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Originally Posted by Adam425

Taking Alwyn's statement to the level of absurdity, I walk two miles to work each morning. At 200 pounds per step and ~4,000 steps, that's 800,000 pounds of work. Do I need to walk home backwards to avoid "a major hip flexor problem?"

Best,
Adam

Totally out of context. Even with little imbalances in a program....over time, these add up and up and up.....

Most people don't even have the same number of push to pull exercises let alone equal volumes / total loads. This is the problem that AC is talking about. Most programs have almost 2:1 push to pull exercises....this done day after day, week after week, month after month and it's no surprise that we have tons of folks with major shoulder problems/issues. BTW, show me how many guys can match 1RM's in their push to pull....even with a supported horizontal pull vs. say a bench press or a lat pulldown vs. a shoulder press....should be interesting. Besides won't your 1RM continue to increase if you keep doing more and more volume/loads therefore creating even greater imbalance?

Lastly, I wasn't saying that you shouldn't try to balance your exercises as much as possible as i am a huge proponent of this but as I mentioned in my earlier thread, for me to try to equalize my vertical push-pull I would have to perform something like 9 sets of shoulder presses to match my 3 sets of pull-ups....not gonna happen. Besides, my problem is not the norm (in terms of this much discrepency in volumes) as most posters will attest. Having a stronger pull than push is not the issue folks are going to the PT for.