Always Doing What You Are Good At

By Iron Addict

Always doing what you are good at

One of the biggest mistakes lifter make is always doing the lifts they excel at and neglecting lifts that they are not great at. My downfall in the past was tdeadlifts and dips. My leverages are good for these lifs and relative to everything else I am fairly strong on them. So guess what? I used to do them constantly to the exclusion of many other lifts. By dipping weigh (bodyweight + weights strapped to waist) far exceeded my bench numbers, so why bench? I could pull much more than I could squat, why squat? After a few years pulling I had 500 on the bar and was still making progress. And my squat suffered because of it.

To put it simply, you will never be stronger than your weak points, and if you are to improve, you goal needs to be constantly figuring out what is weak, and eliminating the weak points. This is often best accomplished by doing lifts that you are relatively weak at. Get a guy that is weak at pull-ups and you will usually find a guy that is using every back machine in the gym.

 

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