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Originally Posted by Conan Stevens  Static contraction, flexing at the top, flexing and holding, body resistance call it what you will it is all the same principle.
I am just saying 20 years of personal experience on top of personlly knowing 5 Mr. Universes of the top of my head + 2 IFBB pros has taught me to go to the gym regularly and stress your body with any method and you will grow. There is no magic except only use the muscle you are training that day.
Lots of sales pitches? 2 google ad boxes, a trial adbrite box and a banner at the very bottom - not too much at all, especially considering the content.
Also I am not selling myself as an actor - I am an actor full time  Though if you have an appropriate role I will sell you on my ability to fulfill it, sales is a very impotant part of life - just ask Robert Kyosaki if you'd like a second opinion.
FYI Charles Atlas made his money with mail order "look like me" books in which he claimed by doing these static exercises everyday you could build a physique like his - the old day equivalent of the adblaster infomercial - it was purely to generate cash. It was using the 2 step pre-qualification lead generation technique. You may remember the ads with the skinny guy getting sand kicked in his face and the bully stealing his girl.
Yoou would send in some money for what you believed was the book of secrets when in fact you got a pamphlet that was supposed to pre-sell you on purchasing the full, much more expensive course.
See - what I said originally - Marketing Bullcrap |
Wow! A day or two ago you said, in part, “STATIC CONTRACTION - no idea,...”. Now you’re telling us something of its history. Did you read that somewhere or did you just ask someone?
But, joking aside Conan, you don’t seem to differentiate between legitimate weight training techniques or protocols and the marketing ploys that use them to dupe hopeful (mostly fitness ignorant) bodybuilding newbies and strip them of their disposable cash (e.g. Charles Atlas and his comic book ads and today's ads that promise X pounds of lean muscle mass in 30 or 60 days). But the fact remains that techniques such as drop sets, partial reps, rep range/pause, extended sets and isometric holds are legitimate techniques used by many top-flight pro bodybuilders (and poo pooed by some) all over the world as a means of lengthening the stress time on muscles under training and possibly increasing the intensity of a workout. They are techniques offered free to the world and are not for sale anywhere. The only thing for sale is the means (books, training programs, pro advice) that use those techniques as the basis for half truth ads which promise to do in 60 days what took you and other successful pros decades to accomplish, i.e. make some skinny kid more like Conan Stevens (maybe not so tall though) without really working hard over a long period of time.
There’s nothing wrong with reading , Conan. The problem is to filter out that trash you seem to despise so much. And keep in mind sir; those folks (some are fools) who buy into those ads also learn something. I did at age 12 when I bought
Learn To Play The Guitar In Just One Day. They learn the cost of ignorance. It’s probably the most expensive thing one can own though.
And by the way; Arnold did dozens of reps with dozens of small partials with his curls (none of it with max weight) , Jay does a “little hitch” (also a partial rep) on almost every rep and Coleman, I understand, does the same. None of those men do or did a one rep max set on anything. Could you ask any of them why and then explain it to us on the thread? Remember, this whole thing started because one person is trying to maximize the training he gets with a very short and infrequent exercise protocol (a la Mike Mentzer, low volume, high intensity, infrequent training).