With today’s quote, I want to stay in the realm of stretch overload for superior muscle growth…
I used the quote below in Old Man, Young Muscle and went into more detail on the study and ones that correlate well with it in that ebook.
It’s from Jose Antonio, Ph.D., discussing his findings using only overload in the stretch position on a bird’s wing…
I performed the study using the stretch model. I used a progressive-overload scheme [only at the full-stretch point]. Using this approach produced the greatest gains in muscle mass over recorded in an animal or human model of tension-induced overload, up to 334 percent increase in muscle mass.
In the study there were no “reps,” only increasing resistance in the stretch position of the latissimus muscle. Although there may have been partial movement in that elongated position, no positive or negative strokes were performed.
That’s important to keep in mind for tomorrow’s look at an exciting new study that compared full-range reps with contracted-position partials and stretch-position partials (similar to the bird-wing application above).
Note: For a chart of stretch-position exercises for each muscle, as well as the ideal and contracted-position moves, see pages 42 and 43 of Old Man, Young Muscle.
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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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