Effect of Static and Dynamic Exercises on Muscular Strength

[guyincognito]

And another...

www.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1152/jappl.1957.11.1.29

Effect of Static and Dynamic Exercises on Muscular Strength and Hypertrophy

Philip J. Rasch, and Laurence E. Morehouse

Abstract

The effects of 6-week programs of isotonic and isometric exercises were observed in 49 male subjects. The 24 subjects who performed isotonic exercises showed greater gains in strength and hypertrophy than did the 25 subjects who exercised isometrically. Tests of strength were performed both in a position similar to that in which subjects were exercised and also in an unfamiliar position. In addition, tests were used which employed the musculature in a familiar and in an unfamiliar manner. Whereas subjects showed strength gains in the tests when muscles were employed in a familiar way, little or no gain in strength was observed when unfamiliar procedures were employed. The findings suggest that the higher scores in strength tests resulting from the exercise programs reflected largely the acquisition of skill.

Submitted on September 7, 1956

[Dave Reslo]

Well, now I don't know what to believe.

[fredhutch]

The Carryover problem rears its ugly head.

[pierinifitness]

Best to conduct our own study.

Test overhead press using a barbell, one-rep max.

Do isometrics for study period.

Retest.

Allow strength erosion until your one-rep max is same as above.

Do barbell work for same study period.

Test one-rep max.

Compare the two.

Publish results.

Done.

[guyincognito]

I like the idea that strength is ultimately a skill.

[chanduthemagician]

Feb 1, 2020 20:31:35 GMT guyincognito said:

I like the idea that strength is ultimately a skill.

It certainly is to an extent.  If I were to only do pec deck flyes eventually my bench would go up because my pecs were stronger, but because I didn't work the bench movement I wouldn't also get the corresponding shoulder strength and tricep strength to help wit the movement.  Even if I worked triceps and shoulders seperately it still wouldn't be as good as actually training the bench press.  

The training the bench press trains all musculature involved in that movement in the way that it is used.  PLUS I get the skill component that is missing if I just train the individual muscles.  

It always bothers me when some write off an exercise or training method because they did it and some pet lift of theirs didn't go up because of it.   They'll bitch I did the Bullworker and my bench didn't go up.  Bullworker sucks!   I NEVER see.  I trained bench press for three months and I still suck at the Bullworker.  Benchpress sucks!

As always if you want to improve at a certain thing you have to at least practice that certain thing regardless of what else you might be doing.  Specificity. 

Now, if you are training for sheer size and don't care about performance in any particular movement, all that goes out the window and you should do what makes you grow the fastest, and don't assume that it will be large multiple joint movements.