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2005/02/06, 02:33 PM
heres a article in mens fitness I liked....
Imagine adding a coupel extra floors to the leaning tower of pisa. The result would be diasterous, since it would create and imbalance and compromise the building structural integrity.
Your body follows the same rules,only when it comes with its own built in engineer that simply won't alow you to add size if it means causing injury. FOR instance, if you concentrate only on bench presses and ignore opposing movements...rows, yoru muscle will stop growing inorger to prevent and imbalace- or structural defect between the front and back sides of your upper body.
To keep balace you need the same volume of excercises for lifts.....example if you lift 200lbs 10x 3 sets on bench and follow it with 150lbs x10 3 sets of rows......your lifted a volume total of 6000lbs on bench....and only 4500 on rows....and extra set on rows would correct this "volume imbalance"
Same with lower body,you need a foundation to stand on, sears tower is tall, but it has a good foundation too. Think about this. Would a building stand very long if the upper 1/3 of it was 200ft wide......if the bottom was only 100ft wide?
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