Excellent article I found about stretching by Scott Stevenson. Examples of different types for each body part. This is a good resource for those that thought of doing DC training...
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I agree 100% training dc and fortitude. Fortitude is very hard to do in most gyms. I would have to wait until after hours when I did. Thing is it is an awesome training system.I have, most people who have done DC or Dogg Crap training have done a lot of those. They definitely work well, basically the way they do them is intended to not only stretch the fascia but also give the muscle a bit of an occlusion effect during the stretch. Definitely good stuff. There was some stuff back about 20 years ago that also went into this. It was called Spyder Stretching or something like that. Basically with that you did a set to almost failure then went directly into the weighted stretches with the weight you used for the set... WHOO!!! That was a beast too!
I definitely like the whole Fortitude Training set up. Just not easy to do in a commercial gym unless you go during major off hours.
I would have to agree on all counts. I still use some things from Fortitude in my training I just love the style. I also broke it down a bit differently to make it a little more gym freindly, but I really enjoy doing the fortitude training at home when I have full access to my garage gym. Right now I have a lot of renovations going on so my garage has a lot of construction materials packed into it. Now I am having to deal with crazy busy gym so a lot of times lately it is just several straight sets of a compound movement and if I focus on pump ranges then I will do some stretches following that too.I agree 100% training dc and fortitude. Fortitude is very hard to do in most gyms. I would have to wait until after hours when I did. Thing is it is an awesome training system.
My favorite stretches were the tricep, chest and lay stretches. The ones I hated the most( but are effective as hell) are the quad and ham stretches.
Calf stretches is great, I still do a lot of this via mountaindog training
I hear you. I would sometimes do a load set for the compound movement, then wait and do another, then move onto the isolation or vise versa for my load days. I really like the idea of full body three times a week, and cardio on off days, it really did a lot for me. Also the cluster sets are really good and those are easy enough to do in a commercial gym. Fortitude was nice too because it was so detailed so I felt like with dc there was a lot of questions I had and I really had to dig and ask others about, but fortitude laid it out clearly. I also really like the pump sets combined with weighted stretches, it’s a nasty combo!I would have to agree on all counts. I still use some things from Fortitude in my training I just love the style. I also broke it down a bit differently to make it a little more gym freindly, but I really enjoy doing the fortitude training at home when I have full access to my garage gym. Right now I have a lot of renovations going on so my garage has a lot of construction materials packed into it. Now I am having to deal with crazy busy gym so a lot of times lately it is just several straight sets of a compound movement and if I focus on pump ranges then I will do some stretches following that too.
Ever try weighted lat hangs?Ah man any type of stretch with over head gets a brutal burn/pump
I have not but I do let the machine stretch me out like that sometimes and the burn gets intense. But it feels so good after.Ever try weighted lat hangs?
Check this video out, 5:55 in. Dusty explains it:I have not but I do let the machine stretch me out like that sometimes and the burn gets intense. But it feels so good after.
Lat hangs like at the end of a set or just sets of hangs?