Everyone is different but for me, isometric worked really well for me personally for building some muscle. I've been doing nothing but push ups and dips as my chest workout, and when holding reps and squeezing them out when going up, it feels amazing. Contracting the muscles as hard you can while counting how many seconds you can last works. I was able to see better definition and a bit of size for my pectorals
Especially considering now research is showing that muscle damage is not the big driver of strength and hypertrophy we thought it was. Mechanical tension and metabolic fatigue are. Well isometrics do both of those things without damaging your muscle tissue and if you hold yielding isometrics for 30-45 seconds you get tendon strengthening too. So you can get better muscle tension with overcoming isometrics and better metabolic fatigue with constant tension to failure with yielding isometrics. Then you can say well going full ROM strengthens the whole ROM except that lifting exercises mostly strengthen the weakest position of the rep on that exercise so even repping with dynamic ROM you need to train multiple angles so you stress different points in the arc of motion for that joint. And now for best hypertrophy it’s shown the half rep in the more stretched position brings the most hypertrophy so might as well just do isometrics in the stretched position to stimulate hypertrophy without causing muscle damage. Then for functional ROM for life and sport you can do plyometrics and power training like McGill pull-ups style training. Basically it looks like we can eliminate muscle damaging exercises and still get bigger, stronger, injury resistant, and athletic so it’s all up side.
Adam just validated Goku's training when he asked you to flex calves, quads, abs and biceps. Now I'm off, time to turn SUPER SAIYAN!! Btw, Adam is probably, the hidden most powerful person on this planet who protects it from aliens.
I train Isometric Holds every session now after deep research & experiencing it. Is so good like I never see people do it
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Without going into major details. Can you give me an overview on how you incorporate this type of training.
Thanks, Steve
@saxonsteve I do a warm up. Then do an isometric set before doing a working set. Or normal reps.
This channel deserves so much more awareness than what it has atm
Everyone is different but for me, isometric worked really well for me personally for building some muscle. I've been doing nothing but push ups and dips as my chest workout, and when holding reps and squeezing them out when going up, it feels amazing. Contracting the muscles as hard you can while counting how many seconds you can last works. I was able to see better definition and a bit of size for my pectorals
Counting works well
Need more isometrics. I did the Shaolin squats and holy shit everything in my legs works way better than doing weighted squats.
Great podcast idea guys!
Especially considering now research is showing that muscle damage is not the big driver of strength and hypertrophy we thought it was. Mechanical tension and metabolic fatigue are. Well isometrics do both of those things without damaging your muscle tissue and if you hold yielding isometrics for 30-45 seconds you get tendon strengthening too.
So you can get better muscle tension with overcoming isometrics and better metabolic fatigue with constant tension to failure with yielding isometrics. Then you can say well going full ROM strengthens the whole ROM except that lifting exercises mostly strengthen the weakest position of the rep on that exercise so even repping with dynamic ROM you need to train multiple angles so you stress different points in the arc of motion for that joint.
And now for best hypertrophy it’s shown the half rep in the more stretched position brings the most hypertrophy so might as well just do isometrics in the stretched position to stimulate hypertrophy without causing muscle damage.
Then for functional ROM for life and sport you can do plyometrics and power training like McGill pull-ups style training.
Basically it looks like we can eliminate muscle damaging exercises and still get bigger, stronger, injury resistant, and athletic so it’s all up side.
Give me a workout recommendation haha
@@sirakasfaw8350 add in some isometric holds in the stretched position for gains
Good point
Do you practice with yielding or overcoming isometrics more
Great as gold this. I can only perform isometric leg training becouse of bad lower back. Legs are in great shape.
your back starts to feel better as soon as you start holding the barbell on your shoulders
If you worked to failure wouldn’t that last rep essentially be isometric?
has everybody forgotten the old isometric/tension king......"THE BULLWORKER"?
Can you elaborate? Really interested in integrating isometrics
@@thekylemontilla you could try the ‘ isobow ‘ or the Harry Wong workout based on Bruce Lee’s isometric knowledge
Hettinger, Mueller, Steinhaus, look up these researchers.
check out the viiiv isometric machine - it has a load cell and has a read out on a APP on a tablet - all computerized.
Elastic bands sometimes are Better than weights
This is new info to me- so thanks!
When do you program iso holds into your workout?
MAPS Symmetry uses them a lot.
Adam just validated Goku's training when he asked you to flex calves, quads, abs and biceps. Now I'm off, time to turn SUPER SAIYAN!! Btw, Adam is probably, the hidden most powerful person on this planet who protects it from aliens.
And they all flex when they power up and transform.
3 yrs late, but wouldn't isometric holds be pretty much what gymnast do as well?
Nop, they move most of the time not just hold position
Kungfu squats grew my quads alone
The Charles Atlas system was not isometrics. You have obviously not read it.