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Arms Like Garth - a weight-training wire

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GregP Mar 2023 11:21am, 4 Mar 2023 143,802 posts	Quote Pin GregP That’s reassuring in a weird way. Thanks Nell
HappyG(rrr) Mar 2023 2:23pm, 4 Mar 2023 45,764 posts	Quote Pin HappyG(rrr) Yeah, more glutes. Never enough glutes. Apparently. G
GregP Mar 2023 3:21pm, 4 Mar 2023 143,803 posts	Quote Pin GregP I've been told over the years that weak glutes are a runner's problem, a triathlete's problem, a cyclist's problem and more recently a tennis player's problem...
Angus Clydesdale Mar 2023 3:26pm, 4 Mar 2023 26,271 posts	Quote Pin Angus Clydesdale So who's problem are they not?
Angus Clydesdale Mar 2023 3:26pm, 4 Mar 2023 26,272 posts	Quote Pin Angus Clydesdale Pro arm wrestler.
Nellers Mar 2023 5:19pm, 4 Mar 2023 40,357 posts	Quote Pin Nellers I wonder about things like "It's a runners' problem." Is it not ust the case that there are a lot of runners who get injured so that's who "they" (physios etc) see. Is it not just a thing that most people have relatively weak glutes and don't work them enough in whatever activity they do? (And similarly cyclists, triathletes etc). It's unlikely to be perceived as so much of a problem for, say, bobsleigh pushers, because how many will rpesent to a physio injured in a year?
GregP Mar 2023 6:14pm, 4 Mar 2023 143,804 posts	Quote Pin GregP Nicely put. The physio that told me it's a tennis player's problem was a tennisist who I was seeing about my tennis elbow...
Angus Clydesdale Mar 2023 6:30pm, 4 Mar 2023 26,273 posts	Quote Pin Angus Clydesdale In which case, what was they doing looking at yer ‘aris?!
SPR Mar 2023 6:33pm, 4 Mar 2023 39,734 posts	Quote Pin SPR I imagine bobsleigh pushers would be less likely to have weak glutes TBF in the same way sprinters are but agree with the general premise as the glutes aren't weak because of running are they?
Nellers Mar 2023 7:34pm, 4 Mar 2023 40,358 posts	Quote Pin Nellers I was struggling to think of a random rare sport to be honest. No, glutes are weak because modern life and sitting and posture I think, and that then impacts when you get active, regardless of the sport you choose. Tennis’s elbow caused by weak glutes because they are allowing a weaker posture and more of a body tilt towards the ball as you meet it putting the elbow into a weaker position repeatedly.* *I’m totally making that up. I know less about tennis than I do about bobsleigh probably.