Why We Do High Volume

July 22, 2025

So let's say you're doing a joint move or you're doing a hold like an iso hold or you're doing some type of impulse and you're feeling something that's tight or you're feeling something that's inhibitive. 

What we need to do in those situations or scenarios is keep going. As long as it's not like straight pain where it feels like it's actually bad, but if it's just like tightness or some type of inhibition, we keep going through that so that we can burn through that so that we can get to the point where that's no longer there.

 Because one way that you can think about this is like, if you have literally like a thousand different ways or combinations, that you can put together muscle contractions to support a certain position or to do a certain movement.

We want to burn through all those different things. Let's say, you're going overhead and your lat is feeling tight. If we stay there long enough, we will burn through whatever is supporting there. Let's say, we're doing a hold overhead. We'll burn through whatever is supporting that there until that's gone.

 Then the next, like, group of muscle coordination or combination has to then turn on to hold that. And the goal is to burn through all those different combinations that we could use, so that by the end of it, we have gone through all that and we've actually made you stronger and more able to be stable and hold in that overhead position. 

So that's just one example, but that's what we apply to whatever it is that we're doing with these long durations or higher volume type things.