[Best-Hamstring-Exercise] Would it be effective to do leg curls and hit hamstring failure then without rest jump straight to deadlifts (overhand conventional) so that the other muscles involved in the deadlift help push the hamstrings beyond failure? And what fails first in the deadlift? if it is…

[image] jskrabac: I’d be curious to address this within the context of your typical training week vs. your training leading up to a meet. I suppose there are many opinions on why what I couldn’t budge off the ground in training came up easily in a meet. I told others that I was a “meet lifter…

[image] jskrabac: I’d be curious to address this within the context of your typical training week Great point

Some dudes doin’ it. [Tip Of The Week: Pre Exhaust | Hamstrings]

(Just joined this thread, read the first post and, ironically, nothing before the Dunning-Kruger graph. Which makes me fracking optimistic I’m investing my time wisely.) I’m not quite sure what the goal of the original plan is? To do deadlifts that exclude the hamstrings by tiring these muscles o…

I tried this for a while, with fairly heavy weights. No one has ever mistaken me for Eric Haydn or Tom Platz, but I was happy with the results. [image] The 100-Rep Method for Big Legs Vital Whole Human [Big-Legs] by Christian Thibaudeau Ridiculously High Rep…

Unlikely there was much actual hypertrophy… swelling, edemas, fluid retention. I saw the same on mega high reps

To be fair, I don’t know if that’s totally a negative. Looking bigger is looking bigger, after all! I think the idea behind the ultra-high reps is mostly to build additional capillaries, which would then better shuttle blood, oxygen, and nutrients to the working muscles… so it’s an indirect approac…

They have a place to be sure… but for MYOPS / Hypertrophy I think they’re very suboptimal. Definitely a gut check !

I have read much weightlifting advice over the years, much of it here, a lot of it conflicting, some of it useless, things which I incorporate for a time since they seem reasonable and like or don’t, some gems which really worked very well for me which I use when I remember them. Will these “best p…

Pre exhaust for the Hamstrings?

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I tried this for a while, with fairly heavy weights. No one has ever mistaken me for Eric Haydn or Tom Platz, but I was happy with the results.

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Pre exhaust for the Hamstrings?

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