pre-exhaustion, has it worked for you?

[UA_Iron]

I have been juggling with this idea of pre-exhaustion lately and was wondering what people's opinions on this were.

Say if I were to do a couple sets of flys before bench press would I recruit more tricep involvement in bench since my pecs would already be somewhat exhausted?

If anyone has any experiences please share them. thanks

 

[crew9]

You usually pre exhaust the muscle your trying to emphasize. So if you wanted to blast your triceps you'd do some of kind of tricep lifts before bench etc.

 

[UA_Iron]

so like close grip bench press or skull crushers before standard bench would be an example?

 

[Buddy_Christ]

so would cable flies be something good to do to help pre-exhaust chest before benching? my tris overpower my chest and i'd like to work my chest more during bench press if possible.

 

[casualbb]

Pre-exhausting will have no effect on growth. Whether or not your muscle is tired, in a compound movement it still supports the weight. The only effect pre-exhaustion will have is reducing the amount of weight you can move on the subsequent exercise, thus reducing its growth potential.

A general rule is pick a compound routine that covers everything, then add isolation for the stuff you know lags. But don't pre-exhaust.

 

[crew9]

Pre-exhausting will have no effect on growth. Whether or not your muscle is tired, in a compound movement it still supports the weight. The only effect pre-exhaustion will have is reducing the amount of weight you can move on the subsequent exercise, thus reducing its growth potential.

A general rule is pick a compound routine that covers everything, then add isolation for the stuff you know lags. But don't pre-exhaust.

Well said

 

[PancakeFiend]

I agree w/casual bb, my workouts have been better if i start out with a compound exercise, then throw in isolation exercises

 

[UA_Iron]

I always start with a compound movement, but I was playing around with some new ideas. Oh well, if what I have is working right now I wont change it.

 

[strongsmartsexy]

Pre-exhausting will have no effect on growth. Whether or not your muscle is tired, in a compound movement it still supports the weight. The only effect pre-exhaustion will have is reducing the amount of weight you can move on the subsequent exercise, thus reducing its growth potential.

A general rule is pick a compound routine that covers everything, then add isolation for the stuff you know lags. But don't pre-exhaust.

The only time I've done any form of pre-exhaust was in doing legs. When my squats were weak because my core wasn't strong enough to handle the weight across my back, I'd pre-exhaust using leg extension before squats. OTherwise I"d not get that much of a workout on my quads.

 

[needsize]

I agree with CBB as well, I grow when I use big weights, and pre-exhaustion just insures that I cant lift them

 

[UA_Iron]

thanks for the input, I guess I can see the logic in not being able to grow from pre-exhuastive sets, so it wont be worth my time.