Can you elaborate? What's the reason for that? You're cutting so you aren't gonna be gaining any muscle so what will more volume on those parts do.. how could it make them pop out? I'll probably never try a contest because i just dont want to lol, but i'm just curious as to why etc

inb4 you get called out on leaching knowledge lolz

Using heavy weights as you cut down (not too heavy since you're lacking nutrients) will help reduce the amount of muscle mass you lose as you cut. Cutting for a stage is a drastic cut. It's not healthy. There IS muscle loss.

The added isolation is to take advantage of the fact that the areas that need the most definition (delts, hamstrings, obliques and abs, etc) can have as much chance as possible to be visible. The recent studies about it confirmed what alot of people already believed. If you keep the fat in an area warm/hot and work the muscles underneath, to an extent you can do minor spot-specific fat burns. And the lower the overall bodyfat, the more evident it becomes.

so keep my compounds low repped and isolations 12-15?!

Yes.

I'd even say go up to 20 reps.

This post was edited by CMBurns on Jul 10 2011 09:51pm

ya my friend said that too,
20 reps for the major isolations? or like maybe just 1 isolation exercise per muscle group.

my boss did a show , and did purely 4 second concentric / eccentric reps. so 9-10 second reps basically
he did it for 16 weeks

suggest some of that as well?

Nah, like I said in OP, concentric = always super fast. Varying tempo for eccentric is fine. But I'd say controlled eccentric (1.5-2 seconds) and going up to 20 reps, at a good rhythm, is better.

20 reps for abs, hamstrings (hell..even front squats after your heavy squats), etc. Biceps and such 12-15 is fine.

right on,
I'll need to work on a split I think.
I want maybe 3 day split that keeps me in the gym as much as possible during this cut

so? lol if he's here to answer questions then why not learn all i can



ahh alright thanks man

For the 3 day split, isnt the biceps and pecs muscles too close together and used to work on the sameday?