What are your weaknesses?

[b fold the truth]

What are your weak points and how do you plan to strengthen them?

Total body strength: continue with my power exercises (squat, deadlift, overhead press).

Short distance cardio endurance: short sprints, light jogging/running, walking, sled dragging, sled walks.

Overhead Strength: Spend more time on my clean and press, log press, and focus on my rotator cuffs and triceps more.

Ab strength: training abs 3-4x per week with variations.

Calf Strength: training calves 2x per week, seated and standing.

Increase Quad Endurance: car pushes, sled dragging, sled pulls.

What are yours?

B True

 

[gmanlax7]

Arms (mainly tri's) and Flat bench: Dedicate more time and intensity to strengthening tri's,

Legs: Hitting legs more often and heavier, improving form and doing more exercises

lower stomach: drinking less

 

[Arioch]

Lack of fast twitch muscle fiber in triceps: plan on crying about it, since nothing else will change this unfortunate fact.

Work on lockout exercises in rack, five board press, and JM press.

Hips are weakpoint of squat. Work on ultra wide sumo deads, low box squats, etc.

Weak point of deadlift is off the deck, absolute strength is lagging behind ability to accelerate the bar. Work on snatch grip deads, deads off platform, as well as exercises for overload, such as rack pulls, as well as more specific exercises for the deadlift that heavily tax the CNS, such as low box squats with manta ray, and front squats off low box.

 

[Thaibox]

Have to start working my rotators. All my pressing movements have suffered because I've neglected this.

Lower body has suffered because of a knee injury. Just starting to get my strength back down there, but I'm still very disproportionate.

Even though I wouldn't consider myself a BB, Size is still important to me. With respect to size....my biceps are my weakest area. My shoulders dominate my body making them look even worse I've got cannonballs with spaghetti hanging off them.

 

[goldenone]

Triceps-My lockout is my weak point right now.Board presses with bands,J.M. press.

Traps-Shrugs Shrugs Shrugs.

 

[big4life]

My shoulders / rotators need the most improvement strength wise. My shoulders have the size I want, but the strength sucks because of an injury. I just need to concentrate on more rotator work.

 

[gmanlax7]

what is good for rotator work ? im not familiar with this, im gonna run a search actually

 

[solidj55]

I am really only concerned with my bench press since thats the only lift I plan to compete in so I will concentrate on everything that surrounds it. More tri work like boards, closegrip pressing etc. More rows and speed work since Im weak off of the bottom part of my bench. Shoulder raises to all sides as well as rotator work. I also will work on my abs and lower back since I had a back injury and need to strengthen my base.

 

[The Shadow]

Gain about 25 pounds by this fall - I'm happy with general strength and size proportions that I currently have.....

 

[Haz]

My neck, I need to add about a half inch to bring it up to match my arms and calves.

Lower back. I have neglected doing heavy deads in the past, so I'm playing catch up now.

 

[gettinlarger]

my legs suck ...
squats, squats, and more squats

and then calves, calves, and even more calves

my squat is behind my dead and my bench, which is pretty crappy to say. but ive gotten my form down on squatting really well so hopefully theyll be gettin stronger soon.

been workin calves twice a week, seating and standing. they feel good.

 

[louden_swain]

I would have to say calves. My calves have nice shape, but no frickin' mass. My upper legs dwarf my calves!!! I will never give up. . . I will continue to train them to death. Overall my, calves grow about 1/2 inch every 2 years. WTF??

 

[jeremys]

i have the exact opposite problem...calves have lots of mass but no shape..

my weaknesses right now are shoulders, all delts and traps could be brought up a little...

im going to have to train harder/smarter obviously, and i really gotta find a way to fix my diet. every day i get 150 grams or less of protein...

 

[Deciever]

weakness- squat bench and dead in general..pretty much everything
how to fix- practice form, and get stronger

 

[nikkita]

lower back and lower abs - fats tends to accumulate if I get weak even 5% on the diet ... I'm finding out what works best for me in this aspect.

calves - I've got the form but struggling for size, size, size... did I mentioned size?? I've changed my routine, included more weight and pay particular attention to recovery time.

strenght - hamstrings and shoulders... I go practicing with different weights for different periods of time by increasing it gradually.

 

[USMC War Dog]

Have to start working my rotators. All my pressing movements have suffered because I've neglected this.

Similar problem. When I lefted a lot a few years ago, I neglected some exercises, because I never knew how important they were. I never did much shoulder work, because I figured that my benching would take care of it. I find that I'm having problems locking out the movement, because of my shoulders or triceps being weaker than my chest. I noticed this, because my shoulder and tri strength are not balanced with my chest. An 80 year old lady probably could shoulder press more than me........I really hope not....

Goal is to go through the exercises that I dislike. Reasons why I dislike them is because I'm weak at them. It's always funner to work your stronger areas than your weaker. Anyone agree with that?

 

[coolcolj]

My chest sucks, that's about it

 

[Doktor Bollix]

My shoulders are incredibly weak now. They were stronger when I started 6 or 7 years ago. Injuries and bad rehab dammit.

I also need greater hip flexor and hamstring flexibility.
And stronger hams and triceps same as everybody.

 

[vinylgroover]

My body is a wreck all over. Major lower back problem, bung wrist, dodgy left shoulder. The only thing i've got is two good knees. The heavy days are well and truely over. Now i'm just concentrating on longevity and slow steady progress

 

[Spectre]

Forearms and calves...

I have moved them to the front of the workout session 2x a week. It's gonna take a year.

 

[Norman Bates]

Triceps i think.

 

[Vortexx]

Weak points:


lower back / spinal erectors and front/side delts

i have neglected deadlifts and bentrow too much in the past cause i have talent for wide lats, they grow even from looking at other people doing chins...However this was fooling myself to believe I had a good back , until i saw somebody in the gym with wings AND huuuge spinal erectors / lower traps and a christmass tree in the lowerback..

Thickness is improving a lot now that i really focus on bent rows, but since my ankle injury is not completely healed yet, i still cannot do heavy deadlifts yet, but instead do light very controlled stldl for the time being.......


delts and traps , i guess it's partly biomechanics... I have a long neck and long arms and orignally a narrow torso... Most guys with great delts i see have short necks with huge traps, shorter arm and a broader torso , giving better leverage for heavy overhead presses.....
Also i suspect my front / side delts are red fibre, when i go swimming (swim sprints) during holidays, my front delts actually catch up in shape and size from this kind of heavy endurance work... Maybe i should train delts with high reps

 

[benchmonster]

Genuine weaknesses are:

Hip strength - work more bottom position very low squats, do more sled dragging.

Ham strength - start doing GM's with feet together

Bottom end strength in bench - I am terrible out of the bottom. Constantly hammer rotators, and front delts, and get faster faster faster

Things not really weak but definately room to improve:

Lockout strength on bench - everyone can use more. board presses, rack lockouts with tons of bands, anything heavy on triceps.

Bar speed - I am consitently the fastest in the meets I go to, but always need to be faster. Will improve this by not going heavy on speed days. Get faster faster faster. Watch the George Halbert video till I can repeat every line.

B.

 

[Arioch]

Watch the George Halbert video till I can repeat every line.

I could repeat them so often he would think they were my lines and my bench would still suck.

 

[Y_lifter]

DIET

 

[DrBones]

My rotator cuffs are aweful... Train the hell out of them until there is never any discomfort.. I think im dreaming...

My upper chest is and always has been lacking behind the rest of my chest... Hell... my whole chest could use a good couple extra inches... Hammer my pecs until next summer so that I will need a training bra.. hahah

My lats need serious work... My traps are quite large and seem to grow in leaps and bounds.. so my whole back isn't lacking... however, my lats are so damn small it makes me look like a bloody fridge... I'm gunna chin up and pull down my brains out until my lats stick so far out of my body I can't walk through doors without turning sideways.

Quads. My upper legs could use some work... I used to play hockey and lacrosse so I have a little above average quads... but bigger is always better...


Eat more protein... We have shitty food at my house... everybody is carb-oholics....

Those are the things I really need to work on.