Do isometric contractions in fully lengthen positions cause enough mechanical tension to stimulate myofibrillar hypertrophy and or increase motor unit recruitment?Or would you still need a full range of motion?
>>16796178technically yes, IF the intensity is high enough. but youll be missing the metabolic stress and muscle damage from full range of motion exercises so my gues is it will take longer to achieve the same result as doing FROM
>>16796178Yes. Consider the deadlift. Does it activate the biceps? Of course. If you perform no other exercise, your biceps will grow. But it won't be comparable to a press or curl. Isometrics may be a useful precursor or addition to traditional strength training but not a substitute. To get fookin' yoked bro you need to be strong enough to safely lift heavy enough weights to stress the muscle to adapt and isometrics (some would even say isolation in general) are not an effective means to that end.
>>16796360metabolic stress and muscle damage is not the main contributing factor for hypertrophy, mechanical tension is
Yeah but there’s no way your nervous system could handle it, a normal human would cuck out and lose tension within minutes
Aside from what the other anons have saidFull range of motion exercise also provides better practice for when you need to use the muscle with your full range of motion
>>16796865What if you did something like a heavy barbell back squat for 2 sets, then after you would do a series of deep, PNF stretches for another set. Would those stretches increase the hypertrophic response? Like, take a barbell, set up some pins, get under the bar and get as deep as you can, and slam the barbell into the pins while trying to go up as hard as you can. That would seem to drive a great amount of mechanical tension.
>>16797162What you describe is training explosive strength as in Olympic weightlifting. Look at them - they are all wiry. You can lift heavier weights by moving slower. Heavy =big, fast=tough
>>16796178No one knows. Sports science is hardly a science.
>>16796178I am pretty darn fit, you might get very minimal results from isometrics but you really need to go through some kind of a range on motion.
