I’ve always enjoyed watching the top bodybuilders train. It’s always motivational, and I often discover ways that they’ve gotten huge through instinctively doing the right thing…
One example I harp on often is Arnold and his strategic use of stretch-position movements for almost every muscle group. Even his close-grip cable rows produces a wicked stretch on his mid back—at least the way he did them in Speed Set style…
Research is showing that training a muscle with stretch loading significantly speeds hypertrophy, and Arnold had a sense that there was something special about them…
I also mentioned the attention to stretch ad nauseam in the analysis of Mr. Olympia Jay Cutler’s workouts in X-Rep Update #1 (Chapter 5: Mr. O’s Wild X-O Workouts).
More recently, I saw him post about one of his favorite biceps exercises, alternate dumbbell curls standing…
What I noticed immediately is that he stops the curl just a hair past the midway point…
Not only is that one of the ideal biceps exercises from a biomechanics standpoint identified in Old Man, Young Muscle, his version also emphasizes the stretch range on every rep…
In other words, he’s NOT pulling the dumbbell up to his shoulder as most trainees do.
You may want to give it a try—a subtle variation for more mass creation.
Your Efficient Mass-Building Handbook: For more mass-building tips like the above plus complete workouts that include the ideal exercise for each muscle and the best stretch and contracted add-on moves, get your copy of Old Man, Young Muscle.
And you still get The Muscle-On, Belly-Gone “Diet” ebook FREE for a limited time when you add Old Man, Young Muscle to your mass-building library. Go HERE.
Till next time, train hard—and smart—for BIG results.
—Steve Holman
Former Editor in Chief, Iron Man Magazine
www.X-Rep.com
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