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Someone contacted me privately about methods of training if one has any
injury, weakness or dysfunction of one arm.

These were some of my suggestions – if you have a power rack, you can use
reverse band methods to limit the weight on the bar and control its line of
action while you do bench, inclined press, deadlifts, limited range pulls and
so on. The bands (or bungee cord) are attached to the top of the power rack
and the barbell or dumbbell is suspended from the bands – the amount of
assistance offered depends on the thickness of the bands or cords. Read more…

<< I have seen several definitions of the Janda crunch, this being the latest
from:

http://www.cyberpump.com/chuckpit/chuck010.html

“Find a high bench or something similar. Drape your legs across it like you
normally would. Now, as you crunch up, dig your heels into the bench. What
this does is contract your hip extensors which automatically relaxes your
hip flexors (autogenic inhibition if you wish to look it up) and targets your
abdominals. See, even when you are doing normal crunches, the hip flexors (in
most people) isometrically contract very strongly. Doing the Janda crunch is
a much more intense way of crunching if you are doing it right.”

Comments to the accuracy of this description? >>

*** This definition conveys the general idea. Way before Janda and various
latter day fitness popularists of this situp came on the scene, one of the Read more…

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