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Rest pause systems like Myo Reps are designed to get more TUT on close to maximum effort repetitions and less TUT on ineffective reps. Not for the inexperienced or the faint of heart lifters.

When you get into these heavy-weight, high-rep intense exercises, machines are safer.

Looking jacked Totz!!!

20 reps (and the very similar "Max Stim") is great for large muscle groups but I find I can get the same result more efficiently and for even smaller muscle groups using "Myo Reps" . I am somewhat biased toward Myo Reps because it is easier on my old joints.

Disregarding back issues, I always found a weighted crunch machine the best exercise to build strictly abdominal muscle. For overall core strength and safety, I believe planks to be the best. Theses exercises will not lead to a tapered look though. That takes diet.

MOJO, that sounds more akin to MYO reps which I am a firm believer in.

That guy did not get those muscles from doing 500 rep sets with Tinker Toys. :rolleyes: Very few real activation reps.

You cannot do them too much. 20 times per day is only 10 minutes under tension.

Yes, while simultaneously shrugging your shoulders maximally. Hold for 30 seconds. And do not forget the face pulls. They will help with that rounded shoulder posture that occurs from a lot bench pressing due to pec muscle shortening and work the rear traps to give that full look. Probably the...

Basically just that and holding at maximum full contraction for 30 seconds. No weight needed. You can do them anytime so frequency and volume can be quite high. I do variations also such as holding my arms over my head while maximally contracting the traps or putting my hands together behind my...

Sounds like a good plan to me. There should be no negative interaction.

I could never get decent traps until I incorporated using Isometric exercises daily and then they exploded within three months. Also found them to be useful for full triceps development.

Yup. :) But I would change the "just" in your sentence to "can".

Nope. Just that the average lifter can maintain with very low volume.

Why? The goal I am speaking about is not to make gains but to not lose muscle with minimal volume. Sure, beginners can make great gains working out for 60 minutes per week. I will not.

Sure, if you are happy with where you are currently but do not want to lose any muscle. As long as your diet is spot on with your activity level and encourages the production of testosterone and not cortisol, you can go years with just one or two 1/2 hour full body workouts per week and not lose...

Maintenance, or suspended atrophy, volume is amazing low. Bryan has written something about it several years back but I couldn't find it.

Yup. It does a lot to improve my psyche. No more :('s.

I am down to 3 horses now but they still keep me busy and active. ;)

Dean, I had an 8 month SD due to shoulder surgery this year and did not see much muscle loss. I picked up where I left off and two months later I am seeing some good gains from where I was pre-surgery. I think much off that muscle retention is from having worked out for about 60 years. Someone...