I would classify overtraining as deliberately training a muscle group while still recovering from DOMS.
Unless you are doing an active recovery session where you are doing really low weight and its more about stretching the muscle than tearing it, training with DOMS is exposing yourself to too...
whoa! ceiling? dont you mean floor? you are supposed to keep your neck in a neutral position. personally - i look at the join of the floor and the wall
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cant impress the importance of a training partner enough! just the competition of wanting to get more reps or weight than them is usually enough but its awesome to use them as a spot to fail and also for quick weight changes in drop sets etc
i change up my...
dumbbell preachers are great for this as above!
i love doing single arm standing cable curls aswell.
put the cable on the lowest height setting so its as close to the floor as possible.
grab the handle with one hand and stand with your back to the machine and walk a couple of steps away until...
my current split monday-sunday is
quads/calves
chest
back
hamstrings/calves
shoulders
arms
active recovery/cardio
i always give arms their own day becauase i think they need it to do them properly. whenever ive just tacked some tris at the end of a chest workout or bis at the end of a back...
Experiment with grip positions and planes of movement.
My training partner had plateaued on the bench so we videoed his reps and analysed them in slow motion and made adjustments to make sure we were maximising his muscle power and his bench increased by 5% immediately. We found that he wasnt...