From my personal page........ Classic internet arm chair lifters. A while back, Charles makes a post on his page (I think it was an article) about fatiguing the antagonist muscles in the bench press before you bench via stretching them. He said this was proven to show an increase in power in bench pressing. So this dickbag shows up to argue, telling him how stupid that is and how doing so wouldnt allow for proper stabilization in the bench press and might set one up for injury. Whats funny is, I have used this technique in the past (I have an upcoming article about it) with great success, and so has Josh Bryant (fatiguing the hip flexors before deadlifting for the same effect). Dickbag, who you cant even tell lifts weights apparently goes all over the net arguing with experts to tell them how wrong they are about their theories, even though said theories have been put into practice by said experts, with success. Lifting isnt done in a test tube. For guys that train people, or have for years, there are a lot of things they do or know, that may not have a study or some peer reviewed article to say their methods are scientifically provable. But if someone keeps churning out bigger, faster, stronger clients then they are obviously doing something right. John Meadows has made this point several times now. That everything was just a theory once. Just something people tried, in the gym or in the kitchen, to see how it worked. If it worked, they kept it in the arsenal. If it didnt they tossed it out. Hes gone to battle over the nutrient timing issue many times now because lots of studies say there is no significant advantage in it. Johns own experience tells him otherwise. The net seems to be full of blowhards like this dickbag, that have a lot of book knowledge, but very little application. Alex Viada made a great point to me once that, to paraphrase, even if a study shows that a certain kind of training is great for hypertrophy, if the people using it hate it, they wont stick with it so whatever the study showed is insignificant. It has to end up having real world application via human interest or no one will give a shit. To borrow from something I read earlier in the week....... There seems to be this group on the net now that think being big and strong is only acceptable if you gained your strength and size via empirically-derived, peer-reviewed methods. If you got big and strong by listening to a bodybuilder or anybody who used the Internet prior to 2012, you really arent big and strong. If you arent big and strong (probably because of ankle mobility issues), but can recite the 3rd paragraph on page 117 of Supertraining without even looking at it, your advice is more valuable than the advice from someone who can deadlift 700 pounds but has never read Supertraining. I think that about sums it up. Tons and tons of wee little guys that have read every piece of training literature on the net....cant bench 300. Oh yeah, just for shits and grins, fatiguing the antagonist prior to working the agonist muscle WAS PROVEN to increase power via a study...... ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19967584
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 03:44:21 +0000