Recent content by joe shumsky

thank you for your input, gentlemen. i now know what i must do.

thanks for the thorough response, man. i have read the dual factor stuff in various threads on this site. it definitely seemed interesting. as far as the olympic lifting goes, there was a period in my life where i did strictly olympic style moves (i had a really hard time trying to teach myself...

my instincts told me the same thing. the only reason i was considering an isolation, compound, power order was due to some stuff i read on pre-exhaustion (i.e., pre-exhausting a muscle will allow you to fatigue it more completely in a proceeding compound or power exercise.) it sounds good in...

this is what i was thinking... just to clarify, would there be any merit, whatsoever, in performing the exercises in the reverse order?

right now, i'm using a mixture of compound and isolation exercises in my weight routine... mostly standard stuff. i want to add power moves like clean, clean and push press, etc. my question is this: how should i order the exercises within each workout? i.e., a pre-exhaustion scheme with...