11-02-2017, 07:00 AM
(10-19-2017, 09:01 AM)Scott Stevenson Wrote: There are some good thoughts here - you got to do what you got to do and progression overall is most important.
As far as the quad stretch before the ham set, you're going to run over the rest interval - most certainly if you want to do a unilateral stretch that last 60+ s - and perhaps even impact ham recovery (compression on the muscle with the knee flexed), so the ham performance can be tossed out the window.
With the pump that I get personally, going immediately into a full on quad occlusion stretch for 60 agonizing seconds is, simply d/t the psychological burden, definitely going to impact ham exercise effort / rep output. If doing a flexility stretch, that's more easily doable.
-S
I have to admit that I found out the hard way on one of my last quad pump sets right into the stretch that it was too much... Almost went into some sort of shock during the stretch. I started sweating like a madman, almost threw up and then was wrecked for about 10 minutes. Hamstrings ended up almost a going through the motions type weights, even though I was trying to be intense.
Lesson learned.