So I’ve ran into something that’s new to me and hope someone else here has tried it and played around with the concept, weighted stretching. Or more specifically weighted stretching after every set for a minimum of 30 seconds followed by a drop set, then rinse and repeat 2 or 3 more times.
How were your results from training this way and how important is the drop set? Can I simply keep to my high volume workout routine and just add stretching in after every single set? I attached a link to a more detailed explanation of what it is below.
If you are trying to get stronger then stretching between sets is a bad idea, if all you care about is muscle growth then supposedly this will work. I don’t know the exact protocols, but look into “Doggcrapp training” (that was the guy’s user name on some forum and it stuck), some sort of extreme stretching was part of the program. There was also some former bodybuilder-turned personal trainer here in Ottawa that I heard was all into stretching between sets, supposedly it causes muscle hyperplasia (new muscle fibres grow, as opposed to hypertrophy where the fibres just get bigger).
All I can say is follow the guidelines of someone who has already done this and gotten good results, experimenting with stuff like that if you don’t know what you are doing has the potential to end badly.
Because this subject was talked about on a thread this week on this exact same sub forum.
Out of the blue it’s brought up again by someone who just joined today. So I find it ironic
Ive found weighted stretching to help a lot with building muscle. I think as a natural it will be the best way to build muscle in the traps. I like to do rack pulls for the upper back and traps. If you want to see a transformation look at alpha destiny when he rack pulled 1140. His back and traps were massive.
For clarification are you specifically lecturing me? I have no dog in this fight regarding the actual concept itself. But I have made my dislike for a certain individual very clear on several occasion. I was making a off handed joke to begin with. I wanted to clear that up before a misunderstanding arose between us.
