Isokinetics, Excentrics and Hypertrophy

[Stefan]

I did read in your first post that you were setting a specific LOAD during the concentric and eccentric, which is different than a true isokinetic, where the load is not determined at all

that was in the excentric-overloaded mode, where you can set a concentric and excentric resistance.

There are 5 modes:

- normal

- normal-adaptive (a contious adaptive set)

- excentric-overloaded

- isokinetic

- explosive



i trained only excentric-overloaded and isokinetic because of real heavy excentric in both settings

Traditional isokinetic CAN be better for hypertrophy b/c you can, as you note, have all reps be "effective" in that there can be maximal effort throughout the set. 

In theory, the isokinetic has so many good things for hypertrophy, but this lagging deceleration and acceleration of a moving mass with inertia in the stretched position seems huge.

When i went from normal lifting to the heavy isokinetics/excentric-overloaded it felt so easy, no doms, tendons and joins felt great. Going back, from all out forces and absurd heavy excentrics on Egym to normal lifting: incredible doms. what?

So for me there is no isokinetic-only way, only a way of integrating that like this:

If that's your question, I would simply consider the E-gym training as a set type, much like I do in Fortitude Training with loading sets, MR's and pump sets

but I think you're wanting to know how to periodize the E-gym with normal training in some way?

Are there ambitious Lifters who have done that over months and years? Are there any positive long term results in doing this? The studys about isokinetics are not helping at all. That isokinetics results in strength adaptation yes, but are they worth the opportunity costs? (you could be lifting "normal" instead)



Anyway, thank you very much for your time =)

And thank you for Fortitude Training, read and trained in 2021, in the end it helped me to reduce weekly volume, thats a big thing.