Optimal Health Daily - Fitness and Nutrition 3192: Strength Building - Beyond Specificity by Ross Enamait of Ross Training on Improving Workout Performance
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Nov 17, 2025 Explore how general strength can elevate athletic performance across various sports, challenging the notion that specificity is key. Ross Enamait highlights the importance of creative problem-solving to address training plateaus, especially for pull-ups. Discover how grip strength bottlenecks can be improved through farmer's walks. Learn that weight loss can enhance bodyweight movements and that a holistic approach can effectively target weak links. This engaging discussion encourages a balanced training regimen for optimal results.
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Specificity Matters But Isn’t Absolute
- Ross Enamait stresses specificity is crucial: practice your sport or lift to improve at it.
- But he warns specificity alone shouldn't limit training options when solving weaknesses.
Attack Bottlenecks Directly
- Identify weak links that limit performance and target them directly instead of just doing more reps of the same movement.
- Allocate work intelligently rather than assuming more volume on the same exercise is always the fix.
Grip-Focused Fix For Pull-Up Failure
- Ross describes a client with strong upper body strength but poor hand grip who couldn't do pull-ups without straps.
- He fixed it with farmer's walks and bar hangs and the client's pull-ups improved in less than a month.