Pre-Exhaustion System
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Fatiguing a muscle with an isolation exercise first, then immediately working it with a compound exercise.
Detail
In pre-exhaustion, a muscle group is trained to the point of fatigue in an isolated (body-part) exercise, then followed by a structural (major/compound) exercise. For example, leg extensions before squats.
This reverses the usual ordering principle (small muscle group trained before large muscle group) and is considered an advanced routine. A sample order is shown in the source as a program where single leg extension and hamstring curls precede squats — noted as "Pre-exhaustion, small muscle group trained before large muscle group (advanced routine)."
Key facts
- Isolated (body-part) exercise taken to fatigue first.
- Immediately followed by a structural (major/compound) exercise.
- Example: leg extensions before squats.
- An advanced routine that inverts the standard large-before-small ordering.
Connections
- exercise-order — pre-exhaustion deliberately inverts standard exercise order.
- arrangement-of-exercises — contrasts with the beginner principle of large-before-small.
- muscle-hypertrophy — targets fuller fatigue of the target muscle.
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