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    Default Gym Beliefs that you have

    So we all go to the gym and everyone always preaches to keep changing your routines weather it be rep's, volume, or exercises.

    I'm interested to hear some people's beliefs in the gym that they just don't really break...maybe theories is a better way to put it.

    Mine:
    Do free weight movements first, fatigue the stabilizer muscles and hit the hardest movements when your fresh, then finish off the muscle with machines.

    Cardio after lifting. I'm not the type of person to go to the gym twice a day and spend one visit for strictly cardio so I always do my cardio at the end of working out rather than before I hit the weights.

    What are some of your favorite methods to the madness?

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    Pyramid. Increase weights while decreasing reps.

    But also like supersets for the time savings.

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    Pre-Exhaust will aid muscle tension and warming up a muscle (especially weaker bodyparts)
    Rack your DAMN WEIGHTS (pisses me off the worst)
    Slow Eccentrics (4-5 Seconds) and 4-5 Second Paused Reps Suck, but do a ton for MMC
    Squeezing Every back movement for 1-2 seconds (helped me a ton with my back to grow)
    Cardio After, save my energy for the weights.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Curt James View Post
    Pyramid. Increase weights while decreasing reps.

    But also like supersets for the time savings.
    I have a few:

    1. Never do the same workout for the same bodypart two weeks in a row.

    2. I pick one bodypart per week to really hammer with heavy weight and super high intensity each week. Not that I don't train hard every day...but I like to pick one muscle group to really work extra hard each week. I usually make that a high carb day with one cheat meal.

    3. After training, I always sit in this empty corner of the gym to cool down and have my post workout supps.

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    The Solution touched on it but I would say "Peak contraction" , doesn't matter what kind of work out or rep scheme I am doing.......There will be a peak contraction.

    Stretch and squeeze during every set.
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    Beat the damn log book no matter what type of training I do.

    And on the rare occasion that I do cardio, it's after the weights.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Curt James View Post
    Pyramid. Increase weights while decreasing reps.
    I know pyramiding has been tried and proven but I can't wrap my head around it.

    Unless I'm doing a big exercise like, racks, squats, or some form of press, I don't see the need. And with those exercises, I just consider the pyramid to be warm up sets.
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    Quote Originally Posted by swingslammer View Post
    The Solution touched on it but I would say "Peak contraction" , doesn't matter what kind of work out or rep scheme I am doing.......There will be a peak contraction.

    Stretch and squeeze during every set.
    Bingo...
    Once I started to learn from John Meadows that Back needs to have proper ROM and Time Under Tension is grew the best.. intensity techniques have become a god sent.
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Solution View Post
    Pre-Exhaust will aid muscle tension and warming up a muscle (especially weaker bodyparts)
    Rack your DAMN WEIGHTS (pisses me off the worst)
    Slow Eccentrics (4-5 Seconds) and 4-5 Second Paused Reps Suck, but do a ton for MMC
    Squeezing Every back movement for 1-2 seconds (helped me a ton with my back to grow)
    Cardio After, save my energy for the weights.
    Going to PT using rubberbands they force me for hold for 3 seconds, the movement isn't difficult but i really feel it towards the end

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    Quote Originally Posted by Young Gotti View Post
    Going to PT using rubberbands they force me for hold for 3 seconds, the movement isn't difficult but i really feel it towards the end
    Which also is an indication that Time Under Tension (TUT) plays a major part in muscle activation.
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