Danny M. O'Dell, MA. CSCS*D Strength coach

Explosivelyfit strength training builds powerful bodies!

STRENGTH AND POWER
TRAINING INFORMATION FOR THE SERIOUS ATHLETE

Balancing out your power

Balancing out your power

Are you continually injured and not able to figure out why? Does it seem as though just as you are ready to break through to new levels of strength, something ‘always’ happens. That little tweak you felt in your shoulder on that last rep or the slight pain in your upper back that you noticed as you finished your last deadlift pull.

If so, you are not alone in this world. Many lifters continue to injure and reinsure themselves simply because they keep doing the same things repeatedly. ‘Do you expect things to be different the next time around while still doing the same things as before the injury? That, my friend, is a definition of insanity!

So, you ask how do you break this never-ending cycle. Well here is a short and sweet list that may provide an answer.

1. Look at your log
2. Look at your exercise selections
3. Look at your exercise order
4. Most importantly look at what is facing you in the mirror everyday
5. Look at your most recent injury and compare it to your last one, are they similar in location or degree of damage

Once you have examined these facts, you are on your way to a healthier and more progressive lifting career.

Let us look briefly at number one on the list, your log. You have been keeping a log haven’t you? If not START NOW.

A log gives you more than just a place to use your nice new pen. It shows your progression or lack thereof, it can illustrate how you have planned your sessions, how you felt as you worked out and more importantly it provides a roadmap to where you are now. And, a clue as to how you ended up injured…again.

Entering things like your weight, your mood before and after the time spent in the gym, how the weights felt (light or heavy or somewhere in between), the exercises selected and the order you put them in (did your triceps give out before you tried you max bench because you did a whole slew of triceps extensions and pushdowns before the big push?), how about the goals you had written down before the day began?

By thoroughly examining your past, you may alter your future effort in a positive fashion.

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