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My rotator cuffs are compromised due to poor exercise form in my youth and actually adhering to exercises in the manner in which they were supposed to be performed, that have since been determined to be detrimental. These include upright rows, bench press to the neck (don't ask) and shoulder presses behind the neck. Also, I had the bad habit of cheating too much towards the end of the set when I was younger, employing all manner of "body English." Yes, I did upright rows many years ago, but I cannot tell you specifically how much they contributed to my shoulder impairment in isolation.
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I do UR's strict style that doesn't involve much rotation about the shoulder joint. The motion is brief and intense from just below the navel to just above the nips. Also I use a wider grip on the bar, not quite shoulder width, the thumbs just a bit more than width of the nips.

Are "cleans" also inherently dangerous iyo? Lessen the weight and slow the momentum, pull the weight from below navel to just above nips, what do you have? A trimmed down safer clean?
 
I don't know. I'm not the best guy to ask. For a number of years now, I have largely limited my entire workout routine to a relative few basic compound exercises. That and cardio. I try to avoid momentum in all its forms when working with weights. Again, I'm not the best guy to ask.
 
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I don't know. I'm not the best guy to ask. For a number of years now, I have largely limited my entire workout routine to a relative few basic compound exercises. That and cardio.
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I do a lot of cardio too. But in view of what I've read recently I'm more confused than ever. Which cardio is best: brief intense spurts, or steady state long period?

I lean toward the latter as a former (recreational) long distance runner, but now not so sure my choice has been the correct one all these years.
 
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I do a lot of cardio too. But in view of what I've read recently I'm more confused than ever. Which cardio is best: brief intense spurts, or steady state long period?

I lean toward the latter as a former (recreational) long distance runner, but now not so sure my choice has been the correct one all these years.
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Not too long ago, I tried burst training for a number of months, where I would run on an incline treadmill as fast as I could for about 40 seconds to about a minute. Then I would completely rest for 2 minutes. I repeated this 5 times. It was exhausting, but felt great. My normal sequence is weights, followed by cardio and then, finally, abs. I noticed almost immediately that my ab work was somewhat less crisp following the burst training as compared to following regular cardio.

Over time, the burst training became progressively more tiring, so that by the time I did abs, it was rather loosey-goosey. And so, I reverted back to regular cardio, which lasts a bit more than twice as long, also on the incline treadmill. I sweat just as much but stagger somewhat less on completion. Perhaps the ideal solution would be to alternate between burst and regular cardio, but I haven't tried doing it that way. Also, and perhaps this concern is unfounded, I wondered what the sudden starting and stopping would do, going full tilt, for a soon-to-be 53-year-old ticker.

I may try alternating burst and regular cardio in the future, but I want to see if there are any casualties first among the middle aged crowd. Why be someone else's guinnea pig, eh? :D
 
All out war against mid-section fat. No more bread. Limiting sugar to minimal amount.

I read somewhere that a belly (it is mild on me but I don't like it) could be a sign of low testosterone levels. Hard to believe on me (because nothing about me says low testosterone) but I decided to take some - what do I know? (I should have gone to the doctor instead of guessing).

Well, I am sex crazed now and all I wan to do is fuck. I can't concentrate. So I stopped it. I am confused. Some people say doing crunches will make your midsection bigger. Other say it won't make it smaller, but when the fat goes away, the definition is there. I don't know man. This is the one area that has me beat.

Don't worry. I'll win, if it takes me two years.
 
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