Listen at » Optimal back health and strength training – Strongfirst
“StrongFirst Podcast Episode #17 ~ Dr. Stu McGill discusses optimal back health and its importance when strength training.”
2 Key Points:
When you are designing your training regimen, it helps to know your goals. On a deeper level, it also helps to know what you want to get out of each exercise.
Deadlifts are not for everyone. All exercises are not for everyone. Know your capabilities and physical limitations and design your workout based on you.
Tweetable Quotes
“Proximal stiffness enhances distal speed. – Dr. Stu McGill”
“Every exercise is simply a tool to achieve a goal. We need to know the goal for each exercise. – Dr. Stu McGill”