I’m going to start this blog post with simply saying that you really don’t want to have this chronic condition as your feet gets inflamed if you stand too long on your feet too long and to some extent limiting . It’s typically an overuse injury from either weighting too much or adding on too […]
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For a month, I was doing incline front raises as my main front deltoid isolation exercise with the pursuit of improving the 1RM of bench press as well as to find out if its reliable and if there’s a correlation. When I tested the 1RM of the partial bench press with 225 lbs, I was
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There are a plethora of triceps isolation exercises and each one hits all three heads with a distribution of emphasis depending on the exercises. For example, overhead tricep extensions will work the long head more than push-ups because the long head is more lengthened during each rep of the exercise. With that said, there are
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For the past two years, I’ve started to favor isolation exercises over compound exercises for a few reasons. I favor isolation exercises its basically one muscle that you’re stimulating and if pushed near absolute failure, there will be a favorable adaptation versus in compound exercises, usually it’s the weakest link and any muscles that are
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Disclaimer: The calculations are estimates based on my lifts and also on a single website: https://strengthlevel.com/strength-standards. Other website used: https://21plusrepmax.com/ Spoiler: My bench press didn’t improve in a 1-2 month span, but it will. In this blog, I will be discussing my active journey in overcoming my bench press plateau at 225lb 1RM. Before I
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Dislcaimer: These calculations are estimates based on my personal workout log. Intro At the beginning of weight lifting, progressing on compound lifts seem to increase in a linear fashion. At some point, there would inevitably be a plateau. When troubleshooting for plateaus, sometimes the reason is due to a weak body part (ex. lagging glutes,
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Before I start this blog post, I would like to give a shoutout to the youtuber, BaldOmniMan. He’s a solid fitness youtuber and am so grateful that he came up with this video of comparing his pullups and his rows. His video gave a solid first blog post idea as well as inspiration for the
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