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Hormonally Intelligent Exercise
Table of Contents

Lesson 1

What is Hormonally Intelligent Exercise? .....................................................

1

 

Lesson 2

Exercise as Adaptive Stimulus  ...................................................................

3

A.      Proper Application of Training to Failure ...............................................

5

B.      Beneficially Channeling Physical Stress .................................................

8

C.      Defining a Fit Body ...........................................................................

11

 

Lesson 3

Uniting Opposites  ......................................................................................

13

 

Lesson 4

Cardiovascular Training: Benefits/Detriments, Jogging/Interval Training ........

15

 

Lesson 5

Free Weights vs. Machines  .........................................................................

17

A.      Certain Machines are Advantageous  ...................................................

17

B.       Machines: More Show than Go, More Fame than Gain  ...........................

19

 

Lesson 6

Overcoming Self-Consciousness in the Gym  ................................................

23

 

Lesson 7

Compound vs. Isolation Exercises ...............................................................

25

A.      Compound  .....................................................................................

25

B.      Isolation ........................................................................................

26

C.      Compounding Hormonal Release and Avoiding Isolationism  ......................

26

D.      Sequencing  ...................................................................................

28

 

Lesson 8

Cute, Weird, and Unusual Exercises  ............................................................

29

 

Lesson 9

Stretching  ................................................................................................

31

 

Lesson 10

Exercise Execution  ....................................................................................

33

A.      Concentric-Eccentric  ......................................................................

33

B.       Accentuating the Negative  ..............................................................

35

C.       Repetition Speed  ...........................................................................

38

1.        The Negative Phase  ............................................................

38

2.        The Positive Phase  .............................................................

40

 

Lesson 11

Strength is Cool, but Power Rules .................................................................

45

A.      Relationship between Power and Hormonal Enhancement .........................

48

B.       Power Applications of the Force-Velocity Curve ....................................

49

Lesson 12

Optimum Training and Recovery Cycles .......................................................

57

 

Lesson 13

How Many Repetitions to Do ........................................................................

59

A.      Clarifying Repetition Ranges ...............................................................

59

B.       Athletics vs. Aesthetics ...................................................................

61

C.       Muscle Fiber Types and Tailoring Repetition Ranges to Training Objectives .

62

D.      Strength vs. Size .............................................................................

65

 

Lesson 14

The Pump, the High, and the Burn ...............................................................

67

 

Lesson 15

Applying Qualitative Progression: Stress Factor Cycling ................................

71

 

Lesson 16

How Long to Wait Between Sets ..................................................................

77

A.      Momentum Toward Exhaustion and Lactate Stacking ..............................

77

B.      MTE, EIA, and Functional vs. Biological Aging  .......................................

79

C.      Guidelines Governing Inter-Set Duration ...............................................

81

 

Lesson 17

Supersetting ..............................................................................................

83

 

Lesson 18

Adjusting Load Between Sets to Conform to Target Repetition Range .............  

85

 

Lesson 19

How Many Sets to do Per Exercise................................................................ 

87

 

Lesson 20

Split Routines, Bodypart Groupings, and the RAM Method ..............................

89

A.      Opposing Muscles Work Together .......................................................

90

B.      Exploiting Proprioception and Maximizing the Pump .................................

91

C.      Ensuring Developmental Equality among Muscles  ...................................

93

 

Lesson 21

Methods of Systematic Muscle Overload  .....................................................

95

 

Lesson 22

Ballistic/Plyometric Exercise: More Power to You .........................................

97

A.      Jump Squat ....................................................................................

102

B.       Side Hop .......................................................................................

103

C.       Power Pushup ................................................................................

104

D.      Heavy Bag .....................................................................................

105

E.       Loaded Pullup ................................................................................

106

F.       Medicine Ball  ................................................................................

108

 

Lesson 23

Static Attack: Sculpting your Musculature with Motionless Exercise ...............

111

A.      The Force-Velocity Curve and "Toning-Up"............................................

113

B.       Isometric Contraction is Muscle Tone .................................................

115

C.       Efficiency Exemplified: The Interset Iso-Workout ..................................

116

D.       Isometric Exercises .........................................................................

120

 

Lesson 24

Upper Leg Training the Right Way ................................................................

125

 

Lesson 25

Unbreakable Knees ....................................................................................

129

 

Lesson 26

Structuring an Optimal Cardiovascular Workout ............................................

131

 

Lesson 27

Super, not Superficial, Shoulders .................................................................

137

 

Lesson 28

The Abdomen: Power Center and Center of Attention ....................................

139

A.      Misplaced Mania: The Overrated "Six-Pack" ..........................................

140

B.       Crunches: Wildly Popular but Mildly Effective ........................................

141

C.       Range of Motion Notion ....................................................................

143

D.      The Seven Best Ab Exercises  ............................................................

143

 

Lesson 29

Single vs. Double-Limb Training: The Bilateral Strength Deficit .......................

147

 

Lesson 30

Weight Bearing Exercises  ...........................................................................

149

A.      Upper Body ........................................................................................

150

1. Barbell Bench Press  ...................................................................

150

2. Incline Barbell Press  ...................................................................

152

3. Dumbell Flat Press/Dumbell Incline Press .........................................

153

4. Triceps Extension .......................................................................

155

5. Concentration Curl and Preacher Curl .............................................

156

6. Wrist Curl .................................................................................

157

7. Reverse Wrist Curl (Wrist Extension)  .............................................

158

8. Lateral Raise .............................................................................

159

9. Shrug  ......................................................................................

160

10. Jocky Row ...............................................................................

161

11. Straight-Arm Pulldown   .............................................................

162

12. Dumbell Kickback  .....................................................................

164

13. Single-Arm Seated Row  ............................................................

165

B.       Lower Body .......................................................................................

166

1. Standing Calf Raise .....................................................................

166

2. Seated Calf Raise .......................................................................

167

3. Barbell Squat .............................................................................

168

4. Dual-Leg Extension .....................................................................

170

5. Single-Leg Extension ...................................................................

170

6. Lying Dual-Leg Curl .....................................................................

171

7. Lying Single-Leg Curl ...................................................................

171

8. Front Lunge ..............................................................................

173

9. Side Lunge ................................................................................

174

10. Athlete’s Plie Lunge ...................................................................

176

11. Back Extension .........................................................................

178

12. Reverse Back Extension ..............................................................

179

13. Medial Cable Sweep (Cable Adduction/Rotation)  .............................

180

14. Lateral Cable Kick-Out (Cable Abduction/Rotation)  ..........................

181

 

Lesson 31

The Hormonally Intelligent Exercise Program ................................................

183

1. Duration of Workouts ...........................................................................

183

2. Interset Duration ................................................................................

184

3. Timing of Workouts  ............................................................................

184

4. Pre- and Post-Workout Meals ................................................................

184

5. Exercise Rotation ................................................................................

184

6. Lower Body Training  ...........................................................................

185

7. Warm-Up ...........................................................................................

185

A.      Beginner ............................................................................................

188

1. Exercise Routines and Schedules ....................................................

190

1. Fashioning Training Routine to Fit Your Schedule  .........................

196

2. Alternate Workout Schedules  ..................................................

196

            Momentum .......................................................................................

197

B.       Intermediate ......................................................................................

197

1. Cycling Parameters ......................................................................

198

2. Cycling Schedule (Standard) .........................................................

198

3. Cycling Schedule (Modified) ...........................................................

199

4. Exercise Routines and Schedules ....................................................

200

1. Fashioning Training Routine to Fit Your Schedule ..........................

208

2. Alternate Workout Schedules ....................................................

208

C.       Advanced  .........................................................................................

209

1. Olympic Lifts ..............................................................................

209

2. Loaded Plyometrics ......................................................................

210

3. Overreaching ..............................................................................

210

4. Supersetting ..............................................................................

211

5. Extra Cardio ...............................................................................

211

            Consolidation ....................................................................................

212

1. Exercise Routines and Schedules ....................................................

212

Lesson 32

The Ruling Role of Diet  ................................................................................

215

A.      Performance  ...................................................................................

215

B.      Conformance  ..................................................................................

216

C.      Counteraction  .................................................................................

216