Significant Strength Gains With All-Out Single-Set Full Body Pre-Exhaustion Training - Advantage Over Regular 'Multi - Joint Exercise First' Workouts is Yet Non-Significant
Does it really make sense to pre-exhaust the pectoralis major on cable crosses before you bench to increase your strength and size gains? You will probably have heard about pre-exhaustion and the idea that doing isolation before compound exercises could help increase the strain on the target muscle over the classic "compound exercise first" training. In fact, pre-exhaustion training (PreEx) is often recommended for advanced trainees to break plateaus (Darden 2004; Baechle. 2008); and that in spite of the fact that evidence that would support its efficacy from chronic resistance training studies is scarce / non-existent. Reason enough for James Peter Fisher and his colleagues from the Southampton Solent University, Discover Strength and the Manchester Metropolitan University to "determine the effects of a 12-week PreEx training intervention upon muscular strength and body composition." (Fisher. 2014). Learn more about building muscle at www.suppversity.com ...