I just found out about you and good lord where have you been my whole life! I'm working on my shoulder imbalance and your tips are absolutely what I needed right now.
I know someone says this on literally every fitness video, but I was JUST thinking about this subject for the past few days, so it's convenient this showed up on my feed.
It's really interesting seeing someone in this context talk about training for time instead of a specific # of reps. I'm a kettlebell fan, and there's a good amount of teaching out there about training for time instead of specific #s of reps when it comes to various kettlebell exercises. However I don't think I've ever even heard someone suggest it for traditional gym style exercises or lifts.
dude, Mark Wenning is so awesome, such a cool dude. I learned so much stuff from these two videos with him. Definitely going to implement and tweak some stuff in my training. Good stuff Juji!
Sometimes it kinda boggles me people don't train unilaterally... I guess it also depends on the job one does. I'm a machinist, and for me opening and closing a clamp (for machining, not the traditional kind) requires turning a kind-of-wrench clockwise for closing, and anticlockwise for opening. While closing, a certain force is needed using my right arm, and the resistance is at the end, while opening is the opposite: high resistance at the beginning using my left arm. Over time I had to find ways to properly grip the wrench either way to balance out these imbalances, but it's not at all an easy task. I'm stronger in pulling with the right arm than the left, and am stronger in pushing with the left than the right. At home in the garage I've obliged myself to train unilaterally to kinda-sorta try to balance out both sides, but training for just some hours weekly is nothing compared to working for 40 (if not 55-ish) hrs weekly in a certain manner. 😐
this just blew my mind how i never thought of any of these things before. super helpful. im using all of this. absorb as much as i can. thank you for this
It's all about the brain and nervous system. It's amazing how your body has a mind of it's own. I put extra weight on the left side when doing squats and I my right leg still finds a way to do more lifting at times. It takes hyper consciousness to actually shift more of the load to the left leg and it's such a baby about working hard. Lol. Muscle laziness is subtle and can be tricky to fix.
Next time I visit Charlotte from The Triangle I might have to stop by and ask about exercises to deal with a scarred up rotator cuff from fighting. Not a lot of martial artists who powerlift nearby.
I never looked at it like that thanks for opening that information most people just go for it do the best form you can but there is little thing still that I apparently need to learn I appreciate the video
That was super informative. Good work. The bit about unilateral work on the face pulls was something that I saw in a different video recently. I was lifting in the garage witrh my buddy and they had a recent Nick Walker video on. One of the things that I noticed the most was how his bicep was literally in the way of some of the tricep extension/pressing work. It's something I've never really noticed before. Granted only a bodybuilder would get to a point where the bicep would get in the way that hardcore but it was still instructive. I've thought about adding more timed sets into my training but currently only use it for flat cambered bar holds. I've done it for a 1 minute and a 1:30 and that extra 30 seconds really does so much.
Editor: pls mute the mic of whomever is not talking when they are close together. It’s getting a phasing sound. You could apply a noise gate and set the threshold so it only opens when the person who’s mic it is starts talking
Not being a training machine afficionado; what are the differences between that "good morning" machine Juji is in (at 8:20) and the machine at Brian Shaw, Juji was recently showing - the one at Shaw was so high, that Juji made fun if it -????
A lot of "biomechanics" guys talk like it's complicated, weird science, voodoo just constantly throwing out jargon, and never really giving you much that's beneficial. You can tell a guy knows a lot about a topic when he can distill the knowledge into simple language, explain the benefit clearly, and the method to do it, and it vibes with just about everything else you've heard or read on the subject, just a little tweak here or there to do it better.
Why was time isolating with this when you can just do a more effective compound JM press, skull crushers, and dips. You can shift the weight of the bar by moving it slightly left or right in your grip, towards the weak side.
Bro listen...if your bench is off on one side..you contract the pecs and tap the muscle that's weakest , when you do that it turns the pec on MORE it causes the nerves to fire more...our muscles can turn off ( or less nerves are firing ). Ive fixed this several times on people in the gym .
so if my goal is just muscle building then can i get away just by doing iso lateral exercises (dumbbell press for exp )as ther is equal load on both sides?
I think that'd fall under the same question about doing more reps on the weaker side, and you shouldn't do that. The intent isn't to overwork the weak side. It's to equalize work on both sides to what the weak side can do, so the weak side can catch up with less risk of injury while the strong side has a short break in the mean time. ;)
i want to now more bout that, i have many desvalance muscles, my pec left is smaller much tahn my right, and miy arm rigth is smaller than my left to much
