Q: Your newsletter on sprinter thigh development was thought-provoking. I have to wonder how those athletes, along with oval-track cyclists, get such good development without full-range work. Cycling is especially puzzling because pedaling a bicycle is very short range.
A: Not to mention the quad development of speed skaters, who also use limited range of motion…
I think some of this can be attributed to genetics, some to actual full-range weight-training work, which many athletes use to improve in their sport, and, finally, just the sheer volume of short-range work they do…
Remember, these athletes are not after muscle growth necessarily. It’s not their priority. Their quad development is a “side effect” of their training.
So if you do enough short-range work, you can build impressive muscle—especially if you’re predisposed to it…
That’s similar to doing crummy exercises. Bodybuilders get plenty big using inefficient exercises and bad form, but it takes a lot longer than it should and they have to do loads of extra work…
Whereas if you use the optimal, or ideal, exercise, and emphasize it with just the right amount of volume and range of motion, you can build plenty of muscle in a lot less time—like my 35-minute workouts three times a week…
Efficiency of effort.
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Till next time, train hard—and smart—for BIG results.
—Steve Holman and Jonathan Lawson
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