Two Max. Isometric Contractions Reduce Muscle Damage and Promote Regeneration Before You Even Hit the Gym! Plus: How to Add 0.5 Inch to Your Biceps in 6 Minutes!
Image 1: Believe it or not, Arnold is just "pre-regenerating" ;-) If you have not taken a mental health day for your gray matter the past two days and skipped your obligatory daily visit at the SuppVersity , you will probably have noticed that the last posts on the overtraining induced shift in the ratio of pro- to anti-inflammatory signals (cf. " Overtraining, Inflammation, Insufficient Repair ") and yesterday's hot bath "pre-regeneration" post (cf. " Speed Up Your Regeneration and Propel Your Gains by Taking a HOT Bath Bath 2-Days Before Arduous Workouts "), share a common motif: He who recovers the fastest spends the least time on repairing and the most time on building muscle! Today you are going to learn about yet another pre-regeneration technique... Muscle preconditioning by maximal isometric contractions Similar to the hot bath, of which I know that it's probably not for everyone, a recently published paper by Hsin-Lian ...