Pre-exhaustion is when you start your workout with an isolation exercise to fatigue a specific muscle before moving on to your big compound lifts. Some bodybuilders use it as a way to feel more activation or create a novel stimulus, especially during hypertrophy phases. But here’s the problem: it compromises performance. This is why it has no place in strength training, because strength is all about performance. And in my opinion, performance still matters in hypertrophy training too. The better