While it may be very tempting to want to add more weight to the bar (esp. for guys) it is not always in your best interest. If you are unable to perform the movement through its entire range of motion with a lesser weight or bodyweight, you do not need to add more weight. You need to continue to focus on getting the movement and teaching your body the movement.
By increasing weight before you can handle your current weight will result in increased strength with an even more degree of decrease in the movement pattern. You may be able to get away with this for a while but eventually it will lead to an injury.
High Strength + Low Movement Skills = Injury
Our goal is to get you to develop full range of motion and control of the movement before adding weight to the movement. Even if this means a temporary decrease in strength. Overtime you will develop greater strength than if you had just continued to lift through a limited range of motion.
High Strength + High Movement Skills = A Strong, Healthy, Functional Individual
In order to achieve this, weight must only be increased as long as the weight, range of motion, and control of the movement can be controlled. If these three parameters cannot be maintained then weight needs decreased to a weight that will allow for all three.
Live Fit,
Josh
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