[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]LankyMofo wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]The3Commandments wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
I guess that explains why mine keeps growing.
Iām doing it wrong.[/quote]
I think that āpre-fatiguingā wasnāt the word the OP was looking for.
What Stu and BlueCollar described is really more about establishing the MMC and ensuring that the pressing movement will focus on the contraction. For me, at least, if I start out with a pressing motion my shoulders and tris will tend to get more involved if I havenāt already warmed up with something thatās a more āstrictly chestā movement, like a fly.[/quote]
Maybe it was, maybe it wasnāt.
Iām not sureā¦but warming up is on a different planet than āpre-fatigueā. You usually only pre-fatigue a muscle if it is interfering or becoming the optimal mover in an exercise when the goal is another muscle group.
I donāt āpre-fatigueā anything.
I warm up like crazy though now.[/quote]
I personally find the opposite. I find that if I pre exhaust my triceps before working my shoulders, my triceps end up failing before my shoulders and I get a less than stellar shoulder workout. [/quote]
Now mind you, your own personal experience shows this to be the caseā¦but somehow I got it wrong.
I know this term may be used now in fitness sites, but in bodybuilding historically years ago, I think it meant getting a muscle that fires first when you donāt want it to to tire first.[/quote]
I donāt know what you would like to call in then X lolā¦
I just want to be able to feel my chest doing more of the work than my shoulders or tris. So by your logic, I should be pre-fatiguing shoulders and tris to accomplish this?