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    The general concept with pre exhausting is you start with an isolation exercise, such as leg extensions, to fatique the muscle before you move into to your heavy compound movement which in this case would be squats or leg press. Pre exhausting is a useful technique but I would only use this every now and then as you won't be able to move as much weight on your main compound exercises. A sample layout might look like this:

    Chest: db flyes before flat bench barbell
    Back: cable low rows before weighted pullups or deadlifts
    Shoulders: side delt raises before military press
    Biceps: isolation curls before straight bar curls
    Triceps: rope pull downs before close grip press or skull crushers
    Legs: leg extensions and/or hamstring curls before squats

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    Quote Originally Posted by M302_Imola View Post
    The general concept with pre exhausting is you start with an isolation exercise, such as leg extensions, to fatique the muscle before you move into to your heavy compound movement which in this case would be squats or leg press. Pre exhausting is a useful technique but I would only use this every now and then as you won't be able to move as much weight on your main compound exercises. A sample layout might look like this:

    Chest: db flyes before flat bench barbell
    Back: cable low rows before weighted pullups or deadlifts
    Shoulders: side delt raises before military press
    Biceps: isolation curls before straight bar curls
    Triceps: rope pull downs before close grip press or skull crushers
    Legs: leg extensions and/or hamstring curls before squats
    Well covered except the idea that it's a bad thing because u can't move as much weight on the second compound movement...

    That's the whole point.... The fact is that u have fatigued the target muscle in isolation.... It puts the secondary muscle in a stronger state and allows for the target muscle group to reach complete failure alone

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    And pull overs for lats is good

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