Stretch-mediated hypertrophy has been a dominant theme in this newsletter for a while, but especially lately. That’s due to many recent studies pointing to stretch “overload” as being a key get-bigger trigger…
Remember that one factor necessary for an exercise to qualify as ideal is an optimal resistance curve—harder at stretch and easier at contraction. That extra resistance at stretch makes it superior for efficient growth stimulation…
In Old Man, Young Muscle I also identify stretch-position exercises—like incline curls for biceps, flyes for chest, and high-incline extensions for triceps—as excellent add-on moves for additional hypertrophy after the ideal…
Finishing off a muscle with overload near full stretch can do great things for muscle size. In fact…
Research published in the Journal of Applied Physiology found that intense stretching after working a muscle group has the potential to increase its mass by 318% in 28 days.
That giant increase may have been in untrained subjects; however, it does confirm the incredible hypertrophic power of stretch.
Note that it’s “intense stretching” that produced the size increase. That would indicate that stretch-position exercises using resistance would get the extra-mass-building job done and then some.
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Till next time, train hard—and smart—for BIG results.
—Steve Holman
Former Editor in Chief, Iron Man Magazine
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