>saves your strength while traveling
>is perfect for wiry builds to gain strength without getting fat as shit
>builds tendon strength and explosivity
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This meme used to be shared on /b/ fifteen years ago, or so.
>everything is a... le meme!
I tried it for weeks. It is a meme. You'll hurt yourself before you make any gains.
How the frick did you hurt yourself pushing a wall? Jesus that's pathetic.
>how do you hurt yourself interlocking your joints and pulling at your own body as hard as you can?
You need to give your tendons and ligaments time to recover, moron. They're slower to recover than muscles.
Yeah how? You did some autistic shit from a manga or something, admit it.
awesome
Underrated post.
Nice anon
The fact that nobody has done this and come back to claim good results can tell you if this works
4 buddhist monks used it to escape from prison by applying nerve pressure on their guards thru the bars of the door it says it right there
Bruce Lee.
For a more modern athletic reference, Cal Dietz.
Bruce Lee used a barbell.
Bruce lee touched barbell. Dunno whether I'd say he used a barbell
I did it twice a week for 5 months when i was younger it worked well
>The fact that nobody has done this and come back to claim good results can tell you if this works
not really. how long do you think you could keep up that routine before getting bored and doing some ohp?
>The "Black Monk"
what did they mean by this?
I'd be very curious to see what sort of physique one could develop blasting shitloads of roids and doing nothing but like 10 hours a week of isometric stuff.
>blasting shitloads of roids and doing nothing but like 10 hours a week of isometric stuff
Gymnasts and circus acrobats do pretty much exactly that.
wtf is a wiry build anon?
Lean without mass. Auschwitz mode, natty bodybuilder mode, Veagan Gains mode.
Vegan gainz is fat as shit now.
>doesn't actually do anything
I was a firm believer in isometrics for like 5 years and I made absolutely no gains with it.
How
It just doesn't work. If you do low volume isometrics, nothing happens. If you do his volume isometrics, your body gets tired, but you don't get any gains.
Did you do them for strength? What kind of isometrics did you do? Did you go through full range of motion?
I've tried everything. I was literally obsessed with the idea of making isometrics work. I amassed a large collection of ebooks that span a century. Earlier this month I finally admitted that I wasted years of my life on this and just went back to calisthenics. It feels good to get DOMS again.
How did you know they didn't work? Did you try doing a isometric towel deadlift for a few months and then tried doing a normal deadlift and felt absolutely zero change in progress?
Leanbeefpatty and countless other thots and ecelebs swear by planks.
The guy with the world record for plank time has no visible abs.
My first proof that they weren't working was when I measure my grip strength by pinching a scale with my hands. I did months of hand isometrics after that, then came back to the scale to test myself again, and I had exactly the same number as before.
Technically, they worked. You were able to successfully stave off muscular atrophy, although you may have not progressed you didn't regress.
Try iso. deadlifts and then do normal deadlifts.
I wouldn't have gotten muscular atrophy in the first place. I didn't do any sort of grip exercise prior to trying isometrics. The fact that I made so much effort and didn't even gain a pound of strength is a really bad look for isometrics.
>Try iso. deadlifts and then do normal deadlifts.
I don't have access to barbells. However, I have another experiment to share. I have a 50lb weight vest that I'm almost able to curl with one arm, but not quite. After doing months of isometric curls, I couldn't curl the vest any higher either. It just doesn't work. And I hate that it doesn't work, because it would be extremely convenient and cool if it did. I would only do this if could.
You may have done them wrong, how did you do them?
As I said, I've tried pretty much every method, starting with the basic
>inhale and build up
>hold max tension for 7 seconds
>exhale and release
It didn't work. I tried a bunch of other methods after that and I can't list all of them since I don't remember. The latest one I tried was:
>30 secs at 50% followed by 30 secs at 75% followed by 30 secs at 100%, twice a week.
>twice a week
>30 seconds at 50%, 75%
>30 seconds at 100%
You kind of have to do them every day. I do them every morning. A basic push, pull, rotational and deadhang.
For a push, I just push against a wall. Push hard for 2 to 4 seconds, rest for 5 seconds, pus again for 2 to 4 seconds. I do them in 3 different ranges of motion: Full extension out, middle extension, full extension in. Pressing with my whole body from my legs up.
For deadlifts, I use a towel or countertop (usually the former) and repeat the similar time format and range of motion.
Rotational I just try to rotate while pushing against a wall with the same format.
I dead hang for a few seconds, I try pulling down on the bar hard.
>You kind of have to do them every day.
Do you really think I haven't read that before? As I said, I tried every method, including daily isometrics. The 30-30-30 method that I read about specifically instructs you to do it twice a week.
>For a push, I just push against a wall. Push hard for 2 to 4 seconds, rest for 5 seconds, pus again for 2 to 4 seconds.
For what purpose? If you believe that daily isometrics are optimal, you should also believe that 1 rep and 1 set is optimal. Pic related.
You are overcomplicating this with mumbo-jumbo books.
Repeat what ever isometric you're doing for 2-4 seconds with maximum intensity, rest for 5 seconds, repeat. Do this for 3 points of motion.
You must've done overcoming as well, right? Where you actually have a live load like a barbell but it's loaded with 110% of your 1RM so it's too heavy to lift but you still push hard and maybe you get it to nudge? You can try this? I don't know, maybe you're just built different.
Isometrics work, maybe not for you but for me and a lot of others. You can look up things like triphasic training and see how they work.
>You are overcomplicating this with mumbo-jumbo books.
How am I overcomplicating anything? One rep per day for a few seconds is as simple as it gets. It's even less complicated than what you're doing. It was the longest and largest study on isometrics in history so far.
>Repeat what ever isometric you're doing for 2-4 seconds with maximum intensity, rest for 5 seconds, repeat. Do this for 3 points of motion.
I wont. I've wasted enough time with this already. If it didn't work with all the methods I tried it's not suddenly gonna start to work because I do it slightly differently.
>You must've done overcoming as well, right?
Yes. It's good at fatiguing the tendons, but it doesn't actually help build anything. Same experience with DVR.
>Isometrics work, maybe not for you but for me and a lot of others.
Yet nobody can show evidence of that, except for a few strongmen from ages ago like Alexander Zass.
>You can look up things like triphasic training and see how they work.
What's that?
Triphasic training is a periodization program made by Cal Dietz that empathizes concentric, isometric and eccentric motions.
Best of luck to you anon.
>I don't have access to barbells. However, I have another experiment to share. I have a 50lb weight vest that I'm almost able to curl with one arm, but not quite. After doing months of isometric curls, I couldn't curl the vest any higher either.
Yeah that's impossible. You're lying.
>I measure my grip strength by pinching a scale with my hands. I did months of hand isometrics after that, then came back to the scale to test myself again, and I had exactly the same number as before.
You didn't exercise pinch grip and therefore didn't gain pinch grip strength lol.
The most based way to exercise is to strain against unmovable objects.
Bioneer did a video on it. His conclusion was progressive lifting > overcoming isometrics but it can be handy to train a specific sticking point if you're stalled on a lift
Progressive, full range lifting will always surpass isometrics. However, if you had absolutely nothing to exercise with and wanted to maintain a certain level of strength, isometrics are good for that.
>isometrics
>explosivity
No.
But they're better than lifting for max strength.
I believe isometrics are great pairing it with any hypotrophy load. Thus I incorporate few of them. Will see results.