Jeff Cavaliere

because that's where that FDS muscle is most strained.

So you're just almost eliminating that from the equation.

And it's one of those exercises that the load can exceed its capacity pretty quickly so that maybe it's only capable of handling

And then when you're doing a chin up and it goes and it drifts so far that it's, now let's say you're a 200 pound guy, you've got, let's say a hundred pounds through one arm and a hundred pounds, this is simplified math that obviously is offset by other muscles, but a hundred pounds to one arm, a hundred pounds to the other arm, a hundred pounds off of a muscle that can handle 30 is not going to take many repetitions to strain it.

And you're going to feel that maybe by the time that sets over, or certainly by the time that workout's over, or the next day you wake up and you've got that notable stabbing pain.

Whenever someone feels that, the best thing would be to determine, okay, what exercises was I doing that were pulling and where the bar could have drifted deeper, further from the meat of my palm into my fingers and figure out a way to deepen that grip.

When that happens though, the best thing to do with most of these inflammatory conditions is not do any of that stuff for a little while.

there's so many other options that you can do that will train similar muscles or even the same motion and not cause that stress.

So, I mean, a cable curl would be much easier to do that on than let's say a chin up where you don't have the control over the weight like you do by moving a pin on a stack.

I think that anything you can do to increase your awareness of your performance and also give yourself some objective goal.

Whenever we have an objective goal, it's a lot easier to actually obtain it.

When you're just there to get a pump and you're just there to lift how you feel that day, you have to be incredibly disciplined in all other aspects of your workout in order to make that effective.

Anything you can do to increase your awareness of it and keep you on track with that is like I'm endorsing fully.

My approach is like, I've always been sort of a low sugar,

lower fat guy.

That is the best approach for, I believe, again, in my opinion, personally for the overall big picture, because though the people can take exclusionary approaches to nutrition and taking carbs out or eating only fats and proteins,

Again, I'm not saying it doesn't work for you.

And if it's the first thing that actually allowed you to gain control of your nutrition to the point where you actually saw results and got to a healthier weight, then I always say, then do it.

Then do it, but just make sure it's something you can do forever and doesn't bring upon other repercussions.

I think that non-exclusionary approaches to diets are the most sustainable.