“PRE-EXHAUSTION IS USELESS 🤡”

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[asprinklingofclouds]

Your glute / quad example is wrong, that is not what pre exhaust is. The goal of pre exhaust is to first use an isolation movement to train the target muscle, then follow it up with a compound movement for that same muscle. This will allow the target muscle to continue to work and will fail before the synergistic muscles fail.

[antonhallergren]

Like look. If you squat and you feel your legs aren't growing even though you're squatting like 4-500 lbs for reps it may simple be because your back, core or cardio gives in and your legs still have more to give. So if you then put a belt squat or leg press and maybe some extensions before squats sure you'll be using less weight on squats but you can actually get your legs to fail and grow plus you'll be at a much lower risk of injury while squatting 315 or 365 pre fatigued than you would doing 4-500 at the start of the workout.

[alexanderwoodward]

I definitely experience this with bench, shoulder press becomes much harder after bench

[Raymal]

I use the technique more to enhance mind muscle connection in compounds and maximizing effective reps for the target muscle. Leg Extension before Leg Press (hypertrophy training). Really feel my quads on that last set

[georgeneiser]

Definitely good to do in my own experience when you have bad joint pain

[harrybaals]

I find that doing a moderately heavy set of squats or pulls before I clean or snatch allows me to get higher numbers. It's like I'm "priming" myself to be used to the weight before I throw it over my head. I'm not very efficient yet, so I will do a front squat or pull that is a good 50lb over my max clean, which then makes the clean feel a lot easier to pull off

[brianfox]

Pre exhaustion makes so much sense. It never worked for me when it came to hypertrophy, so this makes me feel less crazy.

[Eman-mfim]

Hey Matt, could you describe how your average competition day goes? For example, how long between attempts, when you warmup or even what you eat and drink.

[simeoneiacovacci]

Pre-hexation can be good as a load limiting variable to manipulate imo

[bmo]

I feel like it may be a mental thing, but at very least w/ benefit in muscular endurance

[karlsmith]

The use I see for pre exhaustion, is that you will need less loads to achieve a load that will be challenging to the muscles that you wanna grow. For example on a squat, which means your back will be taxed less. Now, I don't think this is something you should apply, unless you're lifting loads above 400 lbs easily for reps, because if you're not that strong, you would be better off just doing normal training

[kayg]

How do you keep your knees perfectly in line with your toes? Everytime I see you squatting it looks perfect. When it gets heavier I have problems with that. It's not looking too bad, but something I want and need to work on.

[scottpope]

Lifting weights pre exhaust my weight lifting sessions everytime

[elcapitanian]

Hey Matt, I see you use two types of shoes. You have your elevated heal and the flat. Could you explain a bit on why you do that?

[nicholasdonin]

Doing a lesser overloading exercise, to exhaust a target muscle to then make the compound movement even less effective in return, is asinine.

[jp-cyhi]

Sounds like more warm-up routine research needs to be done.