Made it back to the gym today and decided on an isolation-exercise-only workout–no rest/pause. Trying to keep my in-the-gym stress low considering my outside pressure is high. Here’s what I did today… [Read more…]

Sporadic workouts led me to a Saturday morning home-gym session. slow-mo stretch move for STX effect followed immediately by a speed set of a midrange exercise. Great workout…

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Crazy stressful situations right now, so my workouts have been sporadic and mostly home-based. Today I hit the home gym again, but I did something totally different: I used midrange exercises, but I started with an X-centric set, lift in 2 seconds and lower in 6, rested 10 seconds, then did an X-celeration set to failure, which is controlled speed reps, about 1.5 seconds each. Quick, unreal workout…  [Read more…]

It’s been a while since I had a home workout. And since a local gym closed, my gym has been excessively crowded. So it’s home sweet home today… [Read more…]

Interesting that I have gravitated to either all-midrange, all-stretch or all-contracted exercise workouts. In the newsletter and in the new Anabolic Reload e-book we’ve mentioned Brad Schoenfeld, Ph.D., and his 3 key hypertrophic triggers: mechanical tension with heavier training, metabolic stress by blocking blood flow with continuous tension and muscle damage via microtears. Those correspond to the three exercises in POF–midrange, contracted and stretch. In other words, focusing on one of those at each workout might just be an ideal size stimulator…  [Read more…]

I got good soreness the last time I did an all-stretch workout. It’s been a few workouts since then, so time to hit it again… [Read more…]

All contracted-position exercises today–high-rep set followed by lower-rep set with a rest/pause add-on. [Read more…]

Haven’t done an all-midrange workout in a while–one exercise for each major muscle–so today is the day. And I added a rest/pause to each…  [Read more…]

I had a craving for an all-stretch-move workout, so I started with a high-rep set, added weight for 8, then did a rest/pause add-on for a few more. [Read more…]

Back to the contracted position first–with high reps for slow-twitch exhaustion. Excellent burn…
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