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I am currently in love with pre-fatigue. and have been doing it for quite sometime with tremendous results. This worked extremely well for me for a number of reasons. Firstly, I have a bad left shoulder. This made compound pressing movements for chest and shoulder difficult to add weight. My rotator would fatigue before my chest and shoulder would. Also, I had a poor mind muscle connection with my chest. I am shoulder pressing dominate, and a lot of my chest compound movements would be overtaken by my shoulders. I say had because since really focusing on pre-fatigue I've really connected with my chest and gotten it to grow. Lastly, I don't want to say that the pre-fatigue was sort of a "warm" up for the compound lift. But I think anyone would say that a pec deck is not as intense as say incline bench. It just helped me get my whole upper body warmed up, get my muscles firing, I would feel much more confidant moving into my compound movements. Also there is less weight on the bar. Mentally it's easier to lift off say 225, instead of 255. Again, it feeling lighter in my hands leads to more confidence.
I certainly think it's worth a go. I certainly cannot see myself going back, and even if I moved from FT to something else I would still pre-fatigue. I also think it's a great idea if you have maybe some weak spots in your physique. Again, maybe being shoulder dominate versus chest dominate. Which, if I believe is the case for a lot of powerlifters.
Edit: Also John Meadows is a big fan of it. He calls it "pre-pump" which is slightly different that pre-fatigue, but follows the same principals of making a lift easier on your joints, is sort of uncomplicated so it warms you up mentally and physically, and allows you to feel the muscle you want to target. Any anything JM is a fan of, I pretty much am too.
I am currently in love with pre-fatigue. and have been doing it for quite sometime with tremendous results. This worked extremely well for me for a number of reasons. Firstly, I have a bad left shoulder. This made compound pressing movements for chest and shoulder difficult to add weight. My rotator would fatigue before my chest and shoulder would. Also, I had a poor mind muscle connection with my chest. I am shoulder pressing dominate, and a lot of my chest compound movements would be overtaken by my shoulders. I say had because since really focusing on pre-fatigue I've really connected with my chest and gotten it to grow. Lastly, I don't want to say that the pre-fatigue was sort of a "warm" up for the compound lift. But I think anyone would say that a pec deck is not as intense as say incline bench. It just helped me get my whole upper body warmed up, get my muscles firing, I would feel much more confidant moving into my compound movements. Also there is less weight on the bar. Mentally it's easier to lift off say 225, instead of 255. Again, it feeling lighter in my hands leads to more confidence.
I certainly think it's worth a go. I certainly cannot see myself going back, and even if I moved from FT to something else I would still pre-fatigue. I also think it's a great idea if you have maybe some weak spots in your physique. Again, maybe being shoulder dominate versus chest dominate. Which, if I believe is the case for a lot of powerlifters.
Edit: Also John Meadows is a big fan of it. He calls it "pre-pump" which is slightly different that pre-fatigue, but follows the same principals of making a lift easier on your joints, is sort of uncomplicated so it warms you up mentally and physically, and allows you to feel the muscle you want to target. Any anything JM is a fan of, I pretty much am too.