Q: Your Quick Start Muscle 2.0 has renewed my motivation for home training. I’m stoked and starting the STX workouts next week. You have the first set in both workouts for slow-twitch exhaustion. Do you think that first set is better as a slow-mo set or as a normal speed high-rep set?
A: Either of those methods on the first set accomplishes the same thing: You fatigue the slow-twitch fibers, triggering more fast-twitch-fiber activation on the set or sets that follow…
It’s like a precise, efficient warmup set that fatigues the slow-twitch fibers AND encourages them to grow…
In other words, both slo-mo and high reps provide a set that is lighter and keeps the target muscle under tension for around 60 seconds…
However, we’ve found that slo-mo—lifting in one second and lowering in six—helps better enhance the mind-muscle connection, while a normal-speed high-rep set produces more muscle burn.
Both of those are important. The mind-muscle connection can help you engage more muscle fibers, while muscle burn can encourage more anabolic hormone release…
That’s why we have the first set for each muscle as Slo-mo in Workout 1 and Hi-rep in Workout 2…
You get the best of both worlds plus variation to jack up your at-home mass creation.
Note: In the new Quick-Start Muscle 2.0, we outline at-home workouts with only adjustable dumbbells and a bench using slo-mo, high reps, speed, stretch reflex, and STX—a moderate-weight, multiple-muscle-fiber-exhaustion method. New home-grown mass for you is the goal…
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Till next time, train hard—and smart—for BIG results.
—Steve Holman and Jonathan Lawson
www.X-Rep.com
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