IRON MAN E-Zine: Issue #649: Feel It, Flex It, Pump It: Get Your Muscle Size on the Rise

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IRON MAN E-Zine: Issue #649:
Feel It, Flex It, Pump It: Get Your Muscle Size on the Rise

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Feel It, Flex It, Pump It: Get Your Muscle Size on the Rise

Q: I have trouble feeling some of my compound exercises, even using the 4X mass method with only 35 seconds between sets. A good example is pulldowns for lats. They almost feel like a waste of time. Any suggestions?

A: First, be sure you’re doing them correctly and with a proper rep tempo. A lot of trainees lean too far back and jerk the weight down, turning the pulldown into some type of mutant rowing exercise (you could call it the lean-back ego row).

In contrast, you need to stay strict–try a controlled one second to pull down and 3 seconds to release back to the top. Concentrate on feeling your lats contracting and elongating on every rep–the weight you use is secondary…

Your torso should remain fairly upright with an arch in your lower back so that you can pull your elbows down and back. That’s how you contract your lats. You may want to try a parallel-grip handle that puts your hands about shoulder-width apart. Many trainees can better contact their lats with that…

You also may want to try doing your first 4X set in X-centric, or negative-accentuated, style. That’s pulling down in one second but allowing SIX seconds for your arms to extend to the start–that is, a six-second negative on every rep. Shoot for eight or nine of those for about one minute of tension time. You should feel the 3 sets that follow much more…

You didn’t say what other exercises you’re doing for lats, but you mentioned 4X, so we will assume it’s one of the programs in the 4X e-book. If it’s the first Big, Basic Workout, your lat routine is this…

Pulldowns (4X style), 4 x 10
Stiff-arm pulldowns (4X style), 3 x 12

To feel your pulldowns better, you may want to try modified pre-exhaustion at every other workout (this works for any muscle). That’s simply reversing the order of the above two exercises so you do the single-joint, continuous-tension, contracted-position exercise first…

Stiff-arm pulldowns (4X style), 3 x 12
Pulldowns (4X style), 4 x 10

If you’re using the Positions of Flexion program in The 4X Mass Workout, you would do the above modified pre-ex, then follow with a 3X on DB pullovers for stretch-position work…

Contracted: Stiff-arm pulldowns (4X style), 3 x 12
Midrange: Pulldowns (4X style), 4 x 10
Stretch: DB pullovers (4X style), 3 x 10

Remember, "4X style" means to pick a weight with which you can get 15 reps, but you only do 10; rest 35 seconds, then do it again. Do that for the designated number of sets–3 or 4–but on the last one do as many reps as you can. If you get the listed rep count, add weight at your next workout. That’s moderate-weight, high-fatigue, growth-threshold training.

One more thing: If your gym has a pullover machine available, use it–at least at some of your back workouts. It trains BOTH the stretch- and contracted-positions of your lats–very efficient. The inventor, Arthur Jones, called it the upper-body squat. The stimulation is direct and full range for bigger gains…

Till next time, train hard–and smart–for BIG results.

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–Steve Holman and Jonathan Lawson

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This Special Report was submitted by Jonathan Lawson and Steve Holman.
The IRON MAN Training & Research Team
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