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I prefer running with dumbbells. More explosive strength gains imo.
So, you can't then.Indeed I can. Most Ive ever managed was 365 for a double but that was my 20 year old best. Now honestly 275 would be pushing the limits.
CorrectSo, you can't then.
I prefer running with dumbbells. More explosive strength gains imo.
How long runs and how heavy dumbells?
As heavy as you can without tipping over, then just sprint around. Don't run in straight lines either, use angles, it'll shock your body more for growth.How long runs and how heavy dumbells?
As heavy as you can without tipping over, then just sprint around. Don't run in straight lines either, use angles, it'll shock your body more for growth.
Yeah I appreciate that. Im kinda puzzled by the fact that nobody can see the logic. And its not like im guaranteeing injury. Its just like any other movement that is kinda on the margins of being dangerous. You will probably get away with it if you do it, but that is a testament to the resilience of the tendon/muscle, its not an indication that the logic is wrong.
It doesn't REALLY make sense though as to why the supraspinatus would be more compromised than the delts when you look at the insertions, attachment and line of direction of them as well. Nevermind that the supraspinatus is also strecthed more during adduction, as you say.I definitely see the logic. The supraspinatus muscle is stretched when the humerus is depressed as in a heavy farmer's walk. Without any load it would be stretched in an adducted position and less in an abducted position. An abducted position could put the muscle in a position that is shortened or slightly more lax so that the humeral depression is what is stretching this muscle as opposed to the muscle being stretched from both the adduction and humeral depression.
The question now is: how much adduction and or abduction of the humerus will be the safest position to do a farmers walk and or numbers of incidence of injury even in positions that are NOT optimal.
That's a pretty bad illustration, these are a little better:
You are looking at this from a deltoid vs supraspinatus standpoint. I think that there may be a difference based on origin insertion and line of pull, look at this rendition of the shoulder at neutral, can you tell that one initial line of pull is horizontal and the other vertical? It does make sense that they might not respond in the same way to a load. As to the question of whether this hypothesis holds is another story. These muscles seem more different than the similar I think.
I'd like to look further into it and read actual clinical studies on this difference.
Great point about the humeral depression. I think the bottom line is it is simply best to do farmer's walks with a trap bar or some other apparatus that puts a little space in between the torso and the arm. The exercise loses absolutely no effectiveness and its much safer.I definitely see the logic. The supraspinatus muscle is stretched when the humerus is depressed as in a heavy farmer's walk. Without any load it would be stretched in an adducted position and less in an abducted position. An abducted position could put the muscle in a position that is shortened or slightly more lax so that the humeral depression is what is stretching this muscle as opposed to the muscle being stretched from both the adduction and humeral depression.
The question now is: how much adduction and or abduction of the humerus will be the safest position to do a farmers walk and or numbers of incidence of injury even in positions that are NOT optimal.