Monday, February 13, 2012

Period 4 Weight Training Early Weaknesses?

We are starting to work through all of our exercises and our various fitness assessments, at this point you should be identifying things that you naturally do well and things that you struggle with.  Nobody is great at every lift the first time they do it.  It takes time and practice to become proficient at these lifts. In the same way not everyone is built for long runs or heavy lifting.  There are some things you are naturally good at and some you struggle with.  I would argue that you get better faster by working on the things that you are not very good at, rather than just choosing to do exercises you know well and like.

For this weeks blog let me know what one lift, or area of fitness that you have the most problems with.  Also let me know what you are doing to address this area of weakness.

23 comments:

  1. i have never had good cardio so ive been riding a stationary bike for a couple of miles each day to keep me in shape.

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  2. One excersise that i struggle with is squats because i dont have the best form, I try to counteract this by doing less weight and focusing on the form

    Adam Leibowitz

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  3. Power clean, I'll be working on it at home.

    -Jack Herne

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  4. Front squat. Can't always get into the bottom of the squat with heavy weights and get thighs below knees. Practice staying in the bottom of the squat.

    -Shiv Parmar

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  5. Definitely the power clean. I'll focus on form more than weight until I get the form down.

    -Gabriel Miller

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  6. I have poor cardio so i spend an hour every day playing soccer

    -Kevin Ross

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  7. Push Press, i have never been very good at doing push press, sometimes i over extend my back when i do a lot of weight, in order to fix this i plan on working on my form and doing push press more often.
    -Alex Istaphanous

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  8. im really bad at cardio so im going to try and start running a couple times a week
    -Adam Hochberg

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  9. Deadlifts because I have horrible form. I will be working on the form more and less on the weight.

    Dalton Carlson

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  10. Any lift that involves the shoulder, such as bench or push press since I'm recovering from a broken shoulder. To help it recover, I'm letting it rest and lift with light weights to get it back to full potential.

    Victor Shen

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  11. Squats because of an inability to hold up heavy weights. need to train myself back up slowly over time, and get more precise and mechanical form.
    -Raphael Socher

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  12. squats because i cant go far down. I plan on stretching my legs everyday

    Brett Keenan

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  13. i struggle with power clean. I'll try to work more on the technique, and then i'll add more weight.

    George Giannos

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  14. Benching is harder for me
    ill start doing somemoreupper body work(pushups,pull ups etc)
    -Nat

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  15. Dead lifts... during my last couple sets i feel that my back begins to arch. To fix this i will have a buddy check my back to see if it arch and if it does i shall take off some weights accordingly and work on my form and not so much the weight.

    Lawrence Byun

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  16. definately my vertical jump. I have decent numbers for powerclean deadlift and squat but for some reason I cant jump very high. Im going to keep lifting and working on flexibility to try and improve

    -olin

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  17. At first i did not have a very good powerclean so i used lighter weight and really tried to focus on getting my form down before i added more weight.

    -Jack Pykosh

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  18. My worst lift is benching. I will try doing more reps of lower weight to try and get better at it.

    Yusuf Khan

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  19. I am having trouble getting good form with power cleans, the triple extension needed in the power cleans is giving me trouble. I will focus more on my form and less on how much weight there is on the bar.

    ~Jiahui You

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  20. My lower body needs more work so I have to focus on lifts that strengthen it such as squat and deadlift. Powerclean couldn't hurt either.

    -Sean Wallace

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  21. Ive always had a grudge against running simply because ive never had the right amount of muscular or cardiovascular endurance to push myself very far when running. Ive been going to a seperate gym and been running and working on a stationary bike. Have noticed some improvement.

    - Juan-Felipe Pataquiva

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  22. I have the most problems with the deadlift because im never able to get the right form when doing it. Now im looking in the mirrior to see if my back is straight every time I deadlift.

    Alex Walsh

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  23. I have trouble with the power clean and dead lift form. I seem to do it the wrong way frequently so I try to practice more and more to get the form down before I move up with more weights.

    Bruce Recht

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