Regarding our love for compounds as our main movements or only movements, I just thought of this:
Since a compound usually hits a muscle GROUP, and works it pretty well, but most of us have a set or pair of muscles we'd like to see pop out more or faster; what if we did merely one set of an iso after a compound? I mean, would this be enough to increase hypertrophy in a particular part?
I.E. - say you are doing deads...this warms up and exersizes your traps...but as in my case, doesn't really "hit" them. So I would add one set of shrugs to this warmed and exersized muscle set to take advantage of the pre-exhaustion...but I wouldn't be beating them to death by overreaching. So I'm done and out of my gym.
For Dips: a tricep set afterward.
For Rows: reverse flyes (for rear delts) or curls for bi's...and so forth.
Since a compound usually hits a muscle GROUP, and works it pretty well, but most of us have a set or pair of muscles we'd like to see pop out more or faster; what if we did merely one set of an iso after a compound? I mean, would this be enough to increase hypertrophy in a particular part?
I.E. - say you are doing deads...this warms up and exersizes your traps...but as in my case, doesn't really "hit" them. So I would add one set of shrugs to this warmed and exersized muscle set to take advantage of the pre-exhaustion...but I wouldn't be beating them to death by overreaching. So I'm done and out of my gym.
For Dips: a tricep set afterward.
For Rows: reverse flyes (for rear delts) or curls for bi's...and so forth.