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But if you for example go to the gym with a tight posterior chain, you will squat with a form that either hurts your lower back... or makes you emphasise the wr
by rquantz 14y ago
But if you for example go to the gym with a tight posterior chain, you will squat with a form that either hurts your lower back... or makes you emphasise the wrong muscles... and leave you with progressively bigger problems lifting correctly.
Not to say that what you ended up doing was wrong, but to me this just indicates the need for a coach, or at least doing a lot more reading before you start lifting. If you have a structurally weak and tight posterior chain, you need to add romanian deadlifts to your program. Nobody (except Rippetoe) advocates blindly following a program like like starting strength. You can lift heavy while you correct imbalances, you just need to make sure the exercises you're doing are correcting the imbalances you have.
- debacle 14y agoA coach is just going to tell you to do the stretches that this document already prescribed.
- vidarh 14y agoRomanian deadlifts was in fact one of the exercises I was doing to try to overcome the problem the first time around. It did nothing for me. Not saying it can't help, but it compared to the speed I progressed at within weeks of starting my stretches, I'll stick with the stretches. And I did see a coach, who was also a qualified physiotherapist. What I was recommended was pretty much the stretches in the linked article.