Riding The Fatigue Question

I’ve seen many beginning guides to hanging suggesting you should ride the fatigue. For instance you would start with a heavier weight that you couldn’t hang for more than one set and drop weight your next set to be able to continuing hanging.

I’ve seen some threads that use heat with there workout and start at a lower weight I’m assuming for a warmup, but then go to heaver weight for more sets and do a cooldown set with no heat with an even heavier weight.

Is it better to start heavy then drop weight in following sets or go heavier throughout your workout and ending with a cooldown set?

The thing you’ll find if you hit fatigue will be that you won’t be able to take the same weight again in the next set. So the options are reduced weight or increased rest time.

Some people do a a hanging session and then use their ADS/Stretcher afterwards, effectively a lower weight.

The general concepts that have guided hanging through the years is more sessions are better and fatigue is good. There are examples of success with few sessions and never hitting fatigue and vice versa but I’m not sure the data is available in a clean enough form to figure out which is best.

Hanging isn’t like a training a muscle though, so you need to put those comparisons out of your head. It’s more akin to attempting to release hamstrings.

Heat is a definite benefit. Always use heat.