Tuesday, September 21, 2010

ISOMETRONICS

Combining isometrics with isotonic exercise = isometronics! Isometronics involve the use of heavy weights and a power rack. You set up your barbell between two sets of pins of a power rack. You then focus on a certain part of the range of motion for an exercise and do a partial rep, then press as hard as possible against the top pins for an isometric contraction. Read more about it here:

http://strengthandphysique.blogspot.com/2007/10/isometronics.html

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  1. Isometronics was used extensively by Bob Hoffman and the York Barbell Company in the 1960s to train Olympic weightlifters, with much great success. Unfortunately, it was later discovered, that performance-enhancing drugs were also being used by many of these athletes at this time and some people mistakenly threw "the baby out with the bathwater."

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