Muscle for Life

Have you ever done an exercise and just not “felt” it? Sure, you performed the lift, but your target muscles don’t feel like they worked very hard. Or maybe you felt it in the “wrong” areas? Like your forearms feeling zapped after barbell curls while your biceps still feel fresh. Or maybe you felt it, but in a bad way. For example, bench pressing started bothering your elbows and you never really felt it in your chest before your triceps started giving out. These sorts of problems aren’t uncommon. And the good news is there are often modifications and tweaks you can fine-tune to make exercises more effective and work better for you. These aren’t necessarily obvious fixes you can discover intuitively, read about in a textbook, or even hear about by word of mouth either. Sometimes you have to experiment. Of course, this is a double-edged sword, because you can end up “fixing your form” for months on end, without ever really settling on anything. This is where experience and intelligent methodology come into pla