Best Exercise To Improve Capability Of Handling Heavy Amps
I would like to seek advice on the appropriate exercise in the gym that will help improve my capability of carrying or lifting heavy amps. Will deadlift help in this respect?
As a retired Primary Care Physician I would recommend starting with a Physical Therapist, particularly one with experience in Occupational Medicine. The major health risk here would be blowing your back out. Even if you don’t do serious structural damage to your back such rupture a disc, you could do soft tissue muscle damage to the back that will cause painful spasms and limit you. Strength training alone won’t do it. Gyms are filled with muscle bound studs with chronic back pain. Stretching exercises for your back and proper lifting techniques are more important. I would also suggest using whatever equipment is available or that therapist may recommended to help lifting . Lifting a 109 pound amp from the floor and carrying it might look impressive to onlookers and boost your ego but I foresee a lifetime of misery with back pain unless you take precautions
As a longtime gym rat who originally started lifting to combat chronic back pain, I recommend deadlifts, bent rows (both dumbbells and barbell) and a lot of core exercises.
I will add that whenever you are lifting something heavy, don't attempt to "jerk" the weight up and make sure you are warmed up in general.
bad knee, bad back, bad shoulder, 30 surgeries, bad attitude: make friends, or hire others, don’t try doing it yourself, my wife helps me move mid weight stuff, I wait for friends for heavier than that,
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