Exercises that target antagonistic muscle groups cause reciprocal inhibition by moving the same joint in opposite directions. Reciprocal inhibition forces one muscle group to relax while the other contracts. Contraction-inhibiting cellular waste builds up inside your muscles with each repetition during resistance exercise. Alternating between exercise sets that target antagonistic muscle groups back-to-back can help remove accumulating waste, which helps you complete the same number of repetitions for every set and avoid premature muscle failure! For example, super-setting antagonistic muscle groups such as chest (pushing motion) and biceps (pulling motion) or shoulders (pushing motion) and biceps (pulling motion) or back (pulling motion) and triceps (pushing motion)...allow you to target different muscle groups without compromising your performance in each set. As a general rule of thumb, its not always a good idea to combine exercises that involve two pushing or pulling motions such as chest and shoulders...as this will compromise one body part! However, heres Daniel Loo (third session of his BULKING cycle) performing two agonistic muscle groups...hahahaa...a once in a while endeavour to shock his muscles...under my supervision...of course! LOL! Do not do this to often though...every once in a while is okay...
Posted on: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 01:11:54 +0000
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