Dangerous Ideas
Posted by Chris Pimmer
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Hey Chris great video thank you
Thank you, glad you liked it
Comparing ourselves to others process or results can be detrimental to our own games. It’s good to have positive influences and goals or strategies to help us, but if something doesn’t work for us we shouldn’t force it to just happen.
What’s kind of crazy, when you start working out, your thinking process is man I want to get ripped lean, look good. You’re not always thinking about I want to be healthy, to be healthy into broad, mentally and physically.
I was at the gym the other day, when your looking at the mirror at home you don’t really feel or look that impressive, but I was doing behind the head shoulder press on the smith machine, and there was a mirror in front of the machine and I was like oh wow I look really strong/ am really strong LOL
Be careful with the behind the head version. Shoulders are sensitive. But if they work for you, nice.
It is about what is always in front of us. In the part with the Healthy Example, I talk about it. Thinking long term does not always come natural. I will be making a video on Longevity in the near future as well.
Yeah behind the head can be dangerous, you need to have healthy shoulders to do it effectively. Generally with behind the head shoulder press it’s mandatory to go lighter. Shoulders have been one of my strongest points of my body, I have a day set a side just for shoulders and abs, always hit rear delt too and rotator cuff.
Kind of a crazy stat I read a couple years ago, the average gym goer, has a front delt 5x bigger than somebody who doesn’t work out!
But the rear delt only like 20% bigger than somebody who doesn’t work out, shoulders is a lot of peoples #1 injury they develop when they get older whether it’s rear delt or rotator cuff. It’s a very complex joint. It’s important to work on front/rear/side rotator cuff, it balances everything.
12 Years ago while benching I hurt my shoulder, impingement and it never fully went away. A while ago I exchanged DB Bench and Row exercises with Ring work and also doing some Hanging, shoulder is improving in lightspeed.
Gotta keep in mind that I am a lot older than most guys you will meet in a gym, so my reason for training is health and longevity (the good mix of muscle, usable strength, mobility and injury free joints), sure building muscle is a part of that, but risk free, injury reduction and also injury treatment are my main keys.
I prefer being able to do ring push ups and get off the floor or play sports (even if on my own) when I am 80, than being restricted by aches and injuries or immobility that could have been prevented, so it is important for me to not just have load and compression, but also decompression, fluidity and "athletic" movement.
Damn was it flat bench? That sucks! That’s part of the danger of benching, easy to pop your shoulder!
Glad you’re able to continue to do what you do in the gym though. Something I suck at a lot of flexibility. Mobility is huge, what sports do you play?
TRUEPOWER yes it was flat bench.
I used to be a very good Basketball player and decent martial artist, I still play Basketball and am working on being able to do whatever I wish into a very high age, but it requires a different approach to when I was in my 20s and 30s. It is an interesting and very different journey.
Main thoughts are:
be able to get up off the floor on my own in my 80s,
lift stuff above my head without too many issues or
be able to jump down from a curb or single stairwell
and generally be mobile and mostly pain free in every day life.
This thinking alone changes your outlook on resistance training, mobility and how you live quite a bit.
yeah thats awesome,
its great to have that goal and be able to achieve it as well
the reasons why you workout change as you get older as well, i recently starting changing up my diet, eating way more chicken breast and brown rice, tracking calories on my fitnesspal, trying to lose some weight and get leaner.
when i was younger, i worked out mainly because i wanted to look good and impress others... but now i dont really care about those things, i workout because its a huge stress reliever, and i want the pump lol
Still want to lift heavy as well but i also do not want to injure myself as well.
a couple weeks ago i was doing 85lbs dumbbell incline press and this massive guy besides me pulls up with the 100lbs doing incline dumbbell press in my mind jokingly i was like damn this guys really got to embarrass me like this haha
TRUEPOWER hahaha funny....
Another point I wanted to mention, I’m not 21 anymore, and I’m not going to feel like superman everyday feeling like we can lift the world in the gym. So these factors are important the older we get, mobility, flexibility. Strength is important but not to the extent were we injure ourselves.
Yes true. Also gotta keep in mind, enough strength is enough.
Someone that can squat 280-320 (128-144 Kg) lbs (does not need to train to squat 400 lbs (180kg).
The benefit to life is basically non existent to a regular person, it is likely even detrimental due to the axial load.
Instead more like usable strength.. as one gets into their mid 30s and beyond.
There are so many Dogma's around about what is best and right and so on and they are not wrong in all cases, but the problem comes when people do not realize that it is not right for them or that they are in a spot where they need to rethink those, age, injury and so on.
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