Comments on: Turning Weakness Into Strength

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:26:41 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_i52yipzoc&feature=related

By: GEOFFN

GEOFFN — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:18:05 +0000

Luis – Yeah, most of us forget about our weaknesses getting stronger – good point.

Max – I remember you playing with the GU only awhile back and recall you had stellar success with your results.

Chuck – Try the kickback with a band – accommodates the resistance for MUCH better results. There are still much better exercises for the triceps, like parallel dips.

Keris – Get on it, girl! No time like the present. I’m glad I could help you out – that’s what I’m here for! Keep me posted on your progress – I look forward to hearing about it.

Mark – Actually, I recall opening the link, but admittedly I got distracted and never followed it up. Will have to check it out though. Thanks for the prompting.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:53:33 +0000

Great article!! Quite timely of a reminder to challenge my knowledge. As far as strteching, I can tell you never checked out the meridian stretching info I sent you… which is resistance stretching with movement. The system is to flexiblity what ketllebells is to strength.

By: Keris Marsden

Keris Marsden — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:48:44 +0000

This blog came so timely for me. Both Pavel and Brett Jones observed asymmetries and core issues during my training. Now I’m running a business I’m more time poor than ever, even training feels like a luxury so you can imagine where stability/mobility work, foam rollering and get ups come in the list of priorities! However, over the weekend I was working on my pistol squats and I can do several reps on my left leg and not a single one on my right.

When you join RKC you’re inspired by such feats of strength it’s easy to get carried away with practicing yet ignore an essential component of training … listening to your body.

Thank you for refocusing me Geoff, December for me will now be full of get ups, foam rollering, core stabilisation exercises and I’m going to ask Santa for at least one pistol squat on my right leg.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:30:20 +0000

Small point of confusion for this bear of little brain. The triceps kickback is dangerous and stupid? I tried to think of when I might have had a bad moment doing them, but could not.
I looked for a demo of the motion done in a controlled manner:

http://www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/Triceps/DBKickback.html

Seems possibly less productive than an overhead triceps extension, but never heard anything negative. I must be missing something.

Anyway, your hip-knee rehab work sounds like it’s doing great things for you, and that’s a very good thing. I’ll think about “broccoli” I might need to incorporate for myself.

By: Max Shank

Max Shank — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:25:54 +0000

Excellent. Very well said.

By: Luis M. Cadiz

Luis M. Cadiz — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:00:49 +0000

I agree, sometimes we concentrate on our strengths and put on the back burner our weaknesses… only to find out later on that our weaknesses have gotten “stronger”. In other words, more difficult to get rid of or correct.

Good night and God Bless