I’ll use another analogous situation to illustrate my point. One of the more common “injuries” we’ll see with general population clients is among new dads who develop elbow pain on one side of their body. The culprit? Holding onto a newborn with a flexed arm while walking around the house. The anterior muscles—biceps brachii—sit in a flexed position while holding the baby, overwhelming the posterior triceps. An easy remedy is simply to have that dad work his triceps more to even out the asymmetry of strength. Voilà! Elbow pain dissipates. The is a simplified, but real-world example of how working more of the thing that’s being worked can be a bad idea. Imagine if that dad had done a lot more bicep curls at the gym while also holding his baby around the house. He’d only be exacerbating his elbow pain.