Isolation exercises after big basics? Adds nothing..

[Coach Rob]

May even be worse - it's just digging a bigger hole, in your recovery...


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[askmass]

Good to see this validated as It's been a long held belief of many, and something I haven't done since youth - but boy did we back then.

I'm convinced it digs a bigger hole, and adds noting at all.

Good find.