Muscular-Fitness

Pre exhaustion training is done when specifically targeting the bigger muscle groups like training your chest for example. If you want to achieve maximum muscle growth out of your chest muscles, pre-exhaustion training is an effective technique you can employ to stimulate tremendous new muscular growth. Pre-exhaustion training is not ideal for the beginner bodybuilder or weight trainer as it is a super high intensity form of training.

To give a clear example of how pre-exhaustion training works lets take a look at a chest workout. When you train your chest using the main mass building compound movements like bench press and dumbbell presses, the smaller body parts that are also used to help push the weights up like your triceps and shoulders will give out in strength before your larger chest muscles will be exhausted. So pre-exhaustion training in relation to the chest would involve performing exercises that would specifically target the chest and pre-exhaust the chest muscles before you went on to the big compound movements to train your chest.

If you are using the pre-exhaustion training method to train the chest by first isolating the chest muscles with exercises like cable crossovers or dumbbell flyes for example you will still keep a high strength level in your shoulders and triceps when you go on to perform the more intense compound chest movements like bench presses, dumbbell presses or dips. Although since you have already pre-exhausted your chest with the basic isolation chest exercises beforehand your chest muscles will only be able to work at a diminished capacity so that after you perform your bench presses or dumbbell presses your smaller body parts will be exhausted to the failure point along with your already pre-exhausted chest.

Pre-exhaustion training can also be done effectively when training other muscles groups as well. By pre-exhausting one muscle with isolation exercises for that muscle first, it allows your other muscles to work at their hardest during the later sets within your workout that were not directly targeted by your earlier pre exhaustion exercises. There is no need to perform pre exhaustion training every time you workout but it is another effective weapon you have at your disposal to help you achieve massive muscular growth.