Have a quick question! Do you believe doing isolation exercises ie flys before bench press? I've seen a few people doing this and wondered what people thought about it
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Have a quick question! Do you believe doing isolation exercises ie flys before bench press? I've seen a few people doing this and wondered what people thought about it
I've always read that compounds should be the first lift of your workout. This is most likely a form of micromanaging though
I totally agree with ghetto on this. I always do incline flys before incline bench. Due to my age i use dummbells or cables to save my shoulders from injury. Upper chest is the hardest part to develop and i feel it works best to tax the chest before tri's. i don't do it on back, such as working bi's before back tho. Sometimes i do leg extensions before pressing movements, but most bodyparts isolation before not the best.
Agree with above. Many guys are shoulder dominant when they bench and it can help in these situations. It's simply another form of training that you should experiment with and add to your repertoire. The Mentzer brothers were huge proponents of this style training. It was mostly done in superset fashion where they would do the isolation to ultimate failure with maximum weight immediately followed by the compound in the same fashion. It'll crush you if done correctly. It's also a viable option when you are working around an injury as it allows you to fatigue a muscle with less weight on the compound movement.