Getting the gains without getting the soreness!
Hey guys! I absolutely love your show and always walk away with learning so much! I am training for my 3rd half marathon and running between 15-25 miles a week. I also try to incorporate weight training 3-5 days a week and 1-2 cycling classes (because I enjoy it!). It’s hard to do everything I love without getting injured and extremely sore! What’s the line between training like a badass and gaining muscle and endurance and reducing injury and properly recovering. Thank you so much!!! -Kayla
Training for Dancers
Hey Guys, I've picked up dancing as a hobby about 2 years ago and fell in love with it. I do a lot of social dancing for swing and lindy hop that requires a lot of hoping and aerials. Since picking up this craft, I've been more and more motivated to becoming more fit. I've started training 6 months ago, building a program for myself as a rookie, based on information I've been reading and listening to in your podcasts. I really want to become strong and lower my body fat percentage. I've been doing compound exercises like Goblets, RDLs, Dumb Bell Bench Presses, and increasing my load as I go. Here's my question though: Currently, my goblets have been running at 30lbs in the 12 rep range for 6 sets. I know that to lower my body fat percentage, I have to train to failure. I've been doing this exercise for about 4 months and I feel my form is now perfect, because I no longer feel pain in my knees (which I know the pain had been due to bad form). I am however, scared to train to failure in weighted squats, because I don't want there to be pain in my knees. I need them to be able to dance in hopes that one day I will be able to even do aerials. I feel like I can go really high in my rep ranges for weighted squats, but am scared. Could you help?
Standing cable hip abduction modifications?
I have been doing SCHAs as part of my routine for a while to work my abductors and side glutes (I also do the hip abductor machine, DB curtsey lunges and DB side step ups through the week). I realised recently my left leg is much weaker than my right, which I think is because I've got a long standing injury on my right shoulder and can't put as much of my bodyweight into that arm (which I hold onto the cable machine with to support me when working my left leg). I've tried working the left leg 25% more than the right as you've recommended previously, but I still feel unstable supporting with my right arm. Can you recommend some modifications to the move to avoid the influence of my bad shoulder?