Reverse your workouts

[drtbear1967]

Do Important Things First, Not Last
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Most people start their workouts with their favorite exercises and then work down from there. That's understandable. If you love to bench and your ego is invested in how much weight you can lift, your rationale is that you should do that exercise first, while your energy is still high. This approach certainly works... for a while. But after a certain point, repeatedly hitting that lift super hard when you've had only minimal warm-up can take a toll on your shoulders.
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Last Exercise, Worst Exercise
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Your weakest lifts and most poorly developed muscles usually correlate to exercises you do late (or even last) in the workout, often because you're too fatigued to give them the same attention you gave your favorite exercises at the start of the session. Reversing your typical exercise order has several benefits: It can serve to resolve long-standing orthopedic symptoms. It can help to bring up weak points, which not only improves appearance, but also reduces injury potential.

 

[Maj7900]

Do Important Things First, Not Last
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Most people start their workouts with their favorite exercises and then work down from there. That's understandable. If you love to bench and your ego is invested in how much weight you can lift, your rationale is that you should do that exercise first, while your energy is still high. This approach certainly works... for a while. But after a certain point, repeatedly hitting that lift super hard when you've had only minimal warm-up can take a toll on your shoulders.
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Last Exercise, Worst Exercise
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Your weakest lifts and most poorly developed muscles usually correlate to exercises you do late (or even last) in the workout, often because you're too fatigued to give them the same attention you gave your favorite exercises at the start of the session. Reversing your typical exercise order has several benefits: It can serve to resolve long-standing orthopedic symptoms. It can help to bring up weak points, which not only improves appearance, but also reduces injury potential.

After my bicep tear my Therapist was adamant about this. Always changing something from the week before, change the days you do what, the order in which you do them.

I keep finding myself in the same old same old and have to force the change and this a great way to “flip” it.


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