I need some soreness in my life, so I oped for all-stretch exercises today. Felt great but painful… [Read more…]

Did all-midrange earlier in the week, so today I opted for an isolation-only workout with rest/pause add-on… [Read more…]

Hit the gym today for an isolation-only workout with rest/pause add-on. Perfect complement to the midrange-move workout earlier in the week. The drill was as follows… [Read more…]

Haven’t done an all-midrange workout in a while, so today was the day. I added rest/pause to only a handful of exercises because I didn’t want to run out of gas. My workouts have been sporadic lately, so must keep it manageable and build back up gradually…  [Read more…]

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…]