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V6-BoI
07-07-2005, 06:27 PM
Does anyone here do them? And for those that do, how do you guys like them?

And for those who don't know what they are, it's working out that involves no movement. So if you were doing a bicept curl, you would just be holding the weight up halfway for a period of time.

hockeybronx
07-07-2005, 09:15 PM
I did a few "Isometric" workouts in training with a hockey team one year.

I'd say all they really are is a variation of a workout with a fancy name. I personally am a big fan of the full range of motion moves.
However it was great to feel muscles work that I wouldn't usually work in my own workouts.

1-Cent
07-09-2005, 09:52 PM
They're ok for a final set to push you past failure, do your normal routine and at the very end just before you're about to call it quits, do a static set and it should be excrutiating. Static chins and shrugs are the most painful imo... don't base your entire workout around it though.