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Dump Deadlifts?

Bodybuilder doing stiff-legged deadlifts

Q: I saw that Doug Brignole trashed stiff-legged deadlifts, but you have them in Old Man Young Muscle. Have you stopped doing them since Doug’s analysis shows that they don’t contract the hamstrings?

A: I still include them. That’s because I don’t use the semi-stiff-legged deadlifts to contract my hamstrings. It’s a stretch move… [Read more…]

Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: deadlifts, exercise for hamstrings, hamstrings, ideal exercise, leg curls, stiff-legged deadlifts

Only One Key Exercise for Mass?

Jonathan Lawson doing incline dumbbell flyes

Q: I’ve been following your newsletters. Interesting ideas. One question I have is that you talk about emphasizing the ideal exercise for mass for each target muscle, but then say that you follow it with a less efficient one. Why not just do the ideal exercise only for all sets and then move to the next muscle?

A: We’ve found that different exercises can have unique mass-building effects—and research backs that up… [Read more…]

Filed Under: X Files Tagged With: animal study, best exercise, ideal exercise, key exercise, mass building, muscel fiber recruitment, muscle hypertrophy, muscle size, Steven J. Fleck Ph.D, strength gains, William J. Kraemer Ph.D

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