pre-exhausting excercises, Do they work?

[gonelifting]

A long time ago I gave some advice on the boards here to a guy doing chest I believe and he was`nt feeling it or too much shoulders or tris... I forget exactly, but my point is I told him to try and pre-exhaust the chest by doing dumbell flyes before the dips.

Then a guy answered me and gave me a lesson on why "pre-exhausting" is a myth. I believed it and he made a valid point, I was relatively new here and I`ve been outa the game for a while so I figured It`s common knowledge now, but now I`m hearing it again all over the place. The last one being a few threads down about barbell bent rows. Saying to pre-exhaust. What`s going on? Do they work or not?

 

[spatts]

Can you find the old thread?

What do you mean by "does it work?" Does it pre exhaust it? Yes. Is that really beneficial somehow? I dunno...probably not.

 

[spatts]

I found and bumped it.

 

[gonelifting]

I`ve been looking for it for the past 20 minutes but I keep reading other stuff... lol I`ll keep looking

 

[gonelifting]

OK, thanks Spatts. So there you go, Everybodie`s making sense but ??? whats up?

 

[louden_swain]

they work. . .if you can find the weak link in your body. . .

Example:

weak triceps, but large chest.

If you want m
ore detail. . let me know.