Dear all,

I write of a strange phenomenon that I have found.

I first noticed that I was far stronger on the Nautilus duo squat and the Nautilus lateral raise one handed rather than two, lets say I was doing so and so weight one handed and then doubled that weight I could not do what I was doing for reps, and had to drop the weight considerably to do the same reps, I at first put it down to the cams.

Then about six months ago was doing triceps pressdown on a preacher bench one handed but was in a rush to go out, I was doing 20/15/10, so I decided to do them two handed, so I doubled the weight, I could not do one rep ??? I first checked the weighs, they were spot on, I was then dumbfounded and still am.

Anyone have a clue ???

The only thing I can think of, is I have isolated the one limb and therefore concentrated my strength gains to the actual muscles doing the work, as they are doing the work more then leverage they themselves have grown stronger, as if I was doing them two handed I would be using my body or should I say the middle of my body chest, lats and shoulders as a sort of leverage system ???

Or maybe trained my one arm with far more Neurological efficiency ???

Or there is far less strain on the CNS on doing a lighter weight one limbed twice rather than doing the larger weight with two hands.

But still can not believe what has happened.

And you will be amassed like me that I can not do double the weight I can do one handed, two handed, actually I have to drop the pin quite a bit to do it two handed.

I now ay this moment in time do everything one limb at a time except shoulder press and wrist curls, ok it take longer, and double as hard, but that is of no concern.

If anybody had asked be before I did this I would have would them you can always lift more with two hands than one, but not anymore,

Paul Evans