Grahams brother Eli was in town (along with the whole family for pop's 60th bday). He is a trainer down in Miami and I got to pick his brain, and had a major breakthru because he showed me how to deadlift, which is something Ive been trying to have happen. Because of my great height, we figured out it was a lot better for me to do a sumo deadlift, and I start off a block so it doesn't go all the way down. Just doing it with 60 lbs a couple days ago I can feel it all over my body. The posterior chain is half your body ---- your back, half your legs, and half your arms. What an amazing excercise.
Eli said a bunch of awesome stuff that I also remembered. Work your weak side first. I was thinking of my left side as my weak side (it is), but really you could cut the body in half the other way and you would say my back side is my weak side (it is.) He got me more aware of my body and where everything is which is great. He introduced me to the idea of my rhomboids (middle back), also great. He showed me a cool way to do a body weight row motion that puts no pressure on the back which is great.
I have some low lying fruit with my deadlift --- I think I can start at 60 lbs and legitly transform my entire body. Having done it once I noticed a t-shirt fit differently. Its amazing that it hits the weak side of my forearm, a different part on my upper arm, traps, etc etc.
I looked in the mirror and saw a new fitness goal -- Dhalsim from Street Fighter II.
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