Underrated Gym Advice
Train your back more
A mentor once told me
“Train the back half of your body 2x as often as you train your front half”
This guy was deadlifting & squatting 700lbs at the time. It was Zach Homol
Our bodies are designed to be back chain dominant. The back chain (aka posterior chain) consists of all the muscles on the back half of your body. Traps, lats, glutes, hamstrings & many more.
Modern life is mostly in front of us though. The average person sits for 7-10 hours per day. At the computer, driving, sitting for meals.
We then go into the gym & train our “mirror muscles”. Chest, quads, biceps. Creating an even larger imbalance. Leading to weak & injury prone bodies. Lower back pain & much more.
If you want to be a functionally strong & healthy human, start training your posterior chain more.
Here are some of my favorite exercises
[Pull Ups]
[Romanian Deadlift]
[Seated Rows]
Optimal rep range is between 5-30 reps. A good rule of thumb for weight is training near failure. But not all the way to failure.
This looks like having 2-3 more reps in the tank when you finish your last rep each set.
There’s a time & place to train to failure. But 90% of the time shoot for a couple reps in the tank still.
Cheers to a strong & healthy body!