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Starting your workout with big lifts like squats and bench presses doesn’t make you stronger or change your body differently than starting with small lifts like leg extensions — as long as you train...

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The effects of pre-exhaustion, exercise order, and rest intervals in a full-body resistance training intervention.

Randomized Controlled Trial
Human
2014 Nov

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The effects of pre-exhaustion, exercise order, and rest intervals in a full-body resistance training intervention.

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DOI: 10.1139/apnm-2014-0162

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Doing isolation exercises before compound lifts (like leg extensions before squats) doesn’t make you stronger or change your body more than doing the lifts in a different order, as long as you’re already trained.

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