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I was talking to my fireman son-in-law about the direct-indirect concept that was the subject of past newsletters…
With that, you train a muscle directly first, with the ideal exercise using the STX method followed by an add-on move. That gives you short-rest mass effects. [Read more…]
You can see the disappointment on Arnold’s face as he finds out that the Women’s Studies class is not what he imagined. Luckily, he attended the first class wearing pants… [Read more…]
Q: You used to talk about taking a reload week after every four weeks of hard training. Do you still subscribe to that? I use the fifth week to do low-intensity workouts to insure full recovery, then I go back to intense ones for four more weeks. Works great. [Read more…]
Q: I just read your newsletter on Position-of-Flexion [ideal exercise plus stretch- and contracted-position exercises]. I thought the natural strength curve of muscles is hard at the stretch and then tailing off at contraction. Doug [Brignole] said the ideal exercise is all you need. If others were beneficial, wouldn’t he have said so? [Read more…]
With almost 50 years of training experience, I’ve come to realize that incomplete recovery is the #1 roadblock to achieving the fastest hypertrophy your genetics will allow… [Read more…]
Q: I’m making new gains with [STX and the Old Man, Young Muscle workout], but I’ve read that longer rests between sets is better for mass. I think that’s wrong in my case. You say that 20-second rests between sets is like extending the set. My question is, would it be even better to do a drop set [reduce the weight] with no rest between? [Read more…]
You saw a couple of examples of the new Postions-of-Flexion mass method applied to chest—without barbell bench presses, which are inefficient…
Remember, the new POF is no longer midrange + stretch + contracted; it’s now the ideal exercise + the missing positions. [Read more…]
All of the latest research is compelling: It appears that muscles need variation in loading at different positions, such as stretch and peak contraction for fastest and fullest development…
Yes, many recent studies show stretch-loaded exercises as superior mass builders to contracted-position moves, but… [Read more…]
In the last training newsletter, there was a list of the reasons why contracted-position exercises, like triceps pushdowns and leg extensions, can be just as important as stretch loading for mass in some cases… [Read more…]
Recent studies seem to place stretch-loading and stretch exercises at the top of the mass-building food chain… [Read more…]
