how can I tell when I’ve adjusted back to “normal”? Since I’ve worked offices for over a dozen years now, “normal”, for me, is the way I am at the moment. FTR, I work hamstrings, glutes and stretch the hip flexors as much as possible.
Thanks.
[quote]Eric Cressey wrote:
Some tall athletes can handle them, and others can’t. It depends on a lot of factors besides just height.
Without really getting into the details of it, I’ll just say that I’m not a blind follower of the Olympic lifting mentality, and I think that a lot of athletes would be much better off reducing or altogether eliminating the overhead work in their programming.
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Eric…
I’m an OLifter myself and I don’t regard my overhead work as a problem, but as a weakness. I don’t remeber who exactly, but someone said that since the elimination of the press as a contested lift…injuries of the shoulder girdle has gone higher. While I haven’t had any chronic shoulder problems…my overhead strength still is seriously lacking.
Why would you eliminate overhead work in athletes?
In my opinion, that decision is very unsual…since I think overhead strength is almost a “species in danger”.
For many people, it’s a lifelong investment. Obviously, it doesn’t have to be so devoted to postural correction per se, but if you know that you’re stuck in certain positions for extended periods of time, you might find that you’re always going to need to include an extra set of rows. Activation work is something everyone should be doing for the duration of their training careers (and lives, for that matter); it really is that powerful.
[quote]flynniec6 wrote:
Eric,
Hope everything’s out of the crapper again.
I’ve had a lot of success with your postural articles and they’ve carried over to the rest of my gym work. I work in an office, and probably will for the forseeable future, which means 9 hours a day sitting on my ass.
I recently had the revelation that I had to compensate for this 9 hours of postural “training” by fixing the other side of the chain. What would you recommend? Where do you see the obvious weak spots? And most importantly - how can I tell when I’ve adjusted back to “normal”? Since I’ve worked offices for over a dozen years now, “normal”, for me, is the way I am at the moment. FTR, I work hamstrings, glutes and stretch the hip flexors as much as possible.
Thanks.[/quote]
Check out my “Debunking Exercise Myths” series; I covered quite a bit of my rationale there.
[quote]skullcowboy wrote:
Eric Cressey wrote:
Some tall athletes can handle them, and others can’t. It depends on a lot of factors besides just height.
Without really getting into the details of it, I’ll just say that I’m not a blind follower of the Olympic lifting mentality, and I think that a lot of athletes would be much better off reducing or altogether eliminating the overhead work in their programming.
Eric…
I’m an OLifter myself and I don’t regard my overhead work as a problem, but as a weakness. I don’t remeber who exactly, but someone said that since the elimination of the press as a contested lift…injuries of the shoulder girdle has gone higher. While I haven’t had any chronic shoulder problems…my overhead strength still is seriously lacking.
Why would you eliminate overhead work in athletes?
In my opinion, that decision is very unsual…since I think overhead strength is almost a “species in danger”.[/quote]
Just an FYI, if you want to ask any questions, please post them on the new thread I have going for this week. I’m just tying up some loose ends that we left over from last week.
Thanks!