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Amateur Bodybuilder 
Posts: 63 |
Who lifts differently depending on whether they are "cutting" or "bulking"? What do you do differently and why?     | ||
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Novice 
Posts: 1 |
For the mass cycle you would do compound exercises because they release more growth hormone which will make you alot bigger.For cutting you just fix all of your weak points and do isolation exercises to peak your muscles. | ||
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Amateur Bodybuilder
Posts: 101 |
I think the whole idea of adding isolation exercises in order to "peak" your muscles is a load of shit. As long as you're stimulating your muscles, you're on the right track. I use isolation movements to boost up the intensity level. Example: I do 1 set of Flyes to point of muscle failure, without any rest I move to a compound exercise for the chest, such as the bench press for one set to failure. As I'm lifting my tris and delts are doing more of the work. My chest is still doing some work, but it's failing faster than my delts and tris. Normally if you train to failure using a compound movement, like the bench press, your delts and tris will fail first. The only thing you need to change during the cutting phase and bulking phase is your diet. And perhaps, you may want to add some cardio to your cutting phase. Good luck. ------------------ | ||
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Amateur Bodybuilder
Posts: 63 |
Here's what I was thinking--your muscles don't know the difference between the theoretical bulking or cutting (or shaping) exercises. Your muscles just contract. You may have more control when using a lighter weight for say concentration curls than for heavy barbell curls, but surely your muscles don't know the difference. I think the best thing to do is to use compound movements until you're at the size you desire to be and then worry about adding in the other little exercises. I hear a lot of people comment about doing such and such exercise for shaping or this and that for bulking. But I think that's it's primarily the nature of the exercise and what you're eating that is responsible for shaping or bulking. If you're lifting heavy, taking a lot of time between sets, eating big and not doing any cardio you're going to bulk up. I think it's possible to lift heavy, eat clean, do some cardio and still get cut up and have good shape. I've only tried pre fatiguing my muscles a few times, but I really didn't like it because I couldn't do as much weight. Do you do leg extensions before you do squats? That's a tough one.
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posted September 25, 2000 05:08 PM