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Best strength training routine? Thoughts?
- Thread starter GromsDad
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I think they are over doing it.
Bench will make you strong all over.
At your age you could just do a couple of sets twice a week and it won't hurt.
I think over head pressing is more functional for a surfer.
But same thing, you don't over do and don't train like a body builder.
Swimming creates a bunch of imbalances in body.
Meniscus R leg
Neck pain (paddling + trauma)
Anatomical hip issues but strength train them every day and avoid squatting too deep so they feel good
Probably, but I still surf 2-3x per week and bench twice a week.
Probably not. This is the back cover of Dave Salo's book. I'm only seeing weaklings. Best thing to do is just not lift weights if you're worried about it. I don't have a strong opinion on whether you bench, but the bench and OHP assist each-other. I also don't know how you can have such a strong opinion without having a 1000 lb total.
low bar squat if u can learn how. i can teach u but u gotta come up to the oc
Have you forgiven your mom/girlfriend for all the canned beer and box wine she drank while pregnant?Nice pecs for the chicks or more likely for the dudes one lifts with.
You should take your dumb book back to the library and just think of the bench press as the squat for the upper body. Damn near every muscle in your body will be used when properly executing the bench press. Or better yet...if you don;;t like the answers stop asking questions.
What's dumb about it?
Library?
This book is from when I quit surfing back around 2005 and was into working out. lol.
Pullups are the squat for the upper body.
I have never been sore all over from bench pressing. Ever.
Arms and pecs, absolutely. of course.
Dips are the squat for the upper body.
The heavy weight is going to simulate growth all over
Casa, why did you come here and ask questions if you think you have all the answers? 
My numbers are low now because of my back injury.
But I'm back in the gym again. For the last three months.
Just trying not to hurt myself.
Heavy is a relative term.
I didn't sat that.Casa, why did you come here and ask questions if you think you have all the answers?
I said I disagreed about the bench press.
That was all.
The question I had was who can teach an overall strength program tailor made for me.
8 years ago?
After my back injury and surgery, I can make my leg go numb by staring at a computer screen hard.
I have to be super careful when I lift.
(I loved to lift all crazy. I did it for 25 years)
I still have my back yard set up and I joined a gym too.