Meditations and Learnings

Meditations and Learnings

Partial Range of Motion is Not the Devil

Recently on Revive Stronger Mike Israetel and Nick Tumminello argued for exercise diversity as naturally there can be no movement which is best for every point in a range of motion for a given muscle. By implementing a variety of movements which target a muscle through different planes of resistance and ranges of motion we can better optimise muscle growth. In some cases this involves implementing a clearly defined partial ROM to avoid weak points and overload the stronger portions of a lift. An example of this would be rows in which a lighter weight is used at a full range of motion to activate and squeeze the lats at the top, while heavier weights can be used with a partial ROM to overload the bottom portion.