Exercise online is a bit of mess.
The problem with social media and what we see on the interweb is that most of it is inappropriate. I don’t mean inappropriate in a “parental guidance “sort of way, although there is too much of that as well (put some clothes on people!! ). I mean more inappropriate for you and me.
Random exercises performed by someone who is ½ our age, or has 10x more experience in the gym, or is a freak of nature, or has no injuries, or (I can go on and on) is not the best guidance for most of us.
I can come up with a few different examples.
Here is one I see often. Back squats.
The squat that we did in high school or perhaps our sporting years, with bar loaded up on the back of our neck and down we go! Back up, Down we go.
The old school lifters will tell ya that all you need is master the squat, deadlift and bench press and you are good to go. But those guys have been doing that for 25 years!
The new school fitness coaches will give you all kinds of variations to keep things interesting. Too many sometimes.
The answer is somewhere in the middle for most of us.
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Our journey continues,
Greg