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Anonymous
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True. But if we're honest, cheating is usually more an ego thing, though, not a planned-out strategy.
As for bulky guys cheating, if the load is sufficiently heavy, either cheat reps or strict reps *will* build muscle. For a cheat rep, the load must simply be heavier (or greater volume) for the adaptions to be necessary, but it doesn't exactly cause a drop in strength whenever something a bit too heavy for comfort is being heaved around...
The main thing about cheat reps is not that they don't eventually build the same muscles, but rather the risk of injury in using one's body language to move more than the muscles themselves can rightly control.
Cheat curls, partial deads, kipping pull-ups... any of these can really fuck up tendons if done too much. I do them all at times on bulk cycles, when I'm replacing the extra damage pretty fast with nutrients. But I've had tendonitis from bad form particularly during cuts, when I'm already feeling like crap.
The bottom line is that people who've been in the gym a long time are two sets:
1) Those who are careful. 2) Those who are gifted.
If they are cheat-repping like crazy, they have gifted ligaments and tendons. The ungifted, even if extremely lucky, eventually end up taking long, long involuntary breaks--myself included once.
Those guys aren't necessarily on steroids, but for every guy you are seeing slinging iron around with wild abandon, maybe ten others got burned by that lack of caution and are not there to represent the wisdom of strict reps. Unless you go watch them at their own homes, cringing to pick up a newspaper.
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