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“I Dare You” by Shinedown came on while I was working out the other day and one line keeps popping up in my thoughts. “Decide which voice in your head you can keep alive”. Seems so fitting right now with everyone working towards their resolutions and deciding what changes they need to make. Anytime we propose to make changes there seems to be some type of conflict.
Do you find yourself, like I do, having all these thoughts or voices coming at you when you are trying to make some changes? You may hear why you shouldn’t make these changes, you need to do something else, is the change actually good for you or you don’t have time. Then there is the one that says you got this, you need this, it is good for you, or you can make time. The negative and the positive, with a couple of unsure voices in there too. There always seems to be one voice quieter than the other. I know I probably sound crazy right now, in fact as I read this I do. But admit it, you hear those voices too. We all do. So when you start hearing all these opinions and comments from the voices in your head, you “decide which voice in your head you can keep alive”. Are you going to keep the one that empowers you or the one that holds you back? Large muscle group (multi-joint exercises) then small muscle group (single-joint exercises) or vise versa? Do you need to do a pre-exhaust technique to see muscle gains like bodybuilders do? I know it can be confusing, especially if you are just starting to incorporate resistance training into your workout. I recently came across an article by Lean Kravitz, PhD, which I will reference below, that can help bring some light to these questions. This is just a short run down on what was found during it studies and I do recommend you read the whole article.
Let’s start by talking about what order to perform exercises. Most of the time you will hear perform the multi-joint exercise (example would be leg presses) first. Studies have shown that by performing them first then the single-joint, resistance lifted will be maximized. Yet at the same time the study did also indicate that exercises respond better to resistance early in the workout, so if you target is a single-joint area (example: calves) then those exercises should be performed first. As for including a pre-exhaust technique into your program, it may not be needed. Bodybuilders have been using this technique for as long as I can remember. The belief is to perform a single-joint exercise before a multi-joint exercise to enhance muscle gains. What these studies found is that performance and strength of the muscle produced less activation then if they just performed the multi-joint exercise only. I know this probably ended up longer than you wanted to read, so I will close with this. What I am trying to tell you is determine the order of exercise based on what you are trying to achieve and need for your training goals. Deanna S. References: http://www.ideafit.com/fitness-library/does-exercise-order-really-matter-in-resistance-training Simao, R., et al. 2012. Exercise order in resistance training. Sports Medicine, 42 (3), 251-65 |
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February 2020
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