![]() Nearly thirty years ago I learned the DTK doesn’t make biomechanical sense, yet it seems more popular today than ever. ![]() Third, it’s discouraging that, as a profession, we aren’t advancing the knowledge of exercise science. ![]() Second, it’s hard enough for most of us to get into the gym, so I’d like to help exercisers to not inadvertently waste time – and the DTK is a profound time waster. What’s so bad about the DTK? First, if you’re an over-50/senior, you have much more important priorities than performing narrowly focused single joint/muscle exercises (see #3 just below). There are a few variations of the DTK *, but what they all have in common is the torso/upper arm stays stabilized more or less parallel to the ground while the lower arm moves in a circular path at the elbow – here’s a quick video. In general, a modern function-based approach would look to create resistance exercises based on whole-body movements rather than specific, individual muscles. Plus, as a group, I think seniors would be better off not doing any narrowly focused one-joint exercises like DTK.ĭTK probably date from the 1950’s, but they’re definitely not an oldie-but-goody more of a poorly chosen holdover from a reductionist body building paradigm which seeks to “isolate” one muscle group at a time. It would be great if everyone knew better, so maybe this post will help. My excuse is I’m human: I see DTK performed almost every day, which is depressing since it’s such a worthless exercise. For an audience of over-50 adults and seniors – my client group – I should post about topics more important than the resistance-training exercise called Dumbbell Triceps Kickback (DTK).
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