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Will Partial Reps Give You Those Horseshoes Everyone Else But You Seems to Develop? 20% Increased Gains in 8 Wks

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Partial reps for maximal increases in horseshoe (=triceps) size? Believe it or not: A recent Japanese study suggests that "doing everything right" may be holding you back: doing triceps extensions over the full range of motion seems to be inferior to throwing around the weights over a partial range of motion - the effects may be mediated by temporary hypoxia, but before we delve into an analysis of the mechanisms and the practical relevance of the results, let's first take a look at what exactly Masahiro Goto and his colleagues did with their 44 resistance-trained male subjects (members of a resistance weight training club) before they arrived at the conclusion "that intramuscular hypoxia might facilitate muscular hypertrophy with PRE [partial reps] being more effective than FRE [full reps]" (Goto 2017). Read about the latest nutrition, exercise & supplementation science on the SuppVersity Alcohol, Microbes & International Chest Day Cannabis,...
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Bench Press Study: The Higher the Weight, the Less of it Will be Lifted by Your Pecs - What are the Implications?

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Lighter weight = relatively larger contribution of the pecs ≠ greater gains In their latest paper in the Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research , Henryk Król, and Artur Golas (2017) write about an experiment they designed to identify the "prime movers" during the bench press - an interesting and methodologically complex experiment that can tell us one or two things about the effects of increasing the weight you bench gradually from the standard 12-rep (70%-1RM) to the maximal 1-rep (100%-1RM) load and how it affects the activity of your chest (pectoralis major), front delts (anterior deltoids), triceps (triceps brachii) and even your lats (latissimus dorsi) during different phases of the movement. Learn all about training your chest/pectoralis muscle at the SuppVersity Best Pec Exer-cises by EMG Fast or Slow, Ec- or Concentric? Alternative Pec Ex. Equip. Truth About the Bench Angle What are Optimal Angles & Grips DB, BB or Machine for BP...
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EMG Study Can Tell Us Something About Using Dumbbells, Barbells and Machines During Chest & Triceps Workouts

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The dumbbell bench press is a pec stretcher. Doesn't it already look like maximal pectoralis major activity? No, a high EMG activity will not  necessarily translate into improved long-term muscle or strength gains, but it can tell you a lot about the biomechanics of different exercises and/or, as in the latest study by de Araújo Farias et al. (2016), exercise equipment and order. The true purpose of this study by scientists from Brazil and the US was to investigate muscle activation, total repetitions, and training volume for three bench press exercise modes, the smith machine (SMBP), barbell (BBP), and dumbbell (DBP) - all followed by a triceps extension (TE). Want to try something very different? Try BFR and Hypoxia Training BFR, Cortisol & GH Responses BFR - Where are we now? Hypoxia + HIIT = Win? BFR for Injured Athletes Strength ⇧ | Size ⇩ w/ BFR Training & Living in Hypoxia With nineteen trained men as subjects, the scientists had ea...
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Cables or Machines: Muscle Activity, Angle & ROM of Arms, Abs, Chest & Shoulders on Chest & Overhead P. & Curls

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This is the cable curl as it was performed in the study at hand (Signorile. 2016) As Joseph F. Signorile et al. point out in their latest paper, "cable resistance training machines are showing resurgent popularity and allow greater number of degrees of freedom than typical selectorized equipment" (Signorile. 2016). Ok, the "freedom" maybe not as absolute as it is with our beloved free weights, but cables come sign. closer than the average rigid Cybex machine. It is thus only logical that the scientists assume that "given that specific kinetic chains are used during distinct activities of daily living (ADL), cable machines may provide more effective interventions for some ADL" and eventually certain athletic endeavors (Signorile. 2016). To identify these activities and corresponding exercise equipment, the scientists from the University of Miami came up with a study that examined differences in activity levels (rmsEMG) of six major muscles (Pectoralis...
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