The Best And Worst Training Advice You Ever Got?

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Agreed.

When I would tweak my back or knee, I would focus on upper body.
When I would tweak my neck, or shoulders, I would focus on lower body.

Right now I’m working through an impingement on my left shoulder, but instead of bailing on all upper body, i am concentrating on the right side, and doing what I can on the left side.

seems to be working okay -

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I remember from Westside vs the World, that one of them had an injury that made is so they couldn’t work one arm. Chuck V tied the guy to the bench, and made him work the good side. I think it may help to keep size on the hurt side if you work the good side (not sure to what extent).

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Lotta good discoveries made Over the years just trying to train around something that I had tweaked…

I wouldn’t have had the back development I did if I hadn’t hurt my forearm and had to really learn how to train back muscles by not using my arms on most movements.

S

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People seriously underestimate single leg exercises I believe.

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So true.

I spent a year and a half doing pistol squats and barely lost any squat strength despite not squatting

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Agree we should add that to the best advice. Do lots of single leg work for hypertrophy

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What I love about your post is that some people will read it and think you meant it as the worst advice you ever got and some will think you meant it as the best.

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Lol - part of me is laughing at this, and part of me realizing that you’re likely correct is saddened by that fact.

S

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Thats what I read too, and so far, so good - my shoulders seem to both be responding even though I am only able to OHP with the right side

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I’ve torn my left bicep twice – once at the elbow and a year later at the shoulder. Both times I did everything I could for my right side and then when I was able to return to lifting with my left arm, my strength and size loss was pretty negligible. I also had no issues quickly balancing out the strength on my left side with my right side, which I was a bit worried about.

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Being injured and completely unable brings up a lot of concerns,… Usually regaining strength is quicker than adding lost size, but even then, there’s a heck of a lot more mental worrying than real life lost ground IMO.

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